| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.3

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Desert Patriarchy: Mormon and Men-nonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley. By Janet Bennion. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xiii + 205 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.)

Similar to Mark P. Leone's Roots of Modern Mormonism (Cambridge, MA, 1979), or Rex Eugene Cooper's Promises Made to the Fathers (Salt Lake City, 1990), Janet Bennion has employed the tools of anthropology to broaden our understanding of Mormon history. Desert Patriarchy reflects her academic training: she seeks to "get inside [her subjects] and observe their mannerisms, psyches, emotions, and motivations" (p. xii). In the Chihuahuan Desert one finds a "remarkably diverse population" comprised of polygynous Mormons, Old World Mennonites, Latino vaqueros, laborers, and merchants (p. 31). The connection Bennion draws between the disparate religious bodies of Mormons and Mennonites goes beyond their patriarchal orientations: both have histories punctuated by hardships and persecution at the hands of the mainstream society.

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