Aggie@JSC

Hello, Sxfritz, that would be wonderful! Thank you so much. I shall message you some questions pronto!

Awesome! I'll being sending it to you via message/post it here very soon. Thank you!

Gaaah, I'm traumatized as well from the film death... It was all too soon and sudden and just felt wrong. I love the movies, but haven't read the books before, so now I'm curious to as who's death is depicted in the books instead...

I understand your apprehension, but the fact is I’m simply a college student wanting to get personal opinions and views from a real Mormon community. :) The entire point of anthropological work is to interact and ask questions directly of the group to get first hand accounts and a variety of viewpoints. There’s no approach of “analyzing” a “peculiar species” as you described it. The "cage" metaphor could more accurately be used to illustrate me getting into that “cage” to interact with a community I’m learning from, to hear an unclouded account of their beliefs and opinions. Just good ol' real interactions instead of getting answers or opinions off a biased and unfair article on the web or news report on TV for example. If I had wanted to just write a paper about Mormonism in general, I could simply do some quick web searches and written up something based on biased, inaccurate and possibly sensationalized reports of what a LDS church or community represents. Obviously I didn't want that. I hope this cleared things up a bit, I didn't mean any offense! If you wanna email my anthropology teacher for any more questions regarding the assignment, feel free! Her name is Kaja and her email is [email protected]. And Omegaseamaster75, great, thank you! Would you like me to message the questions to you personally? I think I may just put up the complete survey here soon once it's finished, too. :)

Hello! No, it's my final research paper project for my cultural anthropology class at my college, I'm not gonna be publishing it anywhere. :)

Hello! I'm new at exploring and researching the LDS faith and have been reading through this thread with interest, but I'm unclear on a few things. Could someone give me a brief breakdown of specifically what drinks and whether hot or cold are not allowed to be consumed and for what reasons? Thank you! :)

The last film I saw was Mockingjay, part 1, yesterday evening with my brother and mom. :) I'm a huge fan of the books and although I think it's silly that the last book is being split into two films, I think they did an amazing job with the source material. Extremely intense and all the actors did excellent jobs. No spoilers for people who haven't read the book... But I'm excited about the crazy stuff that's goes down for Part 2 and how they'll transfer that from the book to the film. :)

Hello! My name is Aggie and I’m an anthropology major in college. :) I’m currently doing an ethnographic fieldwork paper on Mormonism and the LDS community for my cultural anthropology class. I’ve always been interested in the Mormon religion and its history, so I decided it would be a good topic for me to explore further for my paper. I searched around online and found this forum and thought it would be a great community to get a variety of info and opinions from. :) I feel that even though Mormonism has become more commonly known of and prevalent in modern culture, there are a lot of misunderstandings and stereotypes about what Mormonism represents and what its followers believe, and my paper will set to try a dispel those misconceptions as well as give a better idea of its modern followers. I've been exploring the religion myself throughout the years, but wanted to hear more personal opinions and views from a variety of its followers. I'd love any thoughts or opinions! If anyone is interested in answering some survey questions, let me know! I have a small pool of questions ranging from what your religion means to you personally, to what you think of the representation of Mormonism in modern culture today. I'm looking forward to exploring the religion and learning more from this community! Please feel free to ask any questions about my research paper. :) -Aggie