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Elsie Clews Parsons ( November 27, 1875- December 19, 1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes—such as the Pueblo and Hopi—in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. She helped found the New School for Social Research. She was associate editor for The Journal of American Folklore ( 1918- 1941), president of the American Folklore Society ( 1919- 1920), president of the American Ethnological Society ( 1923- 1925), and was elected the first female president of the American Anthropological Association ( 1941) right before her death.
She earned her bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1896. She received her master’s degree ( 1897) and Ph.D. ( 1899) from Columbia University.
Biography
Elsie Clews Parsons was the daughter of Henry Clews , a wealthy New York banker, and Lucy Madison Worthington. Her brother, Henry Clews, Jr., was an artist. In 1900, she married future three-term progressive Republican congressman Herbert Parsons, an associate and political ally of President Teddy Roosevelt. When her husband was a member of Congress, she published two then-controversial books under the pseudonym John Main.
She became interested in anthropology in 1910.
Her works
Early works of sociology
- The Family (1906)
- Religious Chastity
- The Old-Fashioned Woman (1913)
- Fear and Conventionality (1914)
- Social Freedom (1915)
- Social Rule (1916)
Anthropology works
- The Social Organization of the Tewa of New Mexico (1929)
- Hopi and Zuni Ceremonialism (1933)
- Pueblo Indian Religion (1939)
Ethnographies
Mitla: Town of the Souls (1936)
Peguche (1945)
Research in folklore
Folk-Lore from the Cape Verde Islands (1923)
Folk-Lore of the Sea Islands, S.C. (1924)
Folk-Lore of the Antilles, French and English (3v., 1933-1943).Further Information
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