Elsie Clews Parsons

Elsie Clews Parsons ( born November 27, 1875 in New York City; † December 19, 1941 in New York City ) was an American sociologist and anthropologist.

Life

Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons was the daughter of the banker Henry Clews and his wife Lucy Madison Worthington. 1900 married Elsie Clews Parsons and Herbert († 1925), who was from 1905 to 1911 Republican Member of Congress. The couple had six children.

She studied at Barnard College in 1896 and earned a BA 1897 and the MA. At Barnard College Elsie Clews Parsons taught 1899 until 1905. At Columbia University she received her doctorate in sociology in 1899 for Ph.D. At this university Franklin Giddings and Nicholas Murray Butler were their teachers. Since 1910, she worked as an anthropologist. Together with Alexander Alexandrovich gold Weiser Elsie Clews Parsons set up the tray anthropology at the New School for Social Research, which was founded in 1919.

Elsie Clews Parsons conducted research on the Pueblo and Hopi in Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico. Your thinking and research was influenced by Gabriel Tarde, Franz Boas and Alfred Kroeber.

Offices

  • Co-editor of The Journal of American Folklore (1918-1941)
  • President of the American Folklore Society (1919-1920)
  • President of the American Ethnological Society (1923-1925)
  • Vice President of the New York Academy of Sciences ( 1936)
  • President of the American Anthropological Association ( 1941).

Publications

  • Social Freedom. Putnam, New York & London, 1905.
  • The Family. An Ethnographical and Historical Outline. Putnam, New York & London, 1906.
  • The Old-Fashioned Woman, Ayer, 1913.
  • Religious Chastity, 1913.
  • Fear and conventionality, 1914.
  • Social Freedom, Putnam, New York, 1915.
  • Social Rule, Putnam, New York, 1916.
  • Isleta, New Mexico, Bureau of American Ethnology, 47th Annual Report, 1932.
  • Taos Pueblo. Banta, Menasha 1936.
  • Mitla, Town of the Souls, University of Chicago Publications in Anthropology, Chicago, 1936.
  • Pueblo Indian Religion, 2 vols, 1939.
  • Notes on the Caddo. American Anthropological Association, No. 57, Menasha, 1941.
  • Isleta Paintings. Esther ship Goldfrank (ed.), Smithsonian Institution Washington 1962.
  • Journal of a Feminist, Thoemmes Press, 1994.
  • Tewa Tales. New York 1926.
  • Hopi Indian Journal of Alexander M. Stephen, Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, Volume 23, 2 volumes, Columbia University Press, New York, 1936
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