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

She studied at Barnard College and earned her BA in 1896 and an MA in 1897. Elsie Clews Parsons taught at Barnard College from 1899 to 1905. At Columbia University she received her Ph.D. in sociology in 1899. At that university, Franklin Giddings and Nicholas Murray Butler were their teachers. From 1910 she worked as an anthropologist. Together with Alexander Alexandrovich Goldenweiser , Elsie Clews Parsons established the subject of anthropology at the New School for Social Research , which was founded in 1919.

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

Offices

Associate Editor 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

Author

Social Freedom . Putnam, New York et al. London 1905.
The Family. An Ethnographical and Historical Outline. Putnam, New York et al. 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 volumes, 1939.
Notes on the Caddo . American Anthropological Association, No. 57, Menasha, 1941.
Isleta Paintings . Esther Schiff Goldfrank (Ed.), Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1962.
Journal of a Feminist , Thoemmes Press, 1994.

Editor

American Indian Life . Pretty. o. O. 1922. Digitized
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

literature

Peter Hewitt Hare : A Woman's Quest for Science, Portrait of Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons , Prometheus Books, Buffalo, 1985.
Rosemary Levy Zumwalt: Wealth and Rebellion. Elsie Clews Parsons. Anthropologist and Folklorist , Urbana, 1992.
Desley Deacon: Elsie Clews Parsons , University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997.

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Minnesota State University: Biography. Archived from the original on November 29, 2010 ; Retrieved January 19, 2014 .
Stacy A. Cordery: Review of Parsons Biography by D Deacon, H-Net, Nov. 1998.

Remarks

^ Parsons acquired the diaries of the Scottish engineer Alexander MacGregor Stephen from Stewart Culin of the Brooklyn Museum , a leading anthropologist at the time. Stephen had moved to the Southwest after the Civil War and lived in Keams Canyon married to a Navajo . He died of tuberculosis in 1894 after unsuccessful treatment by Hopi. The publication focuses on the years 1891-1894.

personal data
SURNAME	Parsons, Elsie Clews
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American sociologist and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 27, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City
DATE OF DEATH	December 19, 1941
Place of death	New York City

[1] Parsons acquired the diaries of the Scottish engineer Alexander MacGregor Stephen from Stewart Culin of the Brooklyn Museum , a leading anthropologist at the time. Stephen had moved to the Southwest after the Civil War and lived in Keams Canyon married to a Navajo . He died of tuberculosis in 1894 after unsuccessful treatment by Hopi. The publication focuses on the years 1891-1894.