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Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life » Read Now
by Desley Deacon. 526 pgs.

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Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, an eminent anthropologist, and an ardent social critic. In Elsie Clews Parsons, Desley Deacon reconstructs Parsons's efforts to overcome gender biases in both academia and society. "Wonderfully illuminating. . . . Parsons's work resonates strikingly...
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Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, an eminent anthropologist, and an ardent social critic. In Elsie Clews Parsons, Desley Deacon reconstructs Parsons's efforts to overcome gender biases in both academia and society. "Wonderfully illuminating. . . . Parsons's work resonates strikingly to current trends in anthropology."--George W. Stocking, Jr., Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "This is the biography of a woman so interesting and effective--a cross between Margaret Mead and Georgia O'Keeffe. . . . A nuanced portrait of this vivid woman."--Tanya Luhrmann, New York Times Book Review "A marvelous new book about the life of Elsie Clews Parsons. . . . It's as though she is sitting on the next rock, a contemporary struggling with the same issues that confront women today: how to combine work, love and child-rearing into one life."--Abigail Trafford, Washington Post "Parsons's splendid life and work continue to illuminate current puzzles about acculturation and diversity."--New Yorker
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American Indian Life ("Waiyautitsa of Zuni, New Mexico" by Elsie Clews Parsons begins on p. 157) » Read Now
by Elsie Clews Parsons, C. Grant Lafarge. 420 pgs.

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This classic study, first published in 1922, presents the writings of A.L. Kroeber, Robert H. Lowie, Clark Wissler, Paul Radin, Truman Michelson, and other prominent anthropologists.
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Hidden Scholars: Women Anthropologists and the Native American Southwest ("Elsie Clews Parsons in the Southwest" begins on p. 63) » Read Now
by Nancy J. Parezo. 429 pgs.

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...PAREZO 38 Elsie Clews Parsons in the Southwest LOUIS A...intellectually and practically-- of Elsie Clews Parsons, Ruth Benedict, and Esther...Society distinguished lecture...
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Isleta Paintings » Read Now
by Elsie Clews Parsons, Esther S. Goldfrank. 302 pgs.

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...Introduction and Commentary by ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS Edited by Esther S. Goldfrank...than any other person, Dr. Elsie Clews Parsons influenced the course of...
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The Golden Age of American Anthropology (Includes discussion of Elsie Clews Parsons on p. 546, followed by her works "Holding Back in Crisis Ceremonialism" on p. 547 and "Nativity Myth at Laguna and Zuni" on p. 552) » Read Now
by Margaret Mead, Ruth L. Bunzel. 632 pgs.

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...Cultural Intensity and Climax 539 ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS 546 Holding Back in Crisis Ceremonialism...refugees from political or religious oppression. Elsie Clews Parsons, a...
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Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture ("Elsie Clews Parsons" begins on p. 94) » Read Now
by Lois Palken Rudnick. 401 pgs.

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...folklorists John Collier, Carl Jung, Jaime de Angulo, Elsie Clews Parsons, and Ella Young. 8 Many who came to the Luhan...Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Georgia OKeeffe, Elsie...
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Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement (Chap. 8 "Brave New Sociology? Elsie Clews Parsons and Me") » Read Now
by Barbara Laslett, Barrie Thorne. 288 pgs.

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...fascination with the life of Elsie Clews Parsons. Writing ones own life against...Deacon essay in this volume on Elsie Clews Parsons; Laslett, "Genderin/and Social...This...
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Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans ("Sex" by Elsie Clews Parsons begins on p. 309) » Read Now
by Harold E. Stearns. 577 pgs.

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...THE SMALL TOWN Louis Raymond Reid 285 HISTORY H. W. Van Loon 297 SEX Elsie Clews Parsons 309 THE FAMILY Katharine Anthony 319 THE ALIEN Frederic C. Howe 337...
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Women, Language, and Linguistics: Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century (Chap. 16 "Elsie Clews Parsons: Scientist, Benefactor, Institution") » Read Now
by Julia S. Falk. 306 pgs.

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Rather than the standard American story of an increasingly triumphant march of scientific inquiry towards structural phonology, Women, Language and Linguistics reveals linguistics where its purpose was communication; the appeal of languages lay in their diversity; and the authority of language lay...
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Rather than the standard American story of an increasingly triumphant march of scientific inquiry towards structural phonology, Women, Language and Linguistics reveals linguistics where its purpose was communication; the appeal of languages lay in their diversity; and the authority of language lay in its speakers and writers. Julia S Falk explores the vital part which women have played in preserving a linguistics based on the reality and experience of language; this book finally brings to light a neglected perspective for those working in linguistics and the history of linguistics.
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Selected Papers from the American Anthropologist, 1888-1920 ("The Zuni A Doshle and Suuke" by Elsie Clews Parsons begins on p. 638) » Read Now
by A. Irving Hallowell, Frederica de Laguna. 930 pgs.

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The Family: Source Materials for the Study of Family and Personality (Includes "The Forms of Marriage" on p. 101 and "The Restrictions on Sexual Choice" on p. 290 by Elsie Clews Parsons) » Read Now
by Edward Byron Reuter, Jessie Ridgway Runner. 622 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library