Books - Elsie Clews Parsons

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fictionalized essays by noted anthropologists provide entertaining and insightful reading about religion, customs, government, social psychology and other facets of Indian life. Studies by Paul Radin on the Winnebago, Robert H. Lowie on the Crow, Stewart Culin and Elsie Clews Parson on the Zuni, Franz Boas on the Eskimo, many more.

Customer Review: Intriguing Biography:
The contributions of women in the history of ethnographic studies, folklore research, and anthropology are now seen as important and fascinating areas of research. This biography is an excellent and highly readable study of an early pioneer in the study of culture. In this study, the book provides an intriguing portrait of a facet of the history of anthropological and folklore studies during the early part of the 20th century. It also outlines and adumbrates the formation of key concepts in the study of culture. The book is also useful for discovering how a creative and highly intelligent woman helped to found various disciplines and support a professional society designed to further the understanding of folklore. Finally, as a bonus, the story also includes an intriguing subtext that reveals professional and personal liaisons throughout Parsons' life story. Although the various liaisons were not exactly dangerous, they do point the way toward gaining a more complete understanding of ways that intellectual history is spawned in various fields of intellectual inquiry.

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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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Elsie Clews Parsons (1874-1941) was a pioneering anthropologist whose writings on the Pueblo Indians challenged American notions about racial and cultural purity. She was also a committed feminist whose unconventional marriage survived many infidelities and included an agreement to share childcare. In short, she was one of those remarkable individuals who live entirely by their own code and publicly urge society to grant everyone the same freedom they have seized for themselves. Vigorous prose and impeccable research distinguish this enthralling narrative of a thoroughly modern woman whose fierce independence seems only to have augmented her enormous charm.

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Nearly 100 authentic tales offer an unparalleled glimpse into beliefs and culture of the Pueblo Indians: "The Kachina Suitors and Coyote," "Magpie and the Corn Mothers," "Turquoise Boy Races the Deer Boys," "The Envious Hunter," "The Jealous Girls," "Echo Boy," "Escape Up the Tree," and many more.

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REPRINT. Hardcover. Two Volumes. Vol. I: iii, 767 pages, 409 drawings, 25 full-page plates reproduced in color. Vol. II: ix, pp.768-1417, 120 drawings, 12 maps. One of the benchmark publications in American Indian studies, these two volumes document Stephen's three years on First Mesa in 1891-94. The volumes are filled with illustrations of ceremonies and rituals, masks, dances and kachinas, and closely examine and illustrated virtually every aspect of Hopi ceremonies. ONLY reprint done reproducing original color illustrations.