Elsie Clews Parsons (1875 to 1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist and feminist who studied Native American peoples such as the Tewa and Hopi in Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in 1896 and her master's degree and doctorate at Columbia University, and she helped found The New School. She was associate editor of The Journal of American Folklore, president of the American Folklore Society and of the American Ethnological Society, and in 1941 was elected the first female president of the American Anthropological Association. Her early sociological books, including The Family of 1906, argued for trial marriages and divorce by mutual consent, while her Pueblo Indian Religion became a classic despite later criticism of her research methods.
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Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875 – December 19, 1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes—such as the Tewa and Hopi—in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico.
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Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875, December 19, 1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes-such as the Tewa and Hopi-in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico.
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Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875, December 19, 1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes-such as the Tewa and Hopi-in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico.
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Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875, December 19, 1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes-such as the Tewa and Hopi-in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico.
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She received her master's degree (1897) and Ph.D. (1899) from Columbia University.
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