biography
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Parsons, Elsie (Worthington Clews)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1875–1941)
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| biography:
| Sociologist, anthropologist, and folklorist, born in New York City, New York, USA. Flouting the expectations of her socially prominent family by earning a Columbia University PhD, she then worked as an independent scholar. She wrote feminist sociological works before 1915, then turned to fieldwork-based ethnological studies of SW Indians, including the landmark Mitla (1936) and Pueblo Indian Religion (2 vols, 1939). She was also an early field collector of African-American as well as Native American folktales. |
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