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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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Deacon (American studies, Univ. of Texas) here chronicles the attempts of sociologist and anthropologist Parsons to change 19th-century American values. Parsons (1874-1941) attended graduate school before marrying and raised her children while working as a writer and field anthropologist. She developed new ideas about marriage, the family, and sexual identity that were popularized in her writing. Deacon reveals how Parsons combined her personal and professional lives to create a modernist woman's lifestyle. Relying on in-depth research, she quotes from many letters and other sources. This engaging study of an unusual woman is recommended for academic libraries.?Gwen Gregory, New Mexico State Univ. Lib., Las Cruces
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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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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Deacon (American studies, Univ. of Texas) here chronicles the attempts of sociologist and anthropologist Parsons to change 19th-century American values. Parsons (1874-1941) attended graduate school before marrying and raised her children while working as a writer and field anthropologist. She developed new ideas about marriage, the family, and sexual identity that were popularized in her writing. Deacon reveals how Parsons combined her personal and professional lives to create a modernist woman's lifestyle. Relying on in-depth research, she quotes from many letters and other sources. This engaging study of an unusual woman is recommended for academic libraries.?Gwen Gregory, New Mexico State Univ. Lib., Las Cruces
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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gynocratic caste, war god shrines, pueblo mothers, kachina cult, anthropology meetings, acculturation studies, southwestern pueblos, eastern pueblos, enormous vogue, ceremonial organization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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"IN quick apprehension of personal relations, no one excelled her," anthropologist Leslie Spier noted of Elsie Clews Parsons in 1943. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gynocratic caste, war god shrines, pueblo mothers, kachina cult, anthropology meetings, acculturation studies, southwestern pueblos, eastern pueblos, enormous vogue, ceremonial organization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Elsie Clews Parsons, United States, American Philosophical Society Library, Lucy Clews, Franz Boas, Mabel Dodge, New Republic, Pliny Goddard, Robert Lowie, Gladys Reichard, Mexico City, Rio Grande, George Young, Ruth Benedict, University of Chicago, Clarence Day, Edward Sapir, Lucy Wilson, Anthropological Association, Robert Herrick, William James, Alfred Kroeber, American Museum of Natural History, Leslie Spier New!
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