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Elsie Clews Parsons

Author : Desley Deacon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226139093
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Elsie Clews Parsons written by Desley Deacon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Fear and Conventionality

Author : Elsie Clews Parsons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226647463
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Fear and Conventionality written by Elsie Clews Parsons and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-06-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely admired by cultural critics and the avant garde when it was first published, Fear and Conventionality broke new ground for American anthropology. In it, Elsie Clews Parsons turns a cool and ironic eye on the mores and customs of her own upper-class New York society. A modern mind at the turn of the century, Parsons challenged social conventions about gender and family as part of the new feminist movement. Witty, graceful, and impassioned, this book will be of interest to social and cultural historians and anyone interested in early twentieth-century America.

Taos Tales

Author : Elsie Clews Parsons
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048614822X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Taos Tales written by Elsie Clews Parsons and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVNearly 100 tales offer an unparalleled glimpse into beliefs, culture of Pueblo Indians: "The Kachina Suitors and Coyote," "The Envious Hunter," "The Jealous Girls," "Echo Boy," many more. /div

Pueblo Indian Religion

Author : Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803287358
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Pueblo Indian Religion written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1939-01-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich religious beliefs and ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico were first synthesized and compared by ethnologist Elsie Clews Parsons. Prodigious research and a quarter-century of fieldwork went into her 1939 encyclopedic two-volume work, Pueblo Indian Religion. The author gives an integrated picture of the complex religious and social life in the pueblos, including Zuni, Acoma, Laguna, Taos, Isleta, Sandia, Jemez, Cochiti, Santa Clara, San Felipe, Santa Domingo, San Juan, and the Hopi villages. In volume I she discusses shelter, social structure, land tenure, customs, and popular beliefs. Parsons also describes spirits, cosmic notions, and a wide range of rituals. The cohesion of spiritual and material aspects of Pueblo culture is also apparent in volume II, which presents an extensive body of solstice, installation, initiation, war, weather, curing, kachina, and planting and harvesting ceremonies, as well as games, animal dances, and offerings to the dead. A review of Pueblo ceremonies from town to town considers variations and borrowings. Today, a half century after its original publication, Pueblo Indian Religion remains central to studies of Pueblo religious life.

Wealth and Rebellion

Author : Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252019098
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Wealth and Rebellion written by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boss-lady had a unique position in Boss-man's, an old, retired, pimp's, whorehouse. She was the madam in charge of keeping the girls on their toes, or backs, as it were. And to top things off, Boss-man had given her permission to throw weekly parties in which she was allowed to freak with any of the women she chose. She being a recently released lesbian from prison, took full advantage of Boss's gratuity.Everything was running fine until the elderly Boss-man suffered a fatal heart attack, some saying, because of the pressure he was under to sell the Mob's dope, which they forced on him, and he didn't know how to handle, while fearing the wrath of the organization if he messed up.Immediately after the death of Boss-man, Lady, while grieving his loss, wasn't sure she could fill his shoes. But with the aid of Old Ben, one of Boss's life long friends, and barber shop owner, she pulled herself together and managed to keep the whorehouse open, even getting more girls to join her stable.Once Boss-lady found her feet, she became unsatisfied with only running one place. She was ambitious. She, while using money Boss-man left her, purchased another house and hired another, retired, pimp, to run it.The question is, would her ambition be the catalyst, which would bring her criminal life crashing down on her head?

Women Writing Culture

Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520202085
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Women Writing Culture written by Ruth Behar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extrait de la couverture : ""Here, for the first time, is a book that brings women's writings out of exile to rethink anthropology's purpose at the end of the century. ... As a historical resource, the collection undertakes fresh readings of the work of well-known women anthropologists and also reclaims the writings of women of color for anthropology. As a critical account, it bravely interrogates the politics of authorship. As a creative endeavor, it embraces new Feminist voices of ethnography that challenge prevailing definitions of theory and experimental writing."

Social Rule

Author : Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015741737
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Social Rule written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Folk-lore from the Cape Verde Islands ...

Author : Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Folk-lore from the Cape Verde Islands ... written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Old-fashioned Woman

Author : Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Old-fashioned Woman written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Un/common Cultures

Author : Kamala Visweswaran
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391635
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Un/common Cultures written by Kamala Visweswaran and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lends itself to culturalist assumptions. She holds that the new culturalism—the idea that cultural differences are definitive, and thus divisive—produces a view of “uncommon cultures” defined by relations of conflict rather than forms of collaboration. The essays in Un/common Cultures straddle the line between an analysis of how racism works to form the idea of “uncommon cultures” and a reaffirmation of the possibilities of “common cultures,” those that enact new forms of solidarity in seeking common cause. Such “cultures in common” or “cultures of the common” also produce new intellectual formations that demand different analytic frames for understanding their emergence. By tracking the emergence and circulation of the culture concept in American anthropology and Indian and French sociology, Visweswaran offers an alternative to strictly disciplinary histories. She uses critical race theory to locate the intersection between ethnic/diaspora studies and area studies as a generative site for addressing the formation of culturalist discourses. In so doing, she interprets the work of social scientists and intellectuals such as Elsie Clews Parsons, Alice Fletcher, Franz Boas, Louis Dumont, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, W. E. B. Du Bois, and B. R. Ambedkar.

Pueblo Mothers and Children

Author : Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780941270656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Pueblo Mothers and Children written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted pioneer anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons published four articles on Laguna, Zuni, Hopi, and Tewa mothers and children in the British anthropological journal Man. Editor Babcock, a professor at the University of Arizona, has supplemented these unfamiliar pieces with seven Parsons articles from American journals on Zuni fertility, conception and pregnancy beliefs, women's life cycle, men-women; Hopi and Tewa wedding practices; the Nativity Myth at Laguna and Zuni (1918). Babcock, known for her work on women anthropologists in the Southwest and on Cochiti potter Helen Cordero and the Pueblo Storyteller tradition, provides a valuable introduction on Elsie Clews Parsons and the Pueblo Construction of Gender.

Until Choice Do Us Part

Author : Clare Virginia Eby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022608597X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Until Choice Do Us Part written by Clare Virginia Eby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, people have been thinking and writing—and fiercely debating—about the meaning of marriage. Just a hundred years ago, Progressive era reformers embraced marriage not as a time-honored repository for conservative values, but as a tool for social change. In Until Choice Do Us Part, Clare Virginia Eby offers a new account of marriage as it appeared in fiction, journalism, legal decisions, scholarly work, and private correspondence at the turn into the twentieth century. She begins with reformers like sexologist Havelock Ellis, anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons, and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who argued that spouses should be “class equals” joined by private affection, not public sanction. Then Eby guides us through the stories of three literary couples—Upton and Meta Fuller Sinclair, Theodore and Sara White Dreiser, and Neith Boyce and Hutchins Hapgood—who sought to reform marriage in their lives and in their writings, with mixed results. With this focus on the intimate side of married life, Eby views a historical moment that changed the nature of American marriage—and that continues to shape marital norms today.

Native American Folklore and Traditions

Author : Elsie Clews Parson
Publisher : Arcturus Science & History Col
ISBN 13 : 9781788887847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Native American Folklore and Traditions written by Elsie Clews Parson and published by Arcturus Science & History Col. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together several favourite tales from Native American tribes across the United States. From heartwarming coming of age tales to warning tales of supernatural power, the stories told in this volume bring to life the culture of America's first peoples. Recounted from oral traditions by a variety of anthropologists, the customs and ways of life of the diverse peoples blur the boundaries between myths and reality and remind us of a time when nature held exceptional power and those who forsook it were regarded as fools.

Feminist Sociology

Author : Barbara Laslett
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813524290
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Sociology written by Barbara Laslett and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thirteen life stories recaptures the history of a political and intellectual movement that created feminist sociology as a field of inquiry. As the editors' introduction notes, the life history is a crucial tool for sociological thought. Life histories can be a bridge between individual experience and codified knowledge, between human agency and social structure. Life histories can enhance social theory by revealing categories of meaning usually submerged in the conventions of social science. The authors in this volume, all sociologists who have had great impact upon the field in which they write, show how personal relationships, experiences of inequality, and professional conflict and camaraderie interweave with the formation of social theory, political movements, and intellectual thought. The book makes a powerful impression upon anyone who has struggled with the relationship between social theory and everyday life. -- Accessible, lively articles that combine personal narrative with sociological theory. -- Contributors are some of the leading voices in feminist sociology.

Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs

Author : Shanshan Du
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231504737
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs written by Shanshan Du and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideal of "gender equality" seems forever elusive, always tantalizingly over the horizon. Shanshan Du suggests that by shifting our attention away from the various utopian ideals embedded in mainstream feminism, we may be surprised to learn that gender-egalitarian societies do exist. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book explores the Lahu society in Southwest China where practical gender equality has become the byproduct of a potent ideology of gender unity, vividly expressed by the proverb, "chopsticks only work in pairs."

Ruth Benedict

Author : Virginia Heyer Young
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803249195
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Ruth Benedict written by Virginia Heyer Young and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benedict's work, in fact, anticipated trends in anthropology in the decades to come by projecting a framework of individuals not only shaped by their culture but also using their culture for personal or collective objectives."--BOOK JACKET.

A Diagram for Fire

Author : Jon Bialecki
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520967410
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A Diagram for Fire written by Jon Bialecki and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How can miracles be unanticipated and yet worked for? And finally, what do miracles tell us about other kinds of Christianity and even the category of religion? A Diagram for Fire engages with these questions in a detailed sociocultural ethnographic study of the Vineyard, an American Evangelical movement that originated in Southern California. The Vineyard is known worldwide for its intense musical forms of worship and for advocating the belief that all Christians can perform biblical-style miracles. Examining the miracle as both a strength and a challenge to institutional cohesion and human planning, this book situates the miracle as a fundamentally social means of producing change—surprise and the unexpected used to reimagine and reconfigure the will. Jon Bialecki shows how this configuration of the miraculous shapes typical Pentecostal and Charismatic religious practices as well as music, reading, economic choices, and conservative and progressive political imaginaries.