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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 Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear and Conventionality written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

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

American Indian Life

Author : Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian Life written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study, first published in 1922, presents the writings of A. L. Kroeber, Robert H. Lowie, Clark Wissler, Paul Radin, Truman Michelson, and other prominent anthropologists. The distinguished career of Elsie Clews Parsons and its debt to Franz Boas are considered by Joan Mark in an introduction that also explores the message behind the twenty-seven stories in American Indian 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Social Rule written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Folk-lore from the Cape Verde Islands ...

Author : Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( 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 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Folklore Scholarship

Author : Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253204721
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book American Folklore Scholarship written by Rosemary Levy Zumwalt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988-06-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Folklore Scholarship is rich reading, outlining the intellectual genealogy of American folklore and delivering many interesting historical tidbits. Folklore teachers will want to use this book in their introductory theory classes, while doctoral students will want to memorize the book before their qualifying exams." --Folklore Forum "... a welcome overview of the discipline in North America and the practitioners who established it." --American Anthropologist In this classic text, Zumwalt examines the split between literary folklorists and anthropological folklorists. The former looked at literary forms for folklore; the latter looked at the life and unwritten culture of the people. This struggle shaped the study of folklore in the U.S.

Pueblo Mothers and Children

Author : Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 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 160 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.

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:

Invisible Genealogies

Author : Regna Darnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803219151
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Genealogies written by Regna Darnell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invisible Genealogies is a landmark reinterpretation of the history of anthropology in North America. During the past two decades, theorizing by many American anthropologists has called for an "experimental moment" grounded in explicit self-reflexive scholarship and experimentation with alternate forms of presentation. Such postmodern anthropology has effectively downplayed connections with past luminaries in the field, whose scholarship is perceived to be uncomfortably colonialist and nonreflexive. Ironically, as the American Anthropological Association nears its one hundredth anniversary and interest in the history of the discipline is at an all-time high, that history has been effectively presented as removed from and irrelevant to the new generation. Invisible Genealogies offers an alternative, compelling vision of the development of anthropology in North America, one that emphasizes continuity rather than discontinuity from legendary founder Franz Boas to the present. Regna Darnell identifies key interpretive assumptions and practices that have persisted, sometimes in modified form, since the groundbreaking work of A. L. Kroeber, Boas, Ruth Benedict, Edward Sapir, Elsie Clews Parsons, Paul Radin, Benjamin Lee Whorf, and A. Irving Hallowell during the founding decades of anthropology. Also highlighted are the Americanist roots of postmodern anthropology and the work of innovative recent scholars like Claude Lävi-Strauss and Clifford Geertz.

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.

Folk-tales of Andros Island, Bahamas

Author : Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk-tales of Andros Island, Bahamas written by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Diagram for Fire

Author : Jon Bialecki
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520294203
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 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 2017-03-21 with total page 283 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. This movement is known worldwide for its intense musical forms of worship and for advocating the belief that all Christians can perform biblical-style miracles. Setting 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.

A Woman's Quest for Science

Author : Peter H. Hare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Woman's Quest for Science written by Peter H. Hare and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Before Margaret Mead, even before Ruth Benedict, it was Elsie Clews Parsons who paved the way as the first woman president of the American Anthropological Association. Born into a prominent New York family in 1874, Parsons showed early determination to be free of social constraints. Everything she did until her death in 1941 stemmed from her concern for the ways in which expression of personality is affected by social conventions. Her proposal of "trial marriage" in 1906 and even her pacifism in World War I (in association with Randolph Bourne) derived from that concern.Parson's personality was fascinating in its tensions and complexity. She was a feminist who admitted to prejudice against her own sex and seldom enjoyed the companionship of other women. She was devoted to her politically prominent husband from whom she never concealed her relationships with other men. However, her husband's companionship with another woman tormented her. Her publications ranged from iconoclastic propaganda to technical science. She loved rugged adventure in the wild, yet thrived on scholarly work. Though her convictions were passionately held, her voice was never raised". - Publisher.