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| | 1 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 17 May 1926 - 20 October 1941 | | | | Extent: | 49 letters | | | | Abstract: | 49 letters (30 to Parsons, 19 to White). Fieldwork among the Pueblo; Pueblo Indian ceremony, social structure, history; Pueblo Indian Religion; research support; social evolution; American Folk-Lore Society; publications; personal | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 2 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Leslie White and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | [1927?]-1937, 1941 | | | | Extent: | 5 folders | | | | Abstract: | Fieldwork/ethnography; informants; societies; ceremonies; San Felipe notes; the Kachina cult notes; migration; interview with Miss Roberts and Mr. Reuter of Pecos; Taos notes - men and curing, doctoring, language, map, society chiefs, folklore, ceremonies, training; anthropology paper - "An Anthropological Appraisal of the Russian Revolution" by White; publishing and publications; education; clan/lineages; masks; various anthropological work by White, Sia, San Domingo, Taos, San Felipe, Acoma; genealogy; comments on lecture "The Disintegration of Pueblo Culture" | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 3 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clark Wissler and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1918-1922, 1928-1929 | | | | Extent: |
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| | | | Abstract: | Correspondence regarding Southwest research - encyclopedia project; funding; fieldwork; news/press - issues; publications. Manuscript "Spanish Elements in the Kachina Cult of the Pueblos" | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 4 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Frederica De Laguna
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 26 November 1941 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Letter to De Laguna. American Anthropological Association | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | |
| 5 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Pliny Goddard and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1913-1923 | | | | Extent: | 2 folders | | | | Abstract: | Peers; comments on Parson's "Links Between Religion and Morality in Early Culture"; journals; publishing/publications; ceremonies; culture; Zuni; funding; fieldwork; "American Anthropologist"; personal | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 6 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Hallowell and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 8 February 1940 - 15 December 1941 | | | | Extent: | 17 items | | | | Abstract: | American Folklore Society; publications | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 7 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Melville Herskovits and Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 10 April 1939 - 10 April 1941 | | | | Extent: | 19 letters | | | | Abstract: | 19 letters (15 to Parsons, 4 to Herskovits). Fieldwork; folklore; Journal of American Folk-Lore; American Folk-Lore Society; SSRC; research funding; professional meetings; publications | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 8 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Melville Herskovits and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1929-1937, 1941 | | | | Extent: | 4 folders | | | | Abstract: | Detail of Herskovits fieldwork/ethnography work; folklores; music; cultures; publications/publishing; fieldwork funding; fieldwork plans; education; employment | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 9 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Kidder and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1923, 1937-1938 | | | | Extent: | 3 letters | | | | Abstract: | Baskets, pottery manufacture and trade (San Juan, San Ildefonso). Plates for a publication. Pueblo language; Navaho. Concerning prayer-stick drawings; Navaho grave site; Zuni word; Kiva mask | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Linguistics and philology | |
| 10 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Kidder and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1920-1935 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 25 letters | | | | Abstract: | Fieldwork/ethnology; funding; publications; Pecos; Summer Training Course; women in anthropology; ceremonial pottery; Zuni; Parsons elected member of Advisory Board/Board of Trustees of the Laboratory of Anthropology; memorandum concerning problems of the Laboratory of Anthropology | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 11 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clyde Kluckhohn and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 April 1938 - 26 May 1941 | | | | Extent: | 9 letters | | | | Abstract: | 9 letters (8 to Parsons, 1 to Kluckhohn). Pueblo, Navaho Indians; witchcraft; publications. | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 12 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Clyde Kluckhohn and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1938-1940s | | | | Extent: | 9 letters | | | | Abstract: | Various publications; comments on Parsons' "Pueblo Indian Religion"; comments on Kluckhohn's "Mythology and Ceremonials" and Kluckhohn's response | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 13 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Alfred Kroeber and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1915-1939 | | | | Extent: | 7 folders | | | | Abstract: | Publications comments; folklores; peers - Goddard, Tozzer, Wissler, etc.; fieldwork; ethnography; ethnology; Zuni; language; editing issues; Acoma Project Conference; funding; professional organizations; personal | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | Personal matters | |
| 14 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Lowie and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 25 March 1936 - 19 February 1941 | | | | Extent: | 17 letters + 13 leaves | | | | Abstract: | 17 letters (1 to Lowie, 16 to Parsons) + thirteen manuscript leaves entitled "On Goldenweiser's Recent Trends in American Anthropology." Manuscript includes critique of Goldenweiser, Radin, and Sapir. Letters discuss social organization, culture, religion, ethnological theory, folklore, personal matters, publications, miscellaneous. | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Social uses and context of anthropology and archaeology | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Personal matters | |
| 15 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Robert Lowie and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1914-1937 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 27 letters | | | | Abstract: | Village chiefs; fieldwork; Hopi; comments on Parson's paper on Aztecan and Pueblo parallels; comments on paper by Parsons and Ralph Beals; peers - Boas, Kroeber, etc.; publications; Kroeber Festschrift; ceremonialism; kinship; poem by David Friedrich Strauss | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 16 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between J. Alden Mason and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 7 July 1939 - 10 Januaryary 1941 | | | | Extent: | 5 letters | | | | Abstract: | 5 letters (3 to Parsons, 2 to Mason). American Anthropological Association; SSRC; publications | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | |
| 17 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Ruth Benedict and Elsie Clews Parsons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1923-1937 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 17 letters | | | | Abstract: | Publications; fieldwork and funding; fieldwork plans in Mexico; religion; reviews. Manuscript: "Spanish Elements in the Kachina Cult of the Pueblos" | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 18 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Correspondence between Elsie Clews Parsons and Franz Boas
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 4 January 1907 - December 1941 | | | | Extent: | 365 letters | | | | Abstract: | 346 letters (161 to Boas, 185 to Parsons) + 19 letters to/from P.E. Goddard, A.M. Totter, Frank Harrison, M.J. Herskovits, A.M. Huntington, and others. Folklore, religion, ceremonialism; research funding; American Folklore Society; museum exhibits; publications | | | | Source: | Franz Boas Papers (B B61) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 19 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1835-1944 | | | | Extent: | 12 linear feet (approximately 1200 items) | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence, circa 1400 leaves, 1921-1941. Original with some photocopies. Correspondents include Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Ruth Bunzel, A. Irving Hallowell, Melville Herskovits, Clyde Kluckhohn, Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Robert Redfield, C.G. Seligman, Edward Sapir, Leslie White, Clark Wissler. Also included are Parsons' notebooks, drawings, photographs and negatives, manuscripts of published and unpublished works. Materials deal primarily with religion, folklore, and the ceremonial culture of Indians in Antilles, American Southwest, and Mexico | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (572 P25) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | |
| 20 | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews, 1875-1941 | | | | | Anthropologist, folklorist. Independently wealthy writer and researcher in ethnology and folklore. Lecturer, Barnard College, 1902-1905; assistant editor, Journal of American Folk-Lore; president, American Anthropological Association, 1940-1941 | |
| | | Title: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | [1882]-1978 | | | | Extent: | 36 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Primarily correspondence, but includes financial and family records, photographs, diaries, manuscripts of published and unpublished works. Much of correspondence consists of Parsons' family letters, but there are four boxes of professional correspondence. Correspondents include Ruth Benedict, Ruth Bunzel, J. Walter Fewkes, Franklin Giddings, P.E. Goddard, A. Goldenweiser, M. Herskovits, A. Kidder, Walter Lippmann, R. Lowie, Paul Radin, R. Redfield,G. Reichard, L. Spier, Clark Wissler | | | | Source: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Disciplinary professionalization, professional societies, education, employment | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Folklore, mythology, religion | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
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