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    awards the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize for the best graduate student essay, in her honor. Elsie Worthington Clews was the daughter of Henry Clews, a wealthy...
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    One of Clews' aunts was married into the Vanderbilt family and another into the Astor family. Clews' older sister, Dr. Elsie Clews Parsons (who married...
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    adulthood: Elsie Worthington Clews (1875–1941), an anthropologist who married U.S. Representative Herbert Parsons (1869–1925), a son of John Edward Parsons, in...
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    Publishers ISBN 1-56000-218-2 Elsie Clews Parsons Pueblo Indian Religion, University of Chicago Press, 1939. Elsie Clews Parsons and Ralph L. Beals, The Sacred...
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    studying anthropology at the New School of Social Research under Elsie Clews Parsons, she entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1921, where...
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  • were U.S. Representative Herbert Parsons and Elsie Clews Parsons (a daughter of British-American financier Henry Clews and Lucy Madison Worthington, a...
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    Hurston, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisław Malinowski, Margaret Mead, Elsie Clews Parsons, Paul Rabinow, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Marshall Sahlins, Nancy Scheper-Hughes...
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    from Ojong Akpan of Mfamosing. An American variant was collected by Elsie Clews Parsons from Cape Verde. Audio readings/dramatizations include: Dick Bentley...
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    University of Chicago; Alexander Goldenweiser (1910), who, with Elsie Clews Parsons (who received her doctorate in sociology from Columbia in 1899, but...
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  • great hunter than to be one herself. According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons, Átahsaia figures in a Zuni spiritual dance intended to teach children...
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