Quote of the day
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
Elsie Clews Parsons
Born: November 27, 1875
Died: December 19, 1941 (aged 66)
Bio: Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes such as the Tewa and Hopi in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. She helped found The New School.
Known for:
- Pueblo Indian religion (1939)
- Fear and conventionality (1914)
- Taos tales
- Tewa tales (1926)
- American Indian life (1922)