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A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

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Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.

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Elsie Clews Parsons

Elsie Clews Parsons
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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:
  1. Pueblo Indian religion (1939)
  2. Fear and conventionality (1914)
  3. Taos tales
  4. Tewa tales (1926)
  5. American Indian life (1922)

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