Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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)