Elsie Clews Parsons
is widely known as an anthropologist and writer. She has contributed largely to scientific journals and in 1922 edited the volume on American Indian Life by various students of the subject. Graduated from Barnard 1896; Ph.D. Columbia 1899. Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology at Barnard; Lecturer in Anthropology in New School for Social Research. She is editor of theJournal of American Folklore;Treasurer of American Ethnological Society; President of Folk Lore Society. Is author of “The Family”; “The Old-Fashioned Woman”; “Fear and Conventionality”; “Social Freedom” and “Social Rule.”