Elsie Clews Parsons

Elsie Clews Parsons was born in New York on 27 November 1875. A graduate of Barnard College, with a doctorate from Columbia University in 1899, she first published works of sociology, then came to anthropology through contact with the Pueblos of the American Southwest. She collected the African American folklore of the Sea Islands, Cape Verde, the Bahamas and the Antilles, financed from her own fortune her research and that of other researchers, and in 1940 was the first woman elected president of the American Anthropological Association. She died in New York on 19 December 1941.

In the catalogue 4

• TaleFolk-Tales of Andros Island, BahamasElsie Clews Parsons · 1918Literature
• TaleFolk-Lore from the Cape Verde IslandsElsie Clews Parsons · 1923Literature
• TaleBarbados FolkloreElsie Clews Parsons · 1925Literature
• TaleFolk-Lore of the Antilles, French and EnglishElsie Clews Parsons · 1936Literature