Parsons, Reichard, Hurston During the 1920s Boas had a number of women students, including Elsie Clews Parsons, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Gladys Reichard, and Zora Neale Hurston. This week we will examine the Columbia milieu and the place of women within it, focusing on three women who were close to the "Boasian mold": Elsie Clews Parsons, Gladys Reichard and Zora Neale Hurston. Parsons, a wealthy feminist, was a contemporary of Kroeber and the financial patron of the Department. Reichard was more like a daughter, often living in the Boas family apartment and caring for Boas when he was ill. Hurston was more daring in her research activities and thinking. Failing to find a professional career in anthropology, she eventually left it to pursue interpretive folklore and fiction. All three contributed to and expanded the Boasian notion of ethnography, a topic we will explore in the assigned readings.
Parsons, Elsie Clews. 1991. "Mothers and Children at Laguna," "Mothers and Children at Zuni, New Mexico," and "Waiyautitsa of Zuni, New Mexico" pp. 69-105 in Pueblo Mothers and Children, ed. by Barbara A. Babcock. Santa Fe, NM: Ancient City Press (2 copies on reserve)
Babcock, Barbara A. 1991. Elsie Clews Parsons and the Pueblo Con- struction of Gender," pp. 1-27 in Pueblo Mothers and Children, ed. by Barbara A. Babcock. Santa Fe, NM: Ancient City Press (3 copies on reserve)
Lamphere, Louise. 1989. Feminist Anthropology: The Legacy of Elsie Clews Parsons. American Ethnologist 16(3):518-533 (2 copies on reserve)
Reichard, Gladys. 1934. Spider Woman: A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters. New York: Macmillan, "At the Well," pp. 50-59; "Self- Reliance," pp. 100-108 (3 copies on reserve)
Reichard, Gladys. 1936. Dezba: Woman of the Desert. New York: J.J. Augustin. "Maatron," pp. 3-18 (CFAL: E99 N3R34 - on reserve) (3 copies on reserve)
Lamphere, Louise. 1992. "Gladys Reichard Among the Navajo." Frontiers 12(3):78-115 (2 copies on reserve)
Hurston, Zora Neale. 1931. "Hoodoo in America." Jl. of American Folklore 44:356-360, 368-371, 380-382 (3 copies on reserve)
Hurston, Zora Neale. 1942. Dust Tracks on a Road. New York: J.B. Lippincott, pp. 122-149 (CFAL PS3515 U789 Z5 1991 - on reserve)
Hurston, Zora Neale. 1990 (orig. 1938). Tell My Horse. New York: Perennial Library, pp. 3-20, 199-217, 252-253. also examine the photographs, pp. 115, 117, 126, 129, 140, 143, 149, 150, 154-156, 159, 161, 163, 165, 166, 168, 170, 176, 180 (CFAL BL 2490 H88 1990 - on reserve)
Dutton, Wendy. 1992. "The Problem of Invisibility: Voodoo and Zora Neale Hurston." Frontiers 13(3):131-152 (3 copies on reserve)
Mead, Margaret. 1960. "Introduction," pp. 1-10 in The Golden Age of American Anthropology, ed. by Mrgaret Mead & Ruth L. Bunzel. New York: George Braziller
Lange, Charles. 1986. The Contributions of Esther S. Goldfrank Paper prepared for the Daughters of the Desert Symposium (1 copy on reserve)
Hardin, Margaret. 1986. Zuni Potters and 'The Pueblo Potter': The Contributions of Ruth Bunzel Paper prepared for the Daughters of the Desert Symposium (1 copy on reserve)
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