# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elsie-clews-parsons
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:21:29.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elsie-clews-parsons"
name: "Elsie Clews Parsons"
slug: "elsie-clews-parsons"
description: "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. She was associate editor for The Journal of American Folklore (1918–1941), president of the American Folklore Society (1919–1920), president of the American Ethnological Society (1923–1925), and was elected the first female president of the American Anthropological Association (1941) right before her death."
tagline: "American anthropologist (1875-1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elsie_Clews_Parsons_aboard_Malabar_V.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1875-11-27"
deathDate: "1941-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump