Early 'Feminists' in Anthropology? Elsie Clews Parsons, Ruth Benedict, Gladys Reichard, and Ruth Underhill

摘要

What Lavender misses in the ethnographic accounts of Reichard and Parsons is a sense of the varied personalities and roles that Navajo and Pueblo women have. Because they were pioneers of the now au courant dialogic style of ethnographic writing, Parsons's journal articles from the 1920s and Reichard's Spider Woman (1934) give us the voices and activities of Pueblo and Navajo women, rather than singular leaders or "executive women."