Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on… — Elsie Clews Parsons Copy Share Image
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying. — Elsie Clews Parsons Copy Share Image
Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to… — Elsie Clews Parsons Copy Share Image
Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation… — Elsie Clews Parsons Copy Share Image
“When Captain Moresby landed on New Guinea, a medicine-man exorcised the evil spirit in him by magical jugglery with palm leaves and by playing… — Elsie Clews Parsons Copy Share Image