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Sol Tax

Anthropology

#58

World Rank

#105

Historical Rank

#32

USA Rank

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Anthropology

Sol Tax's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Sol Tax was an American anthropologist. He is best known for creating action anthropology and his studies of the Meskwaki, or Fox, Indians, for "action-anthropological" research titled the Fox Project, and for founding the academic journal Current Anthropology. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1935 and, together with Fred Eggan, was a student of Alfred Radcliffe-Brown.

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Sol Tax's Published Works

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An Anthropological Approach to the Study of the Economic Value of Children in Java and Nepal [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (265)
Evolution after Darwin (1960) (210)
The evolution of life (1960) (189)
Penny capitalism;: A Guatemalan Indian economy (1972) (98)
THE MUNICIPIOS OF THE MIDWESTERN HIGHLANDS OF GUATEMALA (1937) (96)
An Appraisal of Anthropology Today (1953) (93)
The Fox Project (1958) (86)
Perils of the soul : the world view of a Tzotzil Indian (1961) (68)
Horizons Of Anthropology (1964) (49)
WORLD VIEW AND SOCIAL RELATIONS IN GUATEMALA (1941) (45)
The Draft : a handbook of facts and alternatives (1967) (44)
Anthropology for the future (1978) (40)
Issues in the Ethics of Research Method: An Interpretation of the Anglo-American Perspective [and Comments and Reply] (1976) (36)
Heritage of Conquest: The Ethnology of Middle America (1968) (34)
The Social Organization Of The Fox Indians (1955) (29)
Pride and Puzzlement: A Retro-introspective Record of 60 Years of Anthropology (1988) (18)
Penny Capitalism: A Guatemalan Indian Economy (1964) (16)
Action Anthropology (1975) (16)
Currents in anthropology : essays in honor of Sol Tax (1980) (16)
Statement on Peyote. (1951) (15)
The Integration of Anthropology (1955) (13)
Anthropology today : selections (1962) (12)
Changing Consumption in Indian Guatemala (1957) (12)
Indian Tribes of Aboriginal America (1954) (10)
Trade and Market in the Early Empires: Economies in History and Theory. Karl Polanyi , Conrad M. Arensberg , Harry W. Pearson (1959) (10)
Culture and Civilization in Guatemalan Societies (1939) (10)
Acculturation in the Americas : proceedings and selected papers of the XXIXth International Congress of Americanists (1952) (9)
The Impact of Urbanization on American Indians (1978) (9)
Anthropology for the World of the Future: Thirteen Professions and Three Proposals (1977) (9)
The civilizations of ancient America : selected papers of the XXIXth International Congress of Americanists (1952) (8)
Folk Tales in Chichicastenango: An Unsolved Puzzle (1949) (8)
Can World Views Mix (1990) (8)
The Social Anthropology of Latin America: Essays in Honor of Ralph Leon Beals. (1971) (8)
The evolution of man : man, culture and society (1960) (7)
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROBLEMS WITH REFERENCE TO THE CONTEMPORARY PEOPLES OF MEXICO AND GUATEMALA (1943) (7)
Reconciling evolution and creation (1983) (6)
Residential Integration: The Case of Hyde Park in Chicago (1959) (6)
Issues in evolution : the University of Chicago Centennial discussions (1960) (5)
Self and Society. (1968) (5)
The Bow and the Hoe: Reflections on Hunters, Villagers, and Anthropologists (1975) (5)
Serial publications in anthropology (1973) (5)
The History and Philosophy of Current Anthropology (1965) (5)
Anthropology Today an Encyclopedic Inventory.@@@An Appraisal of Anthropology Today. (1954) (4)
Self-Help Groups: Thoughts on Public Policy (1976) (4)
The Education of Underprivileged Peoples in Dependent and Independent Territories (1946) (4)
Responsibility in reviewing and research (1982) (3)
Evolution after Darwin. Volume III. Issues in evolution (1960) (3)
The Problem of Democracy in Middle America (1945) (3)
A Guide to Materials Bearing on Cultural Relations in New Mexico (1945) (3)
Fifth International Directory of Anthropologists (1975) (3)
Letter to Associates (1959) (3)
Continuities in Cultural Evolution. Margaret Mead (1966) (2)
Manuscripts on Middle American Languages and Cultures (1948) (2)
Anthropology for the Future: The Status and Prospects of a Program of International Cooperation (1979) (1)
Fieldwork : the correspondence of Robert Redfield & Sol Tax (1993) (1)
Anthropological backgrounds of adult education (1968) (1)
Autobiography of Santiago Yach (1980) (1)
Acculturation in the Americas, Selected Papers of the XXIXth International Congress of Americanists (1952) (1)
Anthropologists: Are they Modern Medicine Men? 1 (1970) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Rural Mexico. Nathan L. Whetten (1949) (0)
The Alpha and Omega of Current Evolutionary Thought@@@Evolution after Darwin. Vol. 1. The Evolution of Life: Its Origin, History and Future.@@@Evolution after Darwin. Vol. 2. The Evolution of Man: Mind, Culture and Society. (1960) (0)
A Way to Begin (1976) (0)
Farmers of the World: The Development of Agricultural Extension.Edmund de S. Brunner, Irwin T. Sanders , Douglas Ensminger (1946) (0)
ICAES Book Fair Participation (1973) (0)
Lacandon Nasal Ornaments (1951) (0)
Social Change in Latin America Today. Richard Adams, John P. Gillin, Allan R. Homberg, Oscar Lewis, Richard W. Patch, and Charles Wagley. Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by Harper, New York, 1961. 353 pp. $5 (1961) (0)
Dictionary of Anthropology. Charles Winick. (1957) (0)
Anthropology Today: An Encyclopedic Survey (1953) (0)
Vietnam parallels (1970) (0)
Society, the Individual and National Service (1968) (0)
Book Review: Anthropology in Administration (1957) (0)
GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Man, Culture, and Society. Harry L. Shapiro (Ed.) (1958) (0)
The Evolution of Man and Society. (1970) (0)
The social organization of the fox indians : a part of a dissertation submitted to the faculty of the division of social sciences in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of anthropology 1935 (1937) (0)
Anthropology Today: An Encyclopedic Inventory.@@@An Appraisal of Anthropology Today. (1954) (0)
The Civilizations of Ancient America, Selected Papers of the XXIXthe International Congress of Americanists (1953) (0)
Sociology and Anthropology (1960) (0)
Anthropological Backgrounds on Adult Education. CSLEA. Notes and Essays on Education for Adults, 57. (1968) (0)
Acculturation in the Americas@@@Araucanian Culture in Transition@@@Soogwilis (1953) (0)
A discussion on progress and values (1965) (0)
General and Theoretical: Social Anthropology. E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1952) (0)
MIDDLE AMERICA: A Primitive Mexican Economy. George M. Foster (1945) (0)
JAMES SYDNEY SLOTKIN 1913–1958 (1959) (0)
Book Review:The Economic Life of Primitive Peoples. Melville J. Herskovits (1941) (0)
Hunter-gatherers and humane living. (1988) (0)

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