Sol Tax

Sol Tax (30 October 1907 – 4 January 1995) 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.

Sol Tax
Born(1907-10-30)30 October 1907
Died4 January 1995(1995-01-04) (aged 87)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin (Ph.B, 1931)
University of Chicago (Ph.D, 1935)
Known forFox Indians
AwardsViking Fund Medal (1961)
Bronislaw Malinowski Award (1977)
Scientific career
Fieldsanthropology
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