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Sol Tax on the social organization of the Fox Indians
American anthropologist, n.s. • 40 • Published In 1938 • Pages: 177-179
By: Michelson, Truman.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a review article of Tax (1955) on Fox social organization. Although Michelson says that the description is accurate in many ways, he submits brief criticism on kinship terminology and on Tax's interpretation of the "gentes."
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Kinship terminology
- Clans
- History
- Comparative evidence
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Fox
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Linguist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1976-1977
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1911-1927
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1911-1937
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tama County, Iowa, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Truman Michelson
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fox Indians