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The Fox Project: a reappraisal
Current anthropology • 40 (2) • Published In 1999 • Pages: 171-183, 191
By: Foley, Douglas E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document describes "The Fox Project" as envisioned by Sol Tax who sought to fuse applied and academic anthropology into a new anthropological practice that he called "action anthropology." This project represented one of several attempts to develop a "clinical science" that hoped to produce better anthropological theory as it solved pressing community problems. Foley describes in detail the various ideological elements of this approach and presents a critique of the final results.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- War veterans
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Political movements
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Ethnosociology
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- John Beierle; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1989-1994
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1948-1959
- 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
- Douglas E. Foley
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 63000576
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fox Indians