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The social organization of the Fox Indiansessay 1955 • Tax, Sol
Fox • North America > Eastern Woodlands
In this article Tax describes the kinship system of the Fox Indians at the time of his fieldwork was in 1932 and 1934. He describes his methodology and concludes that 'clans', or "gentes", in the way they are customarily defined, do not actually exis...Folk tales in Chichicastenangoarticle 1949 • Tax, Sol
Quiché Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
The collection of several folk tales from the Quiché community of Chichicastenango—the most complete being a Bible story adapted as an origin myth—is used to dispute the assertion of an absence of such stories there. Nevertheless, the relative dearth...