Sol Tax

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birth_date = 30 October, 1907
birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin
death_date = 4 January, 1995
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nationality = American
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field = anthropology
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known_for = Sauk Indians
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Sol Tax (30 October, 1907 – 4 January, 1995) was an American anthropologist. He is best known for his studies of the Sauk 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.

Tax was grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During his formative years he was involved in a number of social clubs. Among these was the Newsboys Republic with which his first encounter was when he was "arrested" for breaking their rules. Tax began his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago but had to leave for lack of funds. He returned to school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he studied with Ralph Linton. He was also heavily influenced by the University of Chicago anthropologist Fred Eggan, in whose footsteps he followed in attempting to integrate principles of social anthropology to the study of Native Americans. He later taught at the University of Chicago.

He was the main organizer for the 1959 Darwin Centennial Celebration which was held at the University of Chicago.

Works

*(1937, revised 1955) contributions to "Social Anthropology of North American Tribes," ed. by Fred Eggan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
* Rubinstein, Robert A., ed. 2001. "Doing Fieldwork: The Correspondence of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax," New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books.
* "Penny Capitalism" ISBN-10 0374977852. He is said to have coined the term Penny Capitalism. [http://www4.ncsu.edu/~twallace/Guate2003%20LaShone%20Gibson.pdf]