Sol Tax

Cultural anthropologist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Educated at the universities of Wisconsin and Chicago (1935 PhD), he carried out field studies among the North American, Guatemalan, and Mexican Indians, and had a long career as a professor of anthropology at Chicago. As a longtime associate at the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, he promoted many expeditions and field campaigns. His publications include Evolution after Darwin (3 vols, 1960), and he was editor of American Anthropologist (1953–6).

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 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. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.