Tax, Sol (1907-1995)

US cultural anthropologist. He was noted for the field studies he carried out among the North American, Guatemalan, and Mexican Indians; he also 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.

Tax was born in Chicago and was educated at the universities of Wisconsin and Chicago (PhD 1935). His publications include Evolution after Darwin (3 vols. 1960). He was editor of American Anthropologist 1953-56.