Contains personal correspondence with family and professional correspondence with colleagues, publishers, and organizations; papers Tax wrote while a student at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin; diaries; field notes; travel files; newspaper clippings; manuscripts and other writings; reprints; awards and honors; and teaching/course material, including syllabi, bibliographies, lecture notes, and student papers. Correspondents include: Joan Ablon, Cyril Belshaw, Leonard Borman, Fernando Cámara Barbachano, Juan Comas, Thorne Deuel, Mary Druke, Fred Eggan, E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Lloyd A. Fallers, Julio de la Fuente, Frederick Gearing, Santiago Genovés, Walter Goldschmidt, Andrew M. Greeley, Calixta Guiteras Holmes, Robert E. Hinshaw, Gustav Ichheiser, Alicja Iwańska, Robert Cuba Jones, Alfred V. Kidder, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Nancy O. Lurie, Magoroh Maruyama, D'Arcy McNickle, Norman A. McQuown, Margaret Mead, Chie Nakane, Ethel Nurge, Benjamin Paul, Lois Paul, Lisa R. Peattie, Steven Polgar, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, Robert Redfield, Emil J. Sady, Rachel Sady, Thomas Sebeok, Demitri Shimkin, Milton B. Singer, James Sydney Slotkin, M.N. Srinivas, Colin Turnbull, Lalita P. Vidyarthi, Alfonso Villa Rojas, Virgil J. Vogel, Evon Z. Vogt, Albert L. Wahrhaftig, John K. White, and Dorothy Willner. Includes material relating to organizations and conferences with which Tax was affiliated and for which he held offices, such as the American Anthropological Association, the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, the Center for the Study of Man, the Illinois State Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, and the Viking Fund Seminar on Middle American Ethnology and Social Anthropology. Also contains correspondence and other material from Tax's tenure as associate editor and editor of the American Anthropologist. Contains reel-to-reel tapes; audio-cassettes; one videotape; and photographs of family, friends, and colleagues.
