Frances Toor (1890–1956) was an American author, publisher, anthropologist and

ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

who wrote mainly about

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

and Mexican indigenous cultures. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. in anthropology from

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...

. She moved to

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital city, capital and primate city, largest city of Mexico, and the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North Amer ...

in 1922. In 1925, she founded the journal ''Mexican Folkways'' (published until 1937).

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* Finding Aid for Frances Toor at th
Online Archive of California

Francis Toor / Por Diego Rivera
International Center for the Arts of the Americas Houston, Digital Archive. 1890 births 1956 deaths American publishers (people) American ethnographers People from Mexico City 20th-century American anthropologists 20th-century American non-fiction writers University of California, Berkeley alumni American expatriates in Mexico {{US-anthropologist-stub