The contents of this collection include course materials, lecture notes, research files, publications, and audiovisisual media relating to Fox's work on Pre-Colombian Central and South American languages. A signifcant portion of the materials, including flash cards and audio recordings, are primarily related to spoken Quiche and Quichua.

James A. Fox (1944-2019) was an associate professor of anthropology at Stanford University, specializing in historical linguistics and the indigenous languages of Central America. Fox was born in Spokane, Washington, and grew up in Hardin, Montana. Fox earned his Bachelor of Arts in German from Brigham Young University in 1969. He got a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1970. He earned another master's and his doctorate in linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1974 and in 1978.

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