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Died
  
1956, New York City, New York, United States

Books
  
A treasury of Mexican folkways, Mexican Popular Arts

Similar
  
Pablo O'Higgins, Carlos Mérida, José Guadalupe Posada

Frances Toor (1890–1956) was an American author, publisher, anthropologist and ethnographer who wrote mainly about Mexico and Mexican indigenous cultures. She earned a B.A. and an M.A. in anthropology from University of California at Berkeley. She moved to Mexico City in 1922. In 1925, she founded the journal Mexican Folkways (published until 1937).

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