"The Tarahumar of Mexico, their material culture and environment." (Parsons)
b. 2 February 1918, Campbell's Station, Tennessee.
B.A. Univ. of Texas, Austin (History) 1948; M.A. Univ. of Texas, Austin (History) 1949.
Texas A&M University (s-ince 1974). Professor of Geography. Departmental Head 1974-1982.
Southern Illinois University 1964-1974; University of Utah 1957-1964; Georgia State College 1956-1957.
Books and Monographs:
The Tarahumar of Mexico, Their Material Culture and Environment. Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah Press, 251 pp., 1963.
The Tepehuán of Chihuahua, Their Material Culture. Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah Press, 413 pp., 1969.
Editor. Man Across the Sea: Problems of Pre-Columbian Contacts. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 552 pp., 1971. (With Carroll L. Riley, J. Charles Kelley and Robert L. Rand).
Medicinal Plants Utilized by the Tarahumara-Plantas Medicinales Utilizadas Por Los Tarahumarus. Chihuahua, Chihuahua: Imprenta Esparza, 27 pp., 1973.
The Pima Bajo of Central Sonora, Mexico, Vol. II: Vocabulario en la lengua Névome. Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah Press, 158 pp., 1979.
The Pima Bajo of Central Sonora. Vol. 1—Material Culture. Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah Press, 410 pp., 1980.
Editor. Arte y Vocabulario de La Lengua Dohema, Heve o Eudeve. Anónimo (Siglo XVII), Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, 262 pp., 1981.
Editor. This Remarkable Continent, An Atlas of United States and Canadian Society and Cultures. (with John F. Rooney, Jr., Wilbur Zelinsky, Dean R. Louder, John D. Vitek) College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 316 pp., 1982.
Articles:
"Tarahumar fish stupefaction plants." Economic Botany, 12:95-102, 1958.
"Medicinal plants, utilized by the Tepehuan of southern Chihuahua." América Indígena, 23:31-47, 1963.
"La carrera de bola entre Los Tarahumaras de Mexico: un problema de difusión." América Indígena, 30:15-40, 1970.
"Plantas medicinales utilizadas por el Pima Montañes de Chihuahua." América Indígena, 33:213-232, l973.
"La cultura de los Eudeve del Noroeste de Mexico." Noroeste de Mexico, Centro Regional del Noroeste, INAH, September, pp. 9-34, 1982.
"Tarahumara." Handbook of North American Indians (Willian C. Sturtevant, General Editor) Volume 10, Southwest (Alfonso Ortiz, Volume Editor). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 276-289, 1983.
"Northern Tepehuan." Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 10. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 306-314, 1983.