ABSTRACT
George Marlin was dragged through cycles of pro- and anti-Fox mood; if there is any plausibility in that account, it cannot derive from a description of social structure alone. Rather, Fox social structure became for that purpose an environment that the psyche of George Marlin handled in a tragic and conspicuous way. The larger, parallel argument that the Fox community was structurally paralyzed required similarly such a population of Fox psyches. Explicit Fox thought came very close to such a view. Its cost is in time. If there is time, it is as good a way as any of getting on with the work. The social niches of the Fox dictated such behavior as giv-ing and receiving, ordering and deferring, as well as such unlikely things as with whom one ought to joke. One could paralyze a white town by the device of removing all of the local work it does as a community.
