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1940s in anthropology

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Timeline of anthropology, 1940–1949

Contents

Events

1940

  • The oldest known North American mummy, Spirit Cave Man, is excavated.
  • Prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux caves are discovered.

    • 1949

  • The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) is founded at Yale University.

    • Publications

    1940

  • Race, Language and Culture, by Franz Boas
  • African Political Systems, ed. by Meyer Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard

    • 1944

  • The People of Alor by Cora Du Bois
  • Configurations of Culture Growth by Alfred Kroeber
  • The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

    • 1949

  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell
  • Les structures élémentaires de la parenté (The Elementary Structures of Kinship), by Claude Lévi-Strauss

    • Births

    1940

  • Michael Taussig
  • Bruce Kapferer

    • 1941

  • H. James Birx
  • Richard Dawkins

    • 1942

  • Yoram Bilu
  • Ulf Hannerz
  • Meave Leakey

    • 1943

  • Eduardo Archetti

    • 1944

  • Richard Leakey
  • Nancy Scheper-Hughes

    • 1948

  • Kirsten Hastrup
  • Ian Hodder
  • Tim Ingold
  • David Kertzer

    • 1949

  • Stephen Feld
  • Ian Hodder

    • Deaths

    1940

  • James Frazer
  • Alexander Goldenweiser
  • Alfred Cort Haddon
  • Charles Seligman

    • 1941

  • Carl Vilhelm Hartman
  • Elsie Clews Parsons
  • Benjamin Whorf

    • 1942

  • Franz Boas
  • Bronislaw Malinowski

    • 1943

  • Mark Cohen
  • Katsuyoshi Fukui
  • Aleš Hrdlička
  • Donald Johanson

    • 1948

  • Ruth Benedict

    • References

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