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1980s in anthropology

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Timeline of anthropology, 1980–1989

Contents

Events

1984

  • "Turkana Boy" is discovered.

    • 1986

  • The Human Genome Project is launched.

    • 1989

  • The National Museum of the American Indian is founded in the U.S..

    • Publications

    1980

  • Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali, by Clifford Geertz
  • The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, by Michael Taussig

    • 1981

  • In Vain I Tried To Tell You: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics, by Dell Hymes
  • Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, by Marjorie Shostak

    • 1982

  • Europe and the People Without History by Eric Wolf

    • 1983

  • Local Knowledge: further essays in interpretive anthropology by Clifford Geertz

    • 1984

  • Muelos: A Stone Age Superstition about Sexuality, by Weston La Barre

    • 1985

  • Sweetness And Power : The Place Of Sugar In Modern History, by Sidney Mintz

    • 1986

  • Writing Culture, ed. by James Clifford and George E. Marcus

    • 1988

  • Donald Brown's Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature was published.

    • 1989

  • The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
  • Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going, by Marvin Harris

    • Deaths

    1980

  • Gregory Bateson
  • Johanes Nicolaisen

    • 1981

  • Carleton Coon
  • Marvin Opler

    • 1983

  • Meyer Fortes
  • Herge Kleivan
  • Carobeth Laird
  • Victor Turner

    • 1984

  • Michel Foucault
  • Audrey Richards

    • 1985

  • Karl-Gustav Izikowitz
  • George Peter Murdock
  • Barbara Myerhoff

    • 1986

  • Morton Fried
  • Elman Service

    • 1989

  • Edmund Leach

    • Awards

    1980

  • Margaret Mead Award: Brigitte Jordan

    • 1981

  • Margaret Mead Award: Nancy Scheper-Hughes

    • 1984

  • Margaret Mead Award: Sue E. Erstoff

    • 1985

  • Margaret Mead Award: Susan C.M. Scrimshaw

    • 1986

  • Margaret Mead Award: Jill Korbin

    • 1989

  • Margaret Mead Award: Mark Nichter

    • References

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