1990s in anthropology

Events

1990

NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, is passed into US law.

1991

"Ötzi the Iceman" discovered in the Alps.

Publications

1991

Donald Brown's Human Universals was published.

1992

Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Giving by Annette B. Weiner.

1994

Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club, by Anne Allison

1995

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, by Philippe Bourgois

1996

Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan, by Anne Allison

1998

The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City, by Roger Sandek

Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis, by Eric Wolf

Deaths

1990

Kathleen Aberle

Michael Leiriss

1991

Cora Du Bois

Stanley Diamond

1993

Albert A. Dahlberg

Roger Keesing

Ronald Gofrey Lienhardt

Michael G. Smith

1994

Timothy Asch

Raymond Birdwhistell

Luther Cressman

Colin Turnbull

1995

Ernest Gellner

James Clyde Mitchell

David Schneider

Sol Tax

1996

Weston La Barre

Mary Leakey

Morris Opler

Elman Service

1997

John Adair

Michael Dorris

Alfred Gell

Roy Rappaport

1998

Carlos Castaneda

Louis Dumont

Alfonso Villa Rojas

1999

Germaine Diterlin

Arnold Epstein

Ashley Montagu

Eric Wolf

Awards

1990

Margaret Mead Award: Wenda Travathan

Victor Turner Prize: Kirin Narayan for Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative and Hindu Religious Teaching

1991

Margaret Mead Award: Will Roscoe, for The Zuñi Man-Woman

Victor Turner Prize: Dennis Tedlock, for Days from a Dream Almanac

1993

Margaret Mead Award: Leo R. Chavez

1994

Margaret Mead Award: Katherine A. Dettwyler

1997

Margaret Mead Award: Philippe Bourgois

1998

Victor Turner Prize: Lawrence Cohen for No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

1999

Margaret Mead Award:Paul E. Farmer