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Events
1940
- The oldest known North American mummy, Spirit Cave Man, is excavated.
- Prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux caves are discovered.
1949
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
1944
- Richard Leakey
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes
1948
- Kirsten Hastrup
- Ian Hodder
- Tim Ingold
- David Kertzer
1949
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
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