1980s in anthropology

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

• Social: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

• Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going, by Marvin Harris

Births

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

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