1880s in anthropology

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* 1880s in anthropology
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Timeline of anthropology, 1880–1889

## Events

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1884

* Pitt Rivers Museum founded

1887

* The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is founded

## Publications

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1881

* Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines, by Lewis Henry Morgan

1887

* Totemism, by James Frazer

## Births

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1881

* Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
* Frank Gouldsmith Speck

1884

* John Peabody Harrington
* Arthur Maurice Hocart
* Bronislaw Malinowski
* Edward Sapir

1887

* Ruth Benedict
* Edward Winslow Gifford

1888

* Jaime de Angulo

## Deaths

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1881

* John Ferguson McLennan
* Lewis Henry Morgan

1887

* Johann Bachofen

1888

* Edwin Hamilton Davis
* Henry Maine
* Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
* Ephraim George Squier

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