1940s in anthropology

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Timeline of anthropology, 1940–1949

## Events

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1940

* The oldest known North American mummy, Spirit Cave Man, is excavated
* Prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux caves are discovered

1949

* The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) is founded at Yale University

## Publications

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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

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1940

* Michael Taussig
* Bruce Kapferer

1941

* H. James Birx
* Richard Dawkins

1942

* Yoram Bilu
* Ulf Hannerz
* Meave Leakey

1943

* Eduardo Archetti

1944

* Richard Leakey
* Nancy Scheper-Hughes

1948

* Kirsten Hastrup
* Ian Hodder
* Tim Ingold
* David Kertzer

1949

* Steven Feld
* Ian Hodder

## Deaths

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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

* Ruth Benedict

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