1880s in anthropology

1870s . 1880s in anthropology . 1890s
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Timeline of anthropology, 1880–1889

Events

1884

  • Pitt Rivers Museum founded

1887

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

Publications

1881

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

1887

  • Totemism, by James Frazer

Births

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

1881

  • John Ferguson McLennan
  • Lewis Henry Morgan

1887

  • Johann Bachofen

1888

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