1930s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1930–1939

Events

1934

• The Nihon Minzoku Gakkai (Japanese institute of Ethnology) is founded.

1937

• The Musée de l'Homme is founded.

Publications

1934

• Patterns of Culture, by Ruth Benedict.

1935

• Structure and Function in Primitive Society, by Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
• Coral Gardens and Their Magic, by Bronislaw Malinowski

1937

• Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande, by E.E. Evans-Pritchard

Births

1930

• Lewis Binford
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Laura Nader
• Marshall Sahlins

1934

• Maurice Godelier

1935

• Roger Keesing
• Barbara Myerhoff

1939

• Mary Bateson
• Maurice Bloch

Deaths

1930

• Jessie Walter Fewkes

1934

• Ronald Burrage Dixon
• Fritz Graebner
• Berthold Laufer

1935

• Walter Hough

1936

• Vladimir Bogoraz

1937

• John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt
• Vladimir Jochelson
• Grafton Elliot Smith

1939

• Arthur Maurice Hocart
• Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
• Edward Sapir

See also