2000s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 2000–2009

Events

2002

• The French government returns the remains of Saartjie Baartman to South Africa, where she is buried.

2003

• The First Homo Floresiensis remains are found.
• The National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad and archaeological sites throughout Iraq are looted.

2004

• The National Museum of the American Indian moves to its present location on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Publications

2004

• Native Anthropology: The Japanese Challenge to Western Academic Hegemony, by Takami Kuwayama

Deaths

2001

• Abner Cohen
• Derek Freeman
• Marvin Harris
• George Harrison

2002

• Pierre Bourdieu
• Raymond Firth
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Thor Heyerdahl

2003

• Isaac Schapera

2004

• Jean Rouch

Awards

2001

• Margaret Mead Award: Mimi Nichter
• Victor Turner Prize: Tanya M. Luhrman for Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry

2003

• Margaret Mead Award: Marc Sommers
• Victor Turner Prize: Alan Klima for The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand and Hugh Raffles for In Amazonia: A Natural History

2004

• Margaret Mead Award: Donna Goldstein
• Victor Turner Prize: John M. Chernoff for Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl

2005

• Margaret Mead Award: Luke Eric Lassiter

2006

• Margaret Mead Award:

2007

• Margaret Mead Award: João Biehl

2008

• Margaret Mead Award: Daniel Jordan Smith

2009

• Margaret Mead Award: Sverker Finnström