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

Anthropology by decade

Anthropology

Anthropology timelines