1980s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1980–1989

Events 1984 "Turkana Boy" is discovered 1986 The Human Genome Project is launched 1989 The National Museum of the American Indian is founded in the U.S.

Publications 1980 Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali, by Clifford Geertz The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, by Michael Taussig 1981 In Vain I Tried To Tell You: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics, by Dell Hymes Nisa: The Life and Words of a Kung Woman, by Marjorie Shostak 1982 Europe and the People Without History by Eric Wolf 1983 Local Knowledge: further essays in interpretive anthropology by Clifford Geertz 1984 Muelos: A Stone Age Superstition about Sexuality, by Weston La Barre 1985 Sweetness And Power : The Place Of Sugar In Modern History, by Sidney Mintz 1986 Writing Culture, ed. by James Clifford and George E. Marcus 1988 Donald Brown's Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature was published. 1989 Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going, by Marvin Harris Deaths 1980 Gregory Bateson Johanes Nicolaisen

1981 Carleton Coon Marvin Opler

1983 Meyer Fortes Herge Kleivan Carobeth Laird Victor Turner 1984 Michel Foucault Audrey Richards 1985 Karl-Gustav Izikowitz George Peter Murdock Barbara Myerhoff 1986 Morton Fried Elman Service 1989 Edmund Leach

Awards 1980 Margaret Mead Award: Brigitte Jordan

1981 Margaret Mead Award: Nancy Scheper-Hughes 1984 Margaret Mead Award: Sue E. Erstoff 1985 Margaret Mead Award: Susan C.M. Scrimshaw 1986 Margaret Mead Award: Jill Korbin 1989 Margaret Mead Award: Mark Nichter

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