1980s in anthropology
# 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
