1880s in anthropology
# 1880s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1880–1889

## Events

1884

* Pitt Rivers Museum founded

1887

* The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is founded

## Publications

1881

* Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines, by Lewis Henry Morgan

1887

* Totemism, by James Frazer

## Births

1881

* Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
* Frank Gouldsmith Speck

1884

* John Peabody Harrington
* Arthur Maurice Hocart
* Bronislaw Malinowski
* Edward Sapir

1887

* Ruth Benedict
* Edward Winslow Gifford

1888

* Jaime de Angulo

## Deaths

1881

* John Ferguson McLennan
* Lewis Henry Morgan

1887

* Johann Bachofen

1888

* Edwin Hamilton Davis
* Henry Maine
* Nikolai Miklukho Malai
* Ephraim George Squier
