1920s in anthropology
# 1920s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1920–1929

## Events

1922

* Nanook of the North is released in theatres.

1924

* Taung child fossil discovered.

## Publications

1921

* Language: An Introduction To The Study Of Speech by Edward Sapir

1922

* Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski

1925

* Handbook of the Indians of California by Alfred Kroeber

1927

* Sex and Repression in Savage Society by Bronislaw Malinowski

1928

* Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead

## Births

1921

* Mary Douglas

1922

* Sidney Mintz

1924

* Colin Turnbull

1925

* Kathleen Aberle
* Carlos Castaneda
* Frantz Fanon
* Ernest Gellner
* Claude Meillassoux

1926

* Nakane Chie
* Clifford Geertz
* Robert Paine
* Roy Rappaport

1927

* Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
* Marvin Harris
* Dell Hymes

1928

* Fredrik Barth
* William Bright
* Noam Chomsky

## Deaths

1921

* James Mooney

1922

* W. H. R. Rivers

1928

* Pliny Earle Goddard
