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 Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, FBA (born Alfred Reginald Brown; 17 January 1881 – 24 October 1955) was an English social anthropologist who helped further develop the theory of structural functionalism. Biography Alfred Reginald Radcli ...

* Frank Gouldsmith Speck 1884 *

John Peabody Harrington John Peabody Harrington (April 29, 1884 – October 21, 1961) was an American linguist and ethnologist and a specialist in the indigenous peoples of California. Harrington is noted for the massive volume of his documentary output, most of which h ...

Arthur Maurice Hocart Arthur Maurice Hocart (26 April 1883, in Etterbeek, Belgium – 9 March 1939, in Cairo, Egypt) was an anthropologist best known for his eccentric and often far-seeing works on Polynesia, Melanesia, and Sri Lanka. Early life Hocart's family had ...

* Bronislaw Malinowski * Edward Sapir 1887 * Ruth Benedict * Edward Winslow Gifford 1888 * Jaime de Angulo

Deaths

1881 *

John Ferguson McLennan John Ferguson McLennan FRSE LLD (14 October 1827 – 16 June 1881), was a Scottish advocate, social anthropologist and ethnologist. Life He was born in Inverness, the son of John McLennan, an insurance agent, and his wife, Jessie Ross. He was ...

* Lewis Henry Morgan 1887 *

Johann Bachofen Johann Jakob Bachofen (22 December 1815 – 25 November 1887) was a Swiss antiquarian, jurist, philologist, anthropologist, and professor for Roman law at the University of Basel from 1841 to 1845. Bachofen is most often connected with his t ...

1888 * Edwin Hamilton Davis *

Henry Maine Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, (15 August 1822 – 3 February 1888), was a British Whig comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in his book ''Ancient Law'' that law and society developed "from status to contract." ...

* Nikolai Miklukho Malai * Ephraim George Squier {{DEFAULTSORT:1880-1889 In Anthropology Anthropology by decade Anthropology Anthropology timelines 1880s decade overviews