Timeline of
anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...
, 1950–1959
Events
1959
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Mary Leakey discovers the first
Paranthropus boisei
''Paranthropus boisei'' is a species of australopithecine from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2.5 to 1.15 million years ago. The holotype specimen, OH 5, was discovered by palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey in 1959, and described by h ...
cranium
Publications
1956
*''Nuer Religion'' by
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, Kt FBA FRAI (21 September 1902 – 11 September 1973) was an English anthropologist who was instrumental in the development of social anthropology. He was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University ...
1959
*''Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans'', by
Fredrik Barth
*''
The Inland Whale
''The Inland Whale'' is a 1959 book by Theodora Kroeber. It is a retelling of nine pieces of Indigenous American folklore, along with authorial commentary. Kroeber's prose received praise, though a reviewer noted that she had taken some liberti ...
'', by
Theodora Kroeber
Births
Deaths
1956
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Marcel Griaule
Marcel Griaule (16 May 1898 – 23 February 1956) was a French author and anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France. He worked together with Germaine Die ...
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F.W. Hodge
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Rafael Karsten
Sigfrid Rafael Karsten (16 August 1879 — 21 February 1956) was a Finnish social anthropologist and philosopher of religion, known especially for his work among the indigenous people of Southern America.
Career
Rafael Karsten was born in Kvevla ...
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Siegfried Nadel
Siegfried Frederick Nadel (24 April 1903 – 14 January 1956) was an Austrian-born United Kingdom, British Social Anthropology, anthropologist, specialising in African ethnology.
Life and career
Siegfried Ferdinand Stephan Nadel was born on 24 ...
1959
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Edward Winslow Gifford
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Paul Radin
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*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
*Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
*Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...
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