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1880s in anthropology
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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
1883
Paul Radinhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Radin Paul Radin Encyclopædia Britannica 9 November 2025
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
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
Ephraim George Squier
References
Category:Anthropology by decade
Anthropology
Category:Anthropology timelines