1940s in anthropology

none November 2025 The Timeline of anthropology, 1940–1949, follow. This decade, during which World War II was fought, was critical for the publication of a number of important works in anthropology. A number of notable anthropologists were born during the Baby Boom Generation that started in 1945. Events 1940 The oldest known North American mummy, Spirit Cave Man, is excavatedRedmond Caroline 2018-11-09 Mystery Of 10,600-Year-Old 'Spirit Cave Man,' Earth's Oldest Natural Mummy, Finally Solved https://allthatsinteresting.com/spirit-cave-mummy live https://web.archive.org/web/20201018192634/https://allthatsinteresting.com/spirit-cave-mummy October 18, 2020 2020-10-14 All That's Interesting en-US Prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux caves are discoveredCurtis Gregory The Cave Painters Anchor Books 2007 978-1-4000-7887-5 82–88 1949 The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) is founded at Yale UniversityFord, Clellan S. 1970. Human Relations Area Files: 1949-1969, a Twenty-Year Report (10). (New Haven, CT: Human Relations Area Files). Publications 1940 Race, Language and Culture, by Franz Boas African Political Systems, ed. by Meyer Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard 1944 The People of Alor by Cora Du Bois Configurations of Culture Growth by Alfred Kroeber The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi 1949 The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell fr Les structures élémentaires de la parenté (The Elementary Structures of Kinship), by Claude Lévi-Strauss Births 1940 Michael Taussig Bruce Kapferer 1941 H. James Birx Richard Dawkins 1942 Yoram Bilu Ulf Hannerz Meave Leakey 1943 Eduardo Archetti 1944 Richard Leakey Nancy Scheper-Hughes 1948 Kirsten Hastrup Ian Hodder Tim Ingold David Kertzer 1949 Steven Feld Ian Hodder Deaths 1940 James Frazer Alexander Goldenweiser Alfred Cort Haddon Charles Seligman 1941 Carl Vilhelm Hartman Elsie Clews Parsons Benjamin Whorf 1942 Franz Boas Bronislaw Malinowski 1943 Mark Cohen Katsuyoshi Fukui Aleš Hrdlička Donald Johanson 1948 Ruth Benedict References Category:Anthropology by decade Anthropology Category:Anthropology timelines