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
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
- Nikolai Miklukho Malai
- Ephraim George Squier