1880s in anthropology

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