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 excavated Prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux caves are discovered 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 (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
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