1880s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1880–1889

Events
1884 1887
 * Pitt Rivers Museum founded
 * 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 1887 1888
 * John Peabody Harrington
 * Arthur Maurice Hocart
 * Bronislaw Malinowski
 * Edward Sapir
 * Ruth Benedict
 * Edward Winslow Gifford
 * Jaime de Angulo

Deaths
1881
 * John Ferguson McLennan
 * Lewis Henry Morgan

1887 1888
 * Johann Bachofen
 * Edwin Hamilton Davis
 * Henry Maine
 * Nikolai Miklukho Malai
 * Ephraim George Squier