1920s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1920–1929

Events
1922 1924
 * Nanook of the North is released in theatres.
 * Taung child fossil discovered.

Publications
1921
 * Language: An Introduction To The Study Of Speech by Edward Sapir

1922 1925 1927 1928
 * Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski
 * Handbook of the Indians of California by Alfred Kroeber
 * Sex and Repression in Savage Society by Bronislaw Malinowski
 * Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead

Births
1921
 * Mary Douglas

1922
 * Sidney Mintz

1924 1925 1926 1927 1928
 * Colin Turnbull
 * Kathleen Aberle
 * Carlos Castaneda
 * Frantz Fanon
 * Ernest Gellner
 * Claude Meillassoux
 * Nakane Chie
 * Clifford Geertz
 * Robert Paine
 * Roy Rappaport
 * Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
 * Marvin Harris
 * Dell Hymes
 * Fredrik Barth
 * William Bright
 * Noam Chomsky

Deaths
1921
 * James Mooney

1922 1928
 * W. H. R. Rivers
 * Pliny Earle Goddard