1980s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1980–1989

Events
1984 1986 1989
 * "Turkana Boy" is discovered
 * The Human Genome Project is launched
 * The National Museum of the American Indian is founded in the U.S.

Publications
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1988 1989
 * Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali, by Clifford Geertz
 * The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, by Michael Taussig
 * In Vain I Tried To Tell You: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics, by Dell Hymes
 * Nisa: The Life and Words of a Kung Woman, by Marjorie Shostak
 * Europe and the People Without History by Eric Wolf
 * Local Knowledge: further essays in interpretive anthropology by Clifford Geertz
 * Muelos: A Stone Age Superstition about Sexuality, by Weston La Barre
 * Sweetness And Power : The Place Of Sugar In Modern History, by Sidney Mintz
 * Writing Culture, ed. by James Clifford and George E. Marcus
 * Donald Brown's Hierarchy, History, and Human Nature was published.
 * Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going, by Marvin Harris

Deaths
1980
 * Gregory Bateson
 * Johanes Nicolaisen

1981
 * Carleton Coon
 * Marvin Opler

1983 1984 1985 1986 1989
 * Meyer Fortes
 * Herge Kleivan
 * Carobeth Laird
 * Victor Turner
 * Michel Foucault
 * Audrey Richards
 * Karl-Gustav Izikowitz
 * George Peter Murdock
 * Barbara Myerhoff
 * Morton Fried
 * Elman Service
 * Edmund Leach

Awards
1980
 * Margaret Mead Award: Brigitte Jordan

1981 1984 1985 1986 1989
 * Margaret Mead Award: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
 * Margaret Mead Award: Sue E. Erstoff
 * Margaret Mead Award: Susan C.M. Scrimshaw
 * Margaret Mead Award: Jill Korbin
 * Margaret Mead Award: Mark Nichter