1990s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1990–1999

Events
1990
 * NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, is passed into US law

1991
 * "Ötzi the Iceman" discovered in the Alps

Publications
1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998
 * Donald Brown's Human Universals was published
 * Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Giving by Annette B. Weiner
 * Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club, by Anne Allison
 * In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, by Philippe Bourgois
 * The Development of Cognitive Anthropology, by Roy D'Andrade
 * Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan, by Anne Allison
 * The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City, by Roger Sandek
 * Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis, by Eric Wolf

Deaths
1990
 * Kathleen Aberle
 * Michael Leiriss

1991 1993 1994
 * Cora Du Bois
 * Stanley Diamond
 * Albert A. Dahlberg
 * Roger Keesing
 * Ronald Gofrey Lienhardt
 * Michael G. Smith
 * Timothy Asch
 * Raymond Birdwhistell
 * Luther Cressman
 * Colin Turnbull

1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
 * Ernest Gellner
 * James Clyde Mitchell
 * David Schneider
 * Sol Tax
 * Weston La Barre
 * Mary Leakey
 * Morris Opler
 * Elman Service
 * John Adair
 * Michael Dorris
 * Alfred Gell
 * Roy Rappaport
 * Carlos Castaneda
 * Louis Dumont
 * Alfonso Villa Rojas
 * Arnold Epstein
 * Ashley Montagu
 * Eric Wolf

Awards
1990
 * Margaret Mead Award: Wenda Travathan
 * Victor Turner Prize: Kirin Narayan for Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative and Hindu Religious Teaching

1991 1993 1994 1997 1998 1999
 * Margaret Mead Award: Will Roscoe, for The Zuñi Man-Woman
 * Victor Turner Prize: Dennis Tedlock, for Days from a Dream Almanac
 * Margaret Mead Award: Leo R. Chavez
 * Margaret Mead Award: Katherine A. Dettwyler
 * Margaret Mead Award: Philippe Bourgois
 * Victor Turner Prize: Lawrence Cohen for No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
 * Margaret Mead Award:Paul E. Farmer