2000s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 2000–2009

Events
2002 2003 2004
 * The French government returns the remains of Saartjie Baartman to South Africa, where she is buried
 * The first Homo floresiensis remains are found
 * The National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad and archaeological sites throughout Iraq are looted
 * The National Museum of the American Indian moves to its present location on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Publications
2004
 * Native Anthropology: The Japanese Challenge to Western Academic Hegemony, by Takami Kuwayama

Deaths
2001
 * Abner Cohen
 * Derek Freeman
 * Marvin Harris
 * George Harrison

2002 2003 2004
 * Pierre Bourdieu
 * Raymond Firth
 * Stephen Jay Gould
 * Thor Heyerdahl
 * Isaac Schapera
 * Jean Rouch

Awards
2001
 * Margaret Mead Award: Mimi Nichter
 * Victor Turner Prize: Tanya M. Luhrman for Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 * Margaret Mead Award: Marc Sommers
 * Victor Turner Prize: Alan Klima for The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand and Hugh Raffles for In Amazonia: A Natural History
 * Margaret Mead Award: Donna Goldstein
 * Victor Turner Prize: John M. Chernoff for Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl
 * Margaret Mead Award: Luke Eric Lassiter
 * Margaret Mead Award:
 * Margaret Mead Award: João Biehl
 * Margaret Mead Award: Daniel Jordan Smith
 * Margaret Mead Award: Sverker Finnström