1920s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1920–1929

1910s . 1920s in anthropology . 1930s

Other topics: Comics . Sociology

Events

1922

• Nanook of the North is released in theatres.

1924

• Taung child fossil discovered.

Publications

1921

• Language: An Introduction To The Study Of Speech by Edward Sapir

1922

• Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski

1925

• Handbook of the Indians of California by Alfred Kroeber

1927

• Sex and Repression in Savage Society by Bronislaw Malinowski

1928

• Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead

Births

1921

• Mary Douglas

1922

• Sidney Mintz

1924

• Colin Turnbull

1925

• Kathleen Aberle
• Carlos Castaneda
• Frantz Fanon
• Ernest Gellner
• Claude Meillassoux

1926

• Nakane Chie
• Clifford Geertz
• Robert Paine
• Roy Rappaport

1927

• Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
• Marvin Harris
• Dell Hymes

1928

• Fredrik Barth
• William Bright
• Noam Chomsky

Deaths

1921

• James Mooney

1922

• W. H. R. Rivers

1928

• Pliny Earle Goddard