1950s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1950–1959

1940s . 1950s in anthropology . 1960s

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Events

1959

• Mary Leakey discovers the first Paranthropus boisei cranium

Publications

1956

• Nuer Religion by E. E. Evans-Pritchard

1959

• Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans, by Fredrik Barth
• The Inland Whale, by Theodora Kroeber

Births

Further information: Category:1950s births

Deaths

1956

• Marcel Griaule
• F.W. Hodge
• Rafael Karsten
• Siegfried Nadel

1959

• Edward Winslow Gifford
• Paul Radin