1950s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1950–1959

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

Deaths

1956

Marcel Griaule
F.W. Hodge
Rafael Karsten
Siegfried Nadel

1959

Edward Winslow Gifford
Paul Radin

History of anthropology

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