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ANTHROPOLOGICAL
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OTHER
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WORLD EVENTS
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1885
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The Mikado premieres in London. It is the Gilbert & Sullivan musical comedy focussed upon Japan.
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1886
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The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York Harbour.
The last large scale Indian war in the United States ends with the capture of Geronimo.
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1887
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Esperanto introduced to facilitate communication
Saturday Night magazine first published in Toronto.
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1888
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1889
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E. B. Tylor publishes "On a method of investigating the development of institutions; applied to the laws of marriage and descen," in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Journal of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Henri Bergson publishes Essai sur les données immédiates de conscience (trans as Time and Free Will: an Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness).
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Eiffel Tower opened.
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1890
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Thee hundred Sioux men, women, and children massacred at Wounded Knee by United States soldiers.
Crowfoot, Cree chief and diplomat dies.
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1891
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The University of Chicago founded.
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1892
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The Sierra Club is organised in the United States.
The founder of the Baha'i faith dies.
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1893
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Emile Durkheim publishes De la division du travail social (trans as The Division of Labour in Society, 1933)
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New Zealand grants female suffrage; the first nation to do so.
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1894
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The Zionist movement is founded in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair in France.
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1895
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Emile Durkheim publishes Les RPgles de la méthode sociologique (trans as Rules of the Sociological Method, 1938).
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Radcilffe College founded in Cambridge, MA after opposition to women instructors at Harvard.
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Cinema first produced on film by French.
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1896
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Franz Boas publishes “Limitations of the comparative method of anthropology.”
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Ethiopian warriors defeat Italian troops and an indigenous rebellion begins in Rhodesia.
Modern Olympic Games begins in Athens.
First film shown in Canada.
Klondike gold rush begins.
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1897
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Emile Durkheim publishes Le Suicide (trans as Suicide, 1952)
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The United States annexes Hawaii.
First Canadian built car made.
The Law Society of Upper Canada admits first woman to the bar; being the first in the British Empire.
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1898
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US annexes Puerto Rico and the Philippines after the Spanish American War.
Cuba gains independence from Spain.
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1899
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The Boer War begins in South Africa.
Rebellion against US in the Philippines.
Final Ashanti uprising against British.
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1900
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Minoan civilisation unearthed in Crete by Sir Arthur Evans.
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Sigmund Freud publishes Die Traumdeutung, (trans as The Interpretation of Dreams, 1913.)
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The Boxer Rebellion begins in China. Russia annexes Manchuria.
Photocopying machine invented in France.
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1901
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First Nobel Prizes awarded.
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Queen Victoria dies.
Australia becomes an independent member of the Commonwealth and fails at an attempt of a "Whites Only" immigration policy.
First trans-Atlantic radio message sent from St. John's, Nfld.
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1902
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The Boer War concludes establishing British rule in South Africa.
First cinema theatre established in Canada.
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1903
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The Bolsheviks split away from the moderate Mensheviks at the Social Democratic party convention in London.
Wright Brothers make their first heavier than air powered flight.
Panama Canal acquired by the US.
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1904
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The Russo-Japanese War begins.
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1905
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Albert Einstein proposes the theory of relativity.
Fauvist and Expressionist movements in art begin in Europe.
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The Duma (Russian Parliament) is formed after a revolt in St. Petersburg.
Trans-Siberian railway completed.
Alberta and Saskatchewan become provinces.
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1906
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Women gain the right to vote in Finland; the first nation in Europe to grant that right.
Mohandas Gandhi begins his non-violent civil rights movement in South Africa.
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1907
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The first exhibit of Cubist painting is held in Paris.
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1908
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First Ford Model “T” produced.
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1909
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Geronimo dies.
Silver Dart flies at Baddeck, NS. First heavier than air flight in British Empire.
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1910
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Lucien Levy-Bruhl publishes Les functions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures (trans as Primitive Mentality, 1923).
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Japan annexes Korea.
Mexican Revolution takes place.
George V becomes King of the UK.
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1911
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Macchu-Pichu is "discovered" by Hiram Bingham.
Leonard Bloomfield publishes Introduction to the study of language.
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1912
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The Royal Ontario Museum founded.
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China becomes a republic under the leadership of Sun Yat-Sen.
Titanic sinks.
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1913
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Emile Durkheim publishes Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (trans as Elementary Forms of Religious Life, 1915)
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Sigmund Freud publishes Totem und Tabu (trans as Totem and Taboo, 1938).
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Canadian trans-continental railway completed.
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1914
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First exhibits at the ROM.
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James Joyce publishes The Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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World War I breaks out in Europe.
Gandhi returns to India.
Panama Canal opens.
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1915
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Posthumous publication of Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de Linguistique Générale.
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The Ku Klux Klan is revived in the United States.
First transcontinental phone call made.
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1916
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Franz Kafka publishes The Metamorphosis in Europe.
D. W. Griffith's racist Birth of Nation is premiered in the United States.
National Research Council of Canada formed.
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V. Stefansson discovers Meighen Island and makes last substantial addition to Canadian territory.
Easter Monday Uprising in Ireland, independence declared.
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1917
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A. L. Kroeber publishes “The superorganic” in the American Anthropologist.
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The Bolshevik Revolution begins in Russia.
The US enters WWI.
Britain calls for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Income Tax introduced in Canada.
Halifax explosion.
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1918
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Influenza epidemic kills 20-30 million people worldwide; 50,000 in Canada.
Canadian women get the vote in federal elections.
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1919
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The United States' House of Representatives fails to seat a socialist although elected twice by his constituency.
World's first licensed radio station begins broadcasting in Montreal.
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1920
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Sigmund Freud publishes Jenseits des Lustprinzips (trans as Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 1922).
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Women are granted the right to vote in the United States.
League of Nations meets for the first time in Geneva.
First Nations people given the right to vote in Canadian federal elections.
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1921
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Edward Sapir publishes Language: an introduction to the study of speech.
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Bennedetto Croce's History; its theory and pracitice is published in English.
Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes Tractatus Logico-Phiosophicus.
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The Irish Free State is created.
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1922
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King Tutankhamen's tomb is excavated in Egypt.
Nanook of the North released.
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James Joyce's Ulysses is published in Paris. T.S. Eliot publishes The Wasteland, Hermann Hesse publishes Siddhartha and Sinclair Lewis publishes Babbit
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Benito Mussolini is given dictatorial power by a Fascist-Nationalist coalition in Italy.
BBC begins regular broadcasts.
The Canadian research team of F. G. Banting, J. J. R. Macleod, C. H. Best, and J. B. Collip discover a process for the commercial production of insulin.
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1923
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Sigmund Freud publishes Das Ich und das Es (trans as The Ego and the Id, 1927)
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The Soviet Union is created.
Poncho Villa of Mexico is assassinated.
Much of Tokyo and Yokohama are destroyed by an earthquake.
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1924
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Joseph Stalin comes to power in the USSR.
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1925
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V. Gordon Childe publishes The Dawn of Western Civilization.
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1926
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Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa.
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Louis Armstrong develops `scat' singing.
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Chiang Kai-shek assumes leadership of Chinese parliament.
Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan.
The RCMP establish a post on Ellesmere Island to establish Canadian sovereignty.
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1927
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Canadian anthropologist, Davidson Black, discovers `Peking Man'.
National Museum of Canada founded.
Lucien Levy-Bruhl publishes L'âme primitive (trans as The 'Soul' of the Primitive, 1928).
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Big Bang theory of an expanding universe is proposed by Belgian physicist.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is stated.
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First television demonstrated in the US.
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1928
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Lucy Mair publishes a report titled “The protection of minorities” for the League of Nations.
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Hungarian mathematician develops `game theory'.
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1929
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Great Depression begins
Women declared legally `persons' in Canada.
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1930
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H. A. Innis publishes The Fur Trade in Canada.
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Sigmund Freud publishes Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (trans as Civilization and its Discontents, 1930).
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White women in South Africa are allowed to vote.
Ku Klux Klan active in Alberta.
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1931
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Japan occupies Manchuria.
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1932
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Frederic Bartlett publishes Remembering.
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Mohandas Gandhi begins civil disobedience in India to protest British treatment of untouchables.
Forerunner of the CBC established.
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1933
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Alexander Goldenweiser publishes History, Psychology, and Culture.
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Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany.
Prohibition ends in the United States.
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1934
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Ruth Benedict publishes Patterns of Culture.
C. Daryll Forde publishes Habitat, Economy, and Society.
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George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein found the School of American Ballet.
Karl Barth, and others, proclaim the `Barmen Declaration', rejecting the religious foundation of Nazism.
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1935
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Bronislaw Malinowski publishes Coral Gardens and their Magic.
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T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom published posthumously.
Pavel S. Aleksandrov & H. Hopf publish Topologie I.
Geoffrey Gorer publishes Africa Dances.
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1936
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Gregory Bateson publishes Naven.
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Keynesian economics is proposed.
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Italy invades Ethiopia.
The Spanish Civil War begins.
Joseph Stalin begins his purge of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union; most of the 5 million people arrested are killed.
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1937
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Julian Lips publishes The Savage Hits Back.
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Japan invades China.
The Spanish town, Guernica, is destroyed by bombs dropped by the German Air Force during the Spanish Civil War.
The predecessor to Air Canada makes its first scheduled trans-Canada flight.
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1938
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Antonin -J Artaud publishes Le ThPâtre et son double (trans as The Theatre and it's Double, 1958)
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Germany annexes Austria.
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1939
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Abram Kardiner and Ralph Linton publish The Individual and his Society.
Irving Rouse publishes Prehistory in Haiti; a study of method.
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Germany invades Poland - World War II begins.
National Film Board of Canada founded.
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1940
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Lascaux cave paintings are discovered.
Carbon-14 dating technique discovered by Canadian-born biochemist, Martin Kamen, working in the United States.
A. L. Kroeber and J. Richardson publish, “Three centuries of women's dress fashions; a quantitative analysis” in the University of California Anthropological Records.
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Women obtain right to vote in Québec.
Nazi, Fascist and Communist groups were declared illegal in Canada, and their leaders were jailed.
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1941
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Erich Fromm publishes Escape from Freedom.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbour and other American and British ports.
Germany invades the USSR.
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1942
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Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson publish Balinese Character; a photographic analysis.
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Albert Camus publishes L'Etranger.
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Congress of Racial Equality is formed to fight racism in the US employing the non-violent tactics of Gandhi.
Napalm invented by Harvard chemist.
Forced relocation and internment of people of Japanese background from the west coasts of Canada and the United States begins.
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1943
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Glynn Daniel publishes The Three Ages; an essay on archaeological method.
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Major race riots in the United States.
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1944
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A. L. Krober publishes Configurations of Culture Growth.
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John von Neuman and Oskar Morgenstern publish The Theory of Games.
Jean Anouilh publishes Antigone.
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IBM and a Harvard research team construct the first general purpose computer.
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1945
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Ruth Benedict publishes Race; science and politics.
Meyer Fortes publishes The Dynamics of Clanship among the Tallensi.
Ralph Linton publishes The Cultural Background of Personality and The Science of Man in the World Crisis.
Abram Kardiner et als publish The Psychological Frontiers of Society.
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Béla Bartók dies.
George Orwell's Animal Farm is published.
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Atomic bombs destroy much of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Fire bombing of Dresden.
World War II ends.
V-E Day riots in Halifax.
Canada joins the United Nations.
Chinese civil war begins.
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1946
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Ruth Benedict publishes The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.
V. Gordon Childe publishes What Happened in History.
E. A. Hooton publishes Up from the Ape.
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R. G. Collingwood publishes The Idea of History.
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The Nuremberg Trials convict Nazi war criminals.
France recognises Vietnamese independence but do not leave.
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1947
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The “Code of Hammurabi” is deciphered.
The “Dead Sea Scrolls” are discovered.
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India gains independence and Pakistan is created; but millions die in riots.
Arabs and Jews reject Britain's plan for a divided Palestine.
The American C.I.A. is created.
World's first nuclear reactor has a `critical' condition alert at Chalk River, Ontario.
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1948
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Geoffrey Gorer publishes The Americans; a study in national character.
Clyde Kluckhohn publishes Personality in Nature, Society, and Culture .
Kenneth Little publishes Negroes in Britain.
Walter W. Taylor publishes A Study of Archaeology.
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Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated.
The State of Israel is created.
U.N. adopts universal declaration of human rights.
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1949
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E. E. Evans-Pritchard publishes The Sanusi of Cyrenaica.
Meyer Fortes publishes The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi.
Geoffrey Gorer publishes with John Rickman The People of Great Russia; a psychological study.
Clyde Kluckhohn publishes Mirror for Man.
Claude Lévi-Strauss publishes Les Structures élémentaires de la parenté (trans as The Elementary Structures of Kinship, 1969).
G. P. Murdock publishes Social Structure.
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Racial Apartheid becomes law in South Africa.
People's Republic of China is established.
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1950
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Helen Codere publishes Fighting with Property.
Fred Eggan publishes Social Organization of the Western Pueblos.
Hortense Powdermaker publishes Hollywood, the Dream Factory.
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George Homans publishes The Human Group.
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Korean War begins.
American Senator, Joseph McCarthy, begins his infamous anti-Communist witch-hunt.
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1951
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E. E. Evans-Pritchard publishes Social Anthropology; and Kinship and Marriage among the Neur
Raymond Firth publishes Elements of Social Organization.
V. Gordon Childe publishes Man Makes Himself.
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J. D. Salinger publishes Catcher in the Rye.
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The Kikuyu launch the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya.
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1952
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Melville Herskovits publishes Economic Anthropology.
J. P. B. Josselin de Jong publishes Levi-Strauss's Theory on Kinship and Marriage.
A. L. Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn publish Culture; a critical review of concepts and definitions.
A. L. Krober publishes The Nature of Culture.
Kenneth Little publishes Race and Society.
Audrey Richards publishes Economic Development and Tribal Change.
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1953
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David Bidney publishes Theoretical Anthropology.
A. L. Krober publishes Anthropology Today.
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James Baldwin publishes Go Tell it on the Mountain.
Roland Barthes publishes Le Degré zéro de l'écriture (trans as Writing Degree Zero, 1972).
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Jomo Kenyatta, leader of the Mau Mau rebellion - and holder of a graduate degree in anthropology from L.S.E., is captured and jailed.
DNA is discovered.
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1954
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John Barnes publishesPolitics in a Changing Society.
E. Adamson Hoebel publishes The Law of Primitive Man.
J. J. Honigman publishes Culture and Personality.
Weston La Barre publishes The Human Animal.
Eleanor Leacock publishes The Montagnais “hunting territory” and the Fur Trade.
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William Golding publishes Lord of the Flies.
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Vietnam is divided into North and South.
Racial segregation is ruled unconstitutional in the United States.
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1955
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Harold Conklin publishes “Hanuóo color categories.”
Theodosius Dobzhansky publishes Evolution, Genetics, and Man.
Geoffrey Gorer publishes Exploring English Character.
A. Irving Hallowell publishes Culture and Experience.
George Homans and David Schneider publish Marriage, Authority, and Final Causes.
Claude Levi-Strauss publishes Tristes tropiques (trans with same title, 1961).
Ralph Linton publishes Culture and Mental Disorders.
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Raymond Aron publishes L'Opium des intellectuals (trans 1957 as The Opium of the Intellectuals.)
James Baldwin publishes Notes of a Native Son.
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MacDonald's and KFC both begin their franchise empires.
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1956
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Harold Driver publishes An Integration of Functional, Evolutionary, and Historical Theory by Mean of Correlations.
Audrey Richards publishes Chisingu; a girl's initiation ceremony among the Bemba of Zambia.
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Jean Anouilh publishes Pauvre Bitos.
Ingmar Bergman releases Det Sjunde Inseglet (The Seventh Seal)
T. B. Bottomore publishes Marx's Social Theory.
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Morocco becomes independent.
Cuban revolution begins.
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1957
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Noam Chomsky publishes Syntactic Structures.
Two important works by J. R. Firth are published this year: 1) “Synopsis of Linguistic Theory, 1930-1955" in Studies in Linguistic Analysis; and “An ethnographic theory of language” in Man and Culture edited by R. W. Firth.
Raymond Firth publishes We, the Tikopia.
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Roland Barthes publishes Mythologies (trans as Mythologies, 1972).
Jack Kerouac publishes On the Road.
Ingmar Bergman releases Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries).
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Ghana becomes independent.
The Soviet Union puts the first satellite into orbit.
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1958
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Raymond Firth publishes Human Types, an introduction to social anthropology.
Jack Goody publishes The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups.
Charles Hockett publishes A Course in Modern Linguistics.
Ian Hogbin publishes Social Change.
Gordon Wiley and Philip Phillips publish Method and Theory in American Archaeology.
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Chinua Achebe publishes Things Fall Apart.
John Kenneth Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society.
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1959
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Fredrik Barth publishes Political Leadership among the Swat Pathans.
William Davenport publishes “Nonunilinear descent and descent groups” in the American Anthropologist.
Meyer Fortes publishes Oedipus and Job in West African Religion.
J. J. Honigmann publishes The World of Man.
Louis Leaky makes discoveries which suggest humanity evolved in Africa.
Dorothy Lee publishes Freedom and Culture.
Ralph Linton publishes The Tree of Culture.
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Jean Anouilh publishes Beckett.
Edward Albee publishes The Zoo Story.
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Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba.
Dalai Lama flees Tibet.
Alaska and Hawaii become US states.
The microchip is invented.
Barbie dolls are introduced.
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1960
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Claude Levi-Strauss publishes Leçon inaugurale (trans as The Scope of Anthropology, 1967).
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Michelangelo Antonioni releases L'Aventura.
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The Sharpeville Massacre occurs in South Africa when police kill 56 civilian protestors to apartheid.
Lasers are perfected.
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1961
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Edward Albee publishes The American Dream.
Bob Dylan is “discovered”.
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American led invasion of Cuba is defeated at the Bay of Pigs.
The Berlin Wall is built.
The Soviet Union puts the first cosmonaut into orbit.
The Americans institute the Peace Corps.
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1962
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Louis Binford publishes “Archaeology as anthropology” in American Antiquity.
Glynn Daniel publishes The Idea of Prehistory.
Theodosius Dobzhansky publishes Mankind Evolving.
Kathleen Gough and David Schneider publish Matrilineal Kinship.
Claude Levi-Strauss publishes Le totémisme aujourd'hui (trans as Totemism, 1969) and La pensée sauvage (trans as The Savage Mind, 1966).
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Edward Albee publishes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Raymond Aron publishes Paix et guerre entre les nations (trans as Peace and War, 1966)
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The Cuban Missile Crises occurs.
The USA puts an astronaut into orbit.
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1963
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Victor Barnouw publishes Culture and Personality.
Fredrik Barth publishes The Role of the Entrepreneur in Social Change in Northern Norway.
David Bidney publishes The concept of Freedom in Anthropology.
E. E. Evans-Pritchard publishes Anthropology and History.
Clifford Geertz publishes Agricultural Involution.
Max Gluckman publishes Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa.
Ward Goodenough publishes Cooperation in Change; an anthropological approach to community development.
Jules Henry publishes Culture against Man.
A. L. Krober publishes An Anthropologist Looks at History; and Style and Civilizations.
Lucy Mair publishes New Nations.
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James Baldwin publishes The Fire Next Time.
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The US president, J. F. Kennedy is assassinated.
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1964
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Raymond Firth publishes Essays on Social Organization and Values, and with Basil Yamey Capital, Saving, and Credit in Peasant Societies.
Max Gluckman publishes Closed Systems and Open Minds; the limits of naivety in social anthropology.
Marvin Harris publishes The Nature of Cultural Things.
Melville Jacobs publishes Pattern in Cultural Anthropology.
Edmund Leach publishes Political Systems of Highland Burma.
Claude Levi-Strauss publishes Le cru et le cuit (trans as The Raw and the Cooked, 1969).
Lucy Mair publishes Primitive Government.
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Raymond Aron publishes Démocratie et totalitarisme (trans as Democracy and Totalitarianism, 1968).
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel publishes Language and Information.
Roland Barthes publishes Eléments de séminologie (trans as Elements of Semiology, 1967).
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Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa.
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1965
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E. E. Evans-Pritchard publishes Theories of Primitive Religion, and The Position of Women in Primitive Societies and Other Essays.
Max Gluckman publishes The Ideas in Barotse Jurisprudence; and Politics, Law, and Ritual in Tribal Society.
Laura Nader publishes The Ethnography of Law.
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Geoffrey Gorer publishes Death, Grief and Mourning.
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Malcolm X is assassinated in New York.
The US invades the Dominican Republic.
Indonesia withdraws from the UN and massacres thousands of Communists.
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1966
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Robert Adams publishes The Evolution of Urban Society.
Fredrik Barth publishes Models of Social Organisation.
Mary Douglas publishes Purity and Danger.
Jack Goody publishes Succession to High Office.
Melville Jacobs publishes The Anthropologist Looks at Myth.
Edmund Leach publishes Rethinking Anthropology.
Hortense Powdermaker publishes Stranger and Friend.
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Theodor Adorno publishes Negative Dialektik (trans. 1973 as Negative Dialectics).
Michelangelo Antonioni releases Blow-Up.
Ingmar Bergman releases Persona.
Thomas Luckmann and Peter Berger publish The Social Construction of Reality.
Geoffrey Gorer publishes The Danger of Equality.
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The Cultural Revolution begins in China.
France withdraws from NATO wanting more independence from American control of the organisation; they advocate a European based defence group.
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1967
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K. C. Chang publishes Rethinking Archaeology.
Morton Fried publishes The Evolution of Political Society.
I. C. Jarvie publishes The Revolution in Anthropology.
Edmund Leach publishes A Runaway World?
Claude Levi-Strauss publishes Race et histoire (trans as Race and History, 1968).
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Roland Barthes publishes SystPme de la Mode.
George Homans publishes The Nature of Social Science.
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The Six Day War occurs in which Israel takes control of Palestinian territory.
Biafra secedes from Nigeria.
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1968
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Sally and Louis Binford publish New Perspectives in Archaeology.
K. C. Chang publishes Settlement Archaeology.
Jack Goody publishes Literacy in Traditional Societies.
Marvin Harris publishes The Rise of Anthropological Theory.
Monica and Godfrey Wilson publish The Analysis of Social Change based on observations in Central Africa.
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Tet Offensive is the turning point in the Vietnamese War; My Lai Massacre occurs.
In the US, R. F. Kennedy and M. L. King, Jr. are assassinated in separate killings.
“Economic Miracle” manifested in Japan's GNP.
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1969
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Raymond Firth publishes Families and their Relatives.
Jack Goody publishes Comparative Studies in Kinship.
Ian Hogbin publishes Experiments in Civilization.
Edmund Leach publishes Genisus as Myth
Lucy Mair publishes Anthropology and Social Change; and Witchcraft.
Laura Nader publishes Law in Culture and Society.
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Michelangelo Antonioni releases Zabriskie Point.
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US begins to retreat from Vietnam.
US puts first human on the moon.
Woodstock Music Festival.
Harold McGee immigrates to Canada.
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1970
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Yehoshua Bar-Hillel publishes Aspects of Language.
Raymond Firth publishes Themes in Economic Anthropology.
Ward Goodenough publishes Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology.
Ian Hogbin publishes The Island of Mentruating Men.
Edmund Leach publishes Levi-Strauss.
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Four American student protestors killed by the US National Guard at Kent State University.
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1971
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John Barnes publishes Three Styles in the Study of Kinship.
Francis L. K. Hsu publishes Kinship and Culture.
Eleanor Leacock publishes The Culture of Poverty; a critique.
I. M. Lewis publishes Ecstatic Religion; an anthropological study of spirit possession and shamanism.
Lucy Mair publishes Marriage.
Betty Meggers publishes Amazonia; man and culture in a counterfeit paradise.
Audrey Richards and Adam Kuper publish Councils in Action.
Monica Wilson publishes Religion and the Transformation of Society.
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B. B. Bernstein publishes Class, Codes, and Control: Theoretical Studies in the Sociology of Language.
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1972
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Gregory Bateson publishes Steps to an Ecology of Mind.
K. C. Chang publishes Settlement Patterns in Archaeology.
Raymond Firth publishes The Sceptical anthropologist?, social anthropology and Marxist views on society.
Francis L. K. Hsu publishes Psychological anthropology.
Dell Hymes publishes Reinventing Anthropology.
Louis Leaky dies.
Betty Meggers publishes Prehistoric America.
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ngmar Bergman releases Viskningar och Rop (Cries and Whispers).
I. C. Jarvie publishes Concepts and Society.
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“Bloody Sunday” occurs in Northern Ireland; Britain assumes direct rule.
Watergate scandal occurs in US.
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1973
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Mary Douglas publishes Rules and meanings; the anthropology of everyday knowledge, as well as Natural Symbols.
Raymond Firth publishes Symbols; public and private.
Clifford Geertz publishes The Interpretation of Cultures.
Jack Goody publishes Bridewealth and Dowry.
Kathleen Gough publishes The Origin of the Family.
Charles Hockett publishes Man's Place in Nature.
I. M. Lewis publishes The Anthropologist's Muse.
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Margaret Atwood publishes Surfacing.
Brian J. L. Berry publishes The Human Consequences of Urbanization.
I. C. Jarvie publishes Functionalism.
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Yom-Kippur War between Israel and Palestinians.
Marxist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, dies mysteriously; CIA involvement suspected.
World Trade Centre is completed.
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1974
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Marvin Harris publishes Cows, Pigs, Wars, & Witches.
Dell Hymes publishes Foundations in Sociolinguistics.
Kenneth Little publishes Urbanization as a Social Process.
Lucy Mair publishes African Societies.
Tom McFeat publishes Small-Group Cultures.
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Word processors are introduced into as alternatives to typewriters.
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1975
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Mary Douglas publishes Implicit Meanings.
Roger M. Keesing publishes Kin Groups and Social Structure.
Claude Levi-Strauss publishes La voie des masques (trans as The Way of the Masks; 1982).
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Chinua Achebe publishes Morning Yet on Creation Day.
Roland Barthes publishes Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes (trans as Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, 1977).
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US ends its military activities in Vietnam, but is still active in other Southeast Asian nations.
Microsoft corporation is founded.
Civil war in Lebanon.
Americans and Soviets engage in limited space cooperation.
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1976
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J. J. Honigmann publishes The Development of Anthropological Ideas.
Edmund Leach publishes Culture & communication; the logic by which symbols are connected : an introduction to the use of structuralist analysis in social anthropology.
Dorothy Lee publishes Valuing the Self; what we can learn from other cultures.
I. M. Lewis publishes Social anthropology in perspective; the relevance of social anthropology.
Andrew Vayda publishes War in Ecological Perspective.
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Apple Computer company founded.
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1977
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Theodosius Dobzhansky publishes Evolution.
Jack Goody publishes The Domestication of the Savage Mind.
Marvin Harris publishes Cannibals and Kings; the origins of culture.
Charles Hockett publishes The View from Language.
I. M. Lewis publishes Symbols and Sentiments; cross-cultural studies of symbolism.
Monica Wilson publishes Men and Elders; change in the relations of generations and of men and women among the Nyakyusa-Ngonde people, 1875-1971.
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1978
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Mary Douglas publishes The World of Goods; towards an anthropology of consumption.
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Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha begins to dismantle apartheid in South Africa.
A Soviet sponsored coup succeeds in establishing government of Afghanistan.
The first “test-tube” baby is born in London.
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1979
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John Barnes publishes Who should know what?; social science, privacy, and ethics.
Marvin Harris publishes Cultural Materialism; the struggle for a science of culture.
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Rebellion in Iran establishes a fundamentalist Islamic state.
Rhodesian whites ratify a constitution establishing universal suffrage which creates a black majority government; the country is renamed Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.
Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania.
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1980
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Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock publish Women and Colonization; anthropological perspectives.
Weston La Barre publishes Culture in Context.
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Iran-Iraqi War begins with US backing Iraq.
Solidarity in Poland becomes the first labour party in a Soviet-influenced state.
The US and 57 other nations boycott the Moscow Olympics because of the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan.
John Lennon is killed in New York.
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1981
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Fredrik Barth publishes Features of Person and Society in Swat.
Ward Goodenough publishes Culture, Language, and Society, 2nd edition.
Marvin Harris publishes Why Nothing Works; the anthropology of daily life, and America Now.
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AIDS becomes regarded as an epidemic disease.
IBM sells its first personal computer.
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1982
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Gregory Bateson publishes Studies in Symbolism and Cultural Communication.
Mary Douglas publishes Risk and Culture.
Jack Goody publishes Cooking, Cuisine and Class.
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Falkland War begins.
The Canada Act replaces in 1867 Constitution.
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1983
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Theodosius Dobzhansky publishes Human Culture; a moment in evolution.
Jack Goody publishes The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe.
Francis L. K. Hsu publishes Rugged Individualism Reconsidered.
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Cellular phones are introduced.
The US invades the Caribbean Island of Grenada.
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1984
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Mary Douglas publishes Food in the Social Order.
I. C. Jarvie publishes Rationality and Relativism; in search of a philosophy and history of anthropology.
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MacIntosh personal computer marketed.
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1985
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June Helm publishes Social Contexts of American Ethnology, 1849-1984.
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1986
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Mary Douglas publishes How Institutions Think.
Jack Goody publishes The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Soceity.
I. M. Lewis publishes Religion in Context; cults and charisma.
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I. C. Jarvie publishes Thinking about Society; theory and practice, and Movies and Society.
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The US bombs Tripoli in Libya.
Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Iran-Contra Affair in the US.
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1987
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Jack Goody publishes The Interface between the Written and the Oral.
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Canada and the US sign the Free-Trade agreement.
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1988
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Clifford Geertz publishes Works and Lives; the anthropologist as author.
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Salman Rusdie publishes The Satanic Verses.
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Iran-Iraqi War ends.
Military coup takes over Myanmar government.
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1989
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Louis Binford publishes Debating Archaeology.
I. M. Lewis publishes Acquring Culture; cross cultural studies in child development.
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The Soviets retreat from Afghanistan.
The US invades Panama.
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1990
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Kathleen Gough publishes Political Economy in Vietnam.
Jack Goody publishes The Oriental, the Ancient, and the Primitive; systems of marriage and the family in the pre-industrial societies of Eurasia.
Conrad Kottack publishes Prime-Time Society; an anthropological analysis of television and culture.
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Nelson Mandela is released from prison.
Germany is reunited.
Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan.
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1991
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Weston La Barre publishes Shadow of Childhood; neoteny and the biology of religion.
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Persian Gulf War.
The Warsaw Pact is dissolved.
Civil war begins in Yugoslavia.
The Soviet Union is disbanded.
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1992
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Mary Douglas publishes Risk and Blame.
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The Internet Society is charted.
US forces enter Somalia.
Hindus destroy a mosque in India.
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1993
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Jack Goody publishes The Culture of Flowers.
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1994
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John Barnes publishes A Pack of Lies; towards a sociology of lying.
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The first multi-racial elections are held in South Africa.
The Chunnel opens linking the UK to Europe.
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1995
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Clifford Geertz publishes After the Fact; two countries, four decades, one anthropologist.
Jack Goody publishes The Expansive Moment; the rise of social anthropology in Britain and Africa, 1918-1970.
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Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by right-wing Israeli student.
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1996
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Laura Nader publishes Naked Science; anthropological inquiries into boundaries, power, and knowledge.
Jack Goody publishes The East in the West.
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1997
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Claude Levi-Strauss publishes Look, Listen, Read, a trans of regarder, ecouter, lire.
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Hong Kong returned to China.
Animal cloning occurs in Scotland.
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1998
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Jack Goody publishes Food and Love; a cultural history of East and West.
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NATO involvement in Yugoslav civil war.
East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia.
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1999
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2000
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Clifford Geertz publishes Available Light; anthropological reflections on philosophical topics.
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The Human Genome Project announces the complete mapping of a human chromosome.
Elian Gonzalez affair in US.
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2001
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Summit of the Americas economic conference in Quebec City.
World Trade Centre and Pentagon terrorist attacks; the US launches its “War on Terrorism”.
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2002
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2003
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