1950s in anthropology
Other topics in 1950s:
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
Births
Deaths
1956
- Marcel Griaule
- F.W. Hodge
- Rafael Karsten
- Siegfried Nadel
1959