1990s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1990–1999

• 1980s
• 1990s in anthropology
• 2000s

Other topics in 1990s:

• Comics
• Fashion
• Motorsport
• Music
• Science and technology
• Sociology
• Television
• Video games

Events

1990

• NAGPRA, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, is passed into US law^[1]

1991

• "Ötzi the Iceman" discovered in the Alps^[2]

Publications

1991

• Donald Brown's Human Universals was published^[3]

1992

• Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While-Giving by Annette B. Weiner^[4]

1994

• Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club, by Anne Allison^[5]

1995

• In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, by Philippe Bourgois
• The Development of Cognitive Anthropology, by Roy D'Andrade

1996

• Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan, by Anne Allison

1998

• The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City, by Roger Sandek
• Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis, by Eric Wolf

Births

Deaths

1990

• Kathleen Aberle
• Michael Leiriss

1991

• Cora Du Bois
• Stanley Diamond

1993

• Albert A. Dahlberg
• Roger Keesing
• Ronald Gofrey Lienhardt
• Michael G. Smith

1994

• Timothy Asch
• Raymond Birdwhistell
• Luther Cressman
• Colin Turnbull

1995

• Ernest Gellner
• James Clyde Mitchell
• David Schneider
• Sol Tax

1996

• Weston La Barre
• Mary Leakey
• Morris Opler
• Elman Service

1997

• John Adair
• Michael Dorris
• Alfred Gell
• Roy Rappaport

1998

• Carlos Castaneda
• Louis Dumont
• Alfonso Villa Rojas

1999

• Arnold Epstein
• Ashley Montagu
• Eric Wolf

Awards

1990

• Margaret Mead Award: Wenda Travathan
• Victor Turner Prize: Kirin Narayan for Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative and Hindu Religious Teaching

1991

• Margaret Mead Award: Will Roscoe, for The Zuñi Man-Woman
• Victor Turner Prize: Dennis Tedlock, for Days from a Dream Almanac

1993

• Margaret Mead Award: Leo R. Chavez

1994

• Margaret Mead Award: Katherine A. Dettwyler

1997

• Margaret Mead Award: Philippe Bourgois

1998

• Victor Turner Prize: Lawrence Cohen for No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

1999

• Margaret Mead Award:Paul E. Farmer