title: 1880s in anthropology
text: # 1880s in anthropology
  
  Timeline of anthropology, 1880–1889
  
  ## Events
  
  1884
  
  * Pitt Rivers Museum founded
  
  1887
  
  * The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is founded
  
  ## Publications
  
  1881
  
  * Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines, by Lewis Henry Morgan
  
  1887
  
  * Totemism, by James Frazer
  
  ## Births
  
  1881
  
  * Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
  * Frank Gouldsmith Speck
  
  1884
  
  * John Peabody Harrington
  * Arthur Maurice Hocart
  * Bronislaw Malinowski
  * Edward Sapir
  
  1887
  
  * Ruth Benedict
  * Edward Winslow Gifford
  
  1888
  
  * Jaime de Angulo
  
  ## Deaths
  
  1881
  
  * John Ferguson McLennan
  * Lewis Henry Morgan
  
  1887
  
  * Johann Bachofen
  
  1888
  
  * Edwin Hamilton Davis
  * Henry Maine
  * Nikolai Miklukho Malai
  * Ephraim George Squier
  