2000s in anthropology explained

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Timeline of anthropology, 2000–2009

Events

2002

• The French government returns the remains of Saartjie Baartman to South Africa, where she is buried

2003

• The first Homo floresiensis remains are found
• The National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad and archaeological sites throughout Iraq are looted

2004

• The National Museum of the American Indian moves to its present location on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Publications

2004

• Native Anthropology: The Japanese Challenge to Western Academic Hegemony, by Takami Kuwayama

Deaths

2001

• Abner Cohen
• Derek Freeman
• Marvin Harris
• George Harrison

2002

• Pierre Bourdieu
• Raymond Firth
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Thor Heyerdahl

2003

• Isaac Schapera

2004

• Jean Rouch

Awards

2001

• Margaret Mead Award

Mimi Nichter

• Victor Turner Prize

Tanya M. Luhrman for Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry

2003

• Margaret Mead Award

Marc Sommers

• Victor Turner Prize

Alan Klima for The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand and Hugh Raffles for In Amazonia: A Natural History2004

• Margaret Mead Award

Donna Goldstein

• Victor Turner Prize

John M. Chernoff for Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl2005

• Margaret Mead Award

Luke Eric Lassiter2006

• Margaret Mead Award

2007

• Margaret Mead Award

João Biehl2008

• Margaret Mead Award

Daniel Jordan Smith2009

• Margaret Mead Award

Sverker Finnström