1970s in anthropology

Events

• "Lucy", the first Australopithecus afarensis is discovered
• The Canadian Ethnology Association is founded

• The first Margaret Mead Film Festival is held

Publications

• Stone Age Economics, by Marshall Sahlins
• The Mountain People, by Colin Turnbull

• Two-Dimensional Man : An Essay on the Anthropology of Power and Symbolism in Complex Society, by Abner Cohen
• Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches, by Marvin Harris

• Cannibals and Kings, by Marvin Harris
• Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco, by Paul Rabinow

• Portraits of "the Whiteman": Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache. by Keith Basso.

Deaths

• Hilma Natalia Granqvist
• Louis Leakey
• Julian Steward

• Pedro Bosch-Gimpera

• Kaj Birket-Smith
• Anna Hadwick Gayton

• Gutorm Gjessing
• Robert Heizer
• Theodora Kroeber

Awards

• Margaret Mead Award: John Ogbu