2000s in anthropology

Events

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

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

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

Publications

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

Deaths

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

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

• Isaac Schapera

• Jean Rouch

Awards

• Margaret Mead Award: Mimi Nichter
• Victor Turner Prize: Tanya M. Luhrman for Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry

• 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 History

• Margaret Mead Award: Donna Goldstein
• Victor Turner Prize: John M. Chernoff for Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl

• Margaret Mead Award: Luke Eric Lassiter

• Margaret Mead Award:

• Margaret Mead Award: João Biehl

• Margaret Mead Award: Daniel Jordan Smith

• Margaret Mead Award: Sverker Finnström