In sum, I’ve had national, temporal, and intellectual limits to this project to keep from going crazy, but I’m sure you will be outraged at my omission of your favorite person. In general I’ve tried to recover the people who were important to the discipline but who were erased (particularly in the US) during the great WASP Scientization of the discipline in the 1950s, or who just plain never made it in their in the first place. So your favorite people will definitely not be on there. Finally, I tried to locate people who seemed most institutionally and intellectually central, as well as people that I was just personally interested in.
Third, I am defining ‘anthropology’ here as the modern discipline which institutionalized in the 1920s. Second, this is a timeline of sociocultural anthropology. First, I am focusing on French, English, and American anthropology (mostly American at this point 🙁 ). This eventually grew into a book project that I’ll publish one day down the road… long down the road… but to prevent myself from going insane I’ve given the project some very basic parameters. Rather than teach the standard narrative that I had received from my teachers, I wanted to figure out what really happened.
I felt that there was a tremendous gap between the stories told in theory courses, what history of anthropology as a speciality revealed about the history of the discipline, and the standard average potted history of the discipline ensconced in the heads of anthropology professors. I started this timeline five or six years ago, when I first started teaching history of theory courses.
#AEON TIMELINE SET CURRENT DATE FULL#
You need to scroll around the full database to see all the dates.
#AEON TIMELINE SET CURRENT DATE ZIP FILE#
zip file on google drive) The lives of George Hunt, Franz Boas, and Zora Neale Hurston. It is designed to be viewed in Aeon Timeline, but I’ve also provided a dump of the data so you can play with it however you like. It includes details from the careers of roughly 118 anthropologists from England, France, and the United States. This timeline has over 1,000 entries, beginning with the birth of Lewis Henry Morgan on and the latest is the death of Roy D’Andrade on. I am extremely happy to announce today that I’m making open access my timeline of the history of anthropological theory.
(Update : Up-to-date timeline files are now hosted on github and there is an interactive version of the timeline as well -Rx)
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