Anth. 500E, History of Anthropology

                    SIGNIFICANT THINKERS RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY

 

1254-1324 Marco Polo

c. 1325 Beginning of Renaissance in Italy, peak of Moslem culture in Spain

1455 Gutenberg prints first Bible on his press with movable type.

1468-60 Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator sponsors explorations of Africa's coast.

1492 Christopher Colombus journeys east to America. Reconquest of Spain by Fredinand and Isabella. Expulsion of Jews from Spain

1498 Vasco da Gama travels around Africa to India.

 

Copernicus 1473-1543

Galileo 1564-1642

Ferdinand Magellan 1480-1521

Martin Luther 1483-1546

John Calvin 1509-1564

William Shakespeare 1564-1616

Michelangelo c. 1565-1609

 

1517 Martin Luther posts his 95 theses denouncing church abuses on church door in Wittenberg -- start of Reformation in Germany.

 

1522 One of Magellan's ships circumnavigate globe and returns to Spain.

 

1534 Calvin breaks with Catholic dogma, joins Protestant reform movement.

 

1535 Henry VIII establishes Anglican Church in England

 

1541 John Knox leads Reformation in Scotland, Presbyterian Church established 1560.

 

1545-1563 Council of Trent meets intermittently to define Catholic dogma and doctrine, reiterate papal authority.

 

1580 Sir Francis Drake returns to England after circumnavigating the globe.

            Montaigne's Essays published.

 

1600 English East India Company established to develop overseas trade

 

1607 Jamestown, Virginia, colony established

 

1611 King James version of the Bible published in England

 

(note: constant wars among European nations and principalities, often with religious component.)

 

1648 End of 30 Years War. German population about half of what it was in 1618 because of war and pestilence

 

1650 Bishop Ussher calculated beginning of world at 4004 BC

 

Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643

Johannes Kepler 1571-1630

Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679

Rene Descartes 1596-1650

Rembrant 1606-1669

Baruch Spinoza 1632-1727

Moliere 1622-1673

Robert Boyle 1627-1691

John Locke 1632-1704

Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737

Gottfied W. von Leibniz 1646-1716

Giovanni Battista Vico 1668-1744

Peter the Great 1672-1725

Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741

J.S. Bach 1685-1750

Baron de Montesquieu 1689-1755

Francois de Voltaire 1694-1778

 

1707 United Kingdom of Great Britian formed.

 

1724 J.F. Lafitau (1681-1746) publishes Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times.

 

1738 Hume publishes Treatise on Human Nature.

 

1740 Capt. Vitus Bearing, Dane employed by Russia, "discovers" Alaska.

 

1748 Montesquieu publishes The Spirit of the Laws.

 

1751 Publication of the Encyclopedie begins in France, the "bible" of the Enlightenment.

 

1757 Beginning of British Empire in India

            Hume publishes Natural History of Religion.

 

1765 James Watt invents the steam engine

 

1767 Carl von Linne (Linnaeus) publishes Systema Natuae.

            Ferguson publishes Essay on the History of Civil Society.

 

1775 American Revolution begins. (1787 Constitution signed)

 

1776 Adam Smith publishes Wealth of Nations.

 

1778 Captain Cook "discovers" Hawaii

 

1789-1799-French Revolution.

 

1780 Jeremey Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

 

1781 Immanuel Kant publishes Critique of Pure Reason

 

1792 Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

 

1798 Malthus publishes an Essay on the Principle of Population...

 

David Hume 1711-1776

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778

Adam Smith 1723-1790

Adam Ferguson 1723-1816

Immanuel Kant 1724-1804

Captain Cook 1728-1779

Joseph Priestly 1733-1804

Marquis de Sade 1741-1814

Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826

Jean Baptiste Lamarck 1744-1829

Johann Gottfried Herder 1744-1803

Jeremy Bentham 1748-1832

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791

William Blake 1757-1827

Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797

Noah Webster 1785-1843

Baron George L.C. Cuvier 1769-1832

Robert Malthus 1766-1834

Ludwig von Beethoven 1770-1827

G.W.F. Hegel 1770-1831

Robert Owen 1771-1858

John James Audubon 1785-1851

Charles Lyell 1797-1875

Auguste Comte 1798-1857

 

1804 Napoleon proclaims himself emperor of France.

            Lewis and Clark expedition begins.

            Haiti declares its independence from France.

 

1813 J.C. Prichard, Researches into the Physical History of Mankind. revised 1826, 1836-47.

 

1817 David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.

 

1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo.

 

1817 Simon Bolivar established independent Venezuela.

 

1833 Slavery abolished in British Empire.

 

1839 First Opium War between Britain and China.

 

1845 Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England.

 

1846 Irish potato famine

            U.S. declares war on Mexico, annexes California and New Mexico

            Sewing machine patented by Elias Howe

 

1848 Revolutions in Vienna, Venice, Berlin, Milan, Rome, and Warsaw. Put down in '48-49

            Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto

 

1859 Charles Darwin, Origin of Species

 

1860 Adolphe Bastian, Mankind in History

 

1861 U.S. Civil War begins

            Sir Henry Maine, Ancient Law

            Johann J. Bachofen, Das Mutterrecht (Mother-right)

 

1863 Charles Lyell, The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with Remarks on the Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation.

 

1864 Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City.

 

1865 John Furgeson McLennan, Primitive Marriage.

 

1866 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite

 

1869 John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

 

1870 Lewis Henry Morgan, Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (Submitted to Smithsonian 1865)

 

1871 Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture

 

1873 Economic crisis in Europe. U.S. establishes gold standard.

 

1877 Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient Society

 

1884 Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.

 

1882 Emile Durkheim, On the Social Division of Labor

 

1890 James G. Frazer, The Golden Bough

 

1895 Emile Durkheim, Rules of the Sociological Method

 

1895 X-rays discovered by German physicist, Wilhelm Roentgen.

 

1903 Levy-Bruhl, Morality and the Science of Mores.

 

Johann Gottfried Herder 1744-1803

John Stuart Mill 1806-1873

Louis Agassiz 1807-1873

Paul Broca 18 -1880

Paul Topinard 1830-1911

Charles Darwin 1809-1882

Johann J. Bachofen 1815-1887

Comte Joseph Arthur de Gobineau 1816-1882

Lewis Henry Morgan 1818-1881

Karl Marx 1818-1883

Herbert Spencer 1820-1903

Feodor Dostoevsky 1821-1881

Gregor Mendel 1822-1884

Francis Galton 1822-1911 (Darwin's son and popularizer)

Alfred Wallace 1823-1913

Adolphe Bastian 1826-1905

John Furgeson McLennan 1827-1881

Wilhelm Wundt 1832-1920

Wilhelm Dilthey 1833-1911

Johannes Brahms 1833-1897

John Wesley Powell 1834-1902

Edgar Degas 1834-1917

J.P. Morgan 1837-1913

John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937

Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893

Adolph F. Bandelier 1840-1914

William James 1842-1910

Sigmund Freud 1856-1939

Frank Hamilton Cushing 1857-1900

Max Plank 1858-1947

Franz Boas 1858-1942

John Dewey 1859-1952

Emil Durkheim 1858-1917

George Herbert Mead 1863-1931

Max Weber 1864-1920

W.H.R. Rivers 1864-1922

Sun Yat-sen 1866-1927

Arturo Toscinini 1867-1957

Marie Curie 1867-1937

Ales Hrdlicka 1869-1943

A. Binet 18        (A method of measuring the devleopment of the intelligence of young children, 1911)

Bertrand Russell 1872-1970

Marcel Mauss 1872-1950

Arnold van Gennep 1873-1957

Karl Jung 1875-1961

A.L. Kroeber 1876-1960

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown 1881-1955

Robert H. Lowie 1883-1957, Primitive Society, 1920

Paul Radin, 1883-1959. Primitive Man as Philosopher, 1927.

Bronislaw Malinowski 1884-1942

Edward Sapir 1884-1939

Alfred Vincent Kidder 1885-1963

E. A. Hooton 1887-1954

Ruth Fulton Benedict 1887-1948

Abram Kardiner 1891-?

A. I. Hallowell 1892-1974

Robert S. Lynd (1892-) and Helen M. Lynd (1896-)

V. Gordon Childe 1892-1957

Ralph Linton 1893-1953

Melville Herskovits 1895-1957

George P. Murdock 1897-, Social Structure, 1949.

Benjamin Lee Whorf 1897-1941

Robert Redfield, 1897-1958

 

Leslie A. White 1900-1975

Margaret Mead 1901-1978

Raymond Firth 1901-

Lucy Mair 1901-

E.E. Evans-Pritchard 1902-1973

Julian Steward 1902-1972

Talcott Parsons 1902-1979

Hortense Powdermaker 1903-1970

Frederica De Laguna 1906-

Sol Tax 1907-1995

Claude Levi-Strauss 1908-?

Max Gluckman 1911-1975, Custom and Conflict in Africa, 1955

            Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa, 1963

George Foster 1913-

Charles Wagley

Ruth Bunzel

Elman Service 1915-1996

Colson, Elizabeth 1917-

Sidney Mintz 1922-

Eric Wolf 1923-1999

Robert F. Murphy 1924-199?

Robert McC. Adams 1926-

Robert L. Carneiro 1927-

Clifford Geertz 1927-

Marvin Harris 1927-

Marshall D. Sahlins 1930 -