1990s in anthropology

• In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, by Philippe Bourgois
• The Development of Cognitive Anthropology, by Roy D'Andrade

• Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan, by Anne Allison

• The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City, by Roger Sandek
• Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis, by Eric Wolf

Deaths

• Kathleen Aberle
• Michael Leiriss

• Cora Du Bois
• Stanley Diamond

• Albert A. Dahlberg
• Roger Keesing
• Ronald Gofrey Lienhardt
• Michael G. Smith

• Timothy Asch
• Raymond Birdwhistell
• Luther Cressman
• Colin Turnbull

• Ernest Gellner
• James Clyde Mitchell
• David Schneider
• Sol Tax

• Weston La Barre
• Mary Leakey
• Morris Opler
• Elman Service

• John Adair
• Michael Dorris
• Alfred Gell
• Roy Rappaport

• Carlos Castaneda
• Louis Dumont
• Alfonso Villa Rojas

• Arnold Epstein
• Ashley Montagu
• Eric Wolf

Awards

• Margaret Mead Award: Wenda Travathan
• Victor Turner Prize: Kirin Narayan for Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative and Hindu Religious Teaching

• Margaret Mead Award: Will Roscoe, for The Zuñi Man-Woman
• Victor Turner Prize: Dennis Tedlock, for Days from a Dream Almanac

• Margaret Mead Award: Leo R. Chavez

• Margaret Mead Award: Katherine A. Dettwyler

• Margaret Mead Award: Philippe Bourgois

• Victor Turner Prize: Lawrence Cohen for No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

• Margaret Mead Award:Paul E. Farmer

References