1930s in anthropology

1934

• The Nihon Minzoku Gakkai (Japanese institute of Ethnology) is founded

1937

• The Musée de l'Homme is founded

1934

• Patterns of Culture, by Ruth Benedict.^{[1][failed verification]}

1935

• Structure and Function in Primitive Society, by Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
• Coral Gardens and Their Magic, by Bronislaw Malinowski^[2]

1937

• Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande, by E.E. Evans-Pritchard

1930

• Lewis Binford
• Pierre Bourdieu^[3]
• Laura Nader
• Marshall Sahlins

1934

• Maurice Godelier^[4]

1935

• Roger Keesing
• Barbara Myerhoff

1939

• Mary Bateson
• Maurice Bloch

1930

• Jessie Walter Fewkes

1934

• Roland Burrage Dixon
• Fritz Graebner
• Berthold Laufer

1935

• Walter Hough

1936

• Vladimir Bogoraz

1937

• John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt
• Vladimir Jochelson
• Grafton Elliot Smith

1939

• Arthur Maurice Hocart^[5]
• Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
• Edward Sapir^[6]