Timeline of anthropology, 1950–1959 Events 1959 Mary Leakey discovers the first Paranthropus boisei cranium Publications 1956 Nuer Religion by E. E. Evans-Pritchard 1959 Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans, by Fredrik Barth The Inland Whale, by Theodora Kroeber Births Deaths 1956 Marcel Griaule F.W. Hodge Rafael Karsten Siegfried Nadel 1959 Edward Winslow Gifford Paul Radin Anthropology by decade Anthropology Anthropology timelines 1950s decade overviews