1940
- Marc Bloch's Feudal Society is published.
- Marc Bloch's Strange Defeat; a Statement of Evidence is published.
- Franz Boas's Race, Language and Culture is published.
- Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard's The Nuer is published.
- Meyer Fortes's African Political Systems is published.
- David V. Glass's Population Policies and Movements in Europe is published.
- Walter Benjamin's On the concept of history is published.
- Robert M. MacIver serves as president of the ASA.
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