Prize-Winning AE Articles
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2016 Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship Award by the AAA's General Anthropology Division to Radhika Govindrajan for her 2015 article “'The Goat that Died for Family': Animal Sacrifice and Interspecies Kinship in India's Central Himalayas,” American Ethnologist 42 (3): 504-519.
A woman pays obeisance to her goat, who has just shaken his body and is about to be taken to the sacrificial shed, Gangolihaat (Uttarakhand), March 2011. Photo by Radhika Govindrajan. A woman pays obeisance to her goat, who has just shaken his body and is about to be taken to the sacrificial shed, Gangolihaat (Uttarakhand), March 2011. Photo by Radhika Govindrajan.
- 2013 Boyer Prize awarded by the Society for Psychological Anthropology to John Borneman for his 2011 article “Daydreaming, Intimacy, and the Intersubjective Third in Fieldwork Encounters in Syria,” American Ethnologist 38 (2):234-248.
- 2012 Anthropology and the Environment Section award to Shaylih Muehlmann for her May 2012 article, "Rhizomes and Other Uncountables: The Malaise of Enumeration in Mexico's Colorado River Delta, " American Ethnologist 39 (2):339-353. Here is an interview about Muehlmann's article.
- 2012 General Anthropology Division Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship awarded to Rheana Parreñas for her November 2012 article, "Producing Affect: Transnational Volunteerism in a Malaysian Orangutan Rehabilitation Center, " American Ethnologist 39 (4):673–687.
- 2012 Runner-up for General Anthropology Division Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship was Duana Fullwiley, for her November 2010 article, "Revaluating Genetic Causation: Biology, Economy,and Kinship in Dakar, Senegal, " American Ethnologist 37 (4):638–661.
- 2011 Boyer Prize awarded by the Society for Psychological Anthropology to Kevin P. Groark for his 2009 article, “Discourses of the Soul: The Negotiation of Personal Agency in Tzotzil Maya Dream Narrative,” American Ethnologist 36 (4):705–721.