2001 Honorable Mention Screening Culture, Viewing Politics An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood and Nation in Post-Colonial India by Purnima Mankekar In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography [...]
2001 Honorable Mention Racial Situations Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit by John Jr. Hartigan Racial Situations challenges perspectives on race that rely upon oft-repeated claims that race is culturally constructed [...]
2001 Winner Marketing Democracy Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile by Julia Paley Amid protests against the Pinochet regime, a group of población(shantytown) residents came together in 1984 to challenge [...]
1999 Honorable Mention Flexible Citizenship The Cultural Logics of Transnationality by Aihwa Ong Few recent phenomena have proved as emblematic of our era, and as little understood, as globalization. Are nation-states [...]
1999 Honorable Mention Exotics at Home Anthropologies, Others, and American Modernity by Micaela Di leonardo In this pathbreaking study, Micaela di Leonardo reveals the face of power within the mask of [...]
1999 Winner Testing Women, Testing the Fetus The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America by Rayna Rapp Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine how [...]
1999 First Runner up Vision, Race and Modernity A visual economy of the Andean image world by Deborah Poole Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and [...]
1999 Second Runner Up Post-Colonial Developments Agriculture in the Making of Modern India by Akhil Gupta This definitive study brings together recent critiques of development and work in postcolonial studies to [...]
1999 Winner No Aging in India Alzheimer’s, The Bad Family and other Modern Things by Lawrence Cohen From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption [...]
1997 Honorable Mention Metaphysical Communities: The Interplay of the Sense and the Intellect by Greg Urban A South American tribe's culture is the starting point for this exploration of the uneasy [...]
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