Vision, Race and Modernity
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 [...]
Post-Colonial Developments
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 [...]
No Aging in India
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 [...]
Metaphysical Communities
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 [...]
At Home in the World
1997 Joint Winner At Home in the World by Michael Jackson Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At [...]
The Macedonian Conflict
1997 Joint Winner The Macedonian Conflict Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World by Loring Danforth Greeks and Macedonians are presently engaged in an often heated dispute involving competing claims to a [...]
Tournaments of Value
1997 Honorable Mention Tournaments of Value Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town by Anne Meneley A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic [...]
Gifts, Favors, and Banquets
1997 Winner Gifts, Favors, and Banquets The Art of Social Relationships in China by Mayfair-hui Yang An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary [...]
Dancing with the Devil
1996 Winner Dancing with the Devil Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas. by Jose Limón Combining shrewd applications of current cultural theory with compelling autobiography and elegant prose, José [...]
In the Soviet House of Culture
1996 Winner In the Soviet House of Culture A Century of Perestroikas by Bruce Grant At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population [...]
