Senior Book Prize

2016 Honorable Mention The Outcast Majority War, Development, and Youth in Africa by Marc Sommers (University of Georgia Press, 2015) Prize Committee: Marc Edelman (co-chair, CUNY), Shalini Shankar (co-chair, Northwestern U), [...]

2016 Winner Land's End Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier by Tania Murray Li (Duke University Press, 2014) Prize Committee: Marc Edelman (co-chair, CUNY), Shalini Shankar (co-chair, Northwestern U), Tine Gammeltoft [...]

2014 Honorable Mention Precarious Japan by Anne Allison (Duke University Press, 2013) Committee chair Daniel Goldstein (Rutgers U) and committee members Susan Greenhalgh (Harvard U) and Janice Newberry (U Lethbridge) write: [...]

2014 Winner Haunting Images A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam by Tine Gammeltoft (University of California Press, 2014) Committee chair Daniel Goldstein (Rutgers U) and committee members Susan Greenhalgh [...]

2012 Honorable Mention Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World by Dorothy Hodgson (Indiana University Press, 2011) What happens to marginalized groups from Africa when they ally with [...]

2012 Winner Rainforest Warriors Human Rights on Trial by Richard Price (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) From the Publisher: Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, [...]

2010 Honorable Mention Just One Child Science and Policy in Deng’s China by Susan Greenhalgh (University of California Press, 2008) The AES awarded an Honorable Mention to Susan Greenhalgh for [...]

2010 Winner Alien Ocean Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas by Stefan Helmreich *(University of California Press, 2009) Jane Collins, AES President, had this to say about Stefan Helmreich and Alien Ocean: [...]

2007 Winner Dramas of Nationhood The Politics of Television in Egypt by Lila Abu-Lughod University of Chicago Press, 2005 From the Prize Committee Chair: Carla Freeman, AES Councilor and Senior Book [...]

2005 Joint Winner Friction An Ethnography of Global Connection by Anna L. Tsing Princeton University Press, 2004 Prize Committee: Adriana Petryna (co-chair), Kim Fortun (co-chair), and Bill Maurer From the Publisher: [...]