Haunting Images
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 [...]
Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous
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 [...]
Rainforest Warriors
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, [...]
Just One Child
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 [...]
Alien Ocean
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: [...]
Dramas of Nationhood
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 [...]
Friction
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: [...]
Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice
2005 Joint Winner Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice by Michael M. J. Fischer Duke University Press, 2003 Prize Committee: Adriana Petryna (co-chair), Kim Fortun (co-chair), and Bill Maurer [...]
Cholas and Pishtacos
2003 Winner Cholas and Pishtacos Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes by Mary Weismantel Mary Weismantel, Northwestern University. “Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes” [...]
The Book of Jerry Falwell
2001 Honorable Mention The Book of Jerry Falwell Fundamentalist Language and Politics by Susan Hardin National polls show that approximately 50 million adult Americans are born-again Christians. Yet most Americans see [...]
