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 [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
2001 Winner City of Walls Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in Sao Paulo by Teresa Caldiera Teresa Caldeira's pioneering study of fear, crime, and segregation in São Paulo poses essential questions about [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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