In Amazonia
2003 Honorable Mention In Amazonia A Natural History by Hugh Raffles From the Publisher The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative [...]
Advocacy After Bhopal
2003 Joint Winner Advocacy After Bhopal Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders by Kim Fortun Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute”Advocacy After Bhopal – Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders” 2001, University of Chicago [...]
Life Exposed
2003 Joint Winner Life Exposed Biological Citizens after Chernobyl by Adriana Petryna Adriana Petryna, New School University “Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl” 2002, University of California Santa Cruz Press. From [...]
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics
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 [...]
Racial Situations
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 [...]
Marketing Democracy
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
