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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
