Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology Past Recipients

2007	Pratten, David	The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria (Edinburgh University Press 2007)
2006	Englund, Harri	Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (University of California Press 2006)
2005	Apter, Andrew	The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria (University of Chicago Press 2005)
	West, Harry G.	Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique (University of Chicago Press 2005)
2004	Willet, Frank	The Art of Ife (University of Glasgow 2004)
2003:	Little, Peter D.	Somalia: Economy Without State (James Currey 2003)
	Reed, Daniel P.	Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Cote d'Ivoire (Indiana UP 2003)
2002	Bledsoe, Caroline H.	Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time and Ageing in West Africa (University of Chicago Press 2002)
2001	Royer, Patrick & Saul, Mahir	West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War (Ohio UP/James Currey 2001)
2000	Peel, J.D.Y.	Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yorua (Indiana UP 2000)

1999	Piot, Charles	Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (University of Chicago Press 1999)
	Donham, Don	Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution (University of California Press/James Currey 1999)
1998:	Silla, Eric	People are not the Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali
1997	Whyte, Susan R.	The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda (CUP 1996)
1996:	Fairhead, James & Leach	Melissa, Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savannah Mosaic (CUP 1996)
	Hutchinson, Sharon	Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War and the State (Berkeley & London: University of California Press 1996)
1995:	Malkki, L.	Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory and National Cosmology among the Hutu Refugees in Tanzania (Clarendon Press 1994)
1994:	Fadiman, J.A.	When we Began there were Witchmen (Univ. of California Press 1993) Johnson, D.H. Nuer Prophets (Clarendon Press 1994)
1993	Steiner, C.	African Art in Transit (CUP 1993)
1992	Launay, R.	Beyond the Stream (Univ. of California Press 1992)
1991	Barber, K.,	I Could Speak about Tomorrow: Oriki Women and the past in a Yoruba Town Werbner, R., Tears of the Dead: the Social Biography of an African Family
1990:		no award made

1989	Jackson M.	Paths Towards a Clearing: Radical Impiricism and Ethnographic Enquiry (Indiana UP 1989)
1988	Schloss, M.R.	The Hatchetts Blood James, W., The Listening Ebony
1987	Callaway, H.	Gender, Culture and Empire: European Women in Colonial Nigeria (St Anthony's/MacMillan)
1986	Barnes, Sandra A.	Patrons and Power
1985	Buckley, A.	Yoruba Medicine
1984		no award made
1983	Peel, J.D.Y.	Ileshas and Nigerians (CUP 1983)
1982	Goody, E.	Parenthood and Social Reproduction (CUP 1982)
1981		no award made
1980		no award made

1979		no award made
1978	Shaw, T.,	Nigeria: Its Archaeology and Early History
1977	Hill, P.	Population, Prosperity and Poverty: Rural Kano 1900-1970
1976		no award made
1975	Ottenberg, S.	Masked Rituals of Afikpo
1974	Lloyd, P.C.
1973		no award made
1972	Henderson, R.N.	The King in Every Man (Yale UP 1972)
1971	Goody, J.R.	Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa (OUP 1971)
1970	Shaw, T.	Igbo Ukwa (Faber 1970)

1969	Cohen, A.	Custom and Politics in Urban Africa (Routledge & KP 1969)
1968	Ottenberg, S.	Double Descent in an African Society (U. Washington Press)
1967	Lloyd, P.C.,	Africa in Social Change (Penguin 1967)
1966	Babola, S.A.	The Content and Form of Yoruba Ijala (Clarendon 1966)
1965	Harris, R.	The Political Organization of the Mbembe (HMSO,1965)
1964		no award made
1963	Fagg, W.B.	Nigerian Images
1962	Lloyd, P.C.	Yoruba Land Tenures

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Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology Past Recipients

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