Curl Essay Prize Past Awards

2011	Henley, Paul	Trouble in Paradise: the films of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in Bali and New Guinea
2010		no award made
2009	Swift, Philip	Touching Conversion: Tangible Transformations in a Japanese New Religion
2008	Mosko, Mark	Partible penitents: Dividual personhood and Christian practice in Melanesia and the West
2007	Winslow, Deborah	The Village Clay: Recursive Innovations and Self-Fashioning among Sinhalese Potters
2006	Vokes, Richard	Charisma, Creativity and Cosmopolitanism: A perspective on the power of the new radio broadcasting in Uganda and Rwanda
2005	Costantino, Ivan	Landscapes of the Western Pacific: Anthropology and the Land of Ethnography in the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski
2004	Henley, Paul	Spirit-Possesion, Witchcraft and the Abstract Presence of Islam: a Re-appraisal of Les Maitres Fous After Fifty Years
2003	MacClancy, Jeremy	The Literary Image of Anthropologists
2002		no award made
2001	Stevens, Hillary	Space and Power in the Soviet Forced Labour Camps
2000	Freeman, Dena	From Warrior to Wife: Cultural Transformation in the Gamo Highlands

1999	Heyman, Josiah	Respect for Outsiders? respect for Law?: the Moral Evaluation of High-Scale Issues by U.S. Immigration Officers
1998		no award made
1997	Rival, L.	Androgynous, Parents and Guest Children: the Huaorani Couvade
1996	Rapport, N.	The `Contrarities' of Israel. An Essay on the Cognitive importance and the Creative Promise of both/and
1995	Busby, C.	Of Marriage and Marriageability: Gender and the Dravidian Kinship System
1994	Bouquet, M.	Family Trees and their Affinities
1993	Henley, P.	South Indian Models in the Amazonian Lowlands
1992	Roscoe, P.B.	Amity and Aggression: a Symbolic Approach to Explaining the Incest Taboo
1991	Hann, C.	From Production to Property: Decollectivization and the Human-Land Relationship in Contemporary Eastern Europe
1990		no award made

1989		no award made
1988		no award made
1987	Harrison, S.	Magical and Material Polities in Melanesia
1986	Fuller, C.J.	The Hindu Pantheon and the Legitimation of Hierarchy
1985		no ward made
1984		no award made
1983	Sillitoe, P.	Divide, and No One Rules
1982	Feil, D.K.	Beyond Patriliny in the New Guinea Highlands
1981	Shipton, P.	Strips and Patches: Towards a Demography of Landholding and Political Systems in East Africa
1980	Donham, D.	Beyond the Domestic Mode of Production

1979		no award made
1978	Gell, A.	The Gods that Play: Vertigo and Possession in Mura Religion
1977	Jackson, M.	Ambivalence and the Last Borne: Birth-Order and Position in Convention and Myth
1976		no award made
1975	Spencer, P.	Opposing Streams and the Gerontocratic Ladder: Two Models of Age Organization in East Africa
1974	Biersack, A.	Matrilaterality in patrilineal systems: the Tongan case
1973	Carter, A.T.	A Comparative Analysis of the Systems of Kinship and Marriage in South Asia.
1972		no award made
1971	Gudeman, S.	The Compadrazgo as a Reflection of the Natural and Spiritual Person
1970		no award made

1969	Davis, J.	Honour and Politics in Pisticci
1968	Strathern, A.	Descent and Alliance in the New Guinea Highlands: Some Problems of Comparison
1967		no award made
1966		no award made
1965		no award made
1964	Tambiah, S.J.	Kinship Fact and Fiction in Relation to the Kandyan Sinhalese
1963		no award made
1962		no award made
1961	Yalman, N.	On the Purity of Women in the Castes of Ceylon and the Malabar
1960	Brothwell, D.K.	The Paleopathology of early British Man

1959	Peters, E.L.	The Proliferation of Segments in the Lineage of the Bedouin in Cyrenaica
1958		no award made
1957	Goody, J.	The Mother's Brother, and the Sister's Son in West Africa; Leach, E.R. Magical Hair
1956		no award made
1955	Smith, M.G.	On Segmentary Lineage Systems
1954		no award made
1953	Gough, E.K.	Female Initiation Rites on the Malabar Coast
1952	Köbben, A.J.	New Ways of presenting an Old Idea: the Statistical Method in Social Anthropology
1951	Leach, E.R.	Structural Implications of Matrilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage
1950		no award made

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Curl Essay Prize Past Awards

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