Rivers Memorial Medal

Prior Recipients

2007 Professor Andrew Whiten

2006 Professor Paul Sillitoe

2005 Professor Clive Gamble

2004 Professor Chris Stringer

2003 Dr Robert Layton

2002 Dr Maurice Bloch

2001 No Award

2000 Professor Adam Kuper

1999 Professor Caroline Humphrey

1998 Dr Nicholas Thomas

1997 Dr James Carrier

1996 Dr. Ray Abrahams

1995 Dr Simon Harrison

1994 Professor Michael Herzfeld

1993 Professor R.W. Wrangham

1992 Professor Ladislav Holy

1991 Dr Dan Sperber

1990 Dr C.G.N. Mascie-Taylor

1989 Dr Tim Ingold

1988 Dr Alfred Gell

1987 No Award

1986 Professor John Blacking

1985 Professor David Parkin

1984 Dr Alan Macfarlane

1983 Dr Maurice Bloch

1982 Professor Elizabeth Colson

1981 No Award

1980 Professor Abner Cohen

1979 Professor Colin Renfrew

1978 Professor Phillip Tobias

1977 Dr Peter Ucko

1976 Professor A. Strathern, Dr. M. Strathern

1975 Professor J.R. Goody

1974 Dr D.F. Pocock

1973 Dr S.J. Tambiah

1972 Dr J. Waechter

1971 No Award

1970 Dr Rodney Needham

1969 Professor J.S. Weiner

1968 Professor Mary Douglass; Professor Eric Higgs

1967 Dr Philip Mayer; Professor N.A. Barnicot

1966 Professor Gulliver

1965 Professor V. Turner

1964 Professor Adrian Mayer

1963 Derek Stenning

1962 Professor H. Lehman

1961 Hilda Kuper

1960 Professor J.C. Mitchell. The Rhodesias and Ngasa Land

1959 Professor J.A. Barnes. Norway and Rhodesia

1958 Dr E.R. Leach. Kurdistan & North Burma

1957 Dr Phyllis M. Kaberry

1956 Professor Daryll Forde

1955 Professor M.N. Srinivas

1954 Professor Max Gluckman

1953 Dr Donald F. Thomson, for fieldwork in Arnhem Land.

1952 Dr L.S.B. Leakey, for archaeological and anthropological fieldwork in East Africa; Professor Monica Wilson, for socio-anthropological fieldwork in Southern Africa

1951 Dr R.F. Fortune, for fieldwork in Melanesia and North America.

1950 Dr S.F. Nadel, for fieldwork in Northern Nigeria and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

1949 Dr C. von Fürer Haimendorf, for fieldwork in Hyderabad-Deccan and Assam

1948 Dr Verrier Elwin, for fieldwork in India

1947 Dr Meyer Fortes, for fieldwork in the Northern territories of the Gold Coast, in Ashanti and in Nigeria

1946 Ian H. Hogbin, for fieldwork in Ontong Java, Solomon Islands and New Guinea

1945 J. Eric Thompson, for fieldwork in Central America; Dr. Audrey I. Richards, for fieldwork among the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia

1944 James Hornell, for fieldwork in the coastal areas of India, Africa and Indonesia, and in the Pacific Islands

1943 Beatrice Mary Blackwood, for fieldwork in North America and Melanesia

1942 James Philip Mills, for fieldwork among the Nagas of Assam

1941 Dr Diamon Jenness, for fieldwork in Arctic America.

1940 Dr Raymond Firth, for fieldwork in Tokopia

1939 Professor Isaac Schapera, for fieldwork in the Bechuanaland Protectorate

1938 Dorothy Ann Elizabeth Garrod, for fieldwork in Gibraltar, South Kurdistan and Palestine

1937 Dr Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, for anthropological fieldwork in the Sudan and Kenya

1936 Professor Peter H. Buck (Te Rangi Hioa), for anthropological fieldwork in New Zealand and in Central and Eastern Polynesia

1935 Professor A.M. Hocart, for fieldwork in Melanesia, Polynesia and Ceylon

1934 Miss Gertrude Caton-Thompson, for fieldwork in Egypt, the Libyan Desert and Rhodesia

1933 Mrs Brenda Zara Seligman, for anthropological fieldwork in Ceylon and the Sudan

1932 Melville Williams Hilton, for fieldwork in Algeria, Sahara and Belgian Congo

1931 Rev. E.W. Smith, for fieldwork in Northern Rhodesia

1930 Professor Bronislaw Malinowski, for fieldwork in Melanesia

1929 John Henry Hutton, for fieldwork in the Naga Hills (Assam)

1928 Sidney H. Ray, for research on linguistics in the Torres Straits; Emil Torday, for research in the ethnology and ethnography of the Congo Basin 

1927 Sir W. Baldwin Spencer, for fieldwork in Central and Northern Australia

1926 Professor Edward Westermarck, for fieldwork in Morocco

1925 Professor C.G. Seligman, for fieldwork in New Guinea, Ceylon and the Sudan

1924 Dr A.C. Haddon, for fieldwork in the Torres Straits, New Guinea and Sarawak.