Curl Essay Prize

Past Awards

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.

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