J.B. Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art

Past recipients

2007: no award made

2005: no award made

2003: no award made

2001: Dr Sean Kingston, Attention to form in a Southern New Ireland
life-cycle

1999: Dr James Leach, Drum and Voices: Aesthetics, technology and
political relations in a Rai Coast (Papua New Guinea) society

1997: no award made

1995: Dr Peter Gow, Piro designs: Paintings as a meaningful action
in an Amazonian lived world

1993: Dr Nicholas Thomas, A second reflection: Opposition and irresolution
in contemporary Maori art

1991: Dr Michael O’Hanlon, Unstable images and second skins: Artefacts,
exegesis and assessments in the New Guinea Highlands

1989: Prof Michael Herzfeld, Icons and Identity: Religious orthodoxy and social practice in modern Greece

1987: Dr Howard Morphy, From dull to brilliant: The aesthetics of spiritual
power among the Yolngu