Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology

Past recipients

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