2025 | Uroš Kovač | Elusive Dreams and Their Alternatives: An Anthropology of Dreamwork in Transnational Migration and Global Capitalism |
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2024 |
| no award made |
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2023 | Zeitlyn, David | On anthropological trading zones and thin description |
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2022 | Webb, Matthew Raj | The Flow of Craft-Marked Expertise: “Skill Regimes” in Global Fashion Production in Mumbai |
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2021 | Mautner, Ori | The Self in Self-Formation: Embodiment, Religious Mediation, and the Subject’s Interrelated Parts among Orthodox-Jewish Meditators |
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2020 | Andrews, Kyrstin Mallon | The Color of Seawater: Color Perception and Environmental Change in Dominican Seascapes |
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2019 |
| no award made |
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2018 |
| no award made |
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2017 | Myhre, Knut Christian | Tales of a Stitched Anus: Fictions, Analytics, and Personhood in Kilimanjaro |
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2016 | Cortesi, Luisa | An ontology of water and land in North Bihar, India |
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2015 | Glaskin, Katie | ‘They used to frighten us’: Other-than humans and the re-making of the social |
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2014 | Moran-Thomas, Amy | THE PARA-COMMUNICABLE: Political Ecologies of Nutrition and Chronic Transmission in Northern Ghana |
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2013 |
| no award made |
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2012 |
| no award made |
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2011 | Henley, Paul | Trouble in Paradise: the films of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in Bali and New Guinea |
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2010 |
| no award made |
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2009 | Swift, Philip | Touching Conversion: Tangible Transformations in a Japanese New Religion |
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2008 | Mosko, Mark | Partible penitents: Dividual personhood and Christian practice in Melanesia and the West |
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2007 | Winslow, Deborah | The Village Clay: Recursive Innovations and Self-Fashioning among Sinhalese Potters |
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2006 | Vokes, Richard | Charisma, Creativity and Cosmopolitanism: A perspective on the power of the new radio broadcasting in Uganda and Rwanda |
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2005 | Costantino, Ivan | Landscapes of the Western Pacific: Anthropology and the Land of Ethnography in the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski |
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2004 | Henley, Paul | Spirit-Possesion, Witchcraft and the Abstract Presence of Islam: a Re-appraisal of Les Maitres Fous After Fifty Years |
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2003 | MacClancy, Jeremy | The Literary Image of Anthropologists |
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2002 |
| no award made |
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2001 | Stevens, Hillary | Space and Power in the Soviet Forced Labour Camps |
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2000 | Freeman, Dena | From Warrior to Wife: Cultural Transformation in the Gamo Highlands |
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1999 | Heyman, Josiah | Respect for Outsiders? respect for Law?: the Moral Evaluation of High-Scale Issues by U.S. Immigration Officers |
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1998 |
| no award made |
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1997 | Rival, L. | Androgynous, Parents and Guest Children: the Huaorani Couvade |
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1996 | Rapport, N. | The `Contrarities’ of Israel. An Essay on the Cognitive importance and the Creative Promise of both/and |
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1995 | Busby, C. | Of Marriage and Marriageability: Gender and the Dravidian Kinship System |
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1994 | Bouquet, M. | Family Trees and their Affinities |
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1993 | Henley, P. | South Indian Models in the Amazonian Lowlands |
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1992 | Roscoe, P.B. | Amity and Aggression: a Symbolic Approach to Explaining the Incest Taboo |
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1991 | Hann, C. | From Production to Property: Decollectivization and the Human-Land Relationship in Contemporary Eastern Europe |
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1990 |
| no award made |
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1989 |
| no award made |
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1988 |
| no award made |
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1987 | Harrison, S. | Magical and Material Polities in Melanesia |
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1986 | Fuller, C.J. | The Hindu Pantheon and the Legitimation of Hierarchy |
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1985 |
| no ward made |
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1984 |
| no award made |
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1983 | Sillitoe, P. | Divide, and No One Rules |
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1982 | Feil, D.K. | Beyond Patriliny in the New Guinea Highlands |
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1981 | Shipton, P. | Strips and Patches: Towards a Demography of Landholding and Political Systems in East Africa |
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1980 | Donham, D. | Beyond the Domestic Mode of Production |
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1979 |
| no award made |
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1978 | Gell, A. | The Gods that Play: Vertigo and Possession in Mura Religion |
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1977 | Jackson, M. | Ambivalence and the Last Borne: Birth-Order and Position in Convention and Myth |
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1976 |
| no award made |
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1975 | Spencer, P. | Opposing Streams and the Gerontocratic Ladder: Two Models of Age Organization in East Africa |
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1974 | Biersack, A. | Matrilaterality in patrilineal systems: the Tongan case |
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1973 | Carter, A.T. | A Comparative Analysis of the Systems of Kinship and Marriage in South Asia. |
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1972 |
| no award made |
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1971 | Gudeman, S. | The Compadrazgo as a Reflection of the Natural and Spiritual Person |
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1970 |
| no award made |
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1969 | Davis, J. | Honour and Politics in Pisticci |
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1968 | Strathern, A. | Descent and Alliance in the New Guinea Highlands: Some Problems of Comparison |
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1967 |
| no award made |
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1966 |
| no award made |
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1965 |
| no award made |
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1964 | Tambiah, S.J. | Kinship Fact and Fiction in Relation to the Kandyan Sinhalese |
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1963 |
| no award made |
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1962 |
| no award made |
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1961 | Yalman, N. | On the Purity of Women in the Castes of Ceylon and the Malabar |
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1960 | Brothwell, D.K. | The Paleopathology of early British Man |
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1959 | Peters, E.L. | The Proliferation of Segments in the Lineage of the Bedouin in Cyrenaica |
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1958 |
| no award made |
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1957 | Goody, J. | The Mother’s Brother, and the Sister’s Son in West Africa; Leach, E.R. Magical Hair |
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1956 |
| no award made |
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1955 | Smith, M.G. | On Segmentary Lineage Systems |
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1954 |
| no award made |
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1953 | Gough, E.K. | Female Initiation Rites on the Malabar Coast |
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| Stevenson, H.N.C. | Status evaluation in the Hindu caste system |
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1952 | Köbben, A.J. | New Ways of presenting an Old Idea: the Statistical Method in Social Anthropology |
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1951 | Leach, E.R. | Structural Implications of Matrilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage |
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1950 |
| no award made |
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