2007 Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare,
by Charles L. Briggs with Clara Mantini-Briggs (University of California Press, 2003).
Affiliation at time of award:
Charles L. Briggs is professor of anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Clara Mantini-Briggs is an MD MPH
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2006 Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor,
by Dr. Paul Farmer (University of California Press, 2004).
Affiliation at time of award:
Dr. Paul Farmer is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine at the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and founding director of Partners in Health
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2005 The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain,
by Terrence W. Deacon (London and New York: W. W. Norton, 1997).
Affiliation at time of award:
Terrence W. Deacon is professor of biological anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley
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2004 Life
and Death on Mount Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering,
by Sherry B. Ortner (Princeton
University Press, 1999).
Affiliation at time of award:
Sherry B. Ortner is distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles
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2003 For the first time, the J. I. Staley Prize was awarded to two books: Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America, by Rayna Rapp (Routledge, 1999), and No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things, by Lawrence Cohen (University of California Press, 1998).
Affiliation at time of award:
Rayna Rapp is a professor of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at New York University.
Lawrence Cohen is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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2002 The future
of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City
by Sanjek (Cornell University Press, 1998)
Affiliation at time of award: Professor of Anthropology, Queens
College, City University of New York
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2001 Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
by Keith Basso (University of New Mexico Press, 1996)
Affiliation at time of award: Professor
of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
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2000 Death
Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
by Nancy
Scheper-Hughes (University of California Press, 1992)
Affiliation at time of award: Professor of Anthropology, University
of California, Berkely
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1999 Crafting
Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace
by Dorinne K. Kondo (University of Chicago Press, 1990)
Affiliation at time of award: Professor of Anthropology, University
of Southern California
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1998 Anahulu: The Anthropology
of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii by Patrick Kirch and
Marshall Sahlins. (two volumes) (University of Chicago Press, 1992)
Affiliation at time of award:
Patrick Kirch, Professor of Anthropology, University
of California, Berkeley
Marshall Sahlins, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor
in the Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
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1997 Encounters with
Aging : Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
by Margaret Lock (University of California Press, 1993)
Affiliation at time of award: McGill University, Professor
of Anthropology.
1995 Priests and Programmers:
Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali by J. Stephen Lansing
(Princeton University Press, 1991)
Affiliation at time of award: University of Southern
California.
1994 Anthropology Through the
Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe by Michael
Herzfeld (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Affiliation at time of award: Professor, Department of Anthropology,
Harvard University.
1993 Alabi's World by Richard
Price (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990)
Affiliation at time of award: Professor, Department of Anthropology,
College of William and Mary.
1991 Sound and Sentiment: Birds,
Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression by Steven Feld (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1982)
Affiliation at time of award: Professor, Department of Anthropology, New
York University.
1990 Karl Marx Collective: Economy,
Society and Religion in a Siberian Collective Farm by Caroline Humphrey
(Cambridge University Press, 1983)
Affiliation at time of award: Lecturer in social anthropology, Fellow of
King's College, University of Cambridge.
1989 Culture and the Evolutionary
Process by Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson (University of Chicago Press,
1985)
Affiliation at time of award: Robert Boyd, Professor, Department of
Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles. Peter Richerson, Professor,
Division of Environmental Sciences, University of California at Davis.
1988 Europe and the People Without
History by Eric Wolf (University of California Press, 1982)
Affiliation at time of award: Professor Emeritus, Department of
Anthropology, Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York.
