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Winners of the 2003 Poetry and Fiction Prizes

Previous Winners of the Poetry and Fiction Competitions

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology Announces the 2004 Poetry and Fiction Competitions

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The 2004 Ethnographic Poetry Award

Information for this Year's Competition!

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual poetry competition as a means to encourage anthropologists to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns.  These concerns may be any of those associated with the four fields of anthropology. 

Poems should be limited to one or two pages, with a maximum of three poems per submission.

Winning entries and honorable mentions will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco in November 2004, and will be published in the Society's journal, Anthropology and Humanism.  The winner(s) will receive an award of $50.

There is no entry fee to enter this competition.

Poem submissions and queries should be sent to:

     Dr. Dell Hymes
     Department of Anthropology
     University of Virginia|
     Charlottesville, VA  22903
     (off.) 434-924-7044
     (New) e-mail address: dhymes@adelphia.net

The deadline for receipt of submissions is June 1, 2004.

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The 2004 Ethnographic Fiction Competition

Information for this Year's Competition!

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual fiction competition to encourage anthropologists to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns.  These concerns may be any of those associated with the four fields of anthropology.

Stories should not exceed 20 pages typed double-spaced.  There is a limit of one story for each submission.

Winning entries and honorable mentions will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco in November 2004, and will be published in the Society's journal, Anthropology and Humanism.  The winner(s) will receive a cash award.

There is no entry fee to enter this competition.

The judging committee consists of: Kirin Narayan (chair) and two other committee members.

Submissions and queries should be sent to:

                                            Prof. Kirin Narayan
                                           
Department of Anthropology
                                            5240 Social Science Building
                                            1180 Observatory Drive
                                            University of Wisconsin--Madison
                                            Madison, WI 53705
                                            Phone: (608) 262-2866
                                            e-mail
: knarayan@wisc.edu

The deadline for RECEIPT of submissions is June 1, 2004.

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