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SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

The 2008
 Victor Turner Prize
in Ethnographic Writing

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) announces the 18th annual juried competition for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing.  The late Victor Turner devoted his career to seeking a language that would reopen anthropology to the human subject, and the prize will be given in recognition of an innovative book that furthers this project.  Eligible genres include ethnographic monographs, narratives, historical accounts, biographies, memoirs, dramas, or single-authored collections of essays, short stories or poems.  A $500 prize, for a book published between April 2006 and April 2008, will be awarded at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco in November 2008.  Books may be entered into the competition by authors, book editors, or colleagues.  No formal letter of nomination is needed.  Books published in 2006 or 2007 and entered in last year’s competition may be resubmitted this year with the appropriate entry fee.

Submission fee: For authors who are already SHA members, the entry fee is only $25/book.  For authors who are not SHA members, the entry fee is only $50/book, which includes a one year subscription to SHA's journal, Anthropology and Humanism.  To be complete, submissions for each book must be accompanied by the following:

-3 copies of each book submitted

-appropriate submission fee ($25 for current SHA members, $50 for non-members), with check made out to: Society for Humanistic Anthropology (Publishers: for all books you submit, please check with the author first to discover whether s/he is a current SHA member)

-author's contact information: mailing address, office tel., home tel., cell phone, and e-mail address.  (If the author of the submitted book isn't yet an SHA member, the entry fee will bring a one-year subscription to our journal, Anthropology and Humanism, and we need to know where to send the issues.  And if your submitted book wins the prize, we want to be able to contact you/your author right away!)

-a short biographical sketch (1-2 paragraphs) including: required--highest degree awarded, in which discipline, and from which institution; current affiliation (university or otherwise); optional--short statement about intellectual training/orientation, circumstances surrounding the research/writing of the book--if your submitted book wins, we will be publicizing the good news, and having this information early on makes publicity efforts more efficient.

Deadline: all complete submissions must be received by April 15, 2008--no exceptions!!   

*****Send complete submissions to: Professor Jeanne Simonelli (SHA Mail Room) /  Department of Anthropology / Wake Forest University / P.O. 7807 / Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7807 / simonejm@wfu.edu  This year’s Prize Committee will be chaired by Regna Darnell

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