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Past Winners of the 
Victor Turner Prize

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2003 Winners

To find out more about the 2003 winners and honorable mentions

Alan Klima The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand, Princeton University Press.
Hugh Raffles In Amazonia: A Natural History, Princeton University Press.

2003 Honorable Mentions

Thomas Buckley Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990, University of California Press.
Judith Farquhar Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China, Duke University Press.
Michael J. Lambek The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanqa, Madagascar, Palgrave Macmillan.

2002 Winner

To find out more about the 2002 winner and honorable mentions

Henry S. Sharp Loon: Memory, Meaning, and Reality in a Northern Dene Community,  University of Nebraska Press.

2002 Honorable Mentions

Mary Weismantel Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes, University of Chicago Press.
Catherine Lutz Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century, Beacon Press

2001 Winner

To find out more about the 2001 winner and honorable mentions

Tanya M. Luhrman Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry, Picador Press

2001 Honorable Mentions

Roy Richard Grinker In the Arms of Africa, St. Martin's Press
Setha Low On the Plaza, University of Texas Press

2000 Winner

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Cheryl Mattingly Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots
Cambridge University Press

1999 Winners

To find out more about the 1999 winners and honorable mentions

Jean L. Briggs Innuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old
Robert Desjarlais Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood among the Homeless

1999 Honorable Mentions

Ralph Cintron Angel's Town: Chero Ways, Gang life and the Rhetorics of the Everyday
Michael Stewart The Time of the Gypsies

1998 Winner

To find out more about the 1998 winner and honorable mentions
 
Lawrence Cohen No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

Honorable Mention:

Kathleen Stewart A Space On the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America
Robin Ridington and Dennis Hastings Blessing for a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe

1997 Winner

To find out more about the 1997 winner and honorable mention

Keith Basso Wisdom Sits in High Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache

Honorable Mention:

Andrew Shyrock Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan

Judges:  Regna Darnell, Carol Stack, Jean-Paul Dumont

1996 Winners

To find out more about the 1996 winner and honorable mentions

Carol Stack     |Call to Home: African Americans
                          |Reclaim the Rural South

Honorable Mention:

Laura Graham Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality among the Zavante of Central Brazil
Phillippe Bourgois In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio

Judges:  Alma Gottlieb, Edith Turner, and Cathy Lutz

1995 Winners

To find out more about the 1995 winners and honorable mentions

Margaret Wiener Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali

Honorable Mention:

Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang Gifts, Favors and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China
Susan Brett-Smith The Making of Bamana Sculpture: Creativity and Gender
Ann Fienup-Riordan Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yupik Eskimo Oral Tradition
Jose' Limon Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas

Judges:  Roy Wagner, Edith Turner, and Michael Jackson

1994 Winners

To find out more about the 1994 winners and honorable mentions

Lila Abu Lughod Writing Women's World's:   Bedouin Stories
Mary Margaret Steedley Hanging Without a Rope:   Narrative Experience in Colonial & Postcolonial Karoland

Honorable Mention:

Martha Balsham Cancer in the Community:  Class and Medical Authority
Ruth Behar Translated Woman:  Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story
Anna Tsing In the Realm of the Diamond Queen:   Marginality in an out-of-the-Way Place

Judges:  Paul Friedrich, Fred Meyers, Edith Turner

1993 Winners

To find out more about the 1993 winners

Alma Gottleib and Philip Graham Parallel Worlds:  An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa

Judges:  George Marcus, Claire Farrer, James Holston

1992 Winners

To find out more about the 1992 winners and honorable mentions

Karen McCarthy Brown Mama Lola:  A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
Jim Wafer The Taste of Blood:   Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble

Honorable Mention:

Claire Farrer Living Life's Circle:   Mescalero Apache Cosmovision
Nadia Sarametakis The Last Word:  Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani
Margaret Trawick Notes on Love in a Tamil Family

Judges:  Edith Turner, Renato Rosaldo, Michael Jackson

1991 Winner

To find out more about 1991 winner and honorable mentions

Dennis Tedlock Days from a Dream Almanac

Honorable Mention:

Fred Errington and Deborah Gewertz Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts:  Representing the Chambri in a World System
Miles Richardson Cry Lonesome and Other Accounts of the Anthropologist's Project
Carol Laderman Taming the Wind of Desire:   Psychology, Medicine, & Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance

Judges:  Ivan Brady, Robin Riddington, Edith Turner

1990 Winner

To find out more about the 1990 Winner and Honorable Mentions

Kirin Narayan Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels:   Folk Narrative and Hindu Religious Teaching

Honorable Mention:

Barbara Bode No Bells to Toll:  Destruction & Creation in the Andes
Michael Jackson Paths Towards A Clearing
Dorinne Kondo Crafting Selves:  Power, Gender and DisCourses of Identity in a Japanese Work Place
Smadar Lavie The Poetics of Military Occupation:  Mzeina Allegories of Bedoin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule

Judges:  Edward Bruner, Edith Turner, Barbara Tedlock

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