Cultural Horizons Prize

The SCA is proud to award the second annual Cultural Horizons Prize to

Paul Eiss (Carnegie Mellon)
for his article

"Hunting for the Virgin:
Meat, Money, and Memory in Tetiz, Yucatan"
(CA 17, no. 3 (August 2002):291-330).

2003's doctoral jury--Simon Lee (UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley); Maya Parson (UNC Chapel Hill); and Douglas Rogers (U Michigan)--praised the essay for its "blend of poetic storytelling and profound ethnographic awareness that challenges us to rethink theoretical frameworks for understanding the interplay between cultural and economic values."

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About the Cultural Horizons Prize:

The SCA has long been distinguished by having the largest graduate student membership of any section of the AAA. Recognizing that doctoral students are among the most experimentally minded--and often among the best read--of ethnographic writers, this award asks of SCA's dissertating readers, "Who is on your reading horizon?"

This spirit gave rise to the Cultural Horizons Prize, awarded yearly by a jury of doctoral students for the best article appearing in Cultural Anthropology.

 Prize winners include:

Saba Mahmood (U Chicago), 2002
Paul K. Eiss (Carnegie Mellon), 2003
William Mazzarella (U Chicago), 2004
Sarah Jain (Stanford U), 2005
Peter W. Redfield (UNC), 2006