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SPA Prize Recipients

Lifetime Achievement | Stirling | Boyer | Condon

 

SPA Lifetime Achievement Award

SPA Lifetime Award Description

2009Naomi Quinn
2007Robert Edgerton
2005Jean Briggs and Roy D'Andrade
2003Theodore Schwartz and Walter Goldschmidt
2001Robert I. Levy
1999 Erika E. Bourguignon
1997Robert A. LeVine
1995no award given
1993no award given
1991 Melford E. Spiro
1989John and Beatrice Whiting

 
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Stirling Prize

Stirling Prize Description

2008Alex Hinton
2007Everett Yuehong Zhang
2006Joao Biehl
2005Susan Seymour
2003*Carmella Moore, Kim Romney, and Ti-Lien Hsia
2001no prize awarded
1999 Linda Garro
1997 Yoram Bilu and Yehuda C. Goodman
1995**no prize awarded
1993Begoña Aretxaga
1992 Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson
1991 Steve Derné
1990 Janis Jenkins
1989Charles W. Nuckolls
1988Thomas J. Csordas and Thomas Gregor
1987Dennis B. McGilvray
1986T. M. Luhrmann
1985Nancy Scheper-Hughes
1984Lila Abu-Lughod
1983Claudia Strauss
1982no prize awarded
1981no prize awarded
1980Catherine Lutz
1979William W. Dressler
1978Geoffrey White
1977no award
1976Lorraine Kirk and Michael Burton
1975Nancy G. Graves and Theodore D. Graves
1974Charlene Bolton, Ralph Bolton, Carol Michelson and Jeffrey Wilde
1973no prize awarded
1972Ralph Bolton
1971Theodore Graves
1970Carolyn Henning Brown
1969James P. Spradley
1968Victor Barnouw
* prize redefined as best published work
** after 1995, the prize is offered on a biennial basis


 
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Boyer Prize

Boyer Prize Description

2007Crapanzano, Vincent. "The Scene: Shadowing the Real," Anthropological Theory 6(4): 387-405, 2006.
2004Patricia Gherovici, The Puerto Rican Syndrome, Other Press, 2003
2003Brian Keith Axel, "The Diasporic Imaginary," Public Culture 14(2): 411-428, 2002
2002Drew Westen, "Beyond the Binary Opposition in Psychological Anthropology: Integrating Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science," in Carmella C. Moore and Holly F. Mathews, eds., The Psychology of Cultural Experience, pp. 21-47, Cambridge, 2001
2001T. M. Luhrmann, Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry, Knopf, 2000
2000 Nancy Chodorow, The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture, Yale, 1999
1999 Jean Briggs, Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old, Yale, 1998
1998 Melford Spiro, Gender Ideology and Psychological Reality, Yale, 1997
1997 Allan Johnson and Douglas Price-Williams, Oedipus Ubiquitous, Stanford, 1996
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Robert A. Paul, Moses and Civilization, Yale, 1996
1996 Vamik D. Volkan, "Totem and Taboo in Romania: A Psychopolitical Diagnosis." Journal of Mind and Human Interaction, 6(2), 1995. (Journal of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction)
1995 Suzette Heald, "Every Man a Hero: Oedipal Themes in Gisu Circumcision." In S. Heald and A. Deluz, eds., Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: An Encounter Through Culture, pp. 184-209, Routledge, 1994
1994 Anne Allison, Nightwork, Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. Chicago, 1994
1993no prize awarded
1992 Suzanne R. Kirshner, "Anglo-American Values in Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis." In David Spain, ed., Psychoanalytic Anthropology Fifty Years After Freud: Essays Marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of Freud's Death, pp. 162-197, Psyche Press, 1992
1991 Dan Forsyth, "Sibling Rivalry, Aesthetic Sensibility, and Social Structure in Genesis." Ethos 19(4):453-510, 1991
1990 Katherine T. Ewing, "The Illusion of Wholeness: 'Culture,' 'Self,' and the Experience of Inconsistency." Ethos 18(3):251-278 1990
1989no prize awarded
1988Waud Kracke, "Kagwahiv Mourning II: Ghosts, Grief, and Reminiscences." Ethos 16(2):209-222 1988
1987Sudhir Kakar, "Psychotherapy and Culture: Healing in the Indian Tradition," in Merry I. White and Susan Pollack, eds., The Cultural Transition: Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan, pp. 9-23, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986
1986Yoram Bilu, "The Taming of the Deviants and Beyond: an Analysis of Dybbuk Possession and Exorcism in Judaism" Psychoanalytic Study of Society 11:1-32, 1985

 
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Condon Prize

Condon Prize Description

2007Sarah Henning David, "What's Not to Know? A Critique of Pascal Boyer's theory of religion through a reexamination of Emile Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life"
2006Michael Baran, "Girl, you are not Morena"
Merav Shohet, "Narrating anorexia: 'Full' and 'struggling' genres of recovery"
2004Julia Cassiniti, "Cultural Psychology of Buddhism in Thailand"
2003no prize awarded
2002Eileen Anderson-Fye, "Never Leave Yourself: Ethnopsychology as Mediator of Psychological Globalization among Belizean Schoolgirls"
2001Diana Smay, "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): The Disease of Ritual."
2000no prize awarded
1999 Chris McCollum, "The Cultural Patterning of Self Understanding: Evidence from Middle-Class Americans' Stories of Falling in Love."
1998no prize awarded
1997Keith McNeal, "Queens in America: An Exploration of Cultural Models, Gay Drag,and Gender Ambivalence"















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