The Society for East Asian Anthropology invites submissions for the 2013 Theodore C. Bestor Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in honor of Ted Bestor, the first president of SEAA. The prize of $250 is awarded annually for the best graduate student paper on any aspect of East Asian anthropology and/or East Asian anthropology’s contribution to the broader field.
Papers must deal with the anthropological study of East Asian societies and cultures, or other societies/cultures and diasporic and transnational communities with historical or contemporary ties to East Asia. Papers will be read by a committee of the Society for East Asian Anthropology and judged on original empirical research and contribution to the field; organization, quality, clarity of writing, and cogency of argument. The author of the paper judged to be of the highest quality will receive the prize.
Manuscripts should be sent to Professor Fuji Lozada at erlozada@davidson.edu as MS Word file, double-spaced, author’s name removed. Please put “Bestor Prize” in the subject line of your email message.
General eligibility criteria:
1. Students must be in a degree-granting program (including MA or PhD) at the time of their submission.
2. Paper must be the original work of the student and previously unpublished.
3. Limit one submission per student.
Manuscript format criteria:
1. All manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced, with one inch margins.
2. Maximum length for the body of the text is 7,000 words; the abstract, tables, notes, and references may constitute additional pages.
3. All submissions must follow the standard anthropological format for citations, endnotes, and "References Cited" as outlined in the American Anthropologist style guide.
4. Dissertation or thesis chapters should be reorganized as articles that can stand alone.
5. Authors must include a title and also an abstract of 250 words or less on the first page of the paper.
6. The author's name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, university affiliation and academic status (MA or PhD) should appear typed on a cover sheet separate from the manuscript. The author's name should not appear elsewhere on the manuscript.
7. One email attachment of the manuscript are to be submitted to the Chair of the Bestor Prize Committee by May 1st, 2012. No late entries will be accepted, and submissions will not be returned.
8. Entries that do not conform to the above requirements will not be considered.
The 2013 deadline for this prize is May 1st, 2013.
The Society for East Asian Anthropology invites submissions for the 2013 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize. The prize of $250 is given to the English-language book published in the previous calendar year (2012) judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field. The prize is named for the late Francis L.K. Hsu (1909-2000), renowned cross-cultural anthropologist and former President (1977-78) of the American Anthropological Association.
Nominations for the prize may be made by authors, publishers, or interested third parties (with the consent of the author). Reference works, translations, textbooks, edited works, and anthologies are not eligible. Both members and non-members of SEAA are eligible.
Please send one non-returnable copy of the book to each committee member:
Prof. Lieba Faier
Department of Geography, UCLA
1255 Bunche Hall Box 951524
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524
Vanessa Fong
Dept of Anthropology and Sociology
AC#2226
Amherst College
Amherst, MA 01002
Laura Nelson
127 Poplar Street
Berkeley, CA 94708
The 2013 deadline for this prize is May 1st, 2013.
The Society for East Asian Anthropology invites submissions for the David Plath Media Award for the best work (film, video, audio, and multimedia) on any aspect of East Asian anthropology and/or East Asian anthropology's contribution to the broader field. The 2013 prize will be awarded for material produced in 2011 or 2012.
The prize of $250 is named for David Plath, renowned Japan-scholar and producer of award-winning documentary films. Evaluators of the work will seek to determine the scholarly significance of submissions which contribute to the anthropology of East Asia, and which take the form of research footage and documentation that adds to the historical and/or ethnographic record, or is used for further analysis (such as linguistics, dance, and art); ethnographic media that contributes to theoretical debate and development; media designed to enhance teaching; and media produced for television broadcasting and other forms of mass communication.
Nominations for the prize may be made by producers/authors, distributors, or interested third parties.
Please send three non-returnable copies of the media to:
David Plath Prize Committee
c/o Professor Eriberto (Fuji) Lozada, Jr.
Dept. of Anthropology
Davidson College
Box 6969
Davidson, NC 28035 USA
tel. 704-894-2035
fax. 704-894-2842
erlozada@davidson.edu
The 2012 deadline for this prize is May 1st, 2013.