The Stirling Prize is awarded to a previously published work (article or book, in alternate years) that makes an outstanding contribution to any area of psychological anthropology. Unpublished manuscripts, dissertations, microfilm, xerox, or web publications are not eligible. There are separate rules for nomination of books and articles; please consult the relevant rules below.
Stirling Prize in 2013 for Best Published Article
Articles published within the last two years, including ones scheduled for publication later in the year, are eligible for consideration. Nominations may be made by the author, publisher, or other party, as well as by the selection committee. The nominator must arrange to have copies of the work sent via pdf for the selection committee to review, and should include a cover letter outlining the work’s contribution to the field. All materials should be postmarked no later than July 1, 2013 and sent to:
SPA STIRLING PRIZE
Suzanne Kirschner
Department of Psychology
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Box 38A
Worcester, MA 01610
skirschn@holycross.edu
The winner will be announced at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association and will receive a $250 cash prize.
Stirling Prize in 2014 for Best Published Book
Books published within the last six years, including ones scheduled for publication later in the year, are eligible for consideration. Nominations may be made by the author, publisher, or other party, as well as by the selection committee. The nominator must arrange to have three copies of the work sent for the selection committee to review, and should include a cover letter outlining the work’s contribution to the field. All materials should be postmarked no later than June 1, 2014 and sent to:
SPA STIRLING PRIZE
Suzanne Kirschner
Department of Psychology
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Box 38A
Worcester, MA 01610
skirschn@holycross.edu
The winner will be announced at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association and will receive a $500 cash prize.
Past Stirling Prize Winners
2012 Cheryl Mattingly, The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland (University of California Press)
2011 Anand Pandian, "Interior Horizons: An Ethical Space of Selfhood in South India," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16(1): 64-83, 2010.
2010 Elly Teman, Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self (University of California Press)
2009 Rebecca Lester "Brokering Authenticity: Borderline Personality Disorder and the Ethics of Care at an American Eating Disorder Clinic," Current Anthropology 50(3), 2009
and
Angela Garcia, "The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject," Cultural Anthropology 23(4): 718-746, 2008.
2008 Alex Hinton, Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide, University of California Press, 2005
2007 Everett Yuehong Zhang, "Rethinking Sexual Repression in Maoist China: Ideology, Structure, and the Ownership of the Body," Body and Society 11(3): 1-25, 2005
2006 Joao Biehl, Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment, University of California Press, 2005
2005 Susan Seymour, "Multiple Caretaking of Infants and Young Children: An Area in Critical Need of a Feminist Psychological Anthropology," Ethos 32 (4:) 416-413, 2004.
2004 no prize awarded
2003** Carmella Moore, Kim Romney, and Ti-Lien Hsia, "Cultural, Gender, and Individual Differences in Perceptual and Semantic Structures of Basic Colors in Chinese and English," Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2(1): 1-28, 2002
2002 no prize awarded
2001 no prize awarded
2000 no prize awarded
1999 Linda Garro, "Remembering what one knows and the construction of the past: a comparison of cultural consensus theory and cultural schema theory," Ethos 28: 275-319, 2000.
1998 no prize awarded
1997 Yoram Bilu and Yehuda C. Goodman
1996 no prize awarded
1995* Christopher Boehm, "Egalitarian behavior and reverse dominance hierarchy" Current Anthropology 34: 227-254, 1993
1994 no prize awarded
1993 Begoña Aretxaga
1992 Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson, "Immanuel Kant among the Tenejapans: anthropology as empirical philosophy," Ethos 22(1):3-41 1994
1991 Steve Derné, "Beyond institutional and impulsive conceptions of self: family structure and the socially anchored real self," Ethos 20(3):259-88
1990 Janis Jenkins, "Anthropology, Expressed Emotion, and Schizophrenia," Ethos 19: 387-431, 1991
1989 Charles W. Nuckolls, "Culture and Causal Thinking: Diagnosis and Prediction in a South Indian Fishing Village," Ethos 19(1):3-51, 1991
1988 Thomas J. Csordas and Thomas Gregor
1987 Dennis B. McGilvray
1986 T. M. Luhrmann, The magic of secrecy," Ethos 17(2):131-166, 1989
1985 Nancy Scheper-Hughes
1984 Lila Abu-Lughod
1983 Claudia Strauss, "Beyond 'formal' vs. 'informal' education: Uses of psychological theory in anthropological research," Ethos 12(3):195-222, 1984
1982 no prize awarded
1981 no prize awarded
1980 Catherine Lutz
1979 William W. Dressler
1978 Geoffrey White
1977 no prize awarded
1976 Lorraine Kirk and Michael Burton
1975 Nancy G. Graves and Theodore D. Graves
1974 Charlene Bolton, Ralph Bolton, Carol Michelson and Jeffrey Wilde
1973 no prize awarded
1972 Ralph Bolton
1971 Theodore Graves
1970 Carolyn Henning Brown
1969 James P. Spradley
1968 Victor Barnouw
** prize redefined as best published work
* after 1995, the prize is offered on a biennial basis
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