J. I. Staley Prize

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2010     Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice by Sally Engle Merry
2009     What it means to be 98% chimpanzee : apes, people, and their genes by Jonathan Marks
2008     Painting culture : the making of an aboriginal high art by Fred R. Myers
2007     Stories in the time of cholera : racial profiling during a medical nightmare by Charles L. Briggs with Clara Mantini-Briggs
2006     Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor by Paul Farmer
2005     The symbolic species : the co-evolution of language and the brain by Terrence W. Deacon
2004     Life and death on Mount Everest : Sherpas and Himalayan mountaineering, by Sherry B. Ortner
2003     Testing women, testing the fetus : the social impact of amniocentesis in America by Rayna Rapp; No aging in India : Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things by Lawrence Cohen
2002     The future of us all : race and neighborhood politics in New York City by Roger Sanjek
2001     Wisdom sits in places : landscape and language among the Western Apache by Keith Basso
2000     Death without weeping : the violence of everyday life in Brazil by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
1999     Crafting selves : power, gender, and discourses of identity in a Japanese workplace by Dorinne K. Kondo
1998     Anahulu : the anthropology of history in the Kingdom of Hawaii by Patrick Kirch and Marshall Sahlins
1997     Encounters with aging : mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America by Margaret Lock
1995     Priests and programmers : technologies of power in the engineered landscape of Bali by J. Stephen Lansing
1994     Anthropology through the looking-glass : critical ethnography in the margins of Europe by Michael Herzfeld
1993     Alabi's world by Richard Price
1991     Sound and sentiment : birds, weeping, poetics, and song in Kaluli expression by Steven Feld
1990     Karl Marx collective : economy, society and religion in a Siberian collective farm by Caroline Humphrey
1989     Culture and the evolutionary process by Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson
1988     Europe and the people without history by Eric Wolf