Elliott P. Skinner Book Award
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2017 Gesture and power : religion,
nationalism, and everyday performance in Congo by Yolanda Covington-Ward
2016 Give a man a fish : reflections on
the new politics of distribution by James Ferguson; honorable mention: Stigma
and culture : last-place anxiety in Black America by J. Lorand Matory; honorable
mention: Divination's grasp : African encounters with the almost said by Richard
Werbner
2015 AIDS doesn't show its face :
inequality, morality, and social change in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan Smith;
honorable mention: The scattered family : parenting, African migrants, and
global inequality by Cati Coe; honorable mention: The making of an African
working class : politics, law, and cultural protest in the Manual Workers' Union
of Botswana by Pnina Werbner
2014 The predicament of blackness :
postcolonial Ghana and the politics of race by Jemima Pierre; Honorable mention:
Chiefs, priests, and praise-singers : history, politics, and land ownership in
northern Ghana by Wyatt MacGaffey
2013 Jazz cosmopolitanism in Accra :
five musical years in Ghana by Steven Feld;
Genocide lives in us
: women, memory, and silence in Rwanda by Jennie Burnet
2012 Darkness before daybreak : African
migrants living on the margins in Southern Italy today by Hans Lucht
2010
The masons of
Djenné by Trevor Marchand; Honorable mention: Uncertain tastes : memory,
ambivalence and the politics of eating in Samburu, northern Kenya by Jon
Holtzman; Honorable mention: Voice of the leopard : African secret societies and
Cuba by Ivor L. Miller
2009 Beyond the state in rural Uganda
by Ben W. Jones
2008 Gaining ground? : "rights" and
"property" in South African land reform by Deborah James; Honorable mention:
The water
goddess in Igbo cosmology : Ogbuide of Oguta Lake by Sabine Jell-Bahlsen;
Honorable mention:
African
anthropologies : history, critique, and practice, edited by Mwenda Ntarangwi,
David Mills, and Mustafa Babiker