J. I. Staley Prize
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2018 The land of open graves : living and dying on the migrant trail by Jason De León
2017 Alien ocean : anthropological voyages in microbial seas by Stefan Helmreich
2016 Malignant : how cancer becomes us by S. Lochlann Jain
2015 Converting words : Maya in the age of the cross by William F. Hanks
2014 The nuclear borderlands : the Manhattan Project in post-Cold War New Mexico by Joseph Masco
2013 Vita : life in a zone of social abandonment by by João Biehl
2012 Mothers and others : the evolutionary origins of mutual understanding by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
2011 The vanishing hectare : property and value in postsocialist Transylvania by Katherine Verdery
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