/2005/12/11/award-winningness/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 /2005/12/11/award-winningness/comment-page-1/#comment-2461 Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:56:43 +0000 /?p=325#comment-2461 The American Ethnological Society awards were kind of predictable, with one exception. The senior awards went to Michael Fischer (my advisor, hurra!) and Anna Tsing for Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice and Friction respectively. The junior awards went to the predictably core anthropolgical study of the Chaco in Argentina Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco by Gaston R. Gordillo and the surprising one: Being a Buddhist Nun: The Struggle for Enlightenment in the Himalayas by Kim Gutschow which took 14 years of fieldwork and sounds like a doozy of a feminist demonstration of the tensions of theory and practice…

]]> /2005/12/11/award-winningness/comment-page-1/#comment-2459 Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:28:36 +0000 /?p=325#comment-2459 Great stuff! I, too, have found the Victor Turner prize winners a great source of some of the most readable anthropology around.

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