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Prizes and Awards Readers are invited to submit short

descriptive announcemerrls of prizes and awurds open to anthropologists and notices of the winners to: Prizes and Awurtls, Anthropology Newdettcr, 4350 N Fuirfbx Dr, Suite 640, Arlinglori, V A 22203; fax 7031528-3546 (double-spuced copy only); sskoiilal@anterunthassn.org .

1998 Leslie A White Award ’The Leslie A White Award was

established by the Central States An- thropological Society to assist under- graduate or graduate students in any subfield of anthropology.

An application should consist of: ( I ) a statement describing why the grant is sought (fieldwork, travel, equipment, supplies, living expenses); (2) a state- ment indicating the importance of the proposed work to anthropology: (3) the amount requested; (4) three letters in support of the application; and (5) a curriculum vitae.

Four copies of the complete applica- tion should be sent by April 7, 1998, to: James W Dow, Dcpt of Sociology and Anthropology, Oakland U, Roch- ‘ester, MI 48309.

Applications will be reviewed by the CSAS Awards Committee, composed of the President, 1st Vice President and 2nd Vice President of thc CSAS. under the chair of the Past President. Awards will be announced as soon as possible after April 7, 1998. The amount award- ed will depend on the decision of the committee. Recent awards have been in the neighborhood of $1000.

1998 Beth Wilder Dillingham Award

The Beth Wilder Dillingham Award was established by the Central States Anthropological Society to provide financial assistance to undergraduate or graduate srudents in any subfield who are responsible for the care of one or more children. Applicants may be male or female and need be neither married nor the legal guardian.

An application should consist of: (1) a statement describing why the grant is sought (fieldwork, travel, equipment, supplies, living expenses); (2) a state- ment indicating the importance of the proposed work to anthropology; (3) the amount requested; (4) documentation indicating that the applicant is currently caring for a child (cg, letter from a pediatrician, statement from school or a teacher, a tax return): ( 5 ) three letters in support of the application; and (6) a brief cumculuni vitae. Grants awarded are no more than $1,000.

Four copies of the completed appli- cation should be sent by April 7, 1998, to: James W Dow, Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, Oakland U, Roch- ester, MI 48309.

Applications will be reviewed by the CSAS Awards Committee, composed of the Past President (Committee Chair), President. 1st Vice President and 2nd Vice President. Awards will bc an- nounced as soon as possible after April 7, 1998. ~

McGuffey Wins ASK Award C Shawn McGuffey (Transylvania

U) won first place in the student paper

C Shawn McGiifSey, I997 Anthropolo- gists and Sociologists of Kentucky Stu- dent Paper Conipetition winner

competition at the recent meeting of the Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky, held at Northern Kentucky U. A sociology/anthropology niajoc McGuffey won $100 for his paper “Kentucky Identity: Are We Southern or What?” This was the second consec- utive year that McGuffey took the first place prize.

Rebecca Caldwell (sociology major, Transylvania U) won second prize for her “Violence against Women: Synthe- sis of Social Inequality ’I?wx-ies.”

Third place was awarded to Ann K Kleemeier (anthropology major, North- ern Kentucky) for her “For All People: Welcoming in an Outreach Church.”

1997 L Bryce Boyer Prize Winners Announced

The Society for Psychological Anthropology announces that two books have been selected as cowinners of the 1997 L Bryce Boyer Prize for the best publication that contributes substantially to the theoretical advance- ment of psychoanalytic anthropology, The winning books are Oedipus Ubi- quitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature (1996, Stanford U Press), by Allen W Johnson (UCLA) and Douglass Price-Williams (UCLA). and Moses and Civilization: The Mean- ing behind Freud’s Myth (1996, Yale U Press) by Robert A Paul (Emory U). The authors of each book were award- ed a prize of $750 at the fifth biennial meeting of the SPA on October 9, 1997. In rtiaking its selections, the prize committee broke with precedent and chose to make two awards because of the major contribution of each book to the advancement of theory and re- search in psychoanalytic anthropology.

In con~menting on its selections, the committee reported that the Johnson and Price-Williams book is an exten- sive, systematic examination of oedipal themes in myths and folktales world- wide which is refreshingly explicit about its methods and their limitations. The authors reopcn and broaden the debate over the universality of the Oedipus complex by reframing it as a “family complex” and reconsidering it from the angles of various psychoana- lytic approaches. Paul’s book, accord- ing to the committee, provides a

thoughtful rethinking of Freud’s cultur- al works including, for exaniple, Totern and Taboo and Civilization and its Dis- conrenrs, and makes a major contnbu- tion to theory by providing a new ap- proach to those works and to the psy- choanaiysis of religion.

Allen W Johrison, cowinner, L Brym Boyer Prize

Allen Johnson is professor of anthro- pology and psychiatry at UCLA and is currently chair of the Latin American Studies Program. He has done field- work among native Amazonians in Peru and tenant farmers in northeastern Brazil. He has published widely in eco- logical and psychological anthropolo- gy. Recent publications include “An- thropology and Psychoanalysis: Bridg- ing Science and the Humanities,” in Psychaannlysis and rhe Humanities (L Adams and J Szaluta, eds) and “The Psychology of Dependence between Landlord and Sharecropper in North- east Brazil’’ (Polit ical Psychology 18:411-438).

Douglass Price- Williams, cow inner, L Bryce Boyer Prize

Douglass Price-Williams received his doctoral degree in psychology from the University of London. He has taught at the London School of Eco- nomics, U of Kansas and Rice U and from 1971-91 had a joint appointment in the departments of psychiatry and anthropology at UCLA where he was made enieritus professor in July 1991. A pioneer in h e fields of cross-cultural psychology and psychological anthro-

pology, Price-Williams has done field research among the Tiv and Hausa of Nigeria and in Mexico, Guatemala, Hawaii, Nepal, Bali and with the Aus- tralian aborigines. He has approximate- ly 140 publications, including Explo- rations in Cross- Citlrural Psychology ( 1 9 7 3 , “Cognition: Anthropological and Psychological Nexus,” in The Making of Psychological Anthropology (1978, G Spindler, ed), and “Cultural Psychology,” in HurrdDook of Social Psychology ( I 984, Lindzey and Aron- son, eds). Price-Williams served as presidcnt of the SPA (1981-82) and was coeditor of Ethos (1971-79). In addition, he is ii clinical psychologist in the state of California.

Robert A Prrul, cowirrrrcr, L Bryce Boycr Prize. (Photo by Kay Hinton, 0 Emory U Photography)

Robert A Paul is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts (ILA) and is director of the ILA and assbciate professor in the Depart- ment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sci- ences at Emory U. His prize-winning book has also been awarded the 1996 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Jewish Thought, as well as the Weinz Hartniann Award for 1996 from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. His most recent paper is “The Genealogy of Civilization.” which he delivcred as the Heinz Hartniann Lec- ture at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in April 1997. Paul is also a psychoanalyst in private practice and is active in the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psy- choanalytic Association. He is coordi- nator of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at Emory as well. Paul had a distinguished career as editor of the SPA journal Ethos from 1984-96.

TIie L Bryce Boyer Prize Committee was chaired by Robert LeVine (Har- vard U). Conimittee members were Waud Kracke (U Illinois, Chicago) and Tanya Luhrmann (UCSD).

Urban Wins AES Scnior Book Prize

Greg Urban‘s Metaphysicul Conitnu- nities is the winner of the 1997 Ameri- can Ethnological Society book prize for a senior scholar, selected by a jury coniposed of Ann Anagnost (chair),

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Bruce Grant and Thomas Strong. Urban’s book presents an ethnographi- cally rich argument that pushes to reshape the received categories of anthropological analysis. Urban focuses on the materiality of the sign as i t takes sensible form as socially circulating discourse. Discourse itself is objective- ly “real” in its communication of puta- tive “worlds” and should be the starting point in any study of culture. In the chapter “We the Living,” he “unnames” the culture of P I Ibirania by recounting the history of how a cultural group comes to be “named” i n travelers’ accounts and in earlier ethnographic writing, effectively demonstrating how the “object” of inquiry is an act of the observer “making” its object. He coni- pares this history of naming with the elusiveness of autodesignation and revises his own practice by referencing them in terns of the bureaucratic reality of a settled community: Posto Indigena

Urban takes a similar approach to do a fascinating reanalysis of classificatory kinship theory in relation to kin dis- course in this Brazilian community. By juxtaposing samples of actually circu- lating discourse with the ethnographer’s own sensory experience, Urban hopes to bridge the crisis emerging from post- structuralist critiques of ethnographic empiricism. Urban writes: “Precisely because we can examine the intelligibil- ity of ethnographically occurring dis- course, and compare its intelligibility with that coming from a narrativization of what our own eyes see, what our own noses smell, what our own ears hear, we can have a check on the solip- sistic tendencies latent in so much post- structural writing” (p 22). As Aaron Fox noted, the crux of Urban’s argu- ment is that the “problem of representa- tion” which lies at the heart of so much recent anthropological debate “is impossible to resolve because i t is based on faulty assumptions about the abstractness of ‘language’ and the con- creteness of ’reality.’ “

Honorablc mention went to Loring Danforth’s Maccdonian Conflirt and Michael Jackson’s A t Home in the World. Macedonian Conflict is a care- fully balanced account of the rcccnt eniergence of Macedonian national identity following the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. Danforth’s central point is that the processes of globaliza- tion and transnationalism do not mark the end of nationalism but rather its sometimes explosive reconfiguration in detemtorialized spaces. This is exem- plified in the Macedonian case in which the most ardent and committed nation- alists oftcn reside in immigrant commu- nities in Australia and Canada rather than i n the divided “homeland” of Macedonia itself. Danforth’s book demonstrates how the politics of niulti- culturalism pioneered in Australia and Canada move transnationally to affect the politics of the self-determination in political contests which repress internal difference (most notably here in the Greek nation-state).

The strength of Danforth’s book is his detailed examination of opposing

’ de Ibirania,

sides contesting ownership for Macedo- nian identity and the legitimacy of an independent Macedonian state. In Dan- forth’s own analysis, he draws consid- erably from recent scholarly discussions on the constructed nature of national identities and deconstructs the es6 tial- king claims on both sides of the %ice- donian conflict. The ethnographic pro- files of Macedonian nationalists i n immigrant communities in Australia and Canada which appear toward the end of the book testify to the deep emo- tional identifications that underlie the subjective bases of nationalism. Dan- forth’s book argues forcibly for the right of self-determination for minori- tized peoples to claim their identities in a state context tolerant of ethnic differ- ence. His work suggests that repression serves to coalesce all the more explo- sivcly ethnic identifications on all sides.

Michael Jackson’s Af Honze in the World, which also received honorable mention, is a luminously written account of fieldwork with Warlpiri of Central Australia. Jackson, who has won well-deserved recognition for his ethnographic sensibility as an African- ist. redirects his attention here to Ihe plight of indigenous peoples in Aus- tralia, a setting that for him as a native New Zealander is closer to “home,” not just in the geographical sense but also in terms of the historical relationship &tween indigenous peoples and Euro- pean settler populations in which he himself is implicated. Jackson’s balance between reflexivity and ethnographic description is delicately poised. His central mission in this book is to com- municate a Warlpiri sense of belonging to the landscape to the broader popula- tion of Australia as a way of combating racist stereotyping that marks Aborigi- nals as an unsettled, rootless people prone to “walkabout” and therefore out- side the normative values of European respectability. Jackson uses the trope of “home” to serve as the figure that can transcend the boundaries of cultural dif- ference. As the central figure in Lwk- ean values of settled existence that were once used to justify European expropri- ation of lands from native peoples, the concept of home has itself been trans- muted in the context of the Aboriginal homelands movement. Jackson’s narra- tive richly captures the texture of his fieldwork experience, traveling along- side Warlpiri individuals who vividly demonstrate for us the lived relation- ship between people and land as a densely layered construct of social rela- tionships, myth and memory.

Yang Is First AES Book Prize Winner

The American Ethnological Society jury (Michael Lambek, chair, Peter Metcalf and Kirin Narayan) is pleased to announce Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang (UCSB) as the winner of the AES prize for an anthropologist’s first book. Cijis, Favors and Banquets: 77ie Art of Social Relationships in China (Cornell U Press, 1994) describes the informal yet highly skilled means by which citizens in 1980s Beijing circumvented the for- mal state economy and bureaucracy in their quest to acquire goods and ser- vices. Yang gracefully builds this por- trait of guanxi-exchange, delineating the ethics, tactics and etiquette ?hat con- stitute the art of cultivating acquain- tances and seeing guanxi as a mirror in

which to grasp the nature of the state power against which it works. The book is highly original in turning the anthro- pological gaze toward the heart of a noncapitalist state and demonstrating how an ethnographic sensibility can illu- minate the social complexity of what otherwise might be dismissed as mere instrumentality.

Yang’s book i s notable for its courage and almost breathtaking scope; not con- tent with a cultural account of contem- porary exchange practices, Yang ven- tures into the history and political econ- omy of gift relations in China, moving finally, by means of a dual theory of subjectification, both psychoanalytic and Foucauldian--theory that is invoked in never less than clear and necessary fashion-into an argument for the relc- vancc of guumirire to changes in politi- cal subjectivity and even the opening up of a space for civil society based on relational ethics. This is a book that stretches, stimulates and provokes the reader, but never at the expense of the author, whose voice remains a calm, intelligent and modest guide through the labyrinth of what turns out to be an anal- ysis of no less than Chinese state-social- ist modernity.

We are equally pleased to recognize with honorable mention Anne Meneley (Lewis and Clark) for her book Tourna- ments of Value: Sociality and Hierarchy in a Yetneni Town (U Toronto Press, 1996). With the abstention of one mem- ber (duc to his connection with the series in which the book was published), the jury found this account of conipeti- tive hospitality among elite women to be excmplarj for the elegance of its por- trait and analysis of the social world of the lowland town of Zabid. The book provides a major contribution to OUT understanding of the scope and signifi- cance of public action and honor avail- able to MiddIe Eastern Muslim women, here in a context of strict gender separa- tion, and an unforgettable evocation of ostentation, propriety and the tyranny of the gift.

I t is to add rather than detract from these works to say that they had stiff competition. We were fortunate to have a number of truly excellent books to select among and hence can readily attest, as the original announcenient of the competition invites, to the lively, rigorous and highly sophisticated body of anthropological work that is currently being produced.

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