Anthropology News on the Economic Crisis
Anthropology News seeks contributions for a thematic issue on anthropologists’ responses to current global economic instability and its repercussions. To participate, email a 300-word abstract and 50-100-word author bio to AN editor Dinah Winnick (gro.tenaaa|kcinniwd#gro.tenaaa|kcinniwd) by June 26. Go to calls for papers for more information.
The 2008 SEA Book Prize Winners!
The Society for Economic Anthropology is very pleased to announce the Co-winners of the 2008 SEA Book Prize:
Carolyn Nordstrom for her book: Global Outlaws: Crime, money and power in the Contemporary World, published in 2007 by the University of California Press.
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Richard Wilk for his book: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists, published in 2006 by Berg Publishers.
The 2008 book award committee considered seven books published since 2006, and were tied between these two excellent monographs (see comments below about the strengths of each volume). The SEA book prize is given every two years to the best (non-edited) book in economic anthropology published in the 2 years previous to the award year. Book author(s) must be SEA members for submission. The book prize includes a $500 award, given at the Spring (2009) SEA meetings in Los Angeles. The committee members were: Christina Garsten, Art Murphy, Faidra Papavasiliou, Paul Rivera, and Lisa Cliggett (chair)(click here for comments of judges).
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