Annual Anthropology Essay Prize

Each year, the AAS offers a prize for the best anthropology essay published in an Australian Journal in the previous year. The prize is $1000 together with a waiver of the registration fee for the annual AAS conference and a free conference dinner at which the prize is awarded.

 

AAS Essay Prize Winners

2008: Scott, Michael 2007. Neither ‘New Melanesian History’ nor ‘New Melanesian Ethnography’: Recovering Emplaced Matrilineages in Southeast Solomon Islands. Oceania 77(3):337-354.

 

AAS Essay Prize Special Commendation

2008: Ram, Kalpana 2007. Untimeliness as Moral Indictment: Tamil Agricultural Labouring Women's Use of Lament as Life Narrative. TAJA 18(2):138-153