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.

 

2009 AAS Essay Prize

Winner: Rollason, Will. 2008. Counterparts: Clothing, Value and the Sites of Otherness in Panapompom Ethnographic Encounters. Anthropological Forum 18 (1): 17-35.

Special Commendation: Telban, Borut. 2008. The Poetics of the Crocodile: Changing Cultural perspectives in Amonwari. Oceania 78:217-235.

 

2008 AAS Essay Prize

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

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