2000 - Nelson Kasfir, Ch. [Suzanne Blier, Abiola Irele, Biodun Jeyifo, David Robinson]
Winner
Hunt, N. (1999). A Colonial lexicon: Of birth ritual, medicalization, and mobility in the Congo. Durham: Duke University Press.
Finalists
Donham, D. (1999). Marxist modern: An Ethnographic hisotry of the Ethiopian revolution. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press; Oxford: James Currey.
Ellis, S. (1999). The Mask of anarchy: The destruction of Liberia and the religious dimension of an African civil war. New York: New York Univ. Press.
Piot, C. (1999). Remotely global: Village modernity in west Africa. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Ranger, T. (1999). Voices from the rocks: Nature, culture & history in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe. Harare: Baobab Books; Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press; Oxford: James Currey.
Samatar, A. (1999). An African miracle: State and class leadership and colonial legacy in Botswana development. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
1999 - Committee: Luise White, Ch. [Rowland Abiodun, Nelson Kasfir]
Winner
Uvin, P. (1998). Aiding violence: The development enterprise in Rwanda. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press.
Finalists
Bay, E.G. (1998). Wives of the leopard: Gender, politics, and culture in the kingdom of Dahomey. Charlottesville:
Jules-Rosette, B. (1998). Black Paris: The African writers' landscape. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Klein, M.A. (1998). Slavery and colonial rule in French West Africa. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Strother, Z.S. (1998). Inventing masks: Agency and history in the art of the Central Pende. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Thornton, J.K. (1998). The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian movement, 1684-1706. New York:
1998 - Committee: Rowland Abiodun, Ch. [Luise White]
Winner
Vogels, J.W. (1997). Baule : African art, western eyes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Finalists
Barry B. (1998). Senegambia and the Atlantic slave trade. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Beidelman, T. O. (1997). The cool knife: Imagery of gender, sexuality, and moral education in Kaguru initiation ritual.
Comaroff, J.L. & Comaroff, J. (1997). Of revelation and revolution: The dialectics of modernity on a South African frontier (Vol. 2).
Cooper, B.M. (1997). Marriage in Maradi: Gender and culture in a Hausa society in Niger, 1900-1989. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Oyewunmi, O. (1997). The invention of women: Making an African sense of Western gender discourses. Minneapolis:
1997 - Committee: Rowland Abiodun, Ch.
Winners
Mamdani, M. (1996). Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism. Princeton, NJ:
Van Onselen, C. (1996). The seed is mine: The life of Kas Maine, a South African sharecropper, 1894-1985. New York:
Finalists
Cooper, F. (1996). Decolonization and African society: The labor question in French and British Africa. New York, NY:
Delius, P. (1996). A lion amongst the cattle: reconstruction and resistance in the Northern Transvaal. Portsmouth, NH:
Fabian, Y. (1996). Rembergin the present: Painting and popular history in Zaire. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Isaacman, A. (1996). Cotton is the mother of poverty: Peasants, work, and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961.
Pemberton III, J.& Afolayan, F.S. (1996). Yoruba sacred kingship: "A power like that of the gods. Washington, DC:
1996 - Committee: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Ch. [Jennifer Widner, Myron Echenberg]
Winner
Glassman, J. (1995). Feast and riot: Revelry, rebellion and popular consciousness on the Swahili coast 1856-1888.
Finalists
Bickford. V. (1995). Pride and racial prejudice in Victorian Cape Town. New York, NY: Cambridge University press.
Landau, P. (1995). The realm of the word: Language, gender, and Christianity in a southern African kingdom.
Malkki, L.H. (1995). Purity and exile: Violence, memory, and national cosmology among Hutu refugees in Tanzania.
McCann, J.C. (1995). People of the plow: An agricultural history of Ethiopia, 1800-1990. Madison, WI:
Penvenne, J. (1995). African workers and colonial racism: Mozambican strategies and struggles in Lourenco Marques, 1877-1962.
Renne, E.P. (1995). Cloth that does not die: The meaning of cloth in Bunu social life. Seattle,WA: University of Washington Press.
Welch Jr., C.E. (1995). Protecting human rights in Africa: Strategies and roles of non-governmental organizations.
1995 - Committee: K. Fields
Winner
Moore, H.L. & Vaughn, M. (1994). Cutting down trees: Gender, nutrition, and agricultural change in the Northern Province
Finalists
1994 - Committee:
Winner
Atkins, K. (1993). The moon is Dead! Give us our money! The cultural origins of an African work ethnic, Natal,
Finalists
Berry, S. (1993). No condition is permanent: The social dynamics of agrarian change in sub-saharan Africa. Madison, WI:
Brooks, G.E. (1993). Landlords and strangers: Ecology, society, trade in western Africa, 1000-1630. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Lambek, M. (1993). Knowledge and practice in Mayotte: Local discourses of Islam, sorcery, and spirit possession.
Smith, F. (1993). Whose language? What power?: A universal conflict in a South African setting. New York, NY:
1993 - Committee:
Winner
Appiah, K.A. (1992). In my father's house: Africa in the philosophy of culture. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Finalists
Apter, A. (1992). Black critics and kings: The hermeneutics of power in Yoruba society. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago
Boone, C. (1992). Merchant capital and the roots of state power in Senegal, 1930-1985. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Davidson, B. (1992). The black man's burden: Africa and the curse of the nation-state. New York, NY: Random House.
Marx, A. (1992). Lessons of struggle: South African internal opposition, 1960-1990. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Middleton, J. (1992). The world of the Swahili: An African mercantile civilization. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Schmidt, E. (1992). Peasants, traders, and wives: Shona women in the history of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Skinner, Elliot P. (1992). African Americans and U.S. Policy toward Africa, 1850-1924. Washington, DC: Howard University Press.
Stroller, P. (1992). The cinematic griot: The ethnography of Jean Rouch. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Taylor, C.C. (1992). Milk, honey, and money: Changing concepts in Rwandan healing. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
1992 - Committee: Suzanne Blier, Ch. [ ]
Winner
Echenberg, M. J. (1991). Colonial conscripts: The tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960.
Finalists
Bozzoli, B. (1991). Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, life strategy, and migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983. Portsmouth, NH:
Comaroff, J.L. & Comaroff, J. (1991). Of revelation and revolution: Christianity, colonalism, and consciousness in South Africa.
Horowitz, D.L. (1991). A democratic South Africa? Constitutional engineering in a divided society. Berkeley, CA:
1991 - Committee: Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Ch. [ Suzanne Blier, Sally Falk Moore]
Winners
Fabian, J. (1990). Power and performance: Ethnographic explorations through proverbial wisdom and theater in Shaba, Zaire.
White, L. (1990). The comforts of home: Prostitution in colonial Nairobi. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Finalists
Brown, N.J. (1990). Peasant politics in modern Egypt: The struggle against the state. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Feierman, S. (1990). Peasants intellectuals: Anthropology and history in Tanzania. Madison, WI: Universitiy of Wisconsin Press.
Ferguston, J. (1990). The anti-politics machine. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Mandala, E.C. (1990). Work and control in a peasant economy: A history of the lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, 1859-1960.
Manning, P. (1990). Slavery and African life: Accidental, oriental, and African slave trades. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Miller, C.L. (1990). Theories of Africans: Francophone literature and anthropology in Africa. Chicago.IL: University of Chicago Press.
Vansina, J. (1990). Paths in the rainforests: Toward a history of political tradition in Equatorial Africa. Madison, WI:
Waterman, C.A. (1990). Juju: A social history and ethnography of an African popualr music. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
1990 - Committee: John Middleton, Ch. [Virginia Delancy, Bogumil Jewsiewicki]
Winner
Wilmsen, E. (1989). Land filled with flies: A political economy of the Kalahari. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Finalists
Brody, J. (1989). Wombs and alien spirits: Women, Men, and the Zaria cult in northern Sudan. Madison, WI:
Jackson, M. (1989). Paths toward a clearing: Radical empiricism and ethnographic inquiry. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Ottenberg, S. (1989). Boyhood rituals in an African society: An interpretation. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
Wilks, I. (1989). Wa and the Wala. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
1989 - John Middleton, Ch. [Virginia Delancy, Bogumil Jewsiewicki]
Winners
Miller, J.C. (1988). Way of death: Merchant capitalism and the Angolan slave trade. Madison, WI:
Mudimbe, V.U. (1988). The invention of Africa: Gnosis, philosophy and the order of knowledge. Bloomington, IN:
Finalists
Crowder, M. (1988). The flogging of Phinehas McIntosh: A tale of colonial folly and injustice, Bechuanaland 1933.
Martin, S.M. (1988). Palm oil and protest: An economic history of the Ngwa region, south-eastern Nigeria 1800-1960. New York, NY:
McNaughton, P.R. (1988). The Mande blacksmiths: Knowledge, power and art in West Africa. Bloomington, IN:
Newbury, C. (1988). The cohesion of oppression: Clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda 1860-1960. New York, NY:
Spencer, P. (1988). The Maasai of Matapato: A study of rituals of rebellion. Bloomington, IN:
1988 - Committee:
Winner
Iliffe, J. (1987). The African Poor: A history. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Finalists
Biersteker, T. J. (1987). Multinationals, the state, and control of the Nigerian economy. Princeton, NJ:
Blier, S.P. (1987). The anatomy of architecture: Ontology and metaphor in Batammaliba architectural expression. New York, NY:
Callaway, B.J. (1987). Muslim Hausa women in Nigeria: Tradition and Change. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
Cooper, F. (1987). On the African waterfront: Urban disorder and the transformation of work in colonial Mombasa. New Haven, CT:
Joseph, R. (1987). Democracy and prebendal politics in Nigeria: The rise and fall of the Second Republic. New York, NY:
Markakis, J. (1987). National and class conflict in the Horn of Africa. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Nunley, J.W. (1987). Moving with the face of the devil: Art and politics in urban West Africa. Urbana, IL:
Pouwels, R.L. (1987). Horn and crescent: Cultural change and traditional Islam on the East African coast, 800-1900.
1987 - Committee:
Winners
Beidelman, T.O. (1986). Moral Imaginiation in Kaguru modes of thought. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Lubeck, P.M. (1986). Islam and urban labor in northern Nigeria: The making of a Muslim working class. New York, NY:
1986 - Committee:
Winner
Berry, S. (1985). Fathers work for their sons: Accumulation, mobility, and class formation in an extended Yoruba community.
1985 - Committee:
Winner
Robertson, C. (1984). Sharing the same bowl. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
1984 - Committee: Jean Hay, Ch.
Winners
Hontoundji, P. (1983). African philosophy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Peel, J.D.Y. (1983). Ijeshas and Nigerians: The incorporation of a Yoruba kingdom. New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press.
Finalists
Bonner, P. (1983). Kings, commoners and concessionaires: The evolution and dissolution of the nineteenth century
Drewel, H. & M. (1983). Gelede: Art and female power among the Yoruba. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
JanMohamed, A.R. (1983). Manichean aesthetics: The politics of literature in colonial Africa. Amherst, MA: University of
MacGaffey, W. (1983). Modern Kongo prophets. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Thornton, J. (1983). The kingdom of Kongo: Civil war and transition, 1641-1718. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
Watts, M. (1983). Slient violence. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
1983 - Committee: Ivan Karp, Ch. [Jean Borgatti]
Winner
Fernandez, J.W. (1982). Bwitti: An ethnography of the religious imagination in Africa. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
1982 - Committee: Joel Samoff, Ch. [
Winner
Cooper, F. (1981). From slaves to squatters: Plantation labor and agriculture in Zanzibar and coastal Kenya, 1890-1925.
Scribner, S. & Cole, M. (1981). The psychology of literacy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
1981 - Committee:
Winner
Kitching, G. (1980). Class and economic change in Kenya: The making of an African petite bourgeoisie, 1905-1970.
1980 - Committee:
Winner
Lee, R.B. (1979). The !Kung San. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
1979 - Committee:
Winner
Alverson, H. (1978). Mind in the heart of darkness: Value and self-identity among the Tswana of southern Africa.
1978 - Committee:
Winner
Adams, W. Y. (1977). Nubia: Corridor to Africa. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
1977 - Committee:
Winner
Young, M.C. (1976). Politics of cultural pluralism. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
1976 - Committee - Samuel Decalo, Richard, Lobban, Janet Vaillant
Winner
Wilks, I. (1975). Asante in the nineteenth century : the structure and evolution of a political order. New York, NY:
Finalist
Curtin, P. (1975). Economic change in pre-colonial Africa. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
1975 - Committee:
Winners
Kaba, L. (1974). The Wahhabiyya: Islamic reform and politics in French West Africa. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
Skinner, E.P. (1974). African urban life: the transformation of Ouagadougou. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press.
1974 - Committee:
Winner
Paden, J.N. (1973). Religion and political culture in Kano. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
1973 - Committee:
Winner
Isaacman, A.F. (1972). Mozambique: The Africanization of a European institution; the Zambesi prazos, 1750-1902.
1972 - Committee:
Winner
Deng, F.M. (1971). Tradition and modernization; A challenge for law among the Dinka of the Sudan. New Haven, CT:
1971 - Committee:
Winner
Lemarchand, R. (1970). Rwanda and Burundi. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers.
1970 - Committee:
Winner
Samkange, S. J. T.(1968/9). Origins of Rhodesia. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers.
1969 - Committee:
Winner
Bohannan, P. & L. (1968). Tiv economy. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
1968 - Committee: Herbert Lewis, Ch. [James Diffy, Martin Kilson]
Winners
Weiss, H. (1967). Political protest in the Congo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Finalist
Morganthau, R (1967). Politics in French-speaking West Africa. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
1967 - Committee:
Winner
Vansina, J. (1966). Kingdoms of the savanna. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
1966 - Committee:
Winner
Kuper, L. (1965). An African bourgeoisie; race, class, and politics in South Africa. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
1965 - Committee:
Winner
Morgenthau, R.S. (1964). Political parties in French-speaking West Africa. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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