SEA Book Prize:
SEA Book Prize: Call for Submissions
The SEA Book Prize committee is requesting nominations for any non-edited book published in 2006 or more recently (the prize is awarded in a 2-3 year cycle). Book author(s) must be SEA members for submission (click here for membership information and form). We are looking for the best book in economic anthropology during the last two years. Previous winners have been: Salaula by Karen Tranberg-Hansen (2003) and Tsukiji by Ted Bestor (2005).
The book prize includes a $500 award, given at the Spring (2009) SEA meetings in Los Angeles. The book prize committee chair isLisa Cliggett (lisa.cliggett-at-uky.edu).
Past Recipients:
2006 Winner:
Theodore C. Bestor (Harvard University) -- Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the Word. University of California Press (2004)
2003 Winner:
Karen Tranberg Hansen (Northwestern University) -- Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing in Zambia. University of Chicago Press (2000).
2003 Honorable Mention: (unranked in alphabetical order)
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld (University of Iowa) -- The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Creativity in the Andes. University of Chicago Press (1999).
Marc Edelman (City Univeristy of New York) -- Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica. Stanford University Press (1999).
William Fisher (College of William and Mary) -- Rain Forest Exchanges: Industry and Community on an Amazonian Frontier. Smithsonian Institution Press (2000).
Carla Freman (Emory University) -- High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identity in the Caribbean. Duke University Press (2000).
