AFA is happy to announce the first ever winners of the Michelle Rosaldo Book Prize, named for Michelle Rosaldo, a cultural, linguistic, and psychological anthropologist famous for her studies of the Ilongot people of the Philippines and for her pioneering role in women’s studies and the anthropology of gender.

    This annual book prize is given to a first book that embodies the theoretical rigor, ethnographic richness and advancement of feminist scholarship marked by Rosaldo’s career.  

     

    2015 Award Winners

    Lucinda Ramberg
    Cornell University

    Given to the Goddess:  South Asian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion, Duke University Press, 2014. 

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    Honorable Mention:
    Elise Andaya
    University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY) 

    Conceiving Cuba:  Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era, Rutgers University Press, 2014.

     

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    See the interview with Lucinda Ramberg  here