The Society for Psychological Anthropology Lifetime Achievement Award honors career-long contributions to psychological anthropology that have substantially influenced the field and its development. The award seeks to recognize the work of individuals whose sustained involvement in psychological anthropology has had a major impact on research directions, on the wider visibility and relevance of the field, and on the growth of a community of scholarship addressing issues of culture and psychology.
Past Lifetime Achievement Awards
2019 Bradd Shore
2018 Thomas Weisner
2017 Byron J. Good
2016 Richard A. Schweder
2015 Vincent Crapanzano
2013 Jean Lave and Anthony F. C. Wallace
2011 Gananath Obeyesekere
2009 Naomi Quinn
2007 Robert Edgerton
2005 Jean Briggs and Roy D'Andrade
2003 Theodore Schwartz and Walter Goldschmidt
2001 Robert I. Levy
1999 Erika E. Bourguignon
1997 Robert A. LeVine
1995 no award given
1993 no award given
1991 Melford E. Spiro
1989 John and Beatrice Whiting