The Stirling Award
The is awarded to a previously published work (article or book, in alternate years) that makes an outstanding contribution to any area of psychological anthropology.
The Stirling Award was originally established in 1968 by Rebecca and Gene Stirling. Winners of this prestigious award recognizing the best published work in psychological anthropology become members of the selection committee for a three-year rotation.
Unpublished manuscripts, dissertations, and web publications are not eligible. Edited volumes are not eligible for the book prize, but individual chapters may be submitted for the article prize. There are separate rules for nomination of books and articles; please consult the relevant rules below.
| Past Stirling Prize Winners | |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Sarah WIllen, PhD, Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel's Margins, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. |
| 2019 | Nicholas Long, PhD, for his article published in Ethos (2018, Volume 46), “Suggestions of Power: Searching for Efficacy in Indonesia’s Hypnosis Boom.” |
| 2018 | Naomi Leite, Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging, UC Press, 2017. |
| 2017 | Rebecca Lester, Self-governance, psychotherapy, and the subject of managed care: Internal Family Systems therapy and the multiple self in a US eating-disorders treatment center. American Ethnologist, 44: 23–35. doi:10.1111/amet.12423 |
| 2016 | Julia Cassaniti, Living Buddhism: Mind, Self and Emotion in a Thai Community |
| 2015 | Kristin Yarris, "'Pensado mucho' ('Thinking too much')": Embodied distress among grandmothers in Nicaraguan transnational families," Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 38: 473-498, 2014. |
| 2014 | Geoffrey Saxe, Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas: Papua New Guinea Studies (University of Cambridge Press) |
| 2013 | Talia Weiner, "The (Un)managed Self: Paradoxical Forms of Agency in Self-Management of Bipolar Disorder," Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 35(4): 448-483, 2011. |
| 2012 | Cheryl Mattingly, The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland (University of California Press) |
| 2011 | Anand Pandian, "Interior Horizons: An Ethical Space of Selfhood in South India," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16(1): 64-83, 2010. |
| 2010 | Elly Teman, Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self (University of California Press) |
| 2009 | Rebecca Lester "Brokering Authenticity: Borderline Personality Disorder and the Ethics of Care at an American Eating Disorder Clinic," Current Anthropology 50(3), 2009. and Angela Garcia, "The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject," Cultural Anthropology 23(4): 718-746, 2008. |
| 2008 | Alex Hinton, Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide, University of California Press, 2005 |
| 2007 | Everett Yuehong Zhang, "Rethinking Sexual Repression in Maoist China: Ideology, Structure, and the Ownership of the Body," Body and Society 11(3): 1-25, 2005. |
| 2006 | Joao Biehl, Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment, University of California Press, 2005 |
| 2005 | Susan Seymour, "Multiple Caretaking of Infants and Young Children: An Area in Critical Need of a Feminist Psychological Anthropology," Ethos 32 (4:) 416-413, 2004. |
| 2004 | no prize awarded |
| 2003** | Carmella Moore, Kim Romney, and Ti-Lien Hsia, "Cultural, Gender, and Individual Differences in Perceptual and Semantic Structures of Basic Colors in Chinese and English," Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2(1): 1-28, 2002 |
| 2002 | no prize awarded |
| 2001 | no prize awarded |
| 2000 | no prize awarded |
| 1999 | Linda Garro, "Remembering what one knows and the construction of the past: a comparison of cultural consensus theory and cultural schema theory," Ethos 28: 275-319, 2000. |
| 1998 | no prize awarded |
| 1997 | Yoram Bilu and Yehuda C. Goodman |
| 1996 | no prize awarded |
| 1995* | Christopher Boehm, "Egalitarian behavior and reverse dominance hierarchy" Current Anthropology 34: 227-254, 1993 |
| 1994 | no prize awarded |
| 1993 | Begoña Aretxaga |
| 1992 | Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson, "Immanuel Kant among the Tenejapans: anthropology as empirical philosophy," Ethos 22(1):3-41 1994 |
| 1991 | Steve Derné, "Beyond institutional and impulsive conceptions of self: family structure and the socially anchored real self," Ethos 20(3):259-88 |
| 1990 | Janis Jenkins, "Anthropology, Expressed Emotion, and Schizophrenia," Ethos 19: 387-431, 1991 |
| 1989 | Charles W. Nuckolls, "Culture and Causal Thinking: Diagnosis and Prediction in a South Indian Fishing Village," Ethos 19(1):3-51, 1991 |
| 1988 | Thomas J. Csordas and Thomas Gregor |
| 1987 | Dennis B. McGilvray |
| 1986 | T. M. Luhrmann, The magic of secrecy," Ethos 17(2):131-166, 1989 |
| 1985 | Nancy Scheper-Hughes |
| 1984 | Lila Abu-Lughod |
| 1983 | Claudia Strauss, "Beyond 'formal' vs. 'informal' education: Uses of psychological theory in anthropological research," Ethos 12(3):195-222, 1984 |
| 1982 | no prize awarded |
| 1981 | no prize awarded |
| 1980 | Catherine Lutz |
| 1979 | William W. Dressler |
| 1978 | Susan Abbot and Ruben Klein, "Depression and Anxiety among Rural Kikuyu in Kenya" |
| 1977 | Geoffrey White |
| 1976 | Lorraine Kirk and Michael Burton |
| 1975 | Nancy G. Graves and Theodore D. Graves |
| 1974 | Charlene Bolton, Ralph Bolton, Carol Michelson and Jeffrey Wilde |
| 1973 | no prize awarded |
| 1972 | Ralph Bolton |
| 1971 | Theodore Graves |
| 1970 | Carolyn Henning Brown |
| 1969 | James P. Spradley |
| 1968 | Victor Barnouw |
| ** prize redefined as best published work * after 1995, the prize is offered on a biennial basis |
