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2023 Winners of the SHA Ethnographic Prose Competition

The SHA is please to announce the 2023 winners of the Ethnographic Prose competition. This year, first prize is awarded to Margaret Bruchac, for “Don’t Stick Your Head Above the Wheat Field” (Nonfiction Narrative). Two Honorable Mentions were also awarded … Continue reading

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2023 Winners of the Edie Turner Prize

The SHA is excited to announce the three-co-winners of this year’s Edie Turner writing prize:

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2023 Winners of the Victor Turner Writing Prize

The SHA is please to announce the winners for this year’s Victor Turner Writing Prize… 1st Prize: Alan Mikhail, My Egypt Archive, Yale University Press 2nd Prize: Naveeda Khan, River Life and the Uprising of Nature, Duke University Press 3rd Prize: Michael Jackson, … Continue reading

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2023 Winners of the Ethnographic Poetry Prize

We are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s ethnographic poetry competition 1st prize was awarded to: Debra Vidali (“Two Row Repair II and Two Row Repair III”) 2nd prize was awarded to: Yixuan Wang (“A Cootie Catcher to … Continue reading

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Student Writing Award Now Open

2023 SHA Presidents Awards for Student Writing The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) announces our competition for student writing, the 2023 SHA Presidents Award for Graduate Student Writing, and the 2023 SHA Presidents Award for Undergraduate Student Writing, and invites … Continue reading

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Seeking Applications for Editor of Anthropology and Humanism

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) invites proposals to serve as Editor-in-Chief for Anthropology & Humanism. The position will start on July 1, 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter, and the editor must be fully available for a three-year … Continue reading

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2023 Ethnographic Poetry Prize is now OPEN

See our Call for Submissions. Deadline is June 16th, 2023.

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2023 Victor Turner and Edie Turner Prizes in Ethnographic Writing, are now OPEN!

We look forward to reading your books! Call for Submissions

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2023 Ethnographic Prose Competition is now OPEN

The 2023 competition is now open. We look forward to reading your stories! Call for Submissions

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2022 Winners of the Ethnographic Prose Prize

We are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s ethnographic prose competition 1st prize was awarded to: Amrapali Maitra (“The Most Beloved Cow in Gokulpur” – Fiction Narrative) 2nd prize was awarded to: Aaron Hames (“Forgetting” – Nonfiction Narrative) … Continue reading

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