Author Archives: Justin Shaffner

The Society of Humanistic Anthropology announces the opening of the 2012 competitions for the Victor Turner Prize, the Ethnographic Fiction Prize and the Ethnographic Poetry Prize. 2012 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing JUDGES: Misty Bastian, Kevin Oneill, Neni Panourgiá, … Continue reading →

The AAA website states that The 2012 AAA Annual Meeting in San Francisco offers the perfect venue for thinking about border crossings across time, space, embodied differences, language and culture. SHA can contribute significantly to this theme. Please submit proposals … Continue reading →

Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Turner Prizes and the SHA Ethnographic Fiction and Poetry contests. Turner Prize winners The Turner Prize committee, composed of Regna Darnell, Tracey Heatherington, and Misty Bastian, awarded first prize to Neni Panourgiá for … Continue reading →

SHA AWARDS CEREMONY Please celebrate with us good writing and good ethnography in the best humanistic tradition by attending the SHA Awards Ceremony at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Montreal on Friday November 18, 2011, from … Continue reading →

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) announces the 21th annual juried competition for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. The late Victor Turner devoted his career to seeking a language that would reopen anthropology to the human subject, and … Continue reading →

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual fiction competition to encourage anthropologists to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns associated with the four fields of anthropology. Stories should not exceed 20 pages typed double-spaced. There is a … Continue reading →

JUDGES: Renato Rosaldo, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Lorraine Healy The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual poetry competition as a means to encourage scholars to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns. These concerns may be any of those associated … Continue reading →

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) would like to draw your attention to several activities that include a call for proposals for invited sessions and other events at the AAA meeting in Montreal next November and the 2011 competitions for … Continue reading →