Julian Steward Award
The Julian Steward Award will not be presented in 2010.
If you wish to submit a book for consideration for the 2011 award, please contact Paige West directly (email).
The 2009 Julian Steward Award for the best environmental anthropology book published in the past three years went to Dr. David Crawford, for his book entitled, Moroccan Households in the World Economy: Labor and Inequality in a Berber Village, published by Lousiana State University Press in 2008. The runner up for the Julian Steward Award was Dr. Eduardo S. Brondizio, for his book entitled "The Amazonian Caboclo and the Acai Palm: Forest Farmers in the Global Market," published by the New York Botanical Garden.
The Anthropology and the Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) awards the Julian Steward Award for the best monograph in environmental/ecological anthropology. The first award of $500 was presented to Dr. Roberto González of San José State University for his book Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca (University of Texas Press, 2001) at the 2003 AAA meeting in Chicago. The winner of the second Julian Steward Award was Dr. Paul Nadasdy’s Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon, published by University of British Columbia Press. Dr. J. Terrence McCabe won the third annual Julian Steward Award for his book Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies: Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System, published by the University of Michigan Press. The fourth award was presented to Julie M. Cruikshank for her book, Do Glaciers Listen: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination (University of Washington press, 2005). The fifth award went to Steven Lansing for his book, Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali (Princeton University press, 2006).
The award will be given to a book published within the three calendar years prior to the award date. In 2009, eligible books were those that were published in 2006, 2007 or 2008. A press will only be allowed to nominate one book from its list. An author may self-nominate a book, or others may nominate. The author(s) does not have to be an anthropologist, but the monograph must employ anthropological method and theory. Edited volumes are not eligible.
Please join the Anthropology and the Environment Section of the AAA in making the Julian Steward Award the leading award for cutting-edge monographs in environmental/ecological anthropology.
Conflict of Interest Statement: All A&E award committees follow NSF guidelines regarding potential conflict of interest between applicants and reviewers.
2009 Winner
Dr. David Crawford
Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and International Studies
Fairfield University
North Benson Rd.
Fairfield, CT 06824
2008 Winner
No prize given.
2007 Winner
J. Stephen Lansing
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0030
2006 Winner
Julie M. Cruikshank
Department of Anthropology
University of British Columbia
6303 Northwest Marine Drive,
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1
CANADA
2005 Winner
J. Terrence McCabe
Professor of Anthropology &
Professional Staff: Environment and Behavior Program
Institute of Behavioral Science
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder 80309.
tel 303-492-0583 (anthro)
tel 303-492-0443 (IBS)
2004 Winner
Dr. Paul Nadasdy
Department of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
2003 Winner
Dr. Roberto González
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
San José State University
One Washington Square
San José State University
San José, CA 95192-0113
2011 Judges:
Dr. David Crawford
Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and International Studies
Fairfield University
North Benson Rd.
Fairfield, CT 06824
Julie M. Cruikshank
Department of Anthropology
University of British Columbia
6303 Northwest Marine Drive,
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1
CANADA
J. Stephen Lansing
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0030