SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

The 2005 Victor Turner Prize
in Ethnographic Writing

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) announces the 16th 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 the prize will be given in recognition of an innovative book that furthers this project.

Eligible genres include ethnographic monographs, narratives, historical accounts, biographies, memoirs, dramas, or single-authored collections of essays, short stories or poems. A $500 prize, for a book published
between June 2003 and May 2005, will be awarded at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C., in November 2005. Books may be entered into the competition by authors, book editors, or colleagues. No formal letter of nomination is needed. Books published in 2003 or 2004 and entered in last year's competition may be resubmitted this year with the appropriate entry fee.

Submission fee: For authors who are already SHA members, the entry fee is only $25/book. For authors who are not SHA members, the entry fee is only $50/book, which includes a one year subscription to SHA's journal, Anthropology and Humanism. To be complete, submissions for each book must be accompanied by the following:
-- 3 copies of each book submitted;
-- appropriate submission fee ($25 for current SHA members, $50 for non-members), with check made out to: Society for Humanistic Anthropology (Publishers: for all books you submit, please check with the author first to discover whether s/he is a current SHA member).
-- author's contact information: mailing address, office tel., home tel., cell phone, and e-mail address. (If the author of the submitted book isn't yet an SHA member, the entry fee will bring a one-year subscription to our journal, Anthropology and Humanism, and we need to know where to send the issues. And if your submitted book wins the prize, we want to be able to contact you/your author right away!)
-a short biographical sketch (1-2 paragraphs) including: required--highest degree awarded, in which discipline, and from which institution; current affiliation (university or otherwise); optional -- short statement about intellectual training/orientation, circumstances surrounding the research/writing of the book--if your
submitted book wins, we will be publicizing the good news, and having this information early on makes publicity efforts more efficient.

*****Send complete submissions to:
Professor Lawrence Cohen (Chair, Turner Prize Committee)
Department of Anthropology
319 Kroeber Hall
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-3710
cohen@uclink4.berkeley.edu
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THE 2005 ETHNOGRAPHIC FICTION COMPETITION

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual fiction competition to encourage anthropologists to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns. These concerns may be any of those associated with the four fields of anthropology.

Stories should not exceed 20 pages typed double-spaced. There is a limit of one story for each submission. Three hard copies per entry should be submitted.

Winning entries and honorable mentions will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C. in November 2005. The winning story will be published in the Society's journal, Anthropology and Humanism. The winner(s) will receive a cash
award of $100.
******There is no entry fee to enter this competition.

The judging committee consists of: Ernestine McHugh, chair (University of Rochester); Adrie Kusserow (St. Michael's College, VT); and fiction writer Samrat Upadhyay (Indiana University).

Submissions and queries should be sent to:
Prof. Ernestine McHugh
Department of Humanities
Eastman School of Music
University of Rochester
26 Gibbs St.
Rochester, NY 14604 Phone: (585) 274-1453
e-mail: emchugh@esm.rochester.edu
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THE 2005 ETHNOGRAPHIC POETRY COMPETITION

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual poetry competition as a means to encourage anthropologists to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns. These concerns may
be any of those associated with the four fields of anthropology.

Poems should be limited to one or two pages, with a maximum of three poems per submission.

Winning entries and honorable mentions will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco in November 2005, and will be published in the Society's journal, Anthropology and Humanism. The winner(s) will receive an award of $100.

There is no entry fee to enter this competition.

Poem submissions and queries should be sent to:

Dr. Melisa Cahnmann
Department of Language and Literacy Education
125 Aderhold Hall
Athens, GA 30602
(off.) 706 583-8127
email: cahnmann@uga.edu
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2ND ANNUAL STUDENT PAPER PRIZE

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) invites submissions for the second annual Student Paper Prize, with two categories: undergraduate and graduate. The graduate prize will be awarded to the best paper delivered at any conference sponsored by the American Anthropological Association in 2004-2005; undergraduate submissions need not be conference papers. An SHA committee will judge the papers on
originality, creativity, clarity of writing, and most importantly, contribution to humanistic anthropology—the extent to which they:

• Explore what anthropology reveals about being human
• Capture the ways in which people create and/or transform meaning in various contexts
• Address the relationship between researcher and subjects
• Challenge conventional academic writing through alternative literary genres
• Make anthropology accessible to the general public.

Papers should be 7-10 pages in length (double-spaced and in 12-pt font, excluding references), and should be submitted in hard copy and electronic version. Papers should be accompanied by a brief cover letter, including academic affiliation, year in program of study, contact information, the relevant category of submission (undergraduate or graduate), and relevant details about the paper (at which conference was it presented, or for what course was it written?). Please include your name, academic affiliation, and contact information on the title page, but do not include any identifying information on the actual paper. Papers already published or accepted for publication at the time of submission are not eligible, but papers currently under consideration may be submitted. You need not be a member of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology to submit a paper. Any student currently enrolled in any accredited college or university in any nation is eligible for these prizes. Limit one submission per student.
Submissions must be received no later than June 1, 2005.

The author of the winning paper in each category will receive $100 and a one-year subscription to the SHA's journal, Anthropology and Humanism. An abstract of each winning paper will also be published in the SHA
column of the Anthropology Newsletter of the AAA. Prizes will be awarded during the prize readings session sponsored by the SHA at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in
Washington, D.C. (November 2005).

The judging committee consists of: Michelle Johnson, chair (Bucknell University); David Koester (U Alaska, Fairbanks); and Richard Grinker (George Washington U.).

Please send submissions and questions to:
Dr. Michelle Johnson
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
(570) 577-1354 (office) (570) 577-3543 (fax) Email:
mjohnson@bucknell.edu

Friday, May 13, 2005