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, The Genealogical Imagination: Two Studies of Life over Time, Duke University Press

Honorable Mention, Levi Vonk with Alex Kirschner, Border Hacker: A Tale of Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the Run, Bold Type Books

1st Prize, Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, Princeton University Press

2nd Prize, Tarini Bedi, Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India, University of Washington Press

3rd Prize, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam, Duke University Press

Honorable Mention, Shannon Dawdy, American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the 21st Century, Princeton University Press

Honorable Mention, Melinda Hinkson, See How We Roll: Enduring Exile between Desert and Urban Australia, Duke University Press

Honorable Mention, Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan, University of California Press

1st Prize, Amy Moran-Thomas, Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic, University of California Press

2nd Prize (tie), Laurence Ralph, The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence, University of Chicago Press

2nd Prize (tie), Alex Blanchette, Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm, Duke University Press

Honorable Mention, Li Zhang, Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy, University of California Press

Honorable Mention, John Hartigan, Jr, Shaving the Beasts: Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain, University of Minnesota Press

1st Prize, Sarah E. Wagner, What Remains: Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War, Harvard University Press

2nd Prize, Charles Piot, The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles, Duke University Press

3rd Prize, Rebecca J. Lester, Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America, University of California Press

Honorable Mention, Jason Pine, The Alchemy of Meth: A Decomposition, University of Minnesota Press

Honorable Mention, Dána-Ain Davis, Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth, NYU Press

1st Prize, Elizabeth Ferry and Stephen Ferry, La Batea, Red Hook Editions

2nd Prize, Didier Fassin, Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition, Polity Press

3rd Prize, Ieva Jusionyte, Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border, University of California Press

Honorable Mention, Chandra D. Bhimull, Empire in the Air: Airline Travel and the African Diaspora, NYU Press

Honorable Mention, Chip Colwell, Fractured Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture, University of Chicago Press

Honorable Mention, Amira Mittermaier, Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times, University of California Press

1st Prize, Katherine Verdery, My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File, Duke University Press

2nd Prize, Piers Vitebsky, Living without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos, University of Chicago Press

3rd Prize, Ellen Wiles, The Invisible Crowd, Harper Collins

Honorable Mention, Susan Helen Ellison, Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia, Duke University Press

1st Prize, Emma Tarlo, Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair, Oneworld Publications

2nd Prize, Anand Pandian, Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation, Duke University Press

3rd Prize, Robert Desjarlais, Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World, University of Chicago Press

Honorable Mention, David Hughes, Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity, Duke University Press

Honorable Mention, Janet McIntosh, Unsettled: Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans, University of California Press

1st Prize, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, Princeton University Press

2nd Prize, Cristiana Giordano, Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy, University of California Press

3rd Prize, Aimee Meredith Cox, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, Duke University Press

1st Prize, Lisa Stevenson, Life Beside Itself, University of California Press

2nd Prize, Lucas Bessire, Behold The Black Caiman, University of Chicago Press

3rd Prize, Laurence Ralph, Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago, University of Chicago Press

1st Prize, S. Lochlann Jain, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us, University of California Press

2nd Prize, Anand Pandian and M.P. Mariappan, Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India, Indiana University Press

3rd Prize, Zareena Grewal, Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority, NYU Press

1st Prize, Julie Livingston, Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic, Duke University Press

2nd Prize, Christine Walley, Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago, University of Chicago Press

3rd Prize, Kenneth T. Macleish, Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community, Princeton University Press

1st Prize, Angela Garcia, The Pastoral Clinic. Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande, University of California Press

2nd Prize, Mark Auslander, The Accidental Slaveowner. Revisiting the Myth of Race and Finding an American Family, University of Georgia Press

3rd Prize, Daniel Reichman, The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras, Cornell University Press

1st Prize, Neni Panourgiá, Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State, Fordham University Press

2nd Prize, Amira Mittermaier, Dreams that Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the imagination, University of California Press

Special Award, Shirleen Smith and Vuntut Gwitchin, People of the Lakes: Stories of Our Van Tat Gwich'in Elders, University of Alberta Press

Winner, Tracey Heatherington, Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism, University of Washington Press

Honorable Mention, Laurie A. Wilkie, The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi: A Historical Archaeology of Masculinity at a University Fraternity, University of California Press

Special Award, Hugh Raffles, Insectopedia, Random House

Winner, Matthew Engelke, A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church, University of California Press

Honorable Mention, Billie Jean Isbell, Finding Cholita, University of Illinois Press

Winner, Richard Price, Travels with Tooy: History, Memory and the African Imagination, University of Chicago Press

Honorable Mention, Ann Fienup-Riordan, Yuungnaqpiallerput: The Way We Genuinely Live, University of Washington Press

Honorable Mention, Harry G. West, Ethnographic Sorcery, University of Chicago Press

Winner, Ira Bashkow, The Meaning of Whitemen: Race and Modernity in the Orokaiva Cultural World, University of Chicago Press

Honorable Mention, Roy R. Grinker, Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism, Basic Books

Winner, Julie Cruikshank, Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination, University of Washington Press

Honorable Mention, Piers Vitebsky, The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia, Houghton Mifflin

Winner, Bill Maurer, Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason, Princeton University Press

Honorable Mention, Joao Biehl, Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment, University of California Press

Honorable Mention, Michael Jackson, In Sierra Leone, Duke University Press

Winner, John M. Chernoff, Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl, University of Chicago Press

Honorable Mention, William Mazzarella, Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India, Duke University Press

Co-Winner, Alan Klima, The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand, Princeton University Press

Co-Winner, Hugh Raffles, In Amazonia: A Natural History, Princeton University Press

Honorable Mention, Judith Farquhar, Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China, Duke University Press

Honorable Mention, Thomas Buckley, Standing Ground: Yurok Indian Spirituality, 1850-1990, University of California Press

Honorable Mention, Michael J. Lambek, The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanqa, Madagascar, Palgrave Macmillan

Winner, Henry S. Sharp, Loon: Memory, Meaning, and Reality in a Northern Dene Community, University of Nebraska Press

Honorable Mention, Mary Weismantel, Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes, University of Chicago Press

Honorable Mention, Catherine Lutz, Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century, Beacon Press

Winner, Tanya M. Luhrmann, Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry, Picador

Honorable Mention, Roy R. Grinker, In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull, St. Martin's Press

Honorable Mention, Setha Low, On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture, University of Texas Press

Winner, Cheryl Mattingly, Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience, Cambridge University Press

Co-Winner, Jean L. Briggs, Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old, Yale University Press

Co-Winner, Robert Desjarlais, Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless, University of Pennsylvania Press

Honorable Mention, Ralph Cintron, Angel's Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life and the Rhetorics of the Everyday, Beacon Press

Honorable Mention, Michael Stewart, The Time of the Gypsies, Westview Press

Winner, Lawrence Cohen, No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things, University of California Press

Honorable Mention, Kathleen Stewart, A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America, Princeton University Press

Honorable Mention, Robin Ridington and Dennis Hastings, Blessing for a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe, University of Nebraska Press

Winner, Keith H. Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache, University of New Mexico Press

Honorable Mention, Andrew Shryock, Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan, University of California Press

Winner, Carol B. Stack, Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South, Basic Books

Honorable Mention, Laura R. Graham, Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality among the Xavante Indians of Central Brazil, University of Texas Press

Honorable Mention, Philippe Bourgois, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, Cambridge University Press

Winner, Margaret Wiener, Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic and Colonial Conquest in Bali, University of Chicago Press

Honorable Mention, Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang, Gifts, Favors and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China, Cornell University Press

Honorable Mention, Susan Brett-Smith, The Making of Bamana Sculpture: Creativity and Gender, Cambridge University Press

Honorable Mention, Ann Fienup-Riordan, Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yupik Eskimo Oral Tradition, University of Oklahoma Press

Honorable Mention, José Limón, Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas, University of Wisconsin Press

Co-Winner, Lila Abu-Lughod, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories, University of California Press

Co-Winner, Mary Margaret Steedly, Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland, Princeton University Press

Honorable Mention, Martha Balsham, Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority, Smithsonian Institution Press

Honorable Mention, Ruth Behar, Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story, Beacon Press

Honorable Mention, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-way Place, Princeton University Press

Winner, Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham, Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa, University of Chicago Press

Co-Winner, Karen McCarthy Brown, Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, University of California Press

Co-Winner, Jim Wafer, The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble, University of Pennsylvania Press

Honorable Mention, Claire Farrer, Living Life's Circle: Mescalero Apache Cosmovision, University of New Mexico Press

Honorable Mention, C. Nadia Seremetakis, The Last Word: Women, Death and Divination in Inner Mani, University of Chicago Press

Honorable Mention, Margaret Trawick, Notes on Love in a Tamil Family, University of California Press

Winner, Dennis Tedlock, Days from a Dream Almanac, University of Illinois Press

Honorable Mention, Deborah B. Gewertz and Frederick Errington, Twisted Histories, Altered Contexts: Representing the Chambri in a World System, Cambridge University Press

Honorable Mention, Miles Richardson, Cry Lonesome, and Other Accounts of the Anthropologist's Project, SUNY Press

Honorable Mention, Carol Laderman, Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance, University of California Press

Winner, Kirin Narayan, Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching, University of Pennsylvania Press

Honorable Mention, Barbara Bode, No Bells to Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes, Charles Scribner's Sons

Honorable Mention, Michael Jackson, Paths towards a Clearing: Radical Empiricism and Ethnographic Enquiry, Indiana University Press

Honorable Mention, Dorinne Kondo, Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace, University of Chicago Press

Honorable Mention, Smadar Lavie, The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity under Israeli and Egyptian Rule, University of California Press