Herskovitz Prize

Herskovitz Prize

The Herskovitz Prize (Melville J. Herskovits Award) is an annual award given by the African Studies Association to the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the United States.

Winners of the Herskovits Award

*1965 Ruth Schachter Morganthau for " Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa "
*1966 Leo Kuper for " An African Bourgeoisie "
*1967 Jan Vansina for " Kingdoms of the Savanna "
*1968 Herbert Weiss for " Political Protest in the Congo "
*1969 Paul Bohannan, Laura Bohannan for " Tiv economy "
*1970 Stanlake Samkange for " Origins of Rhodesia "
*1971 Rene Lemarchand for " Rwanda and Burundi "
*1972 Francis Deng for " Tradition and Modernization "
*1973 Allen F. Isaacman for " Mozambique The Africanization of a European Institution "
*1974 John N. Paden for " Religion and Political Culture in Kano "
*1975 Elliott Skinner for " African Urban Life "
*1975 Lansine Kaba for " Wahhabiyya: Islamic Reform and Politics in French West Africa "
*1976 Ivor Wilks for " Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order "
*1977 Crawford Young for " Politics Cultural Pluralism "
*1978 William Y. Adams for " Nubia: Corridor to Africa "
*1979 Hoyt Alverson for " Mind in the Heart of Darkness: Value and Self-Identity among the Tswana of Southern Africa "
*1980 Margaret Strobel for " Muslim Women in Mombasa "
*1980 Richard B. Lee for " The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi "
*1981 Gavin Kitching for " Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petite-Bourgeoisie "
*1981 Gwyn Prins for " The Hidden Hippopotamus: Reappraisal in African History: The Early Colonial Experience in Western Zambia "
*1982 Frederick Cooper for " From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor & Agriculture in Zanzibar & Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925 "
*1982 Sylvia Scribner, Michael Cole for " The Psychology of Literacy "
*1983 James W Fernandez for " Bwiti: An ethnography of the religious imagination in Africa "
*1984 J. D. Y. Peel for " Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom, 1890s-1970s "
*1984 Paulin Hountondji for " African Philosophy "
*1985 Claire C. Robertson for " Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana "
*1986 Sara Berry for " Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community "
*1987 Paul M. Lubeck for " Islam and Urban Labor in Northern Nigeria: The Making of a Muslim Working Class "
*1988 John Iliffe for " The African Poor: A History "
*1989 Joseph Calder Miller for " Way Of Death: Merchant Capitalism And The Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830 "
*1989 V. Y. Mudimbe for " The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge "
*1990 Edwin N. Wilmsen for " Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari "
*1991 Johannes Fabian for " Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations Through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba, Zaire "
*1991 Luise White for " The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi "
*1992 Myron Echenberg for " Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960 "
*1993 Kwame Anthony Appiah for " In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture "
*1994 Keletso E. Atkins for " The Moon is Dead! Give Us Our Money!: The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, Natal, South Africa, 1843-1900 "
*1995 Megan Vaughan, Henrietta L. Moore for " Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990 "
*1996 Jonathon Glassman for " Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, & Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888 "
*1997 Mahmood Mamdani for " Citizen and Subject "
*1997 T.O. Beidelman for " Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought "
*1998 Susan Mullin Vogel for " Baule: African Art, Western Eyes "
*1999 Peter Uvin for " Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda "
*2000 Nancy Rose Hunt for " A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo "
*2001 J. D. Y. Peel for " Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba "
*2001 Karin Barber for " The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater "
*2002 Diana Wylie for " Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa "
*2002 Judith A. Carney for " Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas "
*2003 Joseph E. Inikori for " Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development "
*2004 Allen F. Roberts, Mary Nooter Roberts, Gassia Armenian, Ousmane Gueye for " A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal "
*2005 Adam Ashforth for " Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa "
*2005 Jan Vansina for " How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600 "
*2006 J. Lorand Matory for " Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble "
*2007 Barbara MacGowan Cooper for " Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel "

External links

* [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~callasa/asa_awards1.html#HERSKOVITS African Studies Association Awards]
* [http://www.lovethebook.com/Awards.aspx?bookaward=Herskovits+Award Herskovits Award at lovethebook]


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