Melville J. Herskovits Award
Winners
1965. Ruth Schachter
Morganthau, Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa (Oxford University
Press).
1966. Leo Kuper,
An African Bourgeoisie (Yale
University Press).
1967. Jan Vansina, Kingdoms
of the Savanna (University
of Wisconsin Press).
1968. Herbert Weiss, Political
Protest in the Congo (Princeton University Press).
1969. Paul and Laura
Bohannan, Tiv Economy (Northwestern University Press).
1970. Stanlake Samkange,
Origins of Rhodesia
(Praeger Publishers).
1971. René
Lemarchand, Rwanda
and Burundi
(Praeger Publishers).
1972. Francis Deng,
Tradition and Modernization (Yale
University Press).
1973. Allen F.
Isaacman, Mozambique The Africanization of a
European Institution: The Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902 (University of Wisconsin
Press).
1974. John N.
Paden, Religion and Political Culture
in Kano (University of California
Press).
1975. Lansine Kaba, Wahhabiyya:
Islamic Reform and Politics in French West Africa
(Northwestern University Press).
1975. Elliott Skinner,
African Urban Life (Princeton
University Press).
1976. Ivor Wilks, Asante in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press).
1977. M. Crawford
Young, The Politics of Cultural
Pluralism (University
of Wisconsin Press).
1978. William Y. Adams, Nubia: Corridor to Africa (Princeton University Press).
1979. Hoyt Alverson,
Mind in the Heart of Darkness: Value and Self-Identity Among the Tswana of
Southern Africa (Yale
University Press).
1980. Richard B. Lee,
The !Kung San (Cambridge University
Press).
1980. Margaret Strobel, Muslim
Women in Mombasa, 1890-1975 (Yale University
Press).
1981. Gavin Kitching, Class
and Economic Change in Kenya:
The Making of an African Petite Bourgeoisie, 1905-1970 (Yale University
Press).
1981. Gwyn Prins,
The Hidden Hippopotamus: Reappraisal in African History: The Early Colonial
Experience in Western Zambia (Cambridge
University Press).
1982. Frederick Cooper, From
Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and
Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925 (Yale University
Press).
1982. Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole,
The Psychology of Literacy (Harvard
University Press).
1983. James W.
Fernandez, Bwiti: An
Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa (Princeton University
Press).
1984. Paulin Hontoundji,
African Philosophy (Indiana
University Press).
1984: J.D.Y. Peel, Ijeshas
and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba
Kingdom (Cambridge University
Press).
1985. Claire Robertson,
Sharing the Same Bowl (Indiana
University Press).
1986. Sara Berry, Fathers
Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended
Yoruba Community (University
of California Press).
1987. Paul M. Lubeck, Islam
and Urban Labor in Northern Nigeria: The Making of a Muslim Working Class (Cambridge University Press).
1997. T.O. Beidelman, Moral
Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought.
1988. John Iliffe,
The African Poor: A History (Cambridge
University Press).
1989. Joseph C. Miller, Way
of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730 -1830 (University of Wisconsin Press).
1989. V.Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa:
Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge (Indiana University
Press).
1990. Edwin Wilmsen,
Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari (University of Chicago Press).
1991. Johannes Fabian, Power
and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations through Proverbial Wisdom and
Theater in Shaba, Zaire (University of Wisconsin
Press).
1991. Luise White,
The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi
(University of Chicago Press).
1992. Myron Echenberg, Colonial
Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West
Afrca, 1857-1960 (Heinemann Educational Books).
1993. Kwame Anthony
Appiah, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (Oxford University
Press).
1994. Keletso E. Atkins,
The Moon is Dead! Give Us Our Money! The Cultural Origins of an African Work
Ethic, Natal, South Africa, 1843-1900 (Heinemann).
1995 Henrietta L. Moore
and Megan Vaughn, Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural
Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990 (Heinemann, James Curry, University of Zambia)
1996 Jonathon Glassman,
Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888 (Heinemann )
1997 Mahmood Mamdani, Citizen
and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton University Press).
1998 Susan Mullin Vogel,
Baule: African Art Western Eyes (Yale University
Press).
1999. Peter Uvin, Aiding
Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda
(Kumarian Press).
2000: Nancy Rose Hunt, A
Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo (Duke
University Press).
2001: Karin Barber, Generation
of Plays (Indiana
University Press).
2001: J.D.Y. Peel, Religious
Encounter & the Making of Yoruba (Indiana University
Press).
2002: Judith Carney, Black
Rice (Harvard
University Press)
2002: Diana Wylie, Starving on a
Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (University Press of Virginia)
2003: Joseph Inikori, Africans
and the Industrial Revolution in England:
A Study in International Trade and Economic Development (Cambridge University
Press)
2004: Allen F. Roberts
and Mary Nooter Roberts, a SAINT in the CITY: Sufi Art in Urban Senegal (University
of California Los Angeles)
2005: Adam Ashforth, Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa, (University of Chicago Press)
2005: Jan Vansina,
How Societies Are Born: Governance
in West Central Africa Before 1600, (University of Virginia
Press)
2006: J. Lorand
Matory, Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in
the Afro-Brazilian Candomble, (Princeton
University Press)
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