J.B. Donne Essay Prize on the Anthropology of Art Past recipients


2007		no award made
2005		no award made
2003		no award made
2001	Dr Sean Kingston	Attention to form in a Southern New Ireland life-cycle

1999	Dr James Leach	Drum and Voices: Aesthetics, technology and political relations in a Rai Coast (Papua New Guinea) society
1997		no award made
1995	Dr Peter Gow	Piro designs: Paintings as a meaningful action in an Amazonian lived world
1993	Dr Nicholas Thomas	A second reflection: Opposition and irresolution in contemporary Maori art
1991	Dr Michael O’Hanlon	Unstable images and second skins: Artefacts, exegesis and assessments in the New Guinea Highlands

1989	Prof Michael Herzfeld	Icons and Identity: Religious orthodoxy and social practice in modern Greece
1987	Dr Howard Morphy	From dull to brilliant: The aesthetics of spiritual power among the Yolngu

Royal Anthropological Institute