Margaret Mead Award is an award in the field of anthropology

Anthropology

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 presented (solely) by the Society for Applied Anthropology

Society for Applied Anthropology

The Society for Applied Anthropology is a U.S.-based professional association for applied anthropology, established "to promote the integration of anthropological perspectives and methods in solving human problems throughout the world; to advocate for fair and just public policy based upon sound...

 from 1979 to 1983 and jointly with the American Anthropological Association

American Anthropological Association

The American Anthropological Association is a professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 11,000 members, the Arlington, Virginia based association includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, biological anthropologists, linguistic...

 afterwards. This award was named after anthropologist Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....

, who had a particular talent for bringing anthropology fully into the light of public attention. It is awarded annually but once became every-other-year from 1991 to 1999.

The Margaret Mead Award is presented to a younger scholar for a particular accomplishment such as a book, film, monograph

Monograph

A monograph is a work of writing upon a single subject, usually by a single author.It is often a scholarly essay or learned treatise, and may be released in the manner of a book or journal article. It is by definition a single document that forms a complete text in itself...

, or service, which interprets anthropological data and principles in ways that make them meaningful and accessible to a broadly concerned public. The award is designed to recognize a person clearly associated with research and/or practice in anthropology. The awardee's activity will exemplify skills in broadening the impact of anthropology, the skills for which Margaret Mead was admired widely.

Recipients

The recipients of the award are as follows.

1979 - John Ogbu

John Ogbu

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1980 - Brigitte Jordan

1981 - Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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1982 - Mary L. Elmendorf

1983 - Ruthann Knudson

1984 - Sue E. Estroff

1985 - Susan C.M. Scrimshaw

1986 - Jill Korbin

1987 - Myra Bluebond-Langner

1988 - Alex Stepick III

1989 - Mark Nichter

1990 - Wenda Trevathan

1991 - Will Roscoe

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1993 - Leo R. Chavez

Leo Chavez

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1995 - Katherine A. Dettwyler

Kathy Dettwyler

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1997 - Philippe Bourgois

Philippe Bourgois

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1999 - Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer

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2000 - Kathryn M. Dudley

2001 - Mimi Nichter

2002 - Tobias Hecht

Tobias Hecht

Tobias Hecht is an American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator.He received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 1995 from the University of Cambridge, and was the winner of the 2002 Margaret Mead Award, for his book At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil, an innovative...

2003 - Marc Sommers

2004 - Donna Goldstein

2005 - Luke Eric Lassiter

2007 - João Biehl

João Biehl

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2008- Daniel Jordan Smith

2009 - Sverker Finnström