Announcements
CHW faculty associate Joćo Biehl, wins a major book award.
Joćo Biehl’s book, Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (University of California Press 2005), has received the following awards:
- Stirling Prize of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
- Leeds Prize of the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
- Benjamin L. Hooks Outstanding Book Award, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change
- Eileen Basker Memorial Prize of the Society for Medical Anthropology
- Honorable Mention, the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology