Article Prize

Each year, nominations are called for the AAS Article Prize, awarded for the best scholarly article published in an Australian journal. The call is sent out to the editor(s) of the following five eligible journals, who are responsible for nominating candidates.

Anthropological Forum
Oceania
The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA)
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA)
Australian Aboriginal Studies (anthropological articles only)

Nominated articles are judged by a panel of three judges against the following criteria:

Theoretical sophistication
Ethnographic depth
Lucid writing
Originality

The winner is formally announced at the Annual General Meeting and the prize awarded at the Annual Conference dinner. The winner receive a written certificate, a monetary prize (AUD500), as well as registration and a dinner ticket for that year’s conference. In the event that the winning article is co-authored, the prize money is to be split between all contributors and the AAS will provide a maximum of two conference registrations and two dinner tickets. Articles submitted for the prize in previous years may not be resubmitted.

Prize Recipients

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Best Article Prize Winners

2023

Anderson, Drew (2023). Intra-Action in a Central Australian Community Development Project. Oceania. 92(2): 195-212.

2022

Pini, Sarah (2022). Autoethnography and 'chimeric-thinking': A phenomenological reconsideration of illness and alterity. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 33(1): 34-46.

2017

Dawson, Andrew (2017). Driven to sanity: An ethnographic critique of the senses in automobilities. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 28(1): 3-20.

2016

Gillison, Gillian (2016). Whatever Happened to the Mother? A New Look at the Old Problem of the Mother’s Brother in Three New Guinea Societies: Gimi, Daribi, and Iatmul. Oceania 86(1): 2-24.

2015

Schram, Ryan (2015). Notes on the Sociology of Wontoks in Papua New Guinea. Anthropological Forum 25(1): 3-20.

2014

Plueckhahn, Rebekah (2014). Fortune, Emotion and Poetics: The Intersubjective Experience of Mongolian Musical Sociality. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 15(2): 123-140.

2013

Hetherington, Tracy (2013). Remodelling the Fortress of Conservation. Anthropological Forum 22(2): 165-185.

2012

Biersack, Aletta 2011. The Sun and the Shakers, Again: Enga, Ipili, and Somaip Perspectives on the Cult of Ain. Oceania 81(2): 113-136; (3): 225-243. (Part 1 and Part 2)