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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** Nominations invited for 2004 Basker Prize in gender & health The Eileen Basker Memorial Prize was established by the Society for Medical Anthropology to promote excellence in research on gender and health. The Basker Prize is made annually to scholars from any discipline or nation, for a specific book, article, film, or exceptional PhD thesis produced within the preceding three years. The Prize is publicly announced during the Society for Medical Anthropology business meeting, held during the annual American Anthropological Association meeting, and winners receive a cash award. The Basker Prize is awarded to the work judged to be the most courageous, significant, and potentially influential contribution to scholarship in the area of gender and health. The 2003 Prize was awarded to Caroline H. Bledsoe for her book Contingent Lives: Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa (The University of Chicago Press, 2002) and Fatoumatta Banja, who made significant contributions to the book. Previous winners include Rhoda Kanaaneh for her book Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel (University of California Press, 2002); Susan Kahn for Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Reproduction in Israel; Gelya Frank for Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America; Adele Clarke for Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and the Problems of Sex; Rayna Rapp for Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America; and Nancy Scheper-Hughes for Death Without Weeping. The Basker Prize committee strongly encourages all interested persons to submit a nomination for the 2004 Competition. Individuals are nominated by one or more person(s) who must write a letter of nomination verifying the impact of the particular work on the field. Self-nomination is not permitted, and works submitted without an accompanying letter of nomination cannot be considered. Please submit your nomination to the chair of the Basker Prize Committee: Helen Lambert, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PY, U.K.; tel (44) 117 928 7238/7332; fax (44) 117 928 7236; email [log in to unmask] All material must be sent in triplicate by Thursday July 1st 2004. Please include the following contact information for both authors and sponsors: 1. Full name 2. Email and mailing address. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * *************************************************************