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Elise Clews Parsons Prize

Elsie Clews Parsons Prize

The AES is pleased to announce the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize for best graduate student essay. The prize, which began in about 1970, is commemorated by a silver medallion made by a Hopi silversmith. The original design of this medallion utilizes a spider symbol common to Hopi pottery design.

The prize is given every-other-year for an outstanding graduate student paper based on ethnography. The winner traditionally delivers the paper at the spring AES meeting.

Deadline: December 1, 2012
Elsie Clews Parsons Prize American Ethnological Society Graduate Student Paper Prize.

The AES Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A. and Ph.D.) to submit stand-alone papers that demonstrate outstanding ethnography. Papers should engage with AES core commitments to combining innovative fieldwork with rich theoretical critique.

AES awards a cash prize of $300 and the winner will be invited to present the paper at the AES annual meeting. Registration fees will be waived and the recipient will be provided $200 to offset the cost of travel. The prize winner will be announced in Anthropology News.

Papers should not exceed 8,000 words (including notes and references) and should follow the style guidelines of AAA: www.aaanet.org/publications/style_guide.pdf

Submission details: Please submit two pdfs: One containing a cover sheet with the author's name, contact information, paper title and acknowledgments and the other containing the paper's title, text, notes, and references but not otherwise identifying the author. Papers will be read in a double-bling process by a committee of AES members. The committee members will be identified when the prize winner is announced.

Submissions and questions should be sent to Jessica Hardin This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it