Two Annual Student Paper Prizes to be Awarded by the Central States Anthropological Society

Two student-paper prizes will be awarded, one for the best undergraduate and one for the best graduate, student paper presented at the 1998 Central States Anthropological Society Meetings in Kansas City, Missouri, from April 2 to April 5, 1997. These prize awards are an annual tradition of the Central States Anthropological Society. To be eligible for the prize a paper must be presented at the meetings.

Papers competing for the prizes should be thoughtful, well reasoned, and potentially publishable. Any area of anthropology is eligible. Papers should have anthropological substance and not be in some other field of social science or humanities. They should be no more than twenty pages in length and should aim for the style, format, and quality of anthropological journal articles. Goals, data, methodology, and conclusions should be presented clearly. Research and conclusions should be framed by general anthropological issues. Original literature should be used, rather than secondary sources. All references should be cited. The winning papers will be considered for publication in the CSAS Bulletin. Entries must be postmarked no later than Monday, April 27, 1998.

For more details, including number of copies to send, contact:

   Anne Terry Sawyier Straus, First Vice President
   Central States Anthropological Society
   MAPSS/ University of Chicago
   Pick Hall, 301
   5828 S. University Ave
   Chicago, IL 60637

1997 CSAS student paper prize winners: Winners of the 1997 Student prize competition were Marko Zivkovic (graduate) of the University of Chicago and Erik A. Dahl (undergraduate) of Centre College. In addition, Joyce Hughes of Beloit College was named for special honorable mention in the undergraduate competition. Zivkovic’s paper, Violent Highlanders and Peaceful Lowlanders: Uses and Abuses of Ethno-Geography in the Balkans from Versailles to Dayton, will be published in the English language issue of Replika, a Hungarian Social Science Quarterly published in Budapest. Dahl’s paper was entitled The Themeparking of the Desired Self and the Hyper-Reality of Ace Billiards; Hughes’s paper was Shahen-Shah: Tradition and Change in Pakistani Qawwali Music.