| 2023 | Zeitlyn, David | On anthropological trading zones and thin description | |
| 2022 | Webb, Matthew Raj | The Flow of Craft-Marked Expertise: “Skill Regimes” in Global Fashion Production in Mumbai | |
| 2021 | Mautner, Ori | The Self in Self-Formation: Embodiment, Religious Mediation, and the Subject’s Interrelated Parts among Orthodox-Jewish Meditators | |
| 2020 | Andrews, Kyrstin Mallon | The Color of Seawater: Color Perception and Environmental Change in Dominican Seascapes | |
| 2019 | no award made | ||
| 2018 | no award made | ||
| 2017 | Myhre, Knut Christian | Tales of a Stitched Anus: Fictions, Analytics, and Personhood in Kilimanjaro | |
| 2016 | Cortesi, Luisa | An ontology of water and land in North Bihar, India | |
| 2015 | Glaskin, Katie | ‘They used to frighten us’: Other-than humans and the re-making of the social | |
| 2014 | Moran-Thomas, Amy | THE PARA-COMMUNICABLE: Political Ecologies of Nutrition and Chronic Transmission in Northern Ghana | |
| 2013 | no award made | ||
| 2012 | no award made | ||
| 2011 | Henley, Paul | Trouble in Paradise: the films of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in Bali and New Guinea | |
| 2010 | no award made | ||
| 2009 | Swift, Philip | Touching Conversion: Tangible Transformations in a Japanese New Religion | |
| 2008 | Mosko, Mark | Partible penitents: Dividual personhood and Christian practice in Melanesia and the West | |
| 2007 | Winslow, Deborah | The Village Clay: Recursive Innovations and Self-Fashioning among Sinhalese Potters | |
| 2006 | Vokes, Richard | Charisma, Creativity and Cosmopolitanism: A perspective on the power of the new radio broadcasting in Uganda and Rwanda | |
| 2005 | Costantino, Ivan | Landscapes of the Western Pacific: Anthropology and the Land of Ethnography in the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski | |
| 2004 | Henley, Paul | Spirit-Possesion, Witchcraft and the Abstract Presence of Islam: a Re-appraisal of Les Maitres Fous After Fifty Years | |
| 2003 | MacClancy, Jeremy | The Literary Image of Anthropologists | |
| 2002 | no award made | ||
| 2001 | Stevens, Hillary | Space and Power in the Soviet Forced Labour Camps | |
| 2000 | Freeman, Dena | From Warrior to Wife: Cultural Transformation in the Gamo Highlands | |
| 1999 | Heyman, Josiah | Respect for Outsiders? respect for Law?: the Moral Evaluation of High-Scale Issues by U.S. Immigration Officers | |
| 1998 | no award made | ||
| 1997 | Rival, L. | Androgynous, Parents and Guest Children: the Huaorani Couvade | |
| 1996 | Rapport, N. | The `Contrarities’ of Israel. An Essay on the Cognitive importance and the Creative Promise of both/and | |
| 1995 | Busby, C. | Of Marriage and Marriageability: Gender and the Dravidian Kinship System | |
| 1994 | Bouquet, M. | Family Trees and their Affinities | |
| 1993 | Henley, P. | South Indian Models in the Amazonian Lowlands | |
| 1992 | Roscoe, P.B. | Amity and Aggression: a Symbolic Approach to Explaining the Incest Taboo | |
| 1991 | Hann, C. | From Production to Property: Decollectivization and the Human-Land Relationship in Contemporary Eastern Europe | |
| 1990 | no award made | ||
| 1989 | no award made | ||
| 1988 | no award made | ||
| 1987 | Harrison, S. | Magical and Material Polities in Melanesia | |
| 1986 | Fuller, C.J. | The Hindu Pantheon and the Legitimation of Hierarchy | |
| 1985 | no ward made | ||
| 1984 | no award made | ||
| 1983 | Sillitoe, P. | Divide, and No One Rules | |
| 1982 | Feil, D.K. | Beyond Patriliny in the New Guinea Highlands | |
| 1981 | Shipton, P. | Strips and Patches: Towards a Demography of Landholding and Political Systems in East Africa | |
| 1980 | Donham, D. | Beyond the Domestic Mode of Production | |
| 1979 | no award made | ||
| 1978 | Gell, A. | The Gods that Play: Vertigo and Possession in Mura Religion | |
| 1977 | Jackson, M. | Ambivalence and the Last Borne: Birth-Order and Position in Convention and Myth | |
| 1976 | no award made | ||
| 1975 | Spencer, P. | Opposing Streams and the Gerontocratic Ladder: Two Models of Age Organization in East Africa | |
| 1974 | Biersack, A. | Matrilaterality in patrilineal systems: the Tongan case | |
| 1973 | Carter, A.T. | A Comparative Analysis of the Systems of Kinship and Marriage in South Asia. | |
| 1972 | no award made | ||
| 1971 | Gudeman, S. | The Compadrazgo as a Reflection of the Natural and Spiritual Person | |
| 1970 | no award made | ||
| 1969 | Davis, J. | Honour and Politics in Pisticci | |
| 1968 | Strathern, A. | Descent and Alliance in the New Guinea Highlands: Some Problems of Comparison | |
| 1967 | no award made | ||
| 1966 | no award made | ||
| 1965 | no award made | ||
| 1964 | Tambiah, S.J. | Kinship Fact and Fiction in Relation to the Kandyan Sinhalese | |
| 1963 | no award made | ||
| 1962 | no award made | ||
| 1961 | Yalman, N. | On the Purity of Women in the Castes of Ceylon and the Malabar | |
| 1960 | Brothwell, D.K. | The Paleopathology of early British Man | |
| 1959 | Peters, E.L. | The Proliferation of Segments in the Lineage of the Bedouin in Cyrenaica | |
| 1958 | no award made | ||
| 1957 | Goody, J. | The Mother’s Brother, and the Sister’s Son in West Africa; Leach, E.R. Magical Hair | |
| 1956 | no award made | ||
| 1955 | Smith, M.G. | On Segmentary Lineage Systems | |
| 1954 | no award made | ||
| 1953 | Gough, E.K. | Female Initiation Rites on the Malabar Coast | |
| Stevenson, H.N.C. | Status evaluation in the Hindu caste system | ||
| 1952 | Köbben, A.J. | New Ways of presenting an Old Idea: the Statistical Method in Social Anthropology | |
| 1951 | Leach, E.R. | Structural Implications of Matrilateral Cross-Cousin Marriage | |
| 1950 | no award made | ||
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