Past Recipients of the SEA Book Prize
2020 winners
Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump by Kathleen Millar (Simon Fraser University)
An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun by Kristin Phillips (Emory University)
2017 winner
Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa by Deborah James (London School of Economics)
2014 winner
The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India by Sarah Besky (Cornell University)
2012 winner
Coffee and Community: Maya Farmers and Fair-Trade Markets by Sarah Lyon (University of Kentucky)
2008 Winners
Global Outlaws: Crime, money and power in the Contemporary World by Carolyn Nordstrom (Notre Dame)
Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists by Richard Wilk (Indiana University)
2006 Winner
Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the Word by Theodore C. Bestor (Harvard University)
2003 Winner
Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing in Zambia by Karen Tranberg Hansen (Northwestern University)
2003 Honorable Mentions (unranked in alphabetical order)
- Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld (University of Iowa) — The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Creativity in the Andes. University of Chicago Press (1999).
- Marc Edelman (City Univeristy of New York) — Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica. Stanford University Press (1999).
- William Fisher (College of William and Mary) — Rain Forest Exchanges: Industry and Community on an Amazonian Frontier. Smithsonian Institution Press (2000).
- Carla Freman (Emory University) — High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identity in the Caribbean. Duke University Press (2000).
