Nadel Essay Prize

The Nadel Essay Prize is an award in the field of anthropology presented by the Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology for excellence in ethnographic writing relating to the Asia Pacific region, including Australia. Inaugurated in 2011 to commemorate 60 years of Anthropology at the Australian National University, the Prize commemorates the life and work of Siegfried Frederick Nadel, Foundation Professor of Anthropology. Eligible papers are those submitted or accepted for publication by an early career researcher.

Winners

 * 2011: Catherine Ingram, Tradition and Divergence in Southwestern China: Kam Big Song Singing in the Village and on Stage
 * 2012:
 * 2013: Judith Bovensiepen, Paying for the Dead: On the Politics of Death in Independent Timor-Leste
 * 2014: Kyung-Nan Koh, Translating ‘Sustainability’ in Hawai'i: The Utility of Semiotic Transformation in the Transmission of Culture
 * 2015:
 * 2016: Ho Cheuk-Yu, Affective Housing Ownership in China's New Property Regime
 * 2017: Sacha Cody, Borrowing from the Rural to Help the Urban