This year’s recipient for the Edward Sapir Book Prize, awarded at the American Anthropological Association Meeting in Washington D.C., was Kathryn Woolard. She received the award for her book: Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia (Oxford 2016).
Two honorable mention awards were given to Sonia Das for her book, Linguistic Rivalries: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts (Oxford 2016), and to Erika Hoffman-Dilloway for her book, Signing and Belonging in Nepal (Gallaudet 2016).
Congratulations to all the winners!