R I T E S O F P A S S A G E February 2002 Anthropology News

Readers are invited to submit short notices and photos of winners of competitions that recognize anthropological expert- ise and contributions to Stacy Lathrop at slathrop@aaanet.org.

Book on Risks of HIV Receives Award The Endangered Selt Managing the Social Risks of HIV (2000) was awarded the “Medicine &

People” award in San Diego on May 10,2001. The book, which describes research conducted on HIV-positive people living in the US and UK, focuses on how the discovery of an HIV- positive status affects an indi- vidual’s sense of identity, as

Elisa 1 Sob0 well as his or her social rela- tions. The experience of living

with HIV is described and analyzed as the authors explore the revaluation that people living with HIV and AIDS must make of the risks entailed by everyday social interactions, including those involving sex. The ways that people living with HIV and AIDS negotiate these interactions is examined in depth. The authors, Gill Green (U of Essex) and Elisa J Sob0 {UC-San Diego), are a soci- ologist and an anthropologist, respechvely.

Somma Wins Bioethics Award Daryl B Somma (Boston U) is the graduate stu- dent winner of the first annual Bioethics Interest Group (BIG) 2001 student paper contest, for her paper ‘‘The Ethical Implications of Clinical Trials on Vertical HIV/AIDS Transmission: A Feminist Perspective.” Her paper explored whether the standards utilized by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health in the 1994 clinical trials of Protocol 076 breached international ethical standards and statements of human rights in ways that spec%- cally exploited impoverished women of less- developed countries. Central to her discussion is how researchers conduct studies on subjects in lessdeveloped nations, specifically pertaining to vertical AIDS transmission. The discussion em- phasized the need to understand the human rights and biomedical tenets of beneficence, non- maleficence and justice, and pursued the mean- ings that both subjects and researchers assign to these concepts in the context of scientific investi- gation. The analysis Nhlighted the social and cultural realities that characterize women’s expe- rience of AIDS in developing nations. She con- cluded that when understood in a feminist per- spective, the AIDS trials clearly did not meet international research standards. For information about submitting a paper to BIG’S 2002 contest, contact egordo l@lumc.edu.

Segal Wins William Gilbert Award Daniel Segal received the American Historical Associa- tion’s 2001 William Gilbert Award for the best published article on teaching history. Segal was given the award for his article “‘Western Civ’ and the Staging of History in

Daniel Segal American Higher Education,” which was published in the

American Historical Review, Vol 106(3), 2000.

Johnson Receives BAS Prize At the 2001 AAA Annual Meeting in Washing- ton, DC, the Biological Anthropology Section Student Poster prize was awarded to Jennifer Johnson (U of Toronto) for “An Analysis of Isony- my Among a 19th-Century Mennonite Commu- nity.” The winning abstract: “Mate choice is in- fluenced by social and cultural factors; these choices in turn affect the composition of the gene pool of the next generation. Using information from mamage records, insight into the genetic structure of populations can be obtained. Isonyomy analysis is one method used by physi- cal anthropologists to assess the genetic structure of populations by determining the level of inbreeding occurring in a population using sur- names. In a population where surnames are passed from parent to child, the surname acts as a proxy for gene transmission. This research examines trends in the level of inbreeding among the Mennonites residing in Waterloo County, Ontario, at the end of the 19th century using Crow and Mange’s (1965) isonymy methodology. Civil marriage registrations for Waterloo County provide the data. Preliminary results demonstrate that inbreeding among this group of Mennonites is high relative to other contemporaneous Canadian populations.”

Roy Rappaport Prize Awarded At this year’s Anthropology & Environment Section Business Meeting, the fourth annual Roy Rappaport Prize was awarded to Anne Rademach- er (Yale U) for her paper “Past, Present, and Future Ecologies: Constructing Degradation and Restor- ation on the Bagmati and Bishnumati Rivers in Kathmandu.” The annual Rappaport Prize recog- nizes excellence in graduate student research

linking anthropology to ecology, environment and environmentalism. Rademacher received a cash award of $500. Rademacher’s award-win- ning paper drew on her ethnographic work among development planners, cultural restora- tion advocates and residents of sukurnbaasi (land- less migrant) communities living proximate to the Bagmati and Bishnumati Rivers, which con- verge in Kathmandu, Nepal. Both rivers are severely degraded and are active foci for intema- tionally funded ecological restoration projects. The paper focused on the conceptual pairing of ecological and cultural logics in forming defini- tions of degradation and legitimate visions of urban riverscape rehabilitation. In the paper, Rademacher asked, “When and how is cultural identity invoked, or not invoked, as a compo- nent of ecology? What do cultural invocations reveal about local struggles over the history, meaning and power encoded in an environment that simultaneously represents urban modernity and natural-cultural heritage?”

SAE Graduate Student Paper Awards At the Sodety for the Anthropology of Europe Business Meeting during the 2001 AAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, the winners of the 2001 SAE Graduate Student Paper Award were announced. They were: Antoine Pecoud (U of Oxford), for his “Cosmopolitanism and Business: Entrepreneurship and Identity among German- Turks in Berlin”; and Kimberley Coles (UC- Irvine), for her “Ambivalent Builders: European- ization, the Production of Difference, and Inter- nationals in Bosnia-Herzegovina.” See www2. h-net.msu.edu/-sae for the rules of the 2002 competition.

N APA Student Achieve men t Award The winner of the 2001 inaugural National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Stu- dent Achievement Award was a team of eight stu- dents from DePaul U and their faculty sponsor, Christina Wasson. Elena O’Curry accepted the award on behalf of her collaborators. She said the $300 prize would be donated to the Mexican Fine Arts Museum in Chicago, which also serves as a community education center.

Praxis Award Winners The 2001 Praxis Award for Excellence in Pro- fessional Anthropology was co-awarded during a special reception at the 2001 AAA Annual Meet- ing in Washington, DC, to Judith N Freidenberg (U of Maryland), for her work on exhibiting anthropological data on elderly in the US, and Kathryn A Kozaitis (Emory U), for her Elementary Science Education Partners Project. Special recog- nition was awarded to Elisa J Sob0 (UC-San Diego) for her evaluation of a Healthy Families program’s outreach and education campaign. The winners received framed certificates and $500. a

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