Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
2013 Peter van der Veer: "The Value of Comparison"
2012 Janet Carsten: The Social Life of Blood: "Transfers and Flows in Malaysia"
2011 Marisol de la Cadena: "Alternative Archives: Understanding Indigenous Politics the Andean Way"
2010 Sylvia Rofel and Lisa Yanagisako: "Managing the New Silk Road: Italian-Chinese Collaborations"
2009 James Ferguson: "Declarations of Dependence: Labor, Personhood, and Welfare in South Africa and Beyond"
2008 J. Lorand Matory: "The Other African Americans"
2007 Veena Das: "Everyday Life and the Claims of the Other"
2006 Tanya Luhrmann: "Learning to be an Evangelical Christian"
2005 Kay B. Warren: "Transnationalism: Global Solutions, Local Realities"
2004 Paul Farmer: "Swords of Sorrow: On Violence and Modernity"
2003 Elinor Ochs: "Becoming a Speaker of Culture"
2002 Frederick and Deborah Gewertz Errington: "Culture and Cargo: On Avoiding a History of the Self-Evident and the Self-Interested"
2001 Lila Abu-Lughod: "Media and the Ethnography of Nations"
2000 Ulf Hannerz: "Foreign News: Media and the World as a Single Place"
1999 Caroline H. Bledsoe: "The Contingent Lifecourse"
1998 Daniel Miller: "The Dialectics of Shopping"
1997 Jane I. Guyer: "Thresholds and Conversions: Explorations of Africa's Articulated Economies"
1996 Anne Stoler: "Ethnography in the Archives: Colonial Studies and the Historic Turn"
1995 Virginia Dominguez: "Sameness-es"
1994 Yoram Bilu: "Recentering the Sacred: The Revival of Saint Veneration in Contemporary Israel"
1993 Jean Lave: "On Changing Practice: Three Moments in the Study of Apprenticeship"
1992 Katherine Verdery: "The Transition from Socialism: Anthropology and Eastern Europe"
1991 Gilbert H. Herdt: "Secrecy and Society"
1990 Byron Good: "Medicine, Rationality & Experience: An Anthropological Perspective"
1989 Marilyn Strathern: "After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century"
1988 Jonathan Parry: "Death in Benares"
1987 Maurice Bloch: "Prey Into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience"
1986 Emily Martin: "The Meaning of Money in China and the United States"
1985 Lawrence Rosen: "The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Islamic Society"
1984 Stanley Tambiah: "Magic, Science, Religion and the Scope of Rationality"
1983 Margery Wolf: "China and the Anthropology of Women"
1982 Gananath Obeyesekere: "The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology"
1981 Sally Falk Moore: "Social Facts and Fabrications: 'Customary' Law on Kilimanjaro 1880-1980"
1980 Robert Smith: "Japanese Society: Tradition, Self and the Social Order"
1979 Gilbert Lewis: "Pandora's Box"
1977 William Labov: "The Re-Organization of Reality"
1976 Nancy D. Munn: "The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim (Papua, New Guinea) Society"
1975 F. G. Bailey: "Morality and Expediency: The Folklor of Academic Politics"
1975 Edmund Leach: "The Marxist Heritage of Lewis Morgan"
1974 Gregory Bateson: "Units of Evolution and Mind"
1973 Elizabeth Colson: "Tradition and Contract: The Problem of Order"
1972 Sidney Mintz: "The Past as a New Present: Caribbean Social History and the Modern World"
1971 Lloyd A. Fallers: "The Social Anthropology of the Nation-State"
1970 Floyd Lounsbury: "Historical Studies in the Language of Kinship"
1969 John Murra: "Reciprocity and Redistribution in Andean Civilizations"
1968 Ward A. Goodenough: "Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology"
1967 McKim Marriott in collaboration with Stanley A. Freed and Ralph W. Nicholas: "Hindu Caste Ranking"
1966 Victor W. Turner: "The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure."
1965 Robert McC. Adams: "The Evolution of Urban Society: Early Mesopotamia and Pre Hispanic Mexico"
1964 Fred Eggan: "The American Indian: Perspectives for the Study of Social Change"
1963 Meyer Fortes: "Kinship and the Social Order: The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan"
1963 Leslie A. White: "Lewis Henry Morgan: The Man, The Scientist"