Donna Goldstein has been named winner of the 2005 Margaret Mead Award

Denver Post

University of Colorado anthropologist Donna Goldstein has been named winner of the 2005 Margaret Mead Award, given every other year to a young anthropologist in recognition of excellent research. The American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology recognized Goldstein for her 2003 book, “Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown.”

Goldstein originally visited the shantytown to study an AIDS epidemic among women there, she said in a statement. But she ended up writing about how the women use storytelling and black humor to deal with their sometimes tragic lives. (article no longer online) / >> more info on the website of Society for Applied Anthropology (they might have mistaken 2004 and 2005?

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