Winner of IBP 2015 Social Sciences

Jinghong Zhang, Puer Tea. Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic. University of Washington Press, 2014.

 

Shortlist IBP 2015 Social Sciences

Bridie Andrews, The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960. UBC Press, 2014.

Manduhai Buyandelger, Tragic Spirits, Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia. The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert and Helen Tiffin, Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan. University of Hawai’i Press, 2014.

Tina Harris, Geographical Diversions: Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions. University of Georgia Press, 2013.

Philip Taylor, The Khmer Lands of Vietnam. Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty. NUS Press / NIAS Press, 2014. 

 

Reading Committee Accolades IBP 2015 Social Sciences  

Publishers Accolade for Outstanding Production Values
Alban von Stockhausen, Imag(in)ing the Nagas: The Pictorial Ethnography of Hans-Eberhard Kauffmann and Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. Arnoldische Art Publishers, 2014.

Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the non-Specialist Reader Accolade
Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert and Helen Tiffin, Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan. University of Hawai’i Press, 2014.

Specialist Publication Accolade
Hans Ulrich Vogel, Marco Polo Was in China. New Evidence from Currencies, Salts and Revenues. Brill, 2013.                                                                                                

Best Teaching Tool Accolade
Li Narangoa and Robert Cribb, Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia 1590-2010. Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia. Columbia University Press, 2014.           

Ground-Breaking Matter Accolade
Lynette J. Chua, Mobilizing Gay Singapore. Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State. NUS Press 2014.     

Edited Volume Accolade
Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff (eds), Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders. University of Hawai’i Press, 2014.                         

Best Art Book Accolade
Venka Purushothaman (ed.), The Art of Sukumar Bose: Reflections on South and Southeast Asia. ISEAS Press, 2013.