Professor Rebecca Lester's book won 3rd prize in the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing

7.31.20 | Faculty , Awards & Notables

Professor Rebecca Lester's new book, Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America, won 3rd prize in the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. Congratulations, Professor Lester!

Please click below for more information and a full list of winners and their book titles on the Society for Humanistic Anthropology website, http://sha.americananthro.org/ .

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Professor Rebecca Lester's book won 3rd prize in the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing

Professor Rebecca Lester's book won 3rd prize in the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing

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