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