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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p>Der <b>Ruth-Benedict-Preis</b> ist eine Auszeichnung, die jährlich von der <a href="American_Anthropological_Association" title="American Anthropological Association">American Anthropological Association</a> vergeben wird, um die Exzellenz eines wissenschaftlichen Buches anzuerkennen, das aus einer <a href="Anthropologie" title="Anthropologie">anthropologischen</a> Perspektive über ein <a href="LGBT" title="LGBT">LGBT</a>-Thema geschrieben wurde. Der Preis wurde 1986 zu Ehren der Anthropologin <a href="Ruth_Benedict" title="Ruth Benedict">Ruth Benedict</a> (1887–1948) ins Leben gerufen und wird in den Kategorien <a href="Monografie" title="Monografie">Monografie</a> und <a href="Sammelband" title="Sammelband">Sammelband</a> vergeben.<sup id="cite_ref-Ruth_Benedict_Queer_Antro_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ruth_Benedict_Queer_Antro-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-American_Anthro_Ass_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-American_Anthro_Ass-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Liste_der_Preisträger"><span id="Liste_der_Preistr.C3.A4ger"></span>Liste der Preisträger</h2></div>
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<tbody><tr>
<th>Jahr
</th>
<th>Autor
</th>
<th>Titel
</th>
<th>Kategorie
</th></tr>
<tr>
<td>1986
</td>
<td>Walter L. Williams
</td>
<td><i>The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1987
</td>
<td>Gilbert Herdt
</td>
<td><i>The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1990
</td>
<td><a href="Serena_Nanda" title="Serena Nanda">Serena Nanda</a>
</td>
<td><i>Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1990
</td>
<td><a href="Kath_Weston" title="Kath Weston">Kath Weston</a>
</td>
<td><i>Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1991
</td>
<td>Richard Parker
</td>
<td><i>Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1992
</td>
<td>Ellen Lewin
</td>
<td><i>Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1993
</td>
<td><a href="Elizabeth_Lapovsky_Kennedy" title="Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy">Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy</a> and Madeline D. Davis
</td>
<td><i>Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community</i>
</td>
<td>Buch
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1993
</td>
<td>Roger Lancaster
</td>
<td><i>Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1994
</td>
<td><a href="Esther_Newton" title="Esther Newton">Esther Newton</a>
</td>
<td><i>Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1995
</td>
<td>Joseph Carrier
</td>
<td><i>De Los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality Among Mexican Men</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1996
</td>
<td>Carter Wilson
</td>
<td><i>Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1996
</td>
<td>William L. Leap
</td>
<td><i>Word’s Out: Gay Men’s English </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1997
</td>
<td>Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang
</td>
<td><i>Two-spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality</i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1997
</td>
<td><a href="Kath_Weston" title="Kath Weston">Kath Weston</a>
</td>
<td><i>Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1998
</td>
<td>Jennifer Robertson
</td>
<td><i>Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>1999
</td>
<td>Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa
</td>
<td><i>Female Desires: Same Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures </i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2000
</td>
<td>Barbara L. Voss and Robert A. Schmidt
</td>
<td><i>Archaeologies of Sexuality </i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2000
</td>
<td><a href="Stephen_O._Murray" title="Stephen O. Murray">Stephen O. Murray</a>
</td>
<td><i>Homosexualities </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2000
</td>
<td><a href="Esther_Newton" title="Esther Newton">Esther Newton</a>
</td>
<td><i>Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2001
</td>
<td>Arlene Stein
</td>
<td><i>The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community’s Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2002
</td>
<td>Hector Carrillo
</td>
<td><i>The Night is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2003
</td>
<td>Martin F. Manalansan IV
</td>
<td><i>Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2004
</td>
<td>Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap
</td>
<td><i>Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology </i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2004
</td>
<td>Megan Sinnott
</td>
<td><i>Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2005
</td>
<td>Tom Boellstorff
</td>
<td><i>The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2006
</td>
<td>Tanya Erzen
</td>
<td><i>Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2007
</td>
<td>Saskia Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood, and Abha Bhaiya
</td>
<td><i>Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia</i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2007
</td>
<td><a href="Gloria_Wekker" title="Gloria Wekker">Gloria Wekker</a>
</td>
<td><i>The Politics of Passion: Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2007
</td>
<td>David Valentine
</td>
<td><i>Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2008
</td>
<td>Barbara L. Voss
</td>
<td><i>The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2008
</td>
<td>Mark Padilla
</td>
<td><i>Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2009
</td>
<td>Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap
</td>
<td><i>Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World</i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2009
</td>
<td>Mary L. Gray
</td>
<td><i>Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2009
</td>
<td>Rudolf Pell Gaudio
</td>
<td><i>Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic City </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2010
</td>
<td>David A. B. Murray
</td>
<td><i>Homophobias: Lust and Loathing Across Time and Space </i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2010
</td>
<td>Ellen Lewin
</td>
<td><i>Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2010
</td>
<td>Deborah Gould
</td>
<td><i>Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2011
</td>
<td>Peter Anthony Jackson
</td>
<td><i>Queer Bangkok: 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights </i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2011
</td>
<td>Roger Lancaster
</td>
<td><i>Sex Panic and the Punitive State </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2011
</td>
<td>Evelyn Blackwood
</td>
<td><i>Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2012
</td>
<td><a href="Gayle_Rubin" title="Gayle Rubin">Gayle Rubin</a>
</td>
<td><i>Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader</i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2012
</td>
<td>Margot Weiss
</td>
<td><i>Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2013
</td>
<td><a href="Susan_Stryker" title="Susan Stryker">Susan Stryker</a> and Aren Aizura
</td>
<td><i>The Transgender Studies Reader 2</i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2013
</td>
<td>Naisargi Dave
</td>
<td><i>Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2014
</td>
<td>Lal Zimman, Jenny Davis, and Joshua Raclaw
</td>
<td><i>Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality</i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2014
</td>
<td>Noelle M. Stout
</td>
<td><i>After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviety Cuba </i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2015
</td>
<td>Linda Rae Bennett, Sharyn Graham Davies
</td>
<td><i>Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity and Representations</i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2015
</td>
<td>Lucinda Ramberg
</td>
<td><i>Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2016
</td>
<td>Uriel Quesada, Letitia Gomez, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
</td>
<td><i>Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism </i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2016
</td>
<td>David A. B. Murray
</td>
<td><i>Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2017
</td>
<td>Eric Plemons
</td>
<td><i>The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans-Medicine</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2018
</td>
<td><a href="George_Paul_Meiu" title="George Paul Meiu">George Paul Meiu</a>
</td>
<td><i>Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money and Belonging in Kenya</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2019
</td>
<td>Amy Brainer
</td>
<td><i>Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2019
</td>
<td>B Camminga
</td>
<td><i>Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2020
</td>
<td>Ana-Maurine Lara
</td>
<td><i>Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2020
</td>
<td>Sarah Luna
</td>
<td><i>Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex & Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2020
</td>
<td>Paul Boyce, E.J. Gonzalez-Polled, Silvia Posocco
</td>
<td><i>Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices, and Investments after Marilyn Strathern</i>
</td>
<td>Edition
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2021
</td>
<td>Vaibhav Saria
</td>
<td><i>Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2022
</td>
<td><a href="Serena_Owusua_Dankwa" title="Serena Owusua Dankwa">Serena Owusua Dankwa</a>
</td>
<td><i>Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2023
</td>
<td>Omar Kasmani
</td>
<td><i>Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2024
</td>
<td>Asli Zengin
</td>
<td><i>Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>2025<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</td>
<td>Tamar R. Shirinian
</td>
<td><i>Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia</i>
</td>
<td>Monografie
</td></tr></tbody></table>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h2></div>
<ol class="references">
<li id="cite_note-Ruth_Benedict_Queer_Antro-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-Ruth_Benedict_Queer_Antro_1-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://queeranthro.org/awards/the-ruth-benedict-prize/"><i>The Ruth Benedict Prize.</i></a> In: <i>The Association for Queer Anthropology.</i><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 3. Dezember 2018</span>.</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3ARuth-Benedict-Preis&rft.title=The+Ruth+Benedict+Prize&rft.description=The+Ruth+Benedict+Prize&rft.identifier=&rft.date="> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-American_Anthro_Ass-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-American_Anthro_Ass_2-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=2580"><i>AAA Section Awards.</i></a> In: <i>American Anthropological Association.</i><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 4. Dezember 2018</span>.</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3ARuth-Benedict-Preis&rft.title=AAA+Section+Awards&rft.description=AAA+Section+Awards&rft.identifier=&rft.date="> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://queeranthro.org/2025/09/23/2025-aqa-ruth-benedict-book-prize-announcement/"><i>2025 AQA Ruth Benedict Book Prize Announcement.</i></a> Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA), 23. September 2025,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 2. November 2025</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3ARuth-Benedict-Preis&rft.title=2025+AQA+Ruth+Benedict+Book+Prize+Announcement&rft.description=2025+AQA+Ruth+Benedict+Book+Prize+Announcement&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fqueeranthro.org%2F2025%2F09%2F23%2F2025-aqa-ruth-benedict-book-prize-announcement%2F&rft.publisher=Association+for+Queer+Anthropology+%28AQA%29&rft.date=2025-09-23&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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