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| 2024 | Professor Marta Mirazón Lahr | ||
| 2023 | Professor Tracy Kivell | ||
| 2022 | Professor Gavin Murray Lucas | ||
| 2021 | Professor Fiona M. Jordan | ||
| 2020 | Professor Judith Okely | ||
| 2019 | Dr María Martínon-Torres | ||
| 2018 | Dr Madeleine Reeves | ||
| 2017 | Dr Dan Hicks | ||
| 2016 | Professor Ruth Finnegan | ||
| 2015 | Professor Chris Hann | ||
| 2014 | Professor Trevor Marchand | ||
| 2013 | Professor Phyllis Lee | ||
| 2012 | Professor Nigel Rapport | ||
| 2011 | Professor Robert Foley | ||
| 2010 | Professor Stephen Shennan | ||
| 2009 | Professor Wendy James | ||
| 2008 | Professor Daniel Miller | ||
| Professor Brian Morris | |||
| 2007 | Professor Andrew Whiten | ||
| 2006 | Professor Paul Sillitoe | ||
| 2005 | Professor Clive Gamble | ||
| 2004 | Professor Chris Stringer | ||
| 2003 | Dr Robert Layton | ||
| 2002 | Dr Maurice Bloch | ||
| 2001 | No Award | ||
| 2000 | Professor Adam Kuper | ||
| 1999 | Professor Caroline Humphrey | ||
| 1998 | Dr Nicholas Thomas | ||
| 1997 | Dr James Carrier | ||
| 1996 | Dr. Ray Abrahams | ||
| 1995 | Dr Simon Harrison | ||
| 1994 | Professor Michael Herzfeld | ||
| 1993 | Professor R.W. Wrangham | ||
| 1992 | Professor Ladislav Holy | ||
| 1991 | Dr Dan Sperber | ||
| 1990 | Dr C.G.N. Mascie-Taylor | ||
| 1989 | Dr Tim Ingold | ||
| 1988 | Dr Alfred Gell | ||
| 1987 | No Award | ||
| 1986 | Professor John Blacking | ||
| 1985 | Professor David Parkin | ||
| 1984 | Dr Alan Macfarlane | ||
| 1983 | Dr Maurice Bloch | ||
| 1982 | Professor Elizabeth Colson | ||
| 1981 | No Award | ||
| 1980 | Professor Abner Cohen | ||
| 1979 | Professor Colin Renfrew | ||
| 1978 | Professor Phillip Tobias | ||
| 1977 | Dr Peter Ucko | ||
| 1976 | Professor A. Strathern | ||
| Dr. M. Strathern | |||
| 1975 | Professor J.R. Goody | ||
| 1974 | Dr D.F. Pocock | ||
| 1973 | Dr S.J. Tambiah | ||
| 1972 | Dr J. Waechter | ||
| 1971 | No Award | ||
| 1970 | Dr Rodney Needham | ||
| 1969 | Professor J.S. Weiner | ||
| 1968 | Professor Mary Douglass | ||
| Professor Eric Higgs | |||
| 1967 | Dr Philip Mayer | ||
| Professor N.A. Barnicot | |||
| 1966 | Professor Gulliver | ||
| 1965 | Professor V. Turner | ||
| 1964 | Professor Adrian Mayer | ||
| 1963 | Derek Stenning | ||
| 1962 | Professor H. Lehman | ||
| 1961 | Hilda Kuper | ||
| 1960 | Professor J.C. Mitchell. | The Rhodesias and Ngasa Land | |
| 1959 | Professor J.A. Barnes | Norway and Rhodesia | |
| 1958 | Dr E.R. Leach | Kurdistan & North Burma | |
| 1957 | Dr Phyllis M. Kaberry | ||
| 1956 | Professor Daryll Forde | ||
| 1955 | Professor M.N. Srinivas | ||
| 1954 | Professor Max Gluckman | ||
| 1953 | Dr Donald F. Thomson | for fieldwork in Arnhem Land | |
| 1952 | Dr L.S.B. Leakey | for archaeological and anthropological fieldwork in East Africa | |
| Professor Monica Wilson | for socio-anthropological fieldwork in Southern Africa | ||
| 1951 | Dr R.F. Fortune | for fieldwork in Melanesia and North America | |
| 1950 | Dr S.F. Nadel | for fieldwork in Northern Nigeria and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | |
| 1949 | Dr C. von Fürer Haimendorf | for fieldwork in Hyderabad-Deccan and Assam | |
| 1948 | Dr Verrier Elwin | for fieldwork in India | |
| 1947 | Dr Meyer Fortes | for fieldwork in the Northern territories of the Gold Coast, in Ashanti and in Nigeria | |
| 1946 | Ian H. Hogbin | for fieldwork in Ontong Java, Solomon Islands and New Guinea | |
| 1945 | J. Eric Thompson | for fieldwork in Central America | |
| Dr. Audrey I. Richards | for fieldwork among the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia | ||
| 1944 | James Hornell | for fieldwork in the coastal areas of India, Africa and Indonesia, and in the Pacific Islands | |
| 1943 | Beatrice Mary Blackwood | for fieldwork in North America and Melanesia | |
| 1942 | James Philip Mills | for fieldwork among the Nagas of Assam | |
| 1941 | Dr Diamon Jenness | for fieldwork in Arctic America. | |
| 1940 | Dr Raymond Firth | for fieldwork in Tokopia | |
| 1939 | Professor Isaac Schapera | for fieldwork in the Bechuanaland Protectorate | |
| 1938 | Dorothy Ann Elizabeth Garrod | for fieldwork in Gibraltar, South Kurdistan and Palestine | |
| 1937 | Dr Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard | for anthropological fieldwork in the Sudan and Kenya | |
| 1936 | Professor Peter H. Buck | (Te Rangi Hioa), for anthropological fieldwork in New Zealand and in Central and Eastern Polynesia | |
| 1935 | Professor A.M. Hocart | for fieldwork in Melanesia, Polynesia and Ceylon | |
| 1934 | Miss Gertrude Caton-Thompson | for fieldwork in Egypt, the Libyan Desert and Rhodesia | |
| 1933 | Mrs Brenda Zara Seligman | for anthropological fieldwork in Ceylon and the Sudan | |
| 1932 | Melville Williams Hilton | for fieldwork in Algeria, Sahara and Belgian Congo | |
| 1931 | Rev. E.W. Smith | for fieldwork in Northern Rhodesia | |
| 1930 | Professor Bronislaw Malinowski | for fieldwork in Melanesia | |
| 1929 | John Henry Hutton | for fieldwork in the Naga Hills (Assam) . | |
| 1928 | Sidney H. Ray | for research on linguistics in the Torres Straits; | |
| Emil Torday | for research in the ethnology and ethnography of the Congo Basin | ||
| 1927 | Sir W. Baldwin Spencer | for fieldwork in Central and Northern Australia | |
| 1926 | Professor Edward Westermarck | for fieldwork in Morocco | |
| 1925 | Professor C.G. Seligman | for fieldwork in New Guinea, Ceylon and the Sudan | |
| 1924 | Dr A.C. Haddon | for fieldwork in the Torres Straits, New Guinea and Sarawak | |
