AustLit
History
'The AIATSIS Stanner Award is presented biennially to the best academic manuscript written by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander author.
'The Award is open to all Indigenous authors, scholars and academics, however submissions must not be under consideration by other publishers or simultaneously entered in to other awards, and no more than twenty per cent of the submission previously published. Please read the conditions of entry carefully before considering submitting.' (https://aiatsis.gov.au/news-and-events/events/special-events/stanner-award)
N.B. Only authors, works within AustLit's scope are included.
Notes
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Awarded annually by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in honour of one of its founders, the late anthropologist Emeritus Professor W.E.H. (Bill) Stanner.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2017
winner Josie Douglas for ‘Kin and Knowledge: the meaning and acquisition of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in the lives of young Aboriginal people in Central Australia. -
Year: 2013
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Year: 2011
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Year: 2007
winner Stanner Award to Riley Book 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 16 January no. 417 2008; (p. 42) -
Year: 2004
joint winner y Shadow Lines Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2003 Z1051216 2003 single work biography (taught in 5 units) 'The story of Jessie Argyle, born in the remote East Kimberley and taken from her Aboriginal family at the age of five, and Edward Smith, a young Englishman escaping the rigid structures of London. In a society deeply divided on racial lines, Edward and Jessie met, fell in love and, against strong opposition, eventually married. Despite unrelenting surveillance and harassment the Smith home was a centre for Aboriginal cultural and social life for over thirty years.' (Source: back cover, 2003 edition)
Works About this Award
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Award Promises to Spread Dr Josie’s Research 2017 single work column
— Appears in: Land Rights News , October vol. 7 no. 3 2017; (p. 5)'THE CLC’s senior policy officer Dr Josie Douglas has won a prestigious national award for analysing how young people in Central Australia learn and practice Aboriginal ecological knowledge.'
(Source : Abstract)
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Joint Winners of Stanner Award 2006 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 15 March no. 371 2006; (p. 31)