It is with great pleasure that the Society for Cultural Anthropology announces the Gregory Bateson Book Prize winners for this year.

2021 Gregory Bateson Book Prize Winner

Ana-Maurine Lara for Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty (SUNY Press)

Runner-Up

Laurence Ralph for The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence (University of Chicago Press)

Honorable Mention

Alex Blanchette for Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm (Duke University Press)

Jury

We thank the selection committee: Sareeta Amrute, Shaka McGlotten, and Alan Klima.