Marilyn Strathern - Distinctions

Distinctions

Due to Strathern’s intensive work in her field, she had earned many honors and distinctions. Below are listed her awards:

  • Rivers Memorial Medal, Royal Anthropologist Inst. (1976)
  • Fellow of British Academy (1987)
  • Honorary Degree Sc. Edinburgh (1993)
  • Honorary Degree Sc. Copenhagen (1994)
  • Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1996)
  • Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to Social Anthropology (2001)
  • Viking Fund Medal, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (2003) (last awarded in 1972.)
  • Huxley Medal (2004)
  • Honorary Degree Lit, Oxford (2004)
  • 30th Anniversary Independence Medal, Papua New Guinea (2005)
  • Honorary Degree Pol., Helsinki (2006)
  • Honorary Degree, Panteion University, Athens (2006)
  • Honorary Degree Sc., Durham (2007)
  • Honorary Degree Philosophy, University Papua New Guinea (2009)
  • Honorary Degree Social Sciences, Belfast (2009)


In 2000, artist Daphne Todd was commissioned by Girton College, Cambridge, to paint a portrait of Mistress Marilyn Strathern. This painting, which depicted Marilyn with two heads on separate panels, went on to win Todd the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Ondaatje for Portraiture in 2001.

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