The following Anthropology students and faculty are winners in the 2010 annual "Anthropology in Action" Photo Contest.  Each image remains the property of the student photographer; for any rights or image useage, please contact the associated individual. Back to photo contest main page.

Millennium Park
On a hot summer day visitors walk and splash in the fountains of Millenium Park. (Chicago, IL)
Jonathan McLeod
1st Place Winner
$300 Prize

Coleo (First Shoot)
"Coleo" is a traditional sport in the Western Plains of Colombia. In it, "llaneros" or men of the plains, try to demonstrate their ability and strength by pulling a bull by its tail while riding very fast. (San Jose del Gauviare, Colombia)
Carlos Del Cairo
2nd Place Winner
$200 Prize

Coleo (Second Shoot)
"Coleo" is a traditional sport in the Western Plains of Colombia. In it, "llaneros" or men of the plains, try to demonstrate their ability and strength by pulling a bull by its tail while riding very fast. (San Jose del Gauviare, Colombia)
Carlos Del Cairo
2nd Place Winner
$200 Prize

Coleo (Third Shoot)
"Coleo" is a traditional sport in the Western Plains of Colombia. In it, "llaneros" or men of the plains, try to demonstrate their ability and strength by pulling a bull by its tail while riding very fast. (San Jose del Gauviare, Colombia)
Carlos Del Cairo
2nd Place Winner
$200 Prize

Harvesting yucca in the Amazon
Ashaninka woman collecting yucca from her swidden fields. A major hydroelectric project threatens to flood this and many other villages. (Pamaquiari, Peru)
Jonathan McLeod
3rd Place Winner
$100 Prize

Uxmal Skyline
Skyline from Uxmal in Mexico. (Uxmal, Mexico)
Ben McMahan
4th Place

Lone Tree in Machu Picchu Ruins
Clouds Swirl around Andean peaks and the ruins of Machu Picchu. (Machu Picchu, Peru)
Jonathan McLeod
5th Place

Looking through the wood wall
A little boy from an Amazonian indigenous community curiously looks through the wood wall at a group of adults talking inside a local house. (Checamo, Colombia)
Carlos Del Cairo
1st Honorable Mention

Peeling Potatoes
Quechuan boy practices potato peeling in a village in the Cusoc region of the Peruvian Andes . Potatoes are the primary food source in the more remote villages of the region. (Patacancha, Peru)
Jonathan McLeod
2nd Honorable Mention

A proud hunter
Ashaninka man displays pelt from a jaguar he killed the night before. The jaguar had recently taken several of his cattle. Encroaching development has degraded hunting opportunities for the jaguars and the Ashaninka. (Nueva Esperanza, Peru)
Jonathan McLeod
3rd Honorable Mention

Looters Will Be Shot
Post hurricane landscape in Coastal Texas. (Texas, USA)
Ben McMahan
Honorable Mention

Maya Mural
Detail of a Preclassis Maya mural (c. 100 BC). The figure performs a blood sacrifice. (San Bartolo, Petén, Guatemala)
Jessica MacLellan
Honorable Mention

Twin Pyramid
One half of a "twin pyramid" group at Tikal, with stelae and altars. Classic period Maya. (Tikal, Guatemala)
Jessica MacLellan
Honorable Mention

Paphos Harbour
(Phaphos Cyprus)
Khaled Al-bashaireh
Honorable Mention

Image 5
A crow consultant took us to the construction site of the Sun Dance lodge, a ceremony intimately linked with the eagle. (Crow Agency, MT)
Samrat Miller
Honorable Mention

The Archaeology of Landscape
Recording prehispanic shrines at the ancestral Tewa village of Tsiping'uinge. (Cañones, NM)
Samuel Duwe
Honorable Mention

Event
Performers take to the streets to find their next audience by the light of pyrotechnics. (Grenoble, France)
Victoria Phaneuf
Honorable Mention

Monument
A public place for private grief: the monument for those who disappeared during the Algerian War. (Perpignan, France)
Victoria Phaneuf
Honorable Mention

Mirror
Still morning over St. Mary's Lake. (Glacier National Park, MT)
William Reitze
Honorable Mention

Lost Dog
Canid skull found in the bison bone bed at the Kutoyis Site. (Glacier County, MT)
William Reitze
Honorable Mention