anthropology, the other recognizing his contributions to Thai studies. He died at the age of 86 at his Ithaca, New York home on December 31, 1993. Major works Steel Axes for Stone-Age Australians (1952) People Without Politics (1958) Cultural Continuities and Discontinuities in Southeast Asia (1962) Co-authored: Siamese Rice Village (1953) Bang Chan: Social History of A Rural Community in Thailand (1978) Legacy and honors The Lauriston Sharp Prize is awarded each year to the graduate student who has contributed most outstandingly to both scholarship and the community life of the Cornell Southeast Asia Program. 1989, the Bronislaw Malinowski Award of the Society of Applied Anthropology. See also Bronislaw Malinowski Award Lauriston Sharp Prize Publications on-line Sharp, Lauriston (1952) Steel Axes for Stone-Age Australians Notes References External links Weaver, Thomas (2002) 'Lauriston Sharp: Innovator of Applied Anthropology Programs" Chapter 19, Malinowski Award Papers. Society for Applied AnthropologyAccessed 10 October 2009 Lauriston Sharp biographical piece at Minnesota State University's e-Museum Accessed 10 October 2009 1907 births 1993 deaths University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Cornell University faculty Harvard University alumni Presidents of the Association for Asian Studies 20th-century American anthropologists