 In 2016, he received the Gold Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, which is awarded every three years to an anthropologist.That same year, he gave the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley, on “The Will to Punish”, and the Adorno Lectures at the Goethe University of Frankfurt on “A Critical Anthropology of Life”.In 2018, he was the first social scientist to be given the Nomis Distinguished Scientist Award, which will support five years of research on crises.