
Laura Nader
Letters to and from an Anthropologist
Laura Nader(Author)
Cornell University Press
Published on 15. December 2020
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-1-5017-5224-7 (ISBN)
Description
Laura Nader documents decades of letters written, received, and archived by esteemed author and anthropologist Laura Nader. She revisits her correspondence with academic colleagues, lawyers, politicians, military officers, and many others, all with unique and insightful perspectives on a variety of social and political issues. She uses personal and professional correspondence as a way of examining complex issues and dialogues that might not be available by other means. By compiling these letters, Nader allows us to take an intimate look at how she interacts with people across multiple fields, disciplines, and outlooks.
Arranged chronologically by decade, this book follows Nader from her early career and efforts to change patriarchal policies at UC, Berkeley, to her efforts to fight against climate change and minimize environmental degradation. The letters act as snapshots, giving us glimpses of the lives and issues that dominated culture at the time of their writing. Among the many issues that the correspondence in Laura Nader explores are how a man on death row sees things, how scientists are concerned about and approach their subject matter, and how an anthropologist ponders issues of American survival. The result is an intriguing and comprehensive history of energy, physics, law, anthropology, feminism and legal anthropology in the United States, as well as a reflection of a lifelong career in legal scholarship.
Arranged chronologically by decade, this book follows Nader from her early career and efforts to change patriarchal policies at UC, Berkeley, to her efforts to fight against climate change and minimize environmental degradation. The letters act as snapshots, giving us glimpses of the lives and issues that dominated culture at the time of their writing. Among the many issues that the correspondence in Laura Nader explores are how a man on death row sees things, how scientists are concerned about and approach their subject matter, and how an anthropologist ponders issues of American survival. The result is an intriguing and comprehensive history of energy, physics, law, anthropology, feminism and legal anthropology in the United States, as well as a reflection of a lifelong career in legal scholarship.
Reviews / Votes
Letters is a carefully crafted book that masterfully weaves together several narratives. Letters challenges us all to contemplate, calmly compose our thoughts, and commit ourselves to reclaiming the art of heartfelt, handwritten communication.(PoLAR) A fascinating and eclectic documentary record, one for which different readers will find disciplinary, historical, and biographic interest in relation to different topics, exchanges, and interlocuters.
(Public Anthropologist)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
8 b&w halftones - 8 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
652 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-5224-7 (9781501752247)
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E-Book
12/2020
Cornell University Press
€27.49
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Person
Laura Nader is a Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She is author of Harmony Ideology, Culture and Dignity, and What the Rest Think of the West.
Content
Introduction
1. Getting Started in the Sixties
2. Reinventing Anthropology in the Seventies
3. Uncovering Academic Mindsets in the Eighties
4. The Ivory Tower Is No More in the Nineties
5. A Twenty-First-Century World
Epilogue
1. Getting Started in the Sixties
2. Reinventing Anthropology in the Seventies
3. Uncovering Academic Mindsets in the Eighties
4. The Ivory Tower Is No More in the Nineties
5. A Twenty-First-Century World
Epilogue