Laura Nader: Letters to and from an Anthropologist - Hardcover

Nader, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1501752243 ISBN 13: 9781501752247

Verlag: CORNELL UNIV PR, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CORNELL UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1501752243
• ISBN 13: 9781501752247
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 422
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