Laura Nader - Letters to and From an Anthropologist

"Laura Nader is a towering figure as anthropologist, teacher, and public intellectual. Her letters give a glimpse of academic life mostly unseen by academics and by the general public. The collection includes letters from academic colleagues, but it also contains correspondence from lawyers, politicians, citizens, people on death row, Peace Corps workers, members of the military, scientists, and more."--

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Nader
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781501752247
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-5224-7
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology