Laura Nader : letters to and from an anthropologist / Laura Nader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nader, Laura, author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nader, Laura--Correspondence.

Nader, Laura.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Anthropologists--United States.

Anthropologists.

Anthropology--History--20th century.

Anthropology--History--21st century.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This text documents decades of letters written, received, and archived by the book's author. The author 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, the author allows us to take an intimate look at how she interacts with people across multiple fields, disciplines, and outlooks. Arranged chronologically by decade, the book follows the author 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.

Contents:

Getting started in the sixties

Reinventing anthropology in the seventies

Uncovering academic mindsets in the eighties

The ivory tower is no more in the nineties

A 21st century world.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2021).

ISBN:

9781501752261

150175226X

OCLC:

1157355871