{"title":"Laura Nader","description":"Laura Nader is Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the first woman to achieve tenure in Anthropology at Berkeley, and anthropologist David Price has praised her as \"the embodied moral conscience of post-Boasian American anthropology.\"","products":[{"product_id":"controlling-processes-lectures-and-reflections-paperback","title":"Controlling Processes: Lectures and Reflections - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eControlling Processes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e offers a penetrating anthropological analysis of how power operates through cultural mechanisms in agrarian and modern industrial societies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on decades of research and teaching, Laura Nader explores: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The multiple meanings and ideological frameworks embedded in dominant conceptions of science, technology, progress, energy, and the environment.\u003cbr\u003e A compelling critique of groupthink, illuminated through George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, revealing how consensus can mask coercion.\u003cbr\u003e The systemic oppression of women through body politics and the global diffusion of patriarchal norms.\u003cbr\u003e Cultural relativism and the politics of representation, with incisive discussions of Orientalism, Islam, and the West's positional superiority.\u003cbr\u003e A model of critical pedagogy inspired by Paulo Freire, exemplified in Nader's influential University of California, Berkeley course, Anthropology 139: Controlling Processes, whose syllabus is included as a practical guide.\u003cbr\u003e Strategies for recognizing and resisting the subtle, often invisible, controlling processes embedded in education and public discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is essential reading for scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, and education seeking to understand the cultural dimensions of power and the possibilities for emancipatory critique.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51442179932383,"sku":"9781501789281","price":53.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RYYs0iRXw09781501789281.webp?v=1790178713"},{"product_id":"laura-nader-letters-to-and-from-an-anthropologist-hardcover","title":"Laura Nader: Letters to and from an Anthropologist - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura Nader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e documents decades of letters written, received, and archived by esteemed author and anthropologist Laura Nader.\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArranged 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 \u003ci\u003eLaura Nader\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67950353875167,"sku":"9781501752247","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/u19HzdgUjz9781501752247.webp?v=1791586311"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/laura-nader.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}