{"product_id":"contrarian-anthropology-the-unwritten-rules-of-academia-9781785337062","title":"Contrarian Anthropology: The Unwritten Rules of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAnalyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking and to stimulate boundary crossing in others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Laura Nader has been one of American anthropology’s leading figures since the 1960s...She is one of the founders of legal anthropology, but also has been a profound, highly documented, loyal, and liberal voice throughout  the decades. With this collection of essays, she gives an interesting overview of the topics she has been working on.... Laura Nader continues [her] line of research, superbly. Her book must be read.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The book works as a reminder of how the discipline has travelled over the past decades. It also reminds us of anthropology's traditional strength as a generalist discipline, a tradition that Nader fears is losing its force… She shows us how to talk about the things we care about while maintaining the integrity and rigour of our research. This book acts as a model for opening up anthropology, without flinching at the generalist stance that might be required.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Irish Journal of Anthropology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Overall, this volume reveals Nader to be a contrarian thinker who studies (and values) disputation, a legal anthropologist who studies the power differential between the governing and the governed, and a scholar who is committed to ethnography, hypothesis testing, and objectivity. Anyone interested in these topics will find this book an invaluable contribution to understanding both Nader’s life and anthropology more generally.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Anthropological Forum\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This [amazingly informative] book comprises a collection of selected essays and articles and represents a retrospective of [Laura Nader’s] career, making it a gift to the anthropological community…An outstanding book whose general value lies in the broad historical perspective that it offers: a full immersion in the development of the discipline of anthropology in the United States and its consequences and influences throughout the rest of the academic and public world…[It]should be used as a textbook in almost every course in anthropology... Every anthropologist should read this book as a guide to let indignation be the creative force of our own research and challenge not only existing hegemonic forces, but also pillared paradigms within our discipline.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Public Anthropology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Up the Anthropologist: Perspectives Gained From Studying Up\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eBarriers to Thinking New about Energy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Vertical Slice: Child-Rearing and Children\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e A User Theory of Law: Fourth Annual Alfred P. Murrah Lecture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Subordination Of Women In Comparative Perspective\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe ADR Explosion: Implications of Rhetoric in the Legal Reform\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003ePost-Interpretive Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eOrientalism, Occidentalism, and the Control of Women\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eFrom Legal Process to Mind Processing\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eCivilization and its Negotiations\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eCoercive Harmony: The Political Economy of Legal Models\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Three-Cornered Constellation: Magic, Science, and Religion Revisited\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Phantom Factor: Impact of the Cold War on Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14. \u003c\/strong\u003ePostscript on the Phantom Factor: More Ethnography of Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15. \u003c\/strong\u003eControlling Processes: Tracing the Dynamic Components of Power\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16. \u003c\/strong\u003ePushing the Limits: Eclecticism on Purpose\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 17. \u003c\/strong\u003eIn a Woman’s Looking Glass: Normative Blindness and Unresolved Human Rights Issues\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 18. \u003c\/strong\u003eCrime as a Category\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 19. \u003c\/strong\u003eBreaking the Silence: Politics and Professional Autonomy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 20. \u003c\/strong\u003eIraq and Democracy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 21. \u003c\/strong\u003eLaw and the Theory of Lack: The 2005 Rudolph B. Schlesinger Lecture on International and Comparative Law\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 22. \u003c\/strong\u003ePromise or Plunder? A Past and Future Look at Law and Development\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 23. \u003c\/strong\u003eWhat the Rest Think of the West: Legal Dimensions\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 24. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Words We Use: Justice, Human Rights and the Sense of Injustice\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 25. \u003c\/strong\u003eVengeance, Barbarism, and Osama Bin Laden: Full Circle\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 26. \u003c\/strong\u003eThree Jihads—Islamic, Christian, and Jewish\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 27. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Anthropologist, the State, the Empire and the “Tribe:” New Dimensions from Akbar Ahmed’s \u003cem\u003eThe Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam.\u003c\/em\u003e (Brookings Institution Press, 2013)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 28. \u003c\/strong\u003eWhose Comparative Law? A Global Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042402632023,"sku":"9781785337062","price":118.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785337062.jpg?v=1750954047","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contrarian-anthropology-the-unwritten-rules-of-academia-9781785337062","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}