Background
Nader, Laura was born on September 30, 1930 in Winsted, Connecticut, United States.
(The Zapotec observe that 'a bad compromise is better than...)
The Zapotec observe that 'a bad compromise is better than a good fight'. Why? This study of the legal system of the Zapotec village of Talea suggests that compromise and, more generally, harmony are strategies used by colonized groups to protect themselves from encroaching powerholders or strategies the colonizers use to defend themselves against organized subordinates. Harmony models are present, despite great organizational and cultural differences, in many parts of the world. However, the basic components of harmony ideology are the same everywhere: an emphasis on conciliation, recognition that resolution of conflict is inherently good and that its reverse - continued conflict or controversy - is bad, a view of harmonious behaviour as more civilized than disputing behaviour, the belief that consensus is of greater survival value than controversy. The book's central thesis is that harmony ideology in Talea today is both a product of nearly 500 years of colonial encounter and a strategy for resisting the state's political and cultural hegemony.
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Nader, Laura was born on September 30, 1930 in Winsted, Connecticut, United States.
Bachelor, Wells College, Aurora, New York, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961.
Member faculty, University of California-Berkeley, since 1960;
now professor anthropology, University of California-Berkeley
visiting professor, Yale Law School, New Haven, fall 1971;
Henry R. Luce professor, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, 1983-1984;
Henry R. Luce professor School Law, Howard U., 1987-1989;
Henry R. Luce professor School Law, Stanford University, 1987-1989. Field work in Mexico, Lebanon, Morocco. Member of advisory committee National Science Foundation, 1971-1975.
Member cultural anthropology committee National Institute of Mental Health, since 1968, chairman to 1971, chairman social science research training review committee, 1976-1978. Member NAS-National Research Council assembly behavioral and social science, 1969-1971, 73-75, 75-. Member committee Nuclear and Alternative Energy Forms, NAS, 1976-1977.
(The Zapotec observe that 'a bad compromise is better than...)
Member California Council for the Humanities, 1975—1979, Carnegie Council on Children, 1972—1977. Active Council Libraries at Library. of Congress, Washington, since 1988. Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Women Geographers (Outstanding Achievement award 1990), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Center for Study of Responsive Law (trustee since 1968), Law and Society Association 1967-1972, (Harry Kalven prize 1995), Social Science Research Council, American Anthropological Association (planning and development committee 1968-1971, 1975-1976), American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Norman Milleron, September 1, 1962. 3 children.