Homo Sapiens and the Longue Durée

Laura Nader
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Laura Nader: Laura Nader is professor of anthropology at the University of California. She has carried out fieldwork among the Zapotec of Oaxaca, Mexico, among Shia Moslems in southern Lebanon and worked extensively on the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) movement in the United States. In 1965, Dr Nader was both editor and contributor to The Ethnography of Law. Her monograph Talea and juquila: a comparison of Zapotec Social organization led to the production of a film, To Make the Balance (1966), and later a PBS film Little Injustices (1980). Her most recent books are Harmony Ideology (1990), Naked Science (1996), and the Life of the Law (2002). Her joint-authored work with Prof. Ugo Mattei entitled Plunder:When the Rule of Law is Illegal will be published in March 2008. Address: Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Journal of Developing Societies, 2008, vol. 24, issue 1, 83-94

Abstract: This essay connects anthropology with the spirit and substance of André Gunder Frank's world history project, emphasizing the need to integrate efforts to understand global colonization by homo sapiens with the expansion of powerful complex societies, sometimes called empires. It also pursues Frank's ‘hegemonic truncation in the world system’ by comparing structural similarities of the Mongols and the Europeans. Backwards history, as Frank and others call it, moves from the present to the past as a method for understanding continuing Euro-American expansions.

Keywords: A.G. Frank; Euro-American expansions; global colonization; homo sapiens; Mongols; world history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1177/0169796X0702400105

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