Laura Nader is a Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She is author of Harmony Ideology, Culture and Dignity, and What the Rest Think of the West.

Laura Nader's depth is impressive. The range of fields is amazingly bold: energy, physics, law, anthropology, feminism?I could go on. Laura Nader is the first of its kind, indexing shifting terrain in the discipline and other intellectual topics.

- John Borneman, Princeton University, author of Accountability

For generations of anthropologists, the clickity-clack of Laura Nader's typewriter has provided a stirring soundtrack to Berkeley's Kroeber Hall. Offering an up-close and engaging view into the life and thinking of one of anthropology's most inspiring scholars, the spirited and often incisive correspondence's that flowed from that typewriter show what it means to communicate with conviction and without reserve. While never afraid of speaking truth to power, her letters reveal the dignified role that disagreement can play in democratic and scholarly discourse.

- Erik Harms, Yale University, author of Luxury and Rubble

The dying art of letter writing comes alive in this extraordinary collection of letters between Laura Nader and her unusually insightful correspondents. The perspective is anthropological in the fullest sense of the word as Dr. Nader shares her experiences?more than 50 years? as a teacher, researcher, activist and friend. Respectful and caring but always illuminating.

- Jerry Brown

Letters is a carefully crafted book that masterfully weaves together several narratives. Letters challenges us all to contemplate, calmly compose our thoughts, and commit ourselves to reclaiming the art of heartfelt, handwritten communication.

- PoLAR

A fascinating and eclectic documentary record, one for which different readers will find disciplinary, historical, and biographic interest in relation to different topics, exchanges, and interlocuters.

- Public Anthropologist