Laura Nader

Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village

Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1990.

F1221.Z3.N291 1990 Anthropology Library

"Laura Nader's work on the anthropology of law has long been part of the literature's canon.... [This book] which begins with descriptions of Talea and its local institutions, history and demographics—ends in far reaching conclusions about the historical and cultural foces that have shaped local practices of social control in post colonial societies.... Nader offers much evidence that suggests the extent to which harmony and equality are competing court ideologies in the hierarchical contexts that link Talea to the world. She also provides a vantage point from which to consider the more global sources and implications of this possibility in the past and future."

From: Carol Greenhouse 1992 review of "Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village."
American Anthropologist, vol. 94, no. 4, p. 951.