The Development and Meaning of Social Control

Laura Nader is an anthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley. She is one of a very small number of women holding full professorships at the school. She has specialized for years in studying primitive systems of justice. Mrs. Nader made her name in anthropology with her study of the Zapotek Indians of Mexico. She has one sister, Claire, and two brothers Shafeek and Ralph.
Part of the National Affairs Series: Justice - Tipped In Whose Favor?