Lawrence Krader

Lawrence Krader ( born December 9, 1919 in New York City, † 1998) was an eminent socialist anthropologist and ethnologist American. Major works were the origin of the state, the Asiatic mode of production and the ethnological notes by Karl Marx.

From 1936 on, he studied philosophy at the City College of New York, with Abraham Edel, Philip P. Wiener, Alfred Tarski and Rudolf Carnap. When Franz Boas, he took anthropology. He graduated in 1941 (B. A. ) with distinction. When war broke out he joined the merchant navy. In Leningrad, he learned Russian. After the war he studied at Columbia University Linguistics at two of the most important linguists Roman Jakobson and André Martinet. The development of his views on the anthropological theory of evolution and contact with Karl Korsch and Karl August Wittfogel led to intensive study of the nomads of Central Asia. He moved to the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seattle, Washington, Wittfogel's University. Krader was 1948-1951 Wittfogel's assistant. From 1952 he taught linguistics at Harvard at the Centre for Russian Studies. He received his doctorate in 1954 with a thesis on kinship systems of Altaischsprachigen steppe inhabitants of Asia. 1953 to 1956 he taught at the American University in Washington, DC, 1956 -. 58 he became a professor of Anthropology and the Directorate of Nomadism Program at Syracuse University, then head of the China Population Program at the Bureau of Census of the United States, the Presidency of the Anthropological Society of Washington ( 1957-59 ) and full professor at the American University (Washington, DC) 1958-1963.

Krader was representative of Ethnology and Anthropology in the Social Science Council and Human Science Council (UNESCO), head of the Anthropological Section of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the City College of New York, chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Waterloo in Ontario ( Canada), where he was professor from 1970 to 1972, member of the Committee on Foreign Relations at the National Academy of Sciences and the Committee on Ecology at the National research Council (Washington, DC) and 1964-1978 Secretary General of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. The National Science Foundation sponsored Kraders work on the origin of the state, research on the origin of the theory of evolution were from 1963 to 1975 supported by the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

In 1972 Lawrence Krader followed a call from the University of Waterloo, Canada to Berlin and was professor at the Department of Anthropology at the Free University, which he headed as director in very difficult times to 1982.

He is the editor of the ethnological located in Amsterdam handwritten Exzerpthefte of Karl Marx, from which the study of the works of Lewis Henry Morgan, John Budd Phear, Henry Sumner Maine and John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury has gotten better cost. Marx excerpted and commented 1879-1882 whose writings.

A Festschrift on his 75th birthday was Dittmar Schorkowitz out.

Works

  • Peoples of Central Asia, Indiana University Press ( = Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol 20), Bloomington, and others, 1963.
  • Social Organization of the Mongol - Turkic Pastoral Nomads, Mouton, s'Gravenhage, 1963
  • (Ed. ) Anthropology and Early Law. Selected from the writings of Paul Vinogradoff, Frederic W. Maitland, Frederick Pollock, Maxime Kovalevsky, Rudolf Huebner, Frederic Seebohm. Basic Books, 1966
  • Formation of the State ( Foundations of Modern Anthropology Series) Prentice- Hall, 1968
  • The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx ( Studies of Morgan, Phear, Maine, Lubbock ), Van Gorcum, Assen, 1972 Karl Marx, the ethnological Exzerpthefte. ed. L. Krader, trans. by Angelika Schweikhart, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt aM ( = Edition Suhrkamp, No. 800 ), 1976
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