Lawrence Krader

Lawrence Krader (December 9, 1919 – November 18, 1998) was an American

From 1953 to 1956, he was appointed research associate at the Bureau of Social Science Research at the American University of Washington, D.C., in the area of Central Asian Studies. In 1956–1958 he became professor in anthropology and director of the Nomads Program at the Syracuse University and leader of the China Population Program at the United States Census Bureau. From 1957 to 1959, Krader became president of the Anthropological Society of Washington. From 1958 to 1963, he taught as ordinary professor at the American University in Washington, D.C., as well as being representative for ethnology and anthropology at the Social Science Council and Human Science Council of UNESCO, leader of the anthropological section of the sociology and anthropology department at CCNY, and chairman of the sociology and anthropology department at the University of Waterloo in Canada. In 1962, Krader traveled for the first time to outer Mongolia. From 1963 to 1968 Krader received finance for his research project on the Evolution of the State and Nomadism, from the National Science Foundation.

From 1964 to 1978, Krader became secretary-general of the

"I'm neither a Hegelian nor a Marxist, I'm a student of both, as Marx was a student of Hegel. But Marx was also a disciple of Hegel, which I am not, nor a disciple of Marx. I am a socialist, and have been one for nearly 60 years, but not a Marxian socialist."

— Lawrence Krader, quoted in Schorkowitz (1995, p. 6)

Works

• Peoples of Central Asia. Bloomington: Univ. u.a., 1963 (Uralic and Altaic Series, vol. 20)
• Social organization of the Mongol-Turkic pastoral nomads. The Hague : Mouton, 1963
• (ed.) Anthropology and Early Law. Selected from the writings of Paul Vinogradoff, Frederic William Maitland, Frederick Pollock, Maxime Kowalewsky, 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). Assen : Van Gorcum [u.a.], 1972
  • Karl Marx, die ethnologischen Exzerpthefte. hrsg. von . [Übers. von Angelika Schweikhart], Edition Suhrkamp, 800, 1. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp 1976
• Ethnologie und Anthropologie bei Marx. - München : Hanser, 1973
• The Asiatic mode of production: sources, development and critique in the writings of Karl Marx. Assen : van Gorcum, 1975
• Dialectic of civil society. Assen: van Gorcum, 1976.
• A Treatise of Social Labour. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1979 (Dialectic and Society, 5)
• (Vorwort) Karl Marx: Die technologisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Exzerpte. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe. Transkribiert u. hg. v. Hans-Peter Müller. Mit e. Vorwort v. Lawrence Krader. 1. Aufl. Frankfurt/M. etc., Ullstein, 1982
• Die Anfänge des Kapitalismus in Mitteleuropa'. Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 1993
• Labor and value, ed. by Cyril Levitt and Rod Hay. New York, N.Y. [etc.] : Lang, 2003.
• Noetics: The Science of Thinking and Knowing, ed. by Cyril Levitt. New York: Peter Lang, 2010.

See also

• Nous

References

Sources

• Schorkowitz, Dittmar, ed. (1995). Ethnohistorische Wege und Lehrjahre eines Philosophen: Festschrift für Lawrence Krader zum 75. Geburtstag (in German). Frankfurt a.M. / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Wien: Peter Lang.
• Kramer, Fritz W. (1991). "Vita activa: Lawrence Krader". In Dandkuhler, H.J.; et al. (eds.). Dialektik: Enzyklopadische Zeitschrift fur Philosophie und Wissenschaften 1991/92. Hamburg: Felix Meiner. pp. 149ff.

External links

• Lawrence Krader research project