Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
- Sherry B. Ortner
- Sociology
- 9 November 2006
In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and…
Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties
- Sherry B. Ortner
- SociologyComparative Studies in Society and History
- 1 January 1984
Every year, around the time of the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, the New York Times asks a Big Name anthropologist to contribute an op-ed piece on the state of the field.…
Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture
- Sherry B. Ortner
- Sociology
- 1972
Much of the creativity of anthropology derives from the tension between two sets of demands: that we explain human universals, and that we explain cultural particulars. By this canon, woman provides…
Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal
- Sherry B. Ortner
- SociologyComparative Studies in Society and History
- 1 January 1995
L'A. etudie les effets de ce qu'il appelle le refus ethnographique concernant une serie d'etudes consacree a la resistance. Il montre que la plupart de ces etudes sont limitees par le manque de…
High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
- Sherry B. Ortner
- Sociology
- 1 December 1991
An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that was a major…
Subjectivity and cultural critique
- Sherry B. Ortner
- Art
- 1 March 2005
In the many works that try to bring back ‘the actor’ in some sense, there is a tendency to avoid questions of subjectivity, that is, complex ‘structures of feeling’ (in Raymond Williams’s phrase).…
Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
- Sherry B. Ortner
- Biology, History
- 1999
This book is a collection of short stories and anecdotes from around the world written by and about monks and nuns dating back to the 16th Century to the present day.
SPECIFYING AGENCY The Comaroffs and Their Critics
- Sherry B. Ortner
- Sociology
- 1 January 2001
This article addresses the debate over whether or not the Of Revelation and Revolution (RR) project has, compared to earlier Comaroff ethnography, adequately addressed issues of Tswana 'agency.' I…
On Key Symbols
- Sherry B. Ortner, Sarah Lawrence
- Art
- 2009
IT IS by no means a novel idea that each culture has certain key elements which, in an ill-defined way, are crucial to its distinctive organization. Since the publication of Benedict’s Patterns of…
Sherpas Through Their Rituals
- Sherry B. Ortner
- History
- 14 April 1978
Preface 1. Introduction: some notes on ritual 2. The surface contours of the Sherpa world 3. Nyungne: problems of marriage, family and asceticism 4. Hospitality: problems of exchange, status and…
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