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  | | Not Hollywood Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream by Sherry B. Ortner Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-5426-0, ISBN: 0-8223-5426-8 "The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner combines her trademark ethnographic expertise with critical film interpretation to explore the independent film scene in New York and Los Angeles since the late 1980s. "Not Hollywood" is both a study of the lived experience of that scene and a critical examination of America as seen through the lenses of independent filmmakers. Based on interviews with scores of directors and producers, Ort ..." |
 | | Anthropology and Social Theory(Updated) Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) by Sherry B. Ortner Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2006 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3864-2, ISBN: 0-8223-3864-5 "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 subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive essays in this volume each advocate reconfiguring, rather than abandoning, the concept of culture. Similarly, they all suggest that a ..." |
 | | New Jersey Dreaming(1st Edition) Capital, Culture, and the Class of ‘58 by Sherry B. Ortner Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2005 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3598-6, ISBN: 0-8223-3598-0 "Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner is renowned for her work on the Sherpas of Nepal. Now she turns her attention homeward to examine how social class is lived in the United States and, specifically, within her own peer group. In New Jersey Dreaming, Ortner returns to her Newark roots to present an in-depth look at Weequahic High School's Class of 1958, of which she was a member. She explores her classmates’ recollected experienc ..." |
 | | Life and Death on Mt. Everest(Updated) Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering by Sherry B. Ortner Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2001 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-07448-1, ISBN: 0-691-07448-8 "The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about leaving the bodies where they could not be recovered, rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate expedition far below. They stared at the frozen corpse, stunned. They said nothing, but an American climber observing the scene interpreted th ..." |
 | | Making Gender(Updated) The Politics and Erotics of Culture by Sherry B. Ortner Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1997 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-4633-3, ISBN: 0-8070-4633-7 "In this collection of new and previously published essays, Sherry Ortner draws on her more than two decades of work in feminist anthropology to offer a major reconsideration of culture and gender. Making Gender is rich in theoretical insights and ethnographic examples, offering a stimulating synthesis of the field by one of its founders and foremost theorists. "A tour-de-force journey through both the work of an outstanding anthropologi ..." |
 | | Sherpas through their Rituals(1st Edition) (Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems) by Sherry B. Ortner, Catherine A. Mackinnon Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1978 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-29216-0, ISBN: 0-521-29216-6 "The Sherpas of the Himalayas practice Tibetan Buddhism, a variety of Mahayana Buddhism. This is a general interpretation of Sherpa culture through examining the relationship between the Sherpas' Buddhism and other aspects of their society, and a theoretical contribution to the study of ritual and religious symbolism. In analysing the symbols of Sherpa rituals, professor Ortner leads us toward the discovery of conflict, contradiction, an ..." |
 | | The Fate of "Culture"(1st Edition) Geertz and Beyond (Representations Books) by Sherry B. Ortner, Stephen Greenblatt, Renato I. Rosaldo, William H. Sewell Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-21601-3, ISBN: 0-520-21601-6 "Clifford Geertz is one of the foremost figures in the reconfiguration of the boundary between the social sciences and the humanities in the second half of the twentieth century. Expanding the power and complexity of the anthropological concept of culture, his work is both foundational to, and in critical counterpoint with, that vast interdisciplinary spectrum of scholarship known today as 'cultural studies'. This book brings together se ..." |
 | | Sexual Meanings The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality by Sherry B. Ortner, Harriet Whitehead Paperback, 446 Pages, Published 1981 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-28375-5, ISBN: 0-521-28375-2 "This 1996 collection of essays deals with the ways in which sex and gender are socially organized and conceptually construed in various cultures. Its scope is not limited to a series of cross-cultural issues of sex roles and sexual status but rather encompasses a wide range of sex-related practices and beliefs. Ceremonial virginity in Polynesian ritual androgynism in New Guinea, the valorization of young African bachelors, and fantasies ..." |
 | | New Jersey Dreaming(Updated) Capital, Culture, and the Class of ‘58 by Sherry B. Ortner Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2003 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3108-7, ISBN: 0-8223-3108-X "Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner is renowned for her work on the Sherpas of Nepal. Now she turns her attention homeward to examine how social class is lived in the United States and, specifically, within her own peer group. In New Jersey Dreaming, Ortner returns to her Newark roots to present an in-depth look at Weequahic High School's Class of 1958, of which she was a member. She explores her classmates’ recollected experienc ..." |
 | | Life and Death on Mt. Everest(1st Edition) by Sherry B. Ortner Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 1999 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-00689-5, ISBN: 0-691-00689-X " The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about leaving the bodies where they could not be recovered, rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate expedition far below. They stared at the frozen corpse, stunned. They said nothing, but an American climber observing the scene interpreted ..." |
 | | Making Gender(1st Edition) The Politics and Erotics of Culture by Sherry B. Ortner Hardcover, 262 Pages, Published 1996 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-4632-6, ISBN: 0-8070-4632-9 "Anthropology began as the study of how diverse cultures shape differently the human condition. Culture, it was understood, makes the man or woman. More recently, this has been seen as too conservative a credo and some anthropologists have shifted to a study of how people overcome culture. This shift in emphasis from acculturation to empowerment is reflected in this collection of essays on feminism written over a 20-year time span. The e ..." |
 | | High Religion(1st Edition) A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism by Sherry B. Ortner, Geoff Eley, Nicholas Dirks Paperback, 269 Pages, Published 1989 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-02843-9, ISBN: 0-691-02843-5 "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 departure from "folk" or "popular" Buddhism. Sherry Ortner is the first to integrate social scientific and historical modes of analysis in a study of the Sherpa monasteries and one of the very few to attempt such an account for Buddhist monasteries ..." |
 | | Screening Social Justice Brave New Films and Documentary Activism by Sherry B. Ortner Paperback, Published 2023 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-1951-0, ISBN: 1-4780-1951-4 |
 | | Not Hollywood Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream (Hardback) by Sherry B. Ortner Hardcover, 331 Pages, Published 2013 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-5410-9, ISBN: 0-8223-5410-1 "The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner combines her trademark ethnographic expertise with critical film interpretation to explore the independent film scene in New York and Los Angeles since the late 1980s. "Not Hollywood" is both a study of the lived experience of that scene and a critical examination of America as seen through the lenses of independent filmmakers. Based on interviews with scores of directors and producers, Ort ..." |
 | | Life and Death on Mt. Everest Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering by Sherry B. Ortner Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2000 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-565211-6, ISBN: 0-19-565211-8 |
 | | Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems Ser.(Illustrated) Sherpas Through Their Rituals by Sherry B. Ortner Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1978 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-21536-7, ISBN: 0-521-21536-6 |
 | | High Religion A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism by Sherry B. Ortner 269 Pages, Published 2020 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21807-6, ISBN: 0-691-21807-2 "At the theoretical level, the book contributes to an emerging theory of "practice," an explanation of the relationship between human intentions and actions on the one hand, and the structures of society and culture that emerge from and feed ..." |
 | | Life and Death on Mt. Everest Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering by Sherry B. Ortner Published 2020 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21177-0, ISBN: 0-691-21177-9 "1962. “We build a School for Sherpa Children.” National Geographic 122, no. 4 ( October): 548–51. ______. 1964. Schoolhouse in the Clouds. ... Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. Hooker, J. D. 1854 (1969). ... Hunt, John. 1953. The Ascent of Everest. New York: E. P. Dutton. ______. 1978. Life Is Meeting. London : ..." |
 | | Selves in Time and Place Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal by Debra Skinner, Iii Pach Alfred, Dorothy Holland, Contributor-Elizabeth Enslin, Contributor-Premalata Ghimire, Contributor-Todd Lewis, Contributor-Mark Liechty, Contributor-Ernestine Mchugh, Contributor-Stan Mumford, Mary Des Chene, Robert I. Levy, Kathryn S. March, Sherry B. Ortner, Steven M. Parish, Contributor-Kathr Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1998 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8476-8599-8, ISBN: 0-8476-8599-3 "Recently anthropology has turned to accounts of persons-in-history/history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social, political, and cultural discourses and practices. In this approach, power, agency, and history are made explicit as individuals and groups work to constitute themselves in relation to others and within and against sociopolitical and historical contexts. Contrib ..." |
 | | Recapturing Anthropology Working in the Present (Arroyo Hondo Archaeological Series) by Richard G. Fox, Lila Abu-Lughod, Arjun Appadurai, Jose F. Limon, Sherry B. Ortner, Paul Rabinow, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Joan Vincent, Graham Watson, Richard Gabriel Fox Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 1991 by Sar Press ISBN-13: 978-0-933452-77-0, ISBN: 0-933452-77-2 "Anthropologist are in a funk these days: other fields, such as history and literary studies, are having a heyday with concepts anthropologists developed but have since discredited, and postmodernists just jeer at what they actually do believe in. Ten essays suggest remedies such as throwing everything out and starting over, limiting their study to the American middle-class, and undertaking an "archaeology" (or perhaps psychoanalysis) of ..." |
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