Books written by Sherry B. Ortner
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Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
Collier , Jane , and Michelle Z. Rosaldo . 1981. “ Politics and Gender in Simple Societies , " in S. Ortner and H. Whitehead , eds . , Sexual meanings : The cultural construction of gender and sexuality , 359-409 .
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New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of ‘58
It is terrible , really . I wore a badge saying " No the book is not finished yet . " 2/28/00 gave a talk at the [ National Humanities ] Center about this project . The big news from that event was that Barbara Harris * showed up .
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Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream
Let us then turn to some reviews ofthe film, which was extremely well received by critics. It was on virtually every list of top ten films ofthe year. David Ansen called it a “powerhouse ofa movie” (2007b: 12). Mark Harris called it ...
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Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
First, the founder, Harris Kempner, is described as ''a Polish immigrant'' (Marcus 1992:23). Later he is described as ''a Jewish immigrant,'' but the Jewishness is immediately set aside as not relevant to the study (99).
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The Textual Condition
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake , newly revised ed . , with commentary by Harold Bloom ( Berkeley and Los Angeles , 1982 ) . A modernized version of this text has been reprinted in R. L. Stevenson's edition of Blake's ...
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Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
This book is a must read for any student of Tibet and the history of the interactions of Westerners and Tibetan peoples.
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High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
As in the case of Tengboche , the monastery was launched with a number of adult Sherpa monks who were already living in other parts of the Solu - Khumbu region . The first cohort of monks included a number of young men from Zhung and ...
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Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
One sahib (Dudley Wolfe) died of illness high on the mountain. In the other major prewar story of Sherpa ... The sahibs themselves have been upset by Sherpa, as well as sahib, 90 deaths, sometimes extremely so. Yet they have often had.
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The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond
The essays in this book were originally published as a special issue of Representations (summer 1997, No. 59) Clifford Geertz is one of the foremost figures in the reconfiguration of the boundary between the social sciences and the ...
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Screening Social Justice: Brave New Films and Documentary Activism
Sherry B. Ortner explores how the nonprofit film production company Brave New Films deploys documentary film's commitment to truth and realism to cultivate progressive political activism.
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Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory
The essays are contributed by Linda Alcoff ("Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism"), Sally Alexander ("Women, Class, and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s"), Tony Bennett ("The Exhibitionary Complex"), Pierre Bourdieu ( ...
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Sherpas Through Their Rituals
... radical ambivalence . Thus on the one hand there are cultural associations between hospitality and paradise , the image of ultimate , incomparable pleasure . One informant defined dewa , happiness , as like " when everybody is happy ...
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Screening Social Justice: Brave New Films and Documentary Activism
Brave New Films and Documentary Activism Sherry B. Ortner. References. Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1995. “The Objects of Soap ... The Rhetoric of the New Political Documentary. Carbondale: University of Southern Illinois Press. Bettig, Ronald V ...