Sherry B Ortner

High Religion (Book)

Sherry B Ortner

ISBN:9780691028439

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:269

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Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject (Book)

Sherry B Ortner

ISBN:9780822338642

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:200

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Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject (Book)

Sherry B Ortner

ISBN:9780822338116

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...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:188

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Fate of Culture": Geertz and Beyond" (Book)

Sherry B Ortner

ISBN:9780520216013

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:176

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Life & Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas & Himalayan Mountaineer (Book)

Sherry B Ortner

ISBN:9780691074481

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:392

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Making Gender (Book)

Sherry B Ortner

ISBN:9780807046333

A major reconsideration of culture and gender by a founder of feminist anthropology.



" An] engaging book. . . . A fine example of the way anthropology helps us to think about ourselves."
--Tanya Luhrmann...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58 (Book)

Sherry B Ortner

ISBN:9780822335986

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...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:340

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New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58 (Book)

Sherry B Ortner

ISBN:9780822331087

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...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:360

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Sherpas Through Their Rituals (Book)

Sherry B Ortner

ISBN:9780521292160

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:208

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