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  • Life and Death on Mt. Everest

    Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering

    by Sherry B. Ortner ...
    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 ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Anthropology and Social Theory

    Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject

    by Sherry B. Ortner ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    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 ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Screening Social Justice

    Brave New Films and Documentary Activism

    by Sherry B. Ortner ...
    In Screening Social Justice, award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner presents an ethnographic study of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film production company that makes documentaries intended to mobilize progressive grassroots activism. Ortner positions the work of the company within a tradition of activist documentary filmmaking and within the larger field of “alternative media” that is ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Not Hollywood

    Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream

    by Sherry B. Ortner ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • New Jersey Dreaming

    Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58

    by Sherry B. Ortner ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Selves in Time and Place

    Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal

    by Alfred Pach III, Mary Des Chene, Elizabeth Enslin, Premalata Ghimire, Todd Lewis, Robert I. Levy, Mark Liechty, Kathryn S. March0, Ernestine McHugh1, Stan Mumford2, Steven M. Parish3, Sherry B. Ortner4 ...
    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 ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Schooling the Symbolic Animal

    Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education

    by Bradley A. U. Levinson, Margaret Eisenhart, Keith Basso, Gregory Bateson, Caroline Bledsoe, Yehudi Cohen0, R. W. Connel et al1, Emile Durkheim2, Donna Eder3, Julianna Flinn4, Signithia Fordham5, Clifford Geertz6, Jules Henry7, Dorothy Holland8, Margaret Mead9, Hugh Mehan0, Jan Nespor1, John Ogbu2, Sherry Ortner3, Deborah Reed-Danahay4, Laura Rival5, Margaret Sutton6, Carlos Velez-Ibáñez7, James B.Greenberg8, Howard S. Becker9, Dr. Shirley Brice Heath0, Raymond Williams1 ...
    This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies of our present and future. The reprinted selections are contextualized in new interpretive ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • High Religion

    A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism

    by Sherry B. Ortner ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    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 ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Culture/Power/History

    A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory

    Edited by Nicholas B. Dirks, Sherry B. Ortner, Geoffrey H. Eley ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology to the philosophy of science. Michel Foucault in particular made us aware that whatever our functionally defined "roles" in society, we are constantly ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory

    Edited by Ellen Rooney ...
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