Ortner, Sherry B. 1941-

Sexual meanings, the cultural construction of gender and sexuality( Book )
29 editions published between 1981 and 1996 in English and held by 1,106 libraries worldwide

Making gender : the politics and erotics of culture by Sherry B Ortner( Book )
13 editions published between 1996 and 2010 in English and held by 885 libraries worldwide
Making Gender both critiques and builds upon recent anthropological theory. Scholars such as Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and Marshall Sahlins have explored the dialectic between how we shape culture and how culture shapes us in a framework known as "practice theory." Ortner argues that these scholars omit crucial questions raised elsewhere, in the area of feminist theory - questions about the multiple forms of power and resistance; the forms and degrees of "agency"; the relationship of the private and intimate to large-scale structural change; and the nature of identity in a world carved up by race, ethnicity, class, and gender. Together - these essays present a new model of cultural practice that posits "embedded agency" - the ways people act within cultural contexts to change those very contexts. Rich in theoretical insights and ethnographic examples, Making Gender is a stimulating synthesis of feminist anthropology by one of its founders and foremost theorists.

Life and death on Mt. Everest : Sherpas and Himalayan mountaineering by Sherry B Ortner( Book )
7 editions published between 1999 and 2005 in English and held by 814 libraries worldwide
"Presents a compelling account of the evolving relationship between the mountaineers and the Sherpas, a relationship of mutual dependence and cultural conflict played out in an environment of mortal risk". -- Jacket.

Sherpas through their rituals by Sherry B Ortner( Book )
11 editions published between 1978 and 2001 in English and held by 635 libraries worldwide

Culture/power/history : a reader in contemporary social theory( Book )
4 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 610 libraries worldwide

High religion : a cultural and political history of Sherpa Buddhism by Sherry B Ortner( Book )
5 editions published between 1989 and 1992 in English and held by 530 libraries worldwide

New Jersey dreaming : capital, culture, and the class of '58 by Sherry B Ortner( Book )
6 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in English and held by 419 libraries worldwide
"Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner is renowned for her work on the Sherpas of Nepal. Now she turns her attention home-ward 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 experiences of the neighborhood and the high school, also written about in the novels of Philip Roth, Weequahic High School's most famous alum. Ortner provides a chronicle of the journey of her classmates from the 1950s into the 1990s, following the movement of a striking number of them from modest working- and middle-class backgrounds into the wealthy upper-middle or professional/managerial class."--Jacket.

Anthropology and social theory : culture, power, and the acting subject by Sherry B Ortner( Book )
8 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and held by 417 libraries worldwide
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 theory which depends on the interested action of social beings - specifically practice theory, associated especially with the work of Pierre Bourdieu - requires a more developed notion of human agency and a richer conception of human subjectivity. Ortner shows how social theory must both build upon and move beyond classic practice theory in order to understand the contemporary world. Some of the essays reflect explicitly on theoretical concerns: the relationship between agency and power, the problematic quality of ethnographic studies of resistance, and the possibility of producing an anthropology of subjectivity. Others are ethnographic studies that apply Ortner's theoretical framework. In these, she investigates aspects of social class, looking at the relationship between race and middle-class identity in the United States, the often invisible nature of class as a cultural identity and as an analytical category in social inquiry, and the role that public culture and media play in the creation of the class anxieties of Generation X. Written with Ortner's characteristic lucidity, these essays constitute a major statement about the future of social theory from one of the leading anthropologists of our time.

The fate of "culture" : Geertz and beyond( Book )
10 editions published between 1997 and 2007 in English and held by 394 libraries worldwide
"The essays in this book were originally published as a special issue of Representations (summer 1997, No. 59)".

La teoría antropológica desde los años sesenta by Sherry B Ortner( Book )
5 editions published between 1984 and 2001 in English and Spanish and held by 20 libraries worldwide