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23 produkter
Fate of Culture
Geertz and Beyond
Häftad, 1999
371 kr
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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 …
Sexual Meanings
The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality
Av Sherry B. Ortner, Harriet Whitehead
Häftad, 1981
797 kr
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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 …
Sherpas through their Rituals
Häftad, 1978
331 kr
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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 …
Culture/Power/History
A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory
Av Nicholas Dirks, Geoffrey H. Eley m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
571 kr
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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 …
High Religion
A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
Häftad, 1989
477 kr
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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 …
Life and Death on Mt. Everest
Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
Häftad, 2001
785 kr
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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 …
Life and Death on Mt. Everest
Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
E-bok, 2020
617 kr
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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 …
High Religion
A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
E-bok, 2020
642 kr
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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 …
Culture/Power/History
A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory
Av Sherry B. Ortner, Geoffrey H. Eley m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
785 kr
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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 …
New Jersey Dreaming
Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58
Häftad, 2005
632 kr
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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 …
Anthropology and Social Theory
Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
Häftad, 2006
325 kr
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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 …
Not Hollywood
Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream
Inbunden, 2013
1330 kr
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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 …
Not Hollywood
Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream
Häftad, 2013
443 kr
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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 …
New Jersey Dreaming
Capital, Culture, and the Class of ''58
E-bok, 2003
651 kr
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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 …
Anthropology and Social Theory
Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
E-bok, 2006
505 kr
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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 …
Not Hollywood
Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream
E-bok, 2013
651 kr
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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 …
Screening Social Justice
Brave New Films and Documentary Activism
Inbunden, 2023
750 kr
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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 …
Screening Social Justice
Brave New Films and Documentary Activism
Häftad, 2023
260 kr
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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 …
Screening Social Justice
Brave New Films and Documentary Activism
E-bok, 2023
379 kr
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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 …
Antropología y teoría social
cultura, poder y agencia
E-bok, 2023
32 kr
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Sherry B. Ortner, quien ha mantenido un permanente interés por las teorías sobre prácticas culturales, parte de ellas para repensar los conceptos clave de cultura, agencia y subjetividad. De los ensayos que integran este volumen, algunos ofrecen una reflexión expresa sobre temas teóricos: la …
New Jersey Dreaming
Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58
Inbunden, 2003
1808 kr
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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 …
Anthropology and Social Theory
Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
Inbunden, 2006
1245 kr
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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 …
