Sherry B. Ortner
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Life and Death on Mt. Everest
9 editions
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1999
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Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
8 editions
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2006
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Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture
2 editions
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1996
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New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58
7 editions
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2003
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Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream
5 editions
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2013
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High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
12 editions
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1989
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Sherpas through their Rituals
8 editions
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1978
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Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality
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4 editions
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1981
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The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond
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1999
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Ανθρωπολογία, γυναίκες και φύλο
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1994
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“Ethnography of course means many things. Minimally, however, it has always meant the attempt to understand another life world using the self - as much of it as possible - as the instrument of knowing.”
― Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
― Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
“Woman is not "in reality" any closer to (or further from) nature than man - both have consciousness, both are mortal.”
― Feminist Studies
― Feminist Studies
“In other words, woman's consciousness- her membership, as it were, in culture - is evidence in part by the very fact that she accepts her own devaluation and takes culture's point of view.”
― Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
― Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
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