Sherry B. Ortner

Broschiertes Buch

Anthropology and Social Theory

Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Sherry B. Ortner is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58, also published by Duke University Press; Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering; Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture; and High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. She has received numerous awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the J. I. Staley Prize.

Produktdetails

• A John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338642
• ISBN-10: 0822338645
• Artikelnr.: 21441368