Sherry B. Ortner

Anthropology and Social Theory

Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338642
• ISBN-10: 0822338645
• Artikelnr.: 21441368

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Updating Practice Theory 1
Chapter One: Reading America: Preliminary Notes on Class and Culture 19
Chapter Two: Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal 42
Chapter Three: Identities: The Hidden Life of Class 63
Chapter Four: Generation X: Anthropology in a Media-Saturated World 80
Chapter Five: Subjectivity and Cultural Critique 107
Chapter Six: Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency 129
Notes 155
References Cited 167
Index 181