Sherry B. Ortner

New Jersey Dreaming

Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58

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Produktbeschreibung

Famed anthropologist Ortner tracks down representative classmates from her mostly Jewish Newark, NJ high school class of '58 in order to examine class culture and ethnicity in America today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335986
• ISBN-10: 0822335980
• Artikelnr.: 20957999

Autorenporträt

Sherry B. Ortner is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of 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 many awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Map ix
Acknowledgments xi
Letter to the Class of '58 xv
1. Introduction:
> The Making of the Class of '58
2. Reading Class:
> 3. Drawing Boundaries:
> 4. Dealing with Boundaries:
> 5. American High Schools:
> 6. Weekquahic:
> 7. Tracks:
> What the Class of '58 Made
8. Counterlives:
> 9. Money:
> 10. Happiness:
> 11. Liberation:
> 12. Late Capitalism:
> Appendix 1. Finding People / Judy Epstein Rothbard 279
Appendix 2. In Memoriam 282
Appendix 3. Lost Classmates 283
Appendix 4. The Class of '58 Today 284
Notes 295
Works Cited 313
Index 331