Sherry B. Ortner

PROFESSOR

(Ph.D., University of Chicago 1970)

Personal Homepage

Class Websites

Office: 364 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-825-5447
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: sortner@anthro.ucla.edu

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Research Interests

Critical cultural and social theory, including feminist theory; late capitalism in the US and globally; contemporary American culture in the wider world; theory and ethnography of media; Hollywood and the indie film scene.

Selected Publications

2006. Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject. Duke University Press.

2003. New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of ’58. Duke University Press

1999 Life and Death on Mount Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering. Princeton University Press.

1999 (ed.) The Fate of “Culture”: Geertz and Beyond. University of California Press.

1996 Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Beacon Press.

1994 Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory (co-edited with N.B. Dirks and G. Eley), Princeton University Press.

1989 High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Princeton University Press.

1981 Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality (co-edited with Harriet Whitehead), Cambridge University Press.

1978 Sherpas through their Rituals. Cambridge University Press.

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