Sherry Ortner (8 Jan 1941 Jahr – 18 St. 18 Min, 25 Jun 2025 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

ABOUT
- American, PhD at Chicago, taught at Columbia, U of M, and UCLA
- did fieldwork in Nepal with Sherpas, then studied American culture in Hollywood and on the middle class
- influenced by (and in) feminist and symbolic anthropology
- helped establish practice theory the anthropology of modernity

MAJOR WORKS
- Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture? (1972, essay)
- Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject (2006)

CONTRIBUTIONS
- gender and symbolism
- practice theory
- Anthropology of "American Culture"

CRITIQUES
- critiqued the notion that women are universally associated with nature, arguing that gender roles and symbols are more diverse and fluid than Ortner's framework suggests
- over-emphasis on agency in practice theory

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