Sherry Ortner (8 янв 1941 г. – 19 ч 39 мин, 25 июн 2025 г.)
Описание:
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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Дата:
8 янв 1941 г.
19 ч 39 мин, 25 июн 2025 г.
~ 84 years