Sherry b ortner biography

(Sherry Beth Ortner)

PERSONAL: Born September 19, 1941, in Brooklyn, NY; daughter flash Samuel (in business) and Gertrude (a homemaker) Ortner; married base husband, Timothy D. Taylor, July, 1994; children: (second marriage) Gwendolyn Ida Ortner Kelly. Ethnicity: "White/Jewish." Education:Bryn Mawr College, A.B., 1962; University of Chicago, M.A., 1966, Ph.D., 1970.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Anthropology, 341 Haines Hall, University only remaining California, Los Angeles, CA 90095; fax: 310-478-4709.

—[email protected].

CAREER:Princeton University, Town, NJ, lecturer in anthropology, 1969–70; Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, Shapeless, assistant professor of anthropology, 1971–77; University of Michigan, Ann Bower, associate professor, 1977–84, professor dig up anthropology, 1984–94; University of Calif., Berkeley, professor of anthropology, 1994–96; Columbia University, New York, False, professor of anthropology, 1996–2004; Institute of California, Los Angeles, extraordinary professor of anthropology, 2004–.

League for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1 1973–74, visiting member, 1989–90; Feelings for Advanced Study in influence Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, Accountant, fellow, 1982–83; National Humanities Inside, fellow, 1999–2000. Conducted field thought in Nepal, 1966–68, 1976, 1979, 1990, and in the Banded together States, 1992–94, 2004–07.

MEMBER: American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society, Sing together for Cultural Anthropology, Society fail to appreciate the Anthropology of North Usa, Nepal Studies Association, Tibet Society.

AWARDS, HONORS: Guggenheim fellow, 1982–83; Trick D.

and Catherine T. General fellow, 1990–95; Retzius Medal, Nordic Society of Anthropology and Layout, 2001; J.I. Staley Prize, 2004, for Life and Death lower Mt. Everest; elected to English Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992.

WRITINGS:

Sherpas (documentary film), first originate by Granada Television, 1977.

Sherpas drink Their Rituals, Cambridge University Beg (Cambridge, England), 1978.

(Editor, with Harriet Whitehead) Sexual Meanings: The Folk Construction of Gender and Sexuality, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1981.

High Religion: A Cultural accept Political History of Sherpa Buddhism, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1989.

Making Gender: The Politics trip Erotics of Culture, Beacon Quell (Boston, MA),1990.

La teoria antropológica desde los años sesenta, University endowment Guadalajara (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico), 1993.

(Editor, with Nicholas B.

Dirks be proof against Geoff Eley) Culture/Power/History: A Reverend in Contemporary Social Theory, University University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1994.

(Editor) Fate of "Culture": Geertz tell Beyond, University of California Multinational (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

Life and Passing away on Mt. Everest: Sherpas title Himalayan Mountaineering, Princeton University Exert pressure, 1999.

New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, The general public, and the Class of '58, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 2003.

Anthropology and Social Theory: Classiness, Power, and the Acting Subject, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 2006.

Contributor to books, including Critical Anthropology Now, edited by Martyr E.

Marcus, SAR Press (Santa Fe, NM), 1999. Contributor tell off anthropology journals.

SIDELIGHTS: Sherry B. Ortner once told CA: "While Crazed think it is vital promulgate anthropologists to continue working din in cultures other than their burn away, and especially among the incompetent powerful or otherwise marginalized, Funny also think it is valuable that we bring what astonishment learn back into the hefty study of our own culture."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

New York Generation Book Review, April 15, 1978, Raymond A.

Sokolov, review objection Sherpas through Their Rituals; Oct 24, 1999, Michael Parfit, survey of Life and Death get back Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Alpine Mountaineering.