Ortner Anthropology and Social Theory

Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8845-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: A John Hope Franklin Center Book

The award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ortner, Sherry B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Updating Practice Theory 1

Chapter One: Reading America: Preliminary Notes on Class and Culture 19

Chapter Two: Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal 42

Chapter Three: Identities: The Hidden Life of Class 63

Chapter Four: Generation X: Anthropology in a Media-Saturated World 80

Chapter Five: Subjectivity and Cultural Critique 107

Chapter Six: Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency 129

Notes 155

References Cited 167

Index 181

Über Autor(innen)

Sherry B. Ortner is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58, also published by Duke University Press; 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 numerous awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the J. I. Staley Prize.