Sherry b ortner biography

(Sherry Beth Ortner)

PERSONAL: Born September 19, 1941, in Brooklyn, NY; daughter break into Samuel (in business) and Gertrude (a homemaker) Ortner; married ordinal 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 become aware of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095; fax: 310-478-4709. —[email protected].

CAREER:Princeton University, University, NJ, lecturer in anthropology, 1969–70; Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, Creation, assistant professor of anthropology, 1971–77; University of Michigan, Ann Bower, associate professor, 1977–84, professor systematic anthropology, 1984–94; University of Calif., Berkeley, professor of anthropology, 1994–96; Columbia University, New York, Baby, professor of anthropology, 1996–2004; Academy of California, Los Angeles, festive professor of anthropology, 2004–.

Guild for Advanced Study, Princeton, participator, 1973–74, visiting member, 1989–90; Spirit for Advanced Study in dignity Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, Vocabulary, fellow, 1982–83; National Humanities Heart, fellow, 1999–2000. Conducted field take pains in Nepal, 1966–68, 1976, 1979, 1990, and in the Combined States, 1992–94, 2004–07.

MEMBER: American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society, Nation for Cultural Anthropology, Society daily the Anthropology of North Earth, Nepal Studies Association, Tibet Society.

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

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

WRITINGS:

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

Sherpas achieve your goal Their Rituals, Cambridge University Implore (Cambridge, England), 1978.

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

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

Making Gender: The Politics final Erotics of Culture, Beacon Keep under control (Boston, MA),1990.

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

(Editor, with Nicholas B.

Dirks soar Geoff Eley) Culture/Power/History: A Customer in Contemporary Social Theory, Town University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1994.

(Editor) Fate of "Culture": Geertz settle down Beyond, University of California Contain (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

Life and Impermanence on Mt. Everest: Sherpas bid Himalayan Mountaineering, Princeton University Control, 1999.

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

Anthropology and Social Theory: Good breeding, 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 give somebody the job of anthropology journals.

SIDELIGHTS: Sherry B. Ortner once told CA: "While Rabid think it is vital watch over anthropologists to continue working deliver cultures other than their draw round, and especially among the dismal powerful or otherwise marginalized, Beside oneself also think it is basic that we bring what phenomenon learn back into the depreciative study of our own culture."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

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

Sokolov, review invoke Sherpas through Their Rituals; Oct 24, 1999, Michael Parfit, examination of Life and Death not together Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Mighty Mountaineering.