Sherry Ortner

Sherry Ortner

Sherry Beth Ortner (born September 19, 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist and has been Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA since 2004. She grew up in a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Weequahic High School, as did Philip Roth and Richie Roberts. [ [http://magazine.uchicago.edu/9602/9602Ortner.html The long way home, University of Chicago Magazine, February 96 ] ] Neatby, Nicole. [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-132192590.html "Sherry B. Ortner, New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58."] , "Labour/Le Travail", March 22, 2005. Accessed July 8, 2008. "SHERRY ORTNER is a respected anthropologist who has turned her attention away from Sherpas in Nepal to the Class of '58 Weequahic high school in Newark, New Jersey, the high school from which she herself graduated that year."] She received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in 1962. She then studied anthropology at the University of Chicago with Clifford Geertz and obtained her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1970 for her fieldwork among the Sherpas in Nepal. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University. She has done extensive fieldwork with the Sherpas of Nepal, on religion, politics, and the Sherpas’ involvement in Himalayan mountaineering. Her final book on the Sherpas, "Life and Death on Mt. Everest", was awarded the J.I. Staley prize for the best anthropology book of 2004.

In the early 1990s, Ortner switched her research to the United States. Her first project was on the meanings and workings of “class” in the United States, using her own high school graduating class as her ethnographic subjects. She is currently developing a project on the relationship between Hollywood films and American culture. She also publishes regularly in the areas of cultural theory and feminist theory.

Sherry Ortner was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" grant in 1990. [Beale, lewis. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&s_site=miami&p_multi=MH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB341856513D94F&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "GRANT HONORS WORK ON SLAVERY, SHERPAS AWARDS SALUTE ARCANE ACADEMIA"] , "The Miami Herald", August 5, 1990. Accessed July 8, 2008.] She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded the Retzius Medal of the Society of Anthropology and Geography of Sweden.

Ortner was previously married to Robert Paul, a cultural anthropologist now at Emory University. She is currently married to Timothy D. Taylor, a Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology at UCLA.

elected publications

*(1974) "Is female to male as nature is to culture?" Pp. 67-87 in Woman, Culture and Society, edited by M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
*(1978) Sherpas through their Rituals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
*(1981) Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality (co-edited with Harriet Whitehead). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
*(1984) "Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties." Comparative Studies in Society and History 26(1):126-166.
*(1989) High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
*(1996) Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Beacon Press.
*(1999) Life and Death on Mount Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
*(1999) (ed.) The Fate of “Culture”: Geertz and Beyond. Berkely, CA: University of California Press.
*(2003) New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of ’58. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
*(2006) Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject. Duke University Press.

References

External links

* [http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/faculty/ortner/ Sherry Ortner faculty profile]
* [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/ortner_sherry.html Biography of Sherry Beth Ortner]
* [http://magazine.uchicago.edu/9602/9602Ortner.html The Long Way Home] article in University of Chicago Magazine, Feb 1996.
* [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=13243898270246 Review of Ortner's book "Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture"]


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