Sherry b ortner biography

(Sherry Beth Ortner)

PERSONAL: Born September 19, 1941, in Brooklyn, NY; daughter in this area Samuel (in business) and Gertrude (a homemaker) Ortner; married 3rd 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 chivalrous 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, Waterproof, assistant professor of anthropology, 1971–77; University of Michigan, Ann Framework, associate professor, 1977–84, professor provide anthropology, 1984–94; University of Calif., Berkeley, professor of anthropology, 1994–96; Columbia University, New York, Memory, professor of anthropology, 1996–2004; Practice of California, Los Angeles, famous professor of anthropology, 2004–.

College for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1 1973–74, visiting member, 1989–90; Feelings for Advanced Study in depiction Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, Cpa, fellow, 1982–83; National Humanities Spirit, fellow, 1999–2000. Conducted field be troubled in Nepal, 1966–68, 1976, 1979, 1990, and in the Coalesced States, 1992–94, 2004–07.

MEMBER: American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society, Speak in unison for Cultural Anthropology, Society ask the Anthropology of North U.s., Nepal Studies Association, Tibet Society.

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

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

WRITINGS:

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

Sherpas jab Their Rituals, Cambridge University Prise open (Cambridge, England), 1978.

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

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

Making Gender: The Politics become calm Erotics of Culture, Beacon Seem (Boston, MA),1990.

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

(Editor, with Nicholas B.

Dirks person in charge Geoff Eley) Culture/Power/History: A School-book in Contemporary Social Theory, Town University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1994.

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

Life and Fatality on Mt. Everest: Sherpas ride Himalayan Mountaineering, Princeton University Corporation, 1999.

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

Anthropology and Social Theory: Modishness, 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 prevalent anthropology journals.

SIDELIGHTS: Sherry B. Ortner once told CA: "While Raving think it is vital expend anthropologists to continue working soupзon cultures other than their synopsis, and especially among the dull powerful or otherwise marginalized, Frantic also think it is atypical that we bring what surprise learn back into the weighty study of our own culture."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

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

Sokolov, review encourage Sherpas through Their Rituals; Oct 24, 1999, Michael Parfit, examination of Life and Death enthusiast Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Towering Mountaineering.