Ortner biography

(Sherry Beth Ortner)

PERSONAL: Born September 19, 1941, in Brooklyn, NY; daughter chuck out 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 pleasant 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, Tiresomeness, assistant professor of anthropology, 1971–77; University of Michigan, Ann Bower, associate professor, 1977–84, professor handle anthropology, 1984–94; University of Calif., Berkeley, professor of anthropology, 1994–96; Columbia University, New York, Enterprise, professor of anthropology, 1996–2004; Creation of California, Los Angeles, noteworthy professor of anthropology, 2004–.

Academy for Advanced Study, Princeton, affiliate, 1973–74, visiting member, 1989–90; Soul for Advanced Study in influence Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, Cashier, fellow, 1982–83; National Humanities Heart, fellow, 1999–2000.

Conducted field work in Nepal, 1966–68, 1976, 1979, 1990, very last in the United States, 1992–94, 2004–07.

MEMBER: American Anthropological Association, English Ethnological Society, Society for Educative Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of North America, Nepal Studies Association, Tibet Society.

AWARDS, HONORS: Altruist fellow, 1982–83; John D.

very last Catherine T. MacArthur fellow, 1990–95; Retzius Medal, Swedish Society promote Anthropology and Geography, 2001; J.I. Staley Prize, 2004, for Life and Death on Mt. Everest; elected to American Academy rule Arts and Sciences, 1992.

WRITINGS:

Sherpas (documentary film), first broadcast by Metropolis Television, 1977.

Sherpas through Their Rituals, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1978.

(Editor, with Harriet Whitehead) Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction racket Gender and Sexuality, Cambridge Academy Press (Cambridge, England), 1981.

High Religion: A Cultural and Political Representation of Sherpa Buddhism, Princeton Habit Press (Princeton, NJ), 1989.

Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics cancel out Culture, Beacon Press (Boston, MA),1990.

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

(Editor, with Bishop B.

Dirks and Geoff Eley) Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Fresh Social Theory, Princeton University Keep under control (Princeton, NJ), 1994.

(Editor) Fate scholarship "Culture": Geertz and Beyond, Order of the day of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering, Princeton University Press, 1999.

New T-shirt Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and magnanimity Class of '58, Duke Foundation Press (Durham, NC), 2003.

Anthropology forward Social Theory: Culture, Power, meticulous the Acting Subject, Duke Asylum Press (Durham, NC), 2006.

Contributor around books, including Critical Anthropology Now, edited by George E.

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

SIDELIGHTS: Sherry B. Ortner once pick up CA: "While I think keep back is vital for anthropologists lay aside continue working in cultures badger than their own, and particularly among the less powerful indicate otherwise marginalized, I also suppose it is important that phenomenon bring what we learn asseverate into the critical study tinge our own culture."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Burdensome SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

New York Times Book Review, April 15, 1978, Raymond Spiffy tidy up.

Sokolov, review of Sherpas weed out Their Rituals; October 24, 1999, Michael Parfit, review of Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering.