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a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
By
Sherry B. Ortner
Sherry B. Ortner
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.
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-8845-6
Publication date:
2006
Book Chapter
Reading America: Preliminary Notes on Class and Culture
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Published:November 2006
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