Sherry B. Ortner

Affiliations: 
Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 
Area:
Sociocultural Anthropology
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Clifford Geertz grad student UCLA
Marshall Sahlins grad student 1970 Chicago
 (Food for Thought: A Key Symbol in Sherpa Culture)

Children

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Mary Steedly grad student 1989
Renzo R. Taddei grad student 2000-2004 Columbia
Alexandra E. David grad student 2009 UCLA
Brent A. Luvaas grad student 2009 UCLA
Adam R. Fish grad student 2012 UCLA
Ellen J. Sharp grad student 2014 UCLA
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Ortner SB. (2019) Capitalism, Kinship, and Fraud: The Case of Bernie Madoff Social Analysis. 63: 1-23
Ortner SB. (2017) Social impact without social justice: Film and politics in the neoliberal landscape American Ethnologist. 44: 528-539
Ortner SB. (2016) Dark anthropology and its others: Theory since the eighties Hau: the Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 6: 47-73
Ortner SB. (2012) Against Hollywood: American independent film as a critical cultural movement Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 2: 1-21
Ortner SB. (2005) Subjectivity and cultural critique Anthropological Theory. 5: 31-52
Ortner SB. (2002) `Burned Like a Tattoo': High School Social Categories and `American Culture' Ethnography. 3: 115-148
Ortner SB. (1998) Generation X: Anthropology in a media-saturated world Cultural Anthropology. 12: 414-440
Ortner SB. (1998) Identities: The hidden life of class Journal of Anthropological Research. 54: 1-17
Fisher JF, Ortner SB. (1991) High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. The American Historical Review. 96: 1262
Ortner SB. (1990) From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar, by Maurice Bloch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). Comparative Studies in Society and History. 32: 197
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