LIBROS DEL AUTOR: sherry b ortner

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  • Screening Social Justice
    Sherry B. Ortner
    In Screening Social Justice, award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner presents an ethnographic study of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film production company that makes documentaries intended to mobilize progressive grassroots activism. Ortner positions the work of the company within a tradition of activist documentary filmmaking and within the larger field of 'alternative ...
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    30,70 €

  • Life and Death on Mt. Everest
    Sherry B. Ortner
    The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about leaving the bodies where they could not be recovered, rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate expedition far below. They stared at the frozen corpse, stunned. They said nothing...
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    56,54 €

  • Making Gender
    Sherry B Ortner / Sherry BOrtner
    In this collection of new and previously published essays, Sherry Ortner draws on her more than two decades of work in feminist anthropology to offer a major reconsideration of culture and gender. Making Gender is rich in theoretical insights and ethnographic examples, offering a stimulating synthesis of the field by one of its founders and foremost theorists.'A tour-de-force j...
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    20,90 €

  • High Religion
    Sherry B. Ortner / Sherry BOrtner
    An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that was a major departure from 'folk' or 'popular' Buddhism. Sherry Ortner is the first to integrate social scientific and historical modes of analysis in a study of the Sherpa monasteries and one of the ...
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    65,18 €

  • Sherpas Through Their Rituals
    Sherry B. Ortner / Sherry BOrtner
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    38,55 €