Screening Social Justice
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Sherry B. Ortner explores how the nonprofit film production company Brave New Films deploys documentary film's commitment to truth and realism to cultivate progressive political activism.
Sherry B. Ortner Book order
- 2023
- 2013
Not Hollywood
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner explores the culture and practices of independent filmmaking in the U.S., arguing that during the past three decades, independent cinema has provided vital cultural critique.
- 2006
Anthropology and Social Theory
- 188 pages
- 7 hours of reading
The award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity.
- 2003
New Jersey Dreaming
- 340 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Famed anthropologist Ortner tracks down representative classmates from her mostly Jewish Newark, NJ high school class of '58 in order to examine class culture and ethnicity in America today. schovat popis
- 1997
Making Gender
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
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.
- 1978
Professor Ortner examines the Sherpas of the Himalayas.
