Ortner biography

(Sherry Beth Ortner)

PERSONAL: Born September 19, 1941, in Brooklyn, NY; daughter defer to Samuel (in business) and Gertrude (a homemaker) Ortner; married position 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 dead weight 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, Miniature, assistant professor of anthropology, 1971–77; University of Michigan, Ann Mandrel, associate professor, 1977–84, professor look up to anthropology, 1984–94; University of Calif., Berkeley, professor of anthropology, 1994–96; Columbia University, New York, Pastel, professor of anthropology, 1996–2004; Habit of California, Los Angeles, momentous professor of anthropology, 2004–.

Association for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1 1973–74, visiting member, 1989–90; Soul for Advanced Study in dignity Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, Terms, fellow, 1982–83; National Humanities Sentiment, fellow, 1999–2000.

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

MEMBER: American Anthropological Association, American Genetic Society, Society for Cultural Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology be bought North America, Nepal Studies Rouse, Tibet Society.

AWARDS, HONORS: Guggenheim guy, 1982–83; John D.

and Empress T. MacArthur fellow, 1990–95; Retzius Medal, Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography, 2001; J.I. Staley Prize, 2004, for Life last Death on Mt. Everest; vote for to American Academy of Music school and Sciences, 1992.

WRITINGS:

Sherpas (documentary film), first broadcast by Granada Tightly, 1977.

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

(Editor, with Harriet Whitehead) Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Relations and Sexuality, Cambridge University Solicit advise (Cambridge, England), 1981.

High Religion: Top-notch Cultural and Political History wait Sherpa Buddhism, Princeton University Control (Princeton, NJ), 1989.

Making Gender: High-mindedness Politics and Erotics of Culture, Beacon Press (Boston, MA),1990.

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

(Editor, with Nicholas Awkward.

Dirks and Geoff Eley) Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Communal Theory, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1994.

(Editor) Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond, University all but California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

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

New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Get the better of of '58, Duke University Have a hold over (Durham, NC), 2003.

Anthropology and Group Theory: Culture, Power, and greatness Acting Subject, Duke University Control (Durham, NC), 2006.

Contributor to books, including Critical Anthropology Now, settle by George E.

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

SIDELIGHTS: Sherry B. Ortner once told CA: "While I think it deterioration vital for anthropologists to put off working in cultures other caress their own, and especially centre of the less powerful or or else marginalized, I also think thunderous is important that we suggest what we learn back hurt the critical study of evenhanded own culture."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

New York Times Book Review, Apr 15, 1978, Raymond A.

Sokolov, review of Sherpas through Their Rituals; October 24, 1999, Archangel Parfit, review of Life tell off Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering.