Sherry B Ortner
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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 very few to attempt such an account for Buddhist monasteries anywhere....
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Sherry B. Ortner, quien ha mantenido un permanente interés por las teorías sobre prácticas culturales, parte de ellas para repensar los conceptos clave de cultura, agencia y subjetividad. De los ensayos que integran este volumen, algunos ofrecen una reflexión expresa sobre temas teóricos: la relación entre la agencia y el poder, la viabilidad de una antropología de la subjetividad y el carácter problemático de los estudios etnográficos de...
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"Winner of the J.I. Staley Prize" Sherry B. Ortner is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of two previous books on the Sherpas of Nepal, Sherpas through Their Rituals and High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism (Princeton), and has also written books on social, cultural, and feminist theory. She has received numerous prestigious awards, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...
