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Anthropology and social theory : culture, power, and the acting subject / Sherry B. Ortner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ortner, Sherry B., 1941-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- a John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Reading America : preliminary notes on class and culture
- Resistance and the problem of ethnographic refusal
- Identities : the hidden life of class
- Generation X : anthropology in a media-saturated world
- Subjectivity and cultural critique
- Power and projects : reflections on agency.
- Notes:
- "A John Hope Franklin Center Book"--P. facing t.p.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-180) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822388456
- 0822388456
- OCLC:
- 262341007
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