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Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality
New York, Cambridge University Press, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by Harriet Whitehead, the junior author, being inscribed to the former owner. A perfectly serviceable reference copy from a professional scholar's library; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, and with some but minimal penned notations and tick-marks as befits a working copy. This 1981 collection of essays was the staple of my grad school career, featuring then edge-cutting essays dealing with the ways in which sex and gender are socially organized and conceptually construed in various cultures and throughout history and in different fields and genres. From ceremonial virginity in Polynesian ritual to androgynism in New Guinea, from the valorization of young African bachelors and fantasies of male self-sufficiency in South American myth, fields as disparate as ethnography, paleontology, ethnology and history are interrogated. "Sex" and "gender" are always the outcome of social and cultural processes. Contributions by the two editors, Harriet Whitehead and Sherry Ortner and by Bradd Shore Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x, [2], 2-435 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Very Good
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Catalogue: Gender Studies
Keywords: gender studies women's studies Harriet Whitehead Sherry Ortner
The Scope of Anthropology. Inaugural Lecture.
Grossman / Jonathan Cape . Cape Editions No. 1. 1968. 53pp paperback with original orange dustwrapper. No inscriptions. VG condition in G-VG dustwrapper. ISBN: 9780224612715 Inaugural lecture, Chair of Social Anthropology, College de France, January 5th 1960.
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Catalogue: Anthropology
Keywords: social anthropology levi strauss
The Fate of Culture: Geertz and Beyond
London, University of California Press. 1999, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0520216016). Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 176pp paperback, very good. Very Good.
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Keywords: 0520216016 anthropology
High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
Princeton, Princeton University Press. 1989, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0691028435). Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, xvi 245pp paperback. Good.
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Keywords: 0691028435 buddhism
Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1999). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiii, 376 pp. Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing. Light binding corner bump. VG. dustwrapper.
¶ Contents: Beginning; Sahibs; Sherpas; Monks; Death; Men; Counterculture; Women; Reconfigurations; Epilogue; Appendices: Tales; Monasteries.
¶ Contents: Beginning; Sahibs; Sherpas; Monks; Death; Men; Counterculture; Women; Reconfigurations; Epilogue; Appendices: Tales; Monasteries.
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Keywords: Himalayan Anthropology, Nepal, Himalayas Himalaya, Sherpa Ethnography, Sherpas, Mountaineering, Ethnology, Sociology, Ethnic History
The Scope of Anthropology Claude Lévi-Strauss.
London, Jonathan Cape. 1967. 53 p., 18 cm, Paperback with dust jacket. Acceptable condition. With penciled underlinings and marks. Free shipping within Germany. Shipping costs to EU-countries: 9.50 EUR, to non-EU-countries: 15.00 EUR.
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Catalogue: Anthropologie
Keywords: Sociology
Sherpas Through Their Rituals
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1978. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xii,195 pp. PAPERBACK. Series: Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems, 2.. Rubbed. Top page-edge spotting. Some cover soil. Good.
¶ The Sherpas of the Himalayas practice Tibetan Buddhism, a variety of Mahayana Buddhism that has never before been studied in its social setting by an anthropologist. This book is at once a general interpretation of Sherpa culture, an examination of the relationship between the Sherpas' Buddhism and other aspects of their society, and a theoretical contribution to the study of ritual and religious symbolism. In analyzing the symbols of Sherpa rituals, professor Ortner leads us toward the discovery of conflict, contradiction, and stress in the wider social and cultural world. Following a general ethnographic sketch, each chapter opens with a brief description of a ritual. The ritual is then dissected, and its symbolic elements are used as guides in the exploration of problematic structures, relationships, and ideas of the culture. The author uses these rituals to illuminate the interconnections between religious ideology on the one hand, and social structure and experience on the other. A key factor is the dimension of Buddhism that emphasizes the ideal of individual autonomy and social withdrawal. This is reinforced by the Sherpa society's tendency toward individualism, an inclination rooted partly in the private property structure. Professor Ortner's analysis of the rituals reveals both the Buddhist pull toward exaggerating the isolation of individuals, and the secular pull that attempts to overcome isolation and to reproduce the conditions for social community" - Publisher's description.
¶ The Sherpas of the Himalayas practice Tibetan Buddhism, a variety of Mahayana Buddhism that has never before been studied in its social setting by an anthropologist. This book is at once a general interpretation of Sherpa culture, an examination of the relationship between the Sherpas' Buddhism and other aspects of their society, and a theoretical contribution to the study of ritual and religious symbolism. In analyzing the symbols of Sherpa rituals, professor Ortner leads us toward the discovery of conflict, contradiction, and stress in the wider social and cultural world. Following a general ethnographic sketch, each chapter opens with a brief description of a ritual. The ritual is then dissected, and its symbolic elements are used as guides in the exploration of problematic structures, relationships, and ideas of the culture. The author uses these rituals to illuminate the interconnections between religious ideology on the one hand, and social structure and experience on the other. A key factor is the dimension of Buddhism that emphasizes the ideal of individual autonomy and social withdrawal. This is reinforced by the Sherpa society's tendency toward individualism, an inclination rooted partly in the private property structure. Professor Ortner's analysis of the rituals reveals both the Buddhist pull toward exaggerating the isolation of individuals, and the secular pull that attempts to overcome isolation and to reproduce the conditions for social community" - Publisher's description.
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Keywords: Himalayan Ethnography, Sherpas Sherpa, Nepal Rituals, Himalayas Buddhism, Himalaya Buddhist, Social Anthropology, History of Religion, Rites Ritual, Ethnology
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