Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject

by Sherry B. Ortner

Book Overview

In Anthropology and Social Theory 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 for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive essays in this volume each advocate reconfiguring, rather than abandoning, the concept of culture. Similarly, they all suggest that a theory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822338645
• ISBN13: 9780822338642
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"