Sherry Ortner
Sherry Beth Ortner (born September 19, 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist and has been a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA since 2004.
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[edit]- [Structure does not] just sit there, constraining actors by its formal characteristics, but recurrently poses problems to the actors, to which they must respond”. [At the same time, structure also provides a range of problem solving options for actors that will] generate both personal satisfaction and social respect.
- High Religion, A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Princeton, Princeton University Press. (Ortner 1989: 196)
