{"product_id":"anthropology-and-social-theory-9780822338642","title":"Anthropology and Social Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An important and especially usable collection by one of the most influential essayists in anthropology, introduced by a lucid and original review of key concepts as they have been applied to the remarkable range of Sherry Ortner’s research achievements. Her response to recent challenges to the idea of culture is alone worth the price of the book.”—George Marcus, University of California, Irvine\u003cbr\u003e“At once challenging and admirably accessible, these essays trace the thinking of one of anthropology’s most notable practitioners as she—and her discipline—wrestles with key conundrums facing the late-modern social sciences.”—Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e“This is vintage Ortner. No one else writes anthropological theory so clear, so down-to-earth, or so accessible to non-anthropologists.”—William H. Sewell Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eLogics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Updating Practice Theory 1\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: Reading America: Preliminary Notes on Class and Culture 19\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal 42\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: Identities: The Hidden Life of Class 63\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: Generation X: Anthropology in a Media-Saturated World 80\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: Subjectivity and Cultural Critique 107\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six: Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency 129\u003cbr\u003e Notes 155\u003cbr\u003e References Cited 167\u003cbr\u003e Index 181","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406043324759,"sku":"9780822338642","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822338642.jpg?v=1730494347","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anthropology-and-social-theory-9780822338642","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}