Professor Sherry B. Ortner FBA

Social and cultural theory; historical anthropology; gender and feminist theory; anthropology of late capitalism/neoliberalism; film, media, and the culture industries; political activism. Sherpas of Nepal and anthropology of the Himalayas
Headshot of Professor Sherry Beth Ortner FBA (credit Timothy D. Taylor)
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2023
Subjects
Anthropology, Social Sciences

Current post

University of California Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Stephen Daniels FBA

The history of landscape representation, design and management; the landscape arts of eighteenth century Britain; the history of geographical knowledge and imagination

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Professor Deborah James FBA

Specialist in anthropology, with a broadly political and economic focus

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