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- Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties (1984) (2171)
- Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture (1972) (1747)
- Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject (2006) (1213)
- Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal (1995) (1164)
- Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality (1981) (482)
- Subjectivity and cultural critique (2005) (315)
- High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism (1991) (300)
- Dark anthropology and its others (2016) (281)
- Culture/power/history : a reader in contemporary social theory (1994) (277)
- Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture (1996) (254)
- On Key Symbols (2009) (225)
- Sherpas Through Their Rituals (1978) (197)
- Generation X: Anthropology in a Media-Saturated World (1998) (168)
- The Virgin and the State (1978) (166)
- The fate of "culture" : Geertz and beyond (1999) (146)
- Identities: The Hidden Life of Class (1998) (143)
- SPECIFYING AGENCY The Comaroffs and Their Critics (2001) (142)
- New Jersey Dreaming (2003) (140)
- Access: Reflections on studying up in Hollywood (2010) (139)
- Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering (1999) (110)
- Thick Resistance: Death and the Cultural Construction of Agency in Himalayan Mountaineering (1997) (88)
- Introduction: Accounting for sexual meanings (1992) (87)
- Society for Comparative Studies in Society and History Modernization Theory and the Comparative Study of Societies : A Critical Perspective (2007) (85)
- Anthropology and Social Theory (2020) (77)
- 10. Gender and sexuality in hierarchical societies: the case of Polynesia and some comparative implications (1992) (64)
- Not Hollywood (2020) (53)
- Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream (2013) (51)
- The Case of the Disappearing Shamans, or No Individualism, No Relationalism (1995) (47)
- Too Soon for Post-Feminism: The Ongoing Life of Patriarchy in Neoliberal America (2014) (43)
- Fieldwork in the Postcommunity (1997) (40)
- Studying Sideways: Ethnographic Access in Hollywood (2009) (32)
- Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency (2006) (31)
- Subjects and Capital: A Fragment of a Documentary Ethnography (2002) (22)
- `Burned Like a Tattoo' (2002) (20)
- Commentary: Practice, power and the past (2001) (19)
- Historical contexts, internal debates, and ethical practice (2016) (19)
- Some Futures of Anthropology (1999) (17)
- Life and Death on Mt. Everest (2020) (14)
- Against Hollywood (2012) (13)
- Cultural politics: Religious activism and ideological transformation among 20th century sherpas (1989) (12)
- Narrativity in History, Culture, and Lives (1991) (12)
- From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar, by Maurice Bloch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). (1990) (10)
- Social impact without social justice: Film and politics in the neoliberal landscape (2017) (9)
- The White-Black Ones: The Sherpa View of Human Nature (1978) (6)
- Patriarchy for Profit: Reflections on Some Social Facts (2019) (5)
- A Kernel of Truth: Some Notes on the Analysis of Connotation (1972) (4)
- Not a History Lesson: The Erasure of Politics in American Cinema (2013) (4)
- Oedipal Father, Mother's Brother, and the Penis (1975) (3)
- Resistance and Class Reproduction Among Middle Class Youth (1992) (3)
- Commentary (2001) (2)
- Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) (2007) (2)
- Author Meets Critics: Reactions to 'Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties' (1989) (2)
- Racializing Patriarchy: Lessons from Police Brutality (2020) (2)
- Notes from Hollywood: The Indie Movement (2007) (2)
- A Feminist Perspective on Christopher Lasch, 'The Social Invasion of the Self' (1989) (2)
- Program in Comparative Study of Social Transformations (1987) (2)
- Sherpas through their rituals: Hospitality: problems of exchange, status, and authority (1978) (1)
- American High Schools (2003) (1)
- The Death and Rebirth of Anthropology (2002) (1)
- High Religion (2020) (1)
- Dealing with Boundaries (2003) (1)
- Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas . Edited by John T. Hitchcock and Rex L. Jones. Warminster, England: Aris and Phillips, 1976. xxviii, 401 pp. Map, Bibliography, Illustrations, Notes on Contributors. £10.00; $27.50. (1979) (1)
- Who Shapes the Text?: Sherpas and Sahibs on Mount Everest (1990) (1)
- Culture/Power/History: Series Prospectus (1989) (1)
- Capitalism, Kinship, and Fraud (2019) (1)
- Another Description: Serious Games (2021) (0)
- [Book Review: Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas Robert R. Desjarlais] (1995) (0)
- Book Review:Toward and Anthropology of Women. Rayna R. Reiter (1977) (0)
- CSS volume 38 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1996) (0)
- Symbols and Sentiments: Cross-cultural Studies in Symbolism , edited by loan Lewis (London, New York, and San Francisco: Academic Press. 1977). (1982) (0)
- High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. (1991) (0)
- References to Female Monasticism Sought (1972) (0)
- Sherpas through their rituals: Preface (1978) (0)
- Screening Social Justice (2023) (0)
- CSS volume 39 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1997) (0)
- On key symbols / Sherry B. Ortner. (2012) (0)
- Sherpas through their rituals: Bibliography (1978) (0)
- Sherpas through their rituals: Introduction: some notes on ritual (1978) (0)
- Making the Scene (2013) (0)
- Gegen Hollywood. (2021) (0)
- Sherpas through their rituals: Notes (1978) (0)
- Notes for the Reader (2020) (0)
- A Practice of Anthropology: The Thought and Influence of Marshall Sahlins by Alex Golub, Daniel Rosenblatt, and John D. Kelly, eds. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. 305 pp. (2018) (0)
- Sherpas through their rituals: Offering rituals: problems of religion, anger, and social cooperation (1978) (0)
- Golden Fleece Award Sparks Protests (1979) (0)
- Response to Allen (1993) (0)
- Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies. Geoffrey Samuel (1994) (0)
- Between Utopia and Despair (2015) (0)
- Sherpas through their rituals: The surface contours of the Sherpa world (1978) (0)
- Notes From Hollywood: Little Miss Sunshine Finds Its Way (2007) (0)
- The Making of the Indie Scene: The Cultural Production of a Field of Cultural Production (2016) (0)
- Sherpas through their rituals: Exorcisms: problems of wealth, pollution, and reincarnation (1978) (0)
- Too soon for post-feminism (2019) (0)
- The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman (2011) (0)
- General, Applied and Theoretical: Mythic-Symbolic Language and Philosophical Anthropology: A Constructive Interpretation of the Thought of Paul Ricoeur. DAVID M. RASMUSSEN (1974) (0)
- CSS volume 39 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1997) (0)
- Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, 1944-1981 (1981) (0)
- Sherpas through their rituals: Conclusions: Buddhism and society (1978) (0)
- Sherpas through their rituals: Nyungne: problems of marriage, family, and asceticism (1978) (0)
- CSS volume 39 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1997) (0)
- Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive. by Johannes Fabian. (2012) (0)
- SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Claiming the High Ground: Sherpas, Subsistence, and Environmental Change in the Highest Himalaya. Stanley F. Stevens (1994) (0)
- CA BEYOND FACT OR FICTION : On the Materialityof Race in Practice (2013) (0)
- Spider on the Fly (2019) (0)
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