Anthropology and Social Theory Quotes

“Ethnography of course means many things. Minimally, however, it has always meant the attempt to understand another life world using the self - as much of it as possible - as the instrument of knowing.”
― Sherry B. Ortner, Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject

“In other words, woman's consciousness- her membership, as it were, in culture - is evidence in part by the very fact that she accepts her own devaluation and takes culture's point of view.”
― Sherry B. Ortner, Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject