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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.
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Sherry B. Ortner (Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject)
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[M]ountaineering as a sport both emanates from and addresses itself back to (and back against) the normal patterns of middle class life. One of the dominant discourses of mountaineering [...] positions it critically against "bourgeois" existence, even as the sport demands the resources made possible by such an existence.
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Sherry B. Ortner (Life and Death on Mt. Everest)
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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.
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Sherry B. Ortner (Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject)
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Woman is not "in reality" any closer to (or further from) nature than man - both have consciousness, both are mortal.
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Sherry B. Ortner (Feminist Studies (Vol. 3, No. 3/4))