Sherry B. Ortner photographs relating to Sherpa research
name: label: Creator
content: Ortner, Sherry B., 1941-
place: label: Place
content: Nepal
topic: label: Topic
content: Sherpa (Nepalese people)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The photographs were donated by Sherry B. Ortner in 2018.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ortner, Sherry B., 1941-
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content: Sherry B. Ortner photographs relating to Sherpa research
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sherry B. Ortner (b. 1941) is a cultural anthropologist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1970 after carrying out extensive fieldwork among the Sherpas of Nepal from 1966-1968, looking at religion, politics, and Himalayan mountaineering. She continued research among the Sherpas in 1976, 1979, and 1990, publishing several important works including Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering (1999) which won the J.I. Stanley prize for best anthropology book in 2004.

Ortner's later work includes research relating to meanings of "class," where she carried out fieldwork among her own high school graduating class, and the relationship between American culture and Hollywood films.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Linear feet
label: Extent
content: 1,036 Slides (35mm)
label: Extent
content: 88 Photographic prints (and associated negatives)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1966-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2019-19
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is organized into four series:

Series 1. Sherpa research, 1966-1968

Series 2. Sherpa research and film expedition, 1976

Series 3. Sherpa research, 1979

Series 4. Sherpa research, 1990
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Sherry Ortner's organization of the photographs has been maintained.

The collection was processed and finding aid encoded by Gina Rappaport.
bibliography: label: Selected Bibliography
content: 1978.  -- Sherpas and their Rituals -- . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1989.  -- High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism -- . Princeton: Princeton University Press.

1999.  -- Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering -- . Princeton:Princeton University Press.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Sherry B. Ortner photographs relating to Sherpa research comprise photographs made during Ortner's fieldwork among the Sherpa communities of Nepal. They include photos from her doctoral research in the 1960s, as well as later research in the 1970s and 1990. Images show people, places, and events among the Sherpa communities in the Mt. Everest region. Also included to a lesser degree are photographs in and around Kathmandu.