and that the rules are set by the society's structure. But one is a free agent, one does not have to follow the rules. One can break the rules of life. This results in one being carried away or results in changing the rules and boundaries by this action. Ortner focuses on the issues of resistance and transformation. Selected publications (1974) "Is female to male as nature is to culture?" pp. 67–87 in Woman, Culture, and Society, edited by M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. (1978) Sherpas through their Rituals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1981) Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality (co-edited with Harriet Whitehead). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1984) "Theory in Anthropology Since the Sixties." Comparative Studies in Society and History 26(1):126-166. (1989) High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (1995) Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal. Comparative Studies in Society and History 37(1):173-193 (1996) Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press. (1999) Life and Death on Mount Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (1999) (ed.) The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (2003) New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (2006) Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (2013) Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. References External links Sherry Ortner UCLA faculty profile The Long Way Home article in University of Chicago Magazine, Feb 1996. Review of Ortner's book "Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture" Interview with Sherry Ortner in AIBR Journal 1941 births American anthropologists Anthropologists of religion Bryn Mawr College alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Living people University of Chicago alumni MacArthur Fellows People from Newark, New Jersey Weequahic High School alumni American women anthropologists Jewish American academics University of Michigan faculty Jewish anthropologists American women academics 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women Columbia University faculty University of California, Los Angeles faculty