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Ortner tracked down nearly all 304 of her classmates. She interviewedabout 100 in person and spoke with most of the rest by phone, recording her classmatesâ vivid memories of time, place, and identity. Ortner shows how social class affected peopleâs livesin many hidden and unexamined ways. She also demonstrates that the Class of â58âs extreme upward mobility must be understood in relation to the major identity movements of the twentieth centuryâthe campaign against anti-Semitism, the Civil Rights movement, and feminism.
A multisited study combining field research with an interdisciplinary analytical framework, New Jersey Dreaming is a masterly integration of developments at the vanguard of contemporary anthropology. Engaging excerpts from Ortner's field notes are interspersed throughout the book. Whether recording the difficulties and pleasures of studying one's own peer group, the cultures of driving in different parts of the country, or the contrasting experiences of appointment-making in Los Angeles and New York, they provide a rare glimpse into the actual doing of ethnographic research.
About: Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B.
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