"[Structure does not] just sit there, constraining actors by its formal characteristics, but recurrently poses problems to the actors, to which they must respond”. [At the same time, structure also provides a range of problem solving options for actors that will] generate both personal satisfaction and social respect."
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University of California, Los Angeles facultyUniversity of Chicago alumniMacArthur FellowsColumbia University facultyAnthropologists from the United States
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High Religion, A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Princeton, Princeton University Press. (Ortner 1989: 196)
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