Identity and agency in cultural worlds /
This book addresses the central problem in anthropological theory today. The paradox that humans are products of social discipline yet producers of remarkable improvisation. Synthesizing theoretical contributions by Vygotsky, Bakhtin and Bourdieu, Dorothy Holland and her co-authors examine the proce...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1998.
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| Summary: | This book addresses the central problem in anthropological theory today. The paradox that humans are products of social discipline yet producers of remarkable improvisation. Synthesizing theoretical contributions by Vygotsky, Bakhtin and Bourdieu, Dorothy Holland and her co-authors examine the processes by which people are constituted as agents as well as subjects of culturally constructed, socially imposed worlds. Ethnographic illumination of this complex theoretical construction comes from vividly described fieldwork in vastly different microcultures, American college women "caught" in romance, patients in U.S. institutions of mental health care, members of Alcoholics Anonymous and girls and women in patriarchal Hindu villages in central Nepal. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 349 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0674815661 9780674815667 0674005627 9780674005624 |