Ambiguating Agency: The Case of Malinowski's Ghost |
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Authors: | Professor Debbora Battaglia |
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Affiliation: | Department ol Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075. |
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Abstract: | Agency is useful to people not so much for controlling a site of authorship or authority as for ambiguating social relationships and authority. Both indigenous and anthropological practices of ambiguation are critical sites of discourse that allow the gaps and ruptures between epistemologies the possibility of positive value. |
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