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Identity and Agency in Cultural worlds

Paperback • 1998 • English

Identity and Agency in Cultural worlds

By Dorothy Holland, Debra Skinner

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About the book

This landmark 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, 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. They develop a theory of self-formation in which identities become the pivot ...Show more

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1998

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English

Original title

Identity and Agency in Cultural worlds

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