{"product_id":"identity-and-agency-in-cultural-worlds-paperback","title":"Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDorothy Holland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam S. Lachicotte  Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis landmark book addresses the central problem in anthropological theory today: the paradox that humans are products of social discipline yet producers of remarkable improvisation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSynthesizing 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 between discipline and agency: turning from experiencing one's scripted social positions to making one's way into cultural worlds as a knowledgeable and committed participant. They emphasize throughout that identities are not static and coherent, but variable, multivocal and interactive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEthnographic illumination of this complex theoretical construction comes from vividly described fieldwork in vastly different microcultures: American college women caught in romance; persons in U.S. institutions of mental health care; members of Alcoholics Anonymous groups; and girls and women in the patriarchal order of Hindu villages in central Nepal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUltimately, \u003ci\u003eIdentity and Agency in Cultural Worlds \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a liberating yet tempered understanding of agency, for it shows how people, across the limits of cultural traditions and social forces of power and domination, improvise and find spaces to re-describe themselves, creating their cultural worlds anew.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42132561232007,"sku":"9780674005624","price":93.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/2a9111c41df4833c169d1e5618c255df.webp?v=1732627378","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/identity-and-agency-in-cultural-worlds-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}