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 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.
Ethnographic 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.
Ultimately, "Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds "offers 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.
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