Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds

by Dorothy Holland, William Lachicotte Jr., Debra Skinner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674005627
• ISBN13: 9780674005624
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"