{"product_id":"identity-and-agency-in-cultural-dorothy-holland-9780674005624","title":"Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothy Holland, William S. Lachicotte, Debra Skinner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674005627\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674005624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.82d","brand":"Dorothy Holland","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994876543231,"sku":"9780674005624","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_01646f9c-a651-483b-b74d-5b3964b141ae.jpg?v=1683332691","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/identity-and-agency-in-cultural-dorothy-holland-9780674005624","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}