Authors
Citation
D. Battaglia, AMBIGUATING AGENCY - THE CASE OF MALINOWSKIS GHOST, American anthropologist, 99(3), 1997, pp. 505
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Anthropology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00027294
Volume
99
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-7294(1997)99:3<505:AA-TCO>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
Agency is useful to people not so much for controlling a site of autho
rship or authority as for ambiguating social relationships and authori
ty. Both indigenous and anthropological practices of ambiguation are c
ritical sites of discourse that allow the gaps and ruptures between ep
istemologies the possibility of positive value.