Ambiguating agency: The case of Malinowski's ghost

Journal/Book: Amer Anthropol. 1997; 99: 4350 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 640, Arlington, VA 22203. Amer Anthropological Assoc. 505.

Abstract: Agency is useful to people not so much for controlling a site of authorship or authority as for ambiguating social relationships and authority. Both indigenous and anthropological practices of ambiguation are critical sites of discourse that allow the gaps and ruptures between epistemologies the possibility of positive value.

Note: Article Battaglia D, Mt Holyoke Coll, Dept Sociol & Anthropol, S Hadley,MA 01075 USA

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