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Ambiguating Agency

The Case of Malinowski's Ghost

Bibliographic Data

ID2461689
AuthorsDebbora Battaglia (0000-0002-8681-064X, Mount Holyoke College, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume99
Issue3
Pages505-510
Publication date1997-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/aa.1997.99.3.505
OpenAlexW2117530564
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited24

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

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Unique citing works25
Citations per year0,86
Citation span1997 - 2024 (28)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 25
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