Good to Think

Creolization, Optimism, and Agency

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2220237
AutoresAisha Khan (0000-0001-5344-1748, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen48
Número5
Páginas653-673
Fecha de publicación2007-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCurrent Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/522318
OpenAlexW1544192126
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas56

Although the concept of creolization is undergoing avid and close examination by scholars from across the humanities and social sciences, the foundational assumptions by which the concept is constituted, both implicit and explicit, have been unevenly examined. The notion of agency is a key dimension of the creolization concept. Discussion of creolization and agency in a number of different usage contexts makes the creolization concept's theoretical and ideological tasks more transparent, and these tasks have implications for our understanding of the relationship between structure and agency, between power and forms of consciousness, and between theory building and ethnographic research

Agency (philosophy · Consciousness · Creolization · Dimension (graph theory · Epistemology · Ethnography · Ideology · Key (lock · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Computer Science · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America