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Ambiguating Agency: The Case of Malinowski's Ghost
Author(s) -
Battaglia Debbora
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1997.99.3.505
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , indigenous , value (mathematics) , sociology , genealogy , anthropology , history , social science , biology , ecology , machine learning , computer science
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.