Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds

Dorothy Holland

William Lachicotte, Jr.

Debra Skinner

Carole Cain

    Preface

    I. On the Shoulders of Bakhtin and Vygotsky

    1. The Woman Who Climbed Up the House

    2. A Practice Theory of Self and Identity

    II. Placing Identity and Agency

    3. Figured Worlds

    4. Personal Stories in Alcoholics Anonymous

    5. How Figured Worlds of Romance Become Desire

    III. Power and Privilege

    6. Positional Identities

    7. The Sexual Auction Block

    IV. The Space of Authoring

    8. Authoring Selves

    9. Mental Disorder, Identity, and Professional Discourse

    10. Authoring Oneself as a Woman in Nepal

    V. Making Worlds

    11. Play Worlds, Liberatory Worlds, and Fantasy Resources

    12. Making Alternate Worlds in Nepal

    13. Identity in Practice

    Notes

    References

    Credits

    Index

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Dorothy Holland is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

William S. Lachicotte, Jr. is Research Assistant Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Debra Skinner is Research Investigator at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Carole Cain is Staff Specialist in the Department of Psychiatry at the Duke University Medical Center.