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14 - Identity and Agency

from Part III - Engaging Across Cultures and Around the Globe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2022

By
Veronica Strang
Edited by
Lu Ann De Cunzo  and
Catharine Dann Roeber
Lu Ann De Cunzo
Affiliation:
University of Delaware
Catharine Dann Roeber
Affiliation:
Winterthur Museum, Delaware
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Summary

In the context of globalization, post-modernity and transnationalism, identity, for most people, is no longer securely located in specific material environments. Yet the desire to 'ground' identity in place by acting in and on the material world remains, even as people shift between multiple locations. This chapter focuses considerson the materiality of identity, and on the relationship between agency, identity and place. It focuses particularly on place-based communities, for whom this relationship is fundamental, and who therefore exemplify the centrality of place in composing identity.

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IdentityAgencyMaterialityPlaceAnthropologyAboriginesSpiritualityGenderHeritageRitual
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The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies , pp. 327 - 354
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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