Cultural Agency in the Americas

摘要

This thought-provoking volume, edited by Doris Sommer, is the result of a multi-year project that was funded by the Ford Foundation and asked scholars based across the United States and Latin America to engage with the concept of cultural agency and to think through its meanings and implications in their work. The collection contains a critical introduction by Sommer, 14 essays and two Afterwords. The essays are divided into three sections: 'Media', 'Maneuvers' and 'Cautions'. The contributors come from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, though the majority are based in anthropology or media studies.