28.630, Books: Distributed Agency: Enfield, Kockelman (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 16:14:55
From: Carolyn Napolitano [Carolyn.Napolitano at oup.com]
Subject: Distributed Agency: Enfield, Kockelman (eds.)

 


Title: Distributed Agency 
Series Title: Foundations of Human Interaction  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/distributed-agency-9780190457211 


Editor: N.J. Enfield
Editor: Paul Kockelman

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190457204 Pages: 264 Price: U.S. $ 99.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780190457211 Pages: 264 Price: U.S. $ 34.95


Abstract:

Distributed Agency presents an interdisciplinary inroad into the latest
thinking about the distributed nature of agency: what it's like, what are its
conditions of possibility, and what are its consequences. The book's 25
chapters are written by a wide range of scholars, from anthropology, biology,
cognitive science, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, geography, law,
economics, and sociology. While each chapter takes up different materials
using different methods, they all chart relations between the key elements of
agency: intentionality, causality, flexibility and accountability. Each
chapter seeks to explain how and why such relations are distributed-not just
across individuals, but also across bodies and minds, people and things,
spaces and times. To do this, the authors work through empirical studies of
particular cases, while also offering reviews and syntheses of key ideas from
the authors' respective research traditions. Our goals with this collection of
essays are to assemble insights from new research on the anatomy of human
agency, to address divergent framings of the issues from different
disciplines, and to suggest directions for new debates and lines of research.
We hope that it will be a resource for researchers working on allied topics,
and for students learning about the elements of human-specific modes of shared
action, from causality, intentionality, and personhood to ethics, punishment,
and accountability.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories


Written In: English  (eng)

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