Agency
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https://doi.org/10.47854/NJFW6857Keywords:
power of act, person, structure, non-humanAbstract
The notion of agency enjoys relative consensus in anthropology insofar as it refers to a "power to act", but its approaches fluctuate when it comes to qualifying or allocating it to the human or non-human, or to the individual or the structure.
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