History in Person : Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities

“The theory of Holland and Lave helps resolve the recent debate in anthropology of education over identity replacing culture as the key organizing concept of the field….The editors’ theory shows quite explicitly how both identity and culture are part of the same complex processes….A rich lode of concepts, ideas for research, and empirical examples.” –Jacquetta Hill, Anthropology and Education Quarterly

This volume offers a richly textured sense of the persons, of individuals as agents acting within, reflection on and transcending the structures of identity… They [the authors] have successfully pulled together vital ethnographics out of which compelling, new questions arise. –Janet Dixon Keller, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

“The theory of Holland and Lave helps resolve the recent debate in anthropology of education over identity replacing culture as the key organizing concept of the field….The editors’ theory shows quite explicitly how both identity and culture are part of the same complex processes….A rich lode of concepts, ideas for research, and empirical examples.” –Jacquetta Hill, Anthropology and Education Quarterly

This volume offers a richly textured sense of the persons, of individuals as agents acting within, reflection on and transcending the structures of identity… They [the authors] have successfully pulled together vital ethnographics out of which compelling, new questions arise. –Janet Dixon Keller, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana