Fabricating Identities - Russell T. McCutcheon

Fabricating Identities - Russell T. McCutcheon

Who are You? I'm Vaia and I'm Touna

Fabricating Identities - Russell T. McCutcheon

Vaia Touna [+-]
University of Alabama
Vaia Touna is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She is author of Fabrications of the Greek Past: Religion, Tradition, and the Making of Modern Identities (Brill, 2017) and editor of Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity: Towards a Dynamic Theory of People and Place (Equinox, 2019). Her research focuses on the sociology of religion, acts of identification and social formation, as well as methodological issues concerning the study of religion in the ancient Graeco-Roman world and of the past in general.

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As part of the Working With Culture on the Edge series, this volume pairs early career scholars with members of Culture on the Edge, to explore how social actors identify themselves through their practices and associations. The book is arranged in a series of articles and commentaries that all press the model of seeing what we usually call identity as the result of a series of identifications—actions and circumstances that enable us to understand ourselves as related to others in specific ways. Changing relations result in changing senses of identity. With an introduction and substantive theoretical afterword, the book’s brief main chapters make it an ideal conversation-started in classes or primer for those wishing to rethink how we normally talk about identity.

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Touna, Vaia. Who are You? I'm Vaia and I'm Touna. Fabricating Identities. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 95-98 Sep 2017. ISBN 9781781794975. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=30542. Date accessed: 19 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.30542. Sep 2017

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