Overview: The theory of agency is an important one in the social sciences and has always been assumed to be anthropocentric.This collection of archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists and other social scie.Agency is a key theme that cross-cuts a wide raft of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and beyond; yet it is invariably discussed separately behind closed disciplinary doors. ..Within archaeology, agency has been characterized as a uniquely human attribute, and a means of incorporating individual intentionality into theoretical discourse. In other domains, however, notions
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