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Question of Agency?

Panel : Kneeling: Dr. Linus Digim'Rina and Dr. Michelle Rooney, standing from left Dr. Orovu Sepoe, Steven Winduo, Ms. Vanessa Uiari, and Dr. Stephanie Lusby.  Photo Credits:  Almah Tararia Valuing destabilization, resistance, and agency in a continuing and changing Papua New Guinean Anthropology, [Roundtable] Panel 09 at conference AAS2019: Values in Anthropology, Values of Anthropology In my mind the issue on agency is so critical here. I am an agent in both worlds. I am trained in Western theories, histories, and cultures. I have read Ancient Greek Philosophies, European literatures going as far as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Medieval literature via the works of Chaucer, the 16 th -18 th Century British literature, Modern writers in the likes of William Butler Yeates, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot to American, Canadian, New Zealand, and Australian literatures. I have studied courses in cultural studies, literary theory, Anthropology, American studies, lin...