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abduction of agency: a standalone construct

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Art history

the anthropological theory that art objects work as indexes from which viewers infer the agency of persons.

In art history, abduction of agency refers to the anthropological theory that art objects work as indexes from which viewers infer the agency of persons. This meaning comes from Gell (1998) in Art and agency.[1]

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distributed personhood1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct abduction2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs agency6 fields · 12 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Gell, A. (1998). Art and agency. Clarendon Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198280132.001.0001

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