Misjuncture

Near-synonym: misunion

The practical understandings implied in these accounts constitute what Clark (following Sahlins up to a point) calls a structure of "misjuncture" (p.70).

This "unpeace," at once the site of conjuncture and misjuncture, vitalizes our reading and viewing.

The tension between the déclassé block and the particularized solids that it houses, as well as the secondary tension of junctures and misjunctures between the voids and divergent solids, activates a zone of contradictions precariously cantilevered into a delimitable whole

Conversely, in the case of Papua New Guinea, Edward Schieffelin et al. argued that encounters were more often than not characterized by "a structure of misjuncture" (1991:285) as opposed to a "structure of conjuncture," inasmuch as different groups of peoples reacted in different ways to the Strickland-Purari and earlier or later exploratory patrols that passed through their territories, according to historical contingency and the orientations of their own particular cosmologies, rituals, and so on (1991:283-290).