"misjuncture" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003, Rena Lederman, “Review of Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Jeffrey CLARK; Chris Ballard; Michael Nihill”, in The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 112(1): 78-80:",
          "text": "The practical understandings implied in these accounts constitute what Clark (following Sahlins up to a point) calls a structure of \"misjuncture\" (p.70).",
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          "ref": "2012, Ranjan Ghosh, “Reading and Experiencing a Play Transculturally”, in Comparative Drama, 46(3): 259-281:",
          "text": "This \"unpeace,\" at once the site of conjuncture and misjuncture, vitalizes our reading and viewing.",
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          "ref": "2015, Anna Kornbluh, “The Realist Blueprint”, in The Henry James Review, 36(3): 199-211:",
          "text": "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",
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          "ref": "2019, David Tomas, Transcultural Space And Transcultural Beings, Routledge:",
          "text": "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).",
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        "A poorly articulated connection, a joining of things that functions poorly."
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          "ref": "2003, Rena Lederman, “Review of Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea by Jeffrey CLARK; Chris Ballard; Michael Nihill”, in The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 112(1): 78-80:",
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