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Sociocultural studies of mind / edited by James V. Wertsch, Pablo del Río, Amelia Alvarez.

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Sociocultural studies of mind / edited by James V. Wertsch, Pablo del Río, Amelia Alvarez.
Publication
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Alvarez, Amelia
  • Río, Pablo del
  • Wertsch, James V.
Description
ix, 252 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Sociocultural Studies of Mind addresses the primary question: how is mental functioning related to the cultural, historical, and institutional settings in which it exists?
Series Statement
Learning in doing
Uniform Title
Learning in doing
Subject
  • Ethnopsychology
  • Psychology, Social
  • Social psychology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Cultural-historical psychology and the psychological theory of activity / Vladimir P. Zinchenko -- The need for action in sociocultural research / James V. Wertsch -- Theories of action, speech, natural language and discourse / Jean-Paul Bronckart -- Writing and the mind / David R. Olson -- An approach to an integrated sensorimotor system in the human central brain and a subconscious computer / Tadanobu Tsunoda -- Observing sociocultural activity on three planes / Barbara Rogoff -- The constitution of the subject / Ana Luiza B. Smolka, Maria Cecília R. De Goes, Angel Pino -- Socio-cultural-historical psychology / Michael Cole -- Tossing, praying and thinking / Pablo del Rió, Amelia Alvarez.
ISBN
  • 0521470560 (hbk.)
  • 0521476437 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^94034685^
OCLC
31286912
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library