Re: primate musings

Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Sat, 8 Nov 1997 13:32:57 -0800 (PST)

Jay wrote, among other things:
(1) how the community-scale analysis and the individual-scale analysis are
to be smoothly integrated with one another in the theory, and

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Jay-- I know this is only a tiny fragment of what you were writing
about which was the process of hominization writ large, but I
focus here in my own work and this is a level that members of
xmca, in principle, ought to be able to conduct empirical as
well as theoretical work on.

In Cultural Psychology I offer up one empirical approach, a
"mesogenetic" methodology focused on microgenesis, ontogenesis,
and cultural-historical genesis of a particular activity system.
Discussion of the book on xmca never got that far, so I am not
certain of how people responded to that effort.

I would be very interested in hearing from members of XMCA about
research they are engaged in, or which they know about, which
brings community and individual analyses together.

mike