Re: [xmca] The 'activity' concept in CHAT

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Nathaniel, here http://www.erythrospress.com/store/classics.html you can 
buy three classic works on Activity Theory, AN Leontyev's Development of 
Mind, Mescheryakov's Awakening to Life and Ilyenkov's The Ideal in Human 
Activity. All very cheap to boot.
Here http://vimeo.com/groups/39473/videos/sort:plays you can view a 
bunch of videos including a two-part lecture by Mary van der Riet which 
introduces Activity Theory from an Engestrom point of view and that's 
for free.
Or 
http://www.amazon.com/Interdisciplinary-Activity-Studies-Critical-Sciences/dp/1608461459/ 
addresses itself to the question "what is an activity" from an 
interdisciplinary perspective.

Andy
Nathaniel Dumas wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I hope all is well. I am currently designing a syllabus for an 
> anthropology seminar, “Activities as Ethnographic and Analytical 
> Foci,” and one of the first questions we ask in the seminar is “What 
> is an activity?” from different disciplinary perspectives (including 
> anthropology, psychology, and sociology). That said, could anyone 
> recommend a few titles from CHAT that deal particularly with this 
> question? The classics that come to my mind is the Lave and Wenger's 
> works in addition to Leont'ev's essay on the activity. Thus, I'm 
> curious if there are any other contemporary writings on this concept. 
> Feel free to reply to me offline at ndumas@linguistics.ucsb.edu, if 
> you prefer.
> Best,
>
>
> Nathaniel Dumas
> UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow
> Department of Linguistics
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> http://ucsb.academia.edu/NathanielDumas/About
>
>
>
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