I am not sure Don that everything in the Activity system is community -
would that not reduce the analytical purchase of community. My understanding
is that it is the bottom part of the triangle 'model' (which I take to be a
heuristic device rather than a model per se, and I see it as having a
heuristic function, hence my question to Helena about its analytic function)
which should be taking as representing community with its rules and division
of labour. But I am groping towards an understanding here so what do others
think?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cunningham, Donald" <cunningh@indiana.edu>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 2:36 PM
Subject: RE: History
> Thanks Ana and Mike. I suppose I have a much narrower context of
application
> for the word "history" and that is leading me astray, just as the word
> community did last summer when we were discussing LBE. In LBE (if I have
it
> right), community refers to the entire activity system, not (or not only)
to
> the node labeled as such in Yrjo triangles. Likewise, history is both a
meta
> category (everything has a time scale) and a specific reference to the
> "genetic domains". Words are such troublesome things. I wonder why we
> bother!
>
> djc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ana Marjanovic Shane [mailto:anashane@speakeasy.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 10:29 PM
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: History
>
>
> I think you are right!! Each of the elements incorporates a different
scale
> a different sense of history. I think that "H" in CHAT refers to all of
> them - to the sense that whatever you are talking about you should take
the
> history of that element into account. Sometimes it may also mean that you
> have to find the relationship between two different scales.
> This is a very important issue. Jay Lemke wrote about it on XMCA if I
> remember well several years ago.
>
> Ana
>
>
> At 06:39 PM 2/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Could I ask a dumb question that may or may not be relevant to the
current
> >discussion. To what does the HISTORY in CHAT refer? Cultural history? The
> >history of the individual (development?)? The trajectory of the activity?
> If
> >we lay YE's model out, each of the elements seem to have a history
> >(artifact, community, division of labor, etc.) but a slightly different
> >sense of history for each. Or am I playing the role of Mr. H. Dumpty
> >again.............djc
>
>
>
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