Dear Mike-
I promised not to bother you but my resolution is for the new 2004 year :-)
I have a few more days. Can you provide guidelines how I/we can access
electronically Ernst Boesch's paper "The Seven Flaws of Cross-Cultural
Psychology. The Story of a Conversion"? I found his beautiful article "The
Sound of Violin" on http://lchc.ucsd.edu/Histarch/ja93v15n1.PDF (pp.6-15).
Besides intellectual, it has aesthetic enjoyment of reading and stimulating.
Eugene
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Cole [mailto:mcole@weber.ucsd.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 1:28 PM
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: different genres
>
>
> In the course of research for a handbook chapter I realized that two of
> my favorite articles on socio-cultural- activity theory (oops, that almost
> spells "SCAT", i believe) are by Ernst Boesch and they are both available
> in our newsletter archives. The first is a pure thought experiment. A
fictional
> narrative, but one with deep methodological implications: " 7 flaws in
> cross cultural psychology" (roughly) is the narrative of a young, female,
> cross-cultural psychologist who goes of to nail down a plausible CAUSAL
> "factor" where culture shapes the psyche. The second is a different kind
> of narrative -- the narrative history of the dialectical procesess of
> exchange between the "culturally interpreted" material resource of making
> sound and people's ideal image ("culturally interpreted") also mental
> in the form of artifacts.
>
> Two excellent examples here of the use of NARRATIVES as a source
> of DATA, and generation of new THEORIES.
>
> Check it out.
> mike
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> AND THEORY
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