[xmca] The 'activity' concept in CHAT

[Nathaniel Dumas <ndumas@linguistics.ucsb.edu>]

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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