Re: [xmca] Re: The relationship between practice and activity as concepts

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Is the "intersubjective" turn related to your topic Nathaniel? I am not 
sure which writers you have in mind. But in the main contemporary 
theorists who try to develop "nonmetaphysical" theories of mind don't 
have a concept of mediation of interactions. You have those who see the 
key relation as that between individual people and things, on one hand, 
and those who see the key relation as that between an individual person 
and another individual, on the other. CHAT sees the relation between 
people as mediated by things and the relation of a person to things as 
mediated by other people. It is this difference which I find most 
characteristic of CHAT.

Andy

Nathaniel Dumas wrote:
> Julian: those papers sound great! Will there be a proceedings of the 
> papers published? And your comments were spot on with what I am 
> thinking about. And Andy: I agree with your comments as well--very 
> helpful. Thank you both for your quick and thoughtful responses. This 
> is going to make an interesting class discussion for the unit/week on 
> how CHAT perspectives can complement and diverge from the practice 
> turn in sociology and anthropology, especially since anthropological 
> fields like language socialization rely intensely on CHAT and practice 
> theory.
>
> Best,
> Nate
>
> 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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