Will adding halves make a whole? Comments on Ratner's 'activity as a key concept for cultural psychology'

Culture and Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 195-210

  De Lima, Simone Gonçalves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Activity; Phylogenesis; Semiotic mediation; Units of analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031161680     PISSN: 1354067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354067x9700300206     Document Type: Article

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