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About a century ago, in a remote region of Central Asia, on the margins of the former Soviet empire, an expedition of psychologists and anthropologists arrived from Moscow. Both disciplines, psychology and anthropology, were little more than embryonic sciences, but the expedition was planned by two...
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| Published in | The Digital Humanist p. 97 |
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| Main Authors | , , , |
| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Punctum Books
07.12.2017
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | About a century ago, in a remote region of Central Asia, on the margins of the former Soviet empire, an expedition of psychologists and anthropologists arrived from Moscow. Both disciplines, psychology and anthropology, were little more than embryonic sciences, but the expedition was planned by two individuals who would go on to make history: Alexander Romanovich Luria and Lev Vygotsky. The objective of the expedition in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, a land inhabited by men and women immersed in an illiterate society, was ambitious: to study the processes of cross-cultural differences in cognition, or—to put it another way—to analyze |
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| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv1bd4hbj.8 |