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Substance abuse rehabilitation the world over is often described as a process of self‐transformation. The Russian Orthodox Church rehabilitation program where the research for this article was done takes this process to its extreme by characterizing it as a total remaking of participants' moral personhood. The practice of remaking one's moral personhood is most often referred to as...
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This article elaborates on different modes of reflecting and on the significance of these differences for educational and educational‐psychological practice. It contrasts exemplary materials from two research projects at schools where students share experiences of social exclusion, poor performance in mainstream educational settings, economic challenges, and family‐related problems...
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In this introduction to the Ethos 2011 Dialogue the guest editors discuss questions related to child and youth development as seen from a cultural‐historical and critical psychological point of view. The authors contributing to the dialogue develop a particular focus on the notions of mediation, practice, and active subjectivity while examining a series of conflictual cases of child...
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Life narratives of four middle‐aged Maya women in Chiapas, Mexico illustrate how social change toward a Gesellschaft environment—formal schooling, urbanization, and the development of commerce—leads to an indigenous form of feminism, marked by a desire for autonomy and egalitarian relations between men and women. The study advances Greenfield's theory of social change and human development...
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In this article I analyze empowerment in Copenhagen's “wild” social work community and I develop the role of expansive learning to understand how to transcend marginalization. The notion of expansive activity developed by Engeström and Holzkamp contributes to the further development of Cultural‐Historical Activity Theory. I use a social practice theory of boundary communities to analyze...
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In this article I investigate family as an everyday life context and conflictual community. My starting point is an exploration of children's lives across their day care and home settings. Children's development is theorized in relation to their participation in and engagements with different communities across multiple contexts. I show that parenting is shaped by children's participation...
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Whereas Engeström has suggested that Cultural‐Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) approach bird identification as an unusual type of dispersed “wildfire” activity, we argue that bird identification represents a durable family of cultural practices that have been shaped by multiple sociohistoric motives and that share key mediating artifacts (e.g., field guides, specialized optical equipment,...
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This article examines Japanese teachers' beliefs about children's peripheral participation in emotional interactions in the classroom, and especially in fights. The article is based on a reanalysis of scenes of fighting in Japanese preschools from Tobin and colleagues' 2009 book and video, Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited. The reanalysis shifts the focus of attention from the protagonists...
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In this article I present the results of a community‐based ethnographic study of the social and cultural meanings of dolor de cerebro (“brainache”), a pain commonly expressed by Nicaraguan women. Based on the results of narrative interviews conducted with 12 women, I show how these women situate the pain of dolor de cerebro in relation to their persistent worries about the impact of...
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In this article we bring together theory and methods from two different but related fields, anthropology—specifically medical anthropology—and the cognitive sciences—specifically research on categorization and reasoning. We explore folk medical models of Mexican migrants in the greater Nashville area. The combining thread is our exploration in conceptual organization (categorization)...
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This report describes preliminary findings about the connections between type 2 diabetes, mental health, and normative social roles among women living in Delhi, India. We conducted freelist interviews with 62 diabetic and nondiabetic women about women's roles, perceptions of diabetes, and “tension,” a common Hindi‐language idiom used to express stress. Using the freelist results, we...
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