Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editors' Introduction: Contemporary Social-Cultural Research: Uniting Culture, Society, and Psychology / Jaan Valsiner and Alberto Rosa -- Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- The Myth, and Beyond: Ontology of Psyche and Epistemology of Psychology / Jaan Valsiner and Alberto Rosa -- Language, Cognition, Subjectivity: A Dynamic Constitution / Thomas Slunecko and Sophie Hengl -- Psychology within Time: Theorizing about the Making of Socio-Cultural Psychology / Jorge Castro-Tejerina and Alberto Rosa -- Sampling Reconsidered: Idiographic Science and the Analysis of Personal Life Trajectories / Tatsuya Sato ... [et al.] -- Part II: From Nature To Culture -- The Windowless Room: "Mediationism" and How to Get Over It / Alan Costall -- Functional Systems of Perception-Action and Re-Mediation / David Travieso -- Comparative Development of Communication: An Evolutionary Perspective / Adolfo Perinat -- The Material Practices of Ape Language Research / William Mintz Fields, Par Segerdahl, and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh -- The End of Myths and Legends About the Biological and Cultural Evolution: A New View in the Knowledge on Hominid Paleo-Ethoecology / Jordi Serrallonga -- Part III: From Orientation To Meaning -- Acts of Psyche: Actuations as Synthesis of Semiosis and Action / Alberto Rosa -- Time and Movement in Symbol Formation / Silvia Español -- Object Use, Communication, and Signs: The Triadic Basis of Early Cognitive Development / Cintia Rodriguez -- Network of Meanings: A Theoretical-Methodological Perspective for the Investigation of Human Developmental Processes / M. Clotilde Rossetti-Ferreira, Katia S. Amorim, and Ana Paula S. Silva -- Part IV: Symbolic Resources For The Constitution Of Experience -- Dramaturgical Actuations and Symbolic Communication: Or How Beliefs Make Up Reality / Alberto Rosa -- Analysis of Cultural Emotion: Understanding of Indigenous Psychology for Universal Implications / Sang-Chin Choi, Gyuseog Han, and Chung-Woon Kim -- The Role of Symbolic Resources in Human Lives / Tania Zittoun -- Perpetual Uncertainty of Cultural Life: Becoming Reality / Emily Abbey -- Prayer and the Kingdom of Heaven: Psychological Tools for Directivity / Pablo del Rio and Amelia Alvarez -- "Myself, the Project": Sociocultural Interpretations of Young Adulthood / Jeanette A. Lawrence and Agnes E. Dodds -- Part V: From Society To The Person Through Culture -- Apprenticeship in Conversation and Culture: Emerging Sociability in Preschool Peer Talk / Michal Hamo and Shoshana Blum-Kulka -- The Creation of New Cultures in Peer Interaction / William A. Corsaro and Berit O. Johannesen -- "Culture Has No Internal Territory": Culture as Dialogue / Eugene Matusov ... [et al.] -- Cultural-Historical Approaches to Designing for Development / Michael Cole and Yrjö Engeström -- Money as a Cultural Tool Mediating Personal Relationships: Child Development of Exchange and Possession / Toshiya Yamamoto and Noboru Takahashi -- The Family: Negotiating Cultural Values / Nandita Chaudhary -- Part VI: From Social Culture To Personal Culture -- Culture and Social Representations / Gerard Duveen -- The Institutions Inside: Self, Morality, and Culture / Piero Paolicchi -- Identity, Rights, and Duties: The Illustrative Case of Positioning by Iran, the United States, and the European Union / Fathali M. Moghaddam and Kathryn A. Kavulich -- Symbolic Politics and Cultural Symbols: Identity Formation Between and Beyond Nations and States / Ulf Hedetoft -- The Dialogical Self: Social, Personal, and (Un)Conscious / João Salgado and Miguel Gongalves -- Part VII: Making Sense Of The Past For The Future: Memory And Self-Re Flection -- Social and Cognitive Determinants of Collective Memory for Public Events / Guglielmo Bellelli, Antonietta Curd, and Giovanna Leone -- Collective Memory / James V. Wertsch -- Issues in the Socio-Cultural Study of Memory: Making Memory Matter / David Middleton and Steven D. Brown -- The Social Basis of Self-Reflection / Alex Gillespie -- General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move: Semiotic Methodology in the Making / Alberto Rosa and Jaan Valsiner.

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