Cognitive Development, Its Cultural and Social Foundations (First American Edition)

A.R. Luria (author), Martin Lopez-Morillas; Lynn Solotaroff (translators); Michael Cole (editor)

ISBN 10: 0674137310 / ISBN 13: 9780674137318

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1976

About this Item

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1976. First American edition. Second printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A copy with clean text, and prior owner's signature on front endpaper. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Light foxing on top edge. F1400.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cognitive Development, Its Cultural and Social Foundations (First American Edition)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674137310
• ISBN 13: 9780674137318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • University Press

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Synopsis

In the early 1930s, Alexander Romanovich Luria set out with a group of fellow Russian psychologists for the steppes of central Asia. Their mission: to study the impact of the socialist revolution on an ancient Islamic cotton-growing culture and to establish guidelines for a viable Marxist psychology. The data collected among several remote groups of Uzbeks and Kirghiz supported the original hypothesis: the very structure of human cognitive processes differs according to the way in which social groups live out their various realities. For Luria, the legitimacy of treating human consciousness as a product of social history legitimized the Marxist dialectic of social development. The penetrating observations Luria drew from it, have cast new light on the workings of cognitive activity.

Language Notes

Text: English, Russian (translation)