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10 - Symbolic Resources and Imagination in the Dynamics of Life

from Part II - Action, Objects, Artifacts, and Meaning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2018

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Tania Zittoun
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Alberto Rosa  and
Jaan Valsiner
Alberto Rosa
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Jaan Valsiner
Affiliation:
Aalborg University, Denmark
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