Bartlett's Psycho-anthropological Project

This paper focuses on the examination of the early production of F.C. Bartlett devoted to the psychological study of an anthropological question: the conventionalization of cultural materials. His early articles offer a project for a cultural psychology which also foresees a theory of activity, as well as developing a set of categories which allow a transition from the social to the individual levels of analysis. His view of how symbols are created, transmitted and changed is also of particular interest, both in individual and in social life, as is his discussion of the role feelings play in semiosis.