Abstract
Following Boas, many anthropologists keep considering that learning processes are outside their discipline and fearing that cognitivism is currently using this thema as a tool for annexing anthropology to nativist psychology. After showing that the Chomskyan model internalizes contradictorily the scholar scheme of written grammar and, by reducing learning to a mere “awakening” of internal representations, is actually denying any relevance to actual learning activities, this article focused on two representing graphic activities are through learning processes: writing and drawing. It occurred historically that writing has been systematically transmitted violently by “dressage” (“taming” or “breaking in”) and that drawing can be forbidden but not taught in this way for the reason that it is a globally autonomous way of being, as all true learnings are. Drawing is always more than a mental representation since interaction with the actual presence of its’ own products is constantly needed.
Keywords
drawing; learning; representation; writing
