Enactivism and Material Culture: How Enactivism Could Redefine Enculturation Processes

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The central aim of the article is to add the perspective of material culture to the explanation of enculturation processes. The article is brilliant and clear in describing the different modalities of embodied cognition. In this sense, it describes a good mapping of the different strands of this concept and what place enactivism occupies in them. His main goal is defined as follows:

“Of the whole set of approaches, we would like to point out two promising theoretical lines to understand culture under an enactive system: the first one that tries to understandlines to understand culture under an enactive system: the first one that tries to understand social action between human agents through the “participatory sense-making” mediated by an embodied language, and the second one that examines the relationship of enactive engagement with culturalized material environments (Material Engagement Theory MET)”

Undoubtedly, this second line of the article is promising, and therein lies its main contribution. Unfortunately, the article makes little reference to the extensive literature on material culture, with the exception of Malafouris (Miller, Ingold, Latour,...). It would be useful to introduce a brief approximation or definition of the concept of material culture, which is so central to the article's argument.

I noticed some errors in assigning citations to reference numbers, such as:

“The Zawidzki’s mindshaping hypothesis is conceptualized as the emergence of embodied and embedded practices of tracking and shaping behavioral dispositions in sociohistorical situations located in culturally specific human populations instead of conceptualizing as the achievement of computational processes implemented in the brains of individuals that involve mental representations, [39, p. 737].

Author Response

Thank you very much for your suggestions. In the attached file we include in blue the changes made to the text as well as the references included

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

The article meets the scientific criteria in terms of content and form. I recommend publishing the article in you journal.

Author Response

Thank you very much for your comments

We will do the revision of the English language for the publication