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9780521438070

The Anthropology of Numbers

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521438070

  • ISBN10:

    0521438071

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-10-01
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The author goes on to consider the relationship of numbers to specific themes, such as ethnoscience, politics, measurement, time, money, music, games and architecture. The Anthropology of Numbers is an original contribution to scholarship, written in a clear and accessible style. It will be of interest to anthropologists who study cognition, symbolism, primitive thought and classification, and to those in adjacent disciplines of psychology, cognitive science and mathematical social science.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vi
Preface vii
Acknowledgements x
The ontology of number
1(13)
The cognitive foundations of numeracy
14(17)
Number and language
31(16)
Cosmology and ethnoscience
47(13)
Economy, society and politics
60(12)
Measurement, comparison and equivalence
72(9)
Time
81(11)
Money
92(11)
Music, poetry and dance
103(12)
Games and chance
115(13)
Art and architecture
128(18)
The ecology of number
146(5)
Notes 151(29)
References 180(10)
Index 190

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