ISBN:
0-521-38045-6
,
978-0-521-38045-4
ISSN:
0068-6794
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 201 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 70
Keywords:
Zahl Symbolik
;
Kulturanthropologie
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Wirtschaftsethnologie
;
Kulturvergleich
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The ontology of number; 2. The cognitive foundations of numeracy; 3. Number and language; 4. Cosmology, society and politics; 5. Economy, society and politics; 6. Measurement, comparison and equivalence; 7. Time; 8. Money; 9. Music poetry and dance; 10. Games and chance; 11. Art and architecture; 12. The ecology of number; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 180-189
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