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The anthropology of numbers /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crump, Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Series:Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 70.
Subjects:
Numerals > Folklore.
Symbolism of numbers.
Economic anthropology.
Symbolism in folklore.
Symbolisme des nombres.
Anthropologie économique.
Nombres > Folklore.
Symbolisme dans le folklore.
number symbolism.
73.00 ethnology: general.
31.00 mathematics: general.
Economic anthropology
Numerals
Symbolism in folklore
Symbolism of numbers
Kulturanthropologie
Kulturvergleich
Sozialanthropologie
Zahl
Zahlensymbolik
Culturele antropologie.
Getallen.
Numerals.
Nombres > Anthropologie.
Numbers > Social aspects
Folklore
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • The ontology of number
  • The cognitive foundations of numeracy
  • Number and language
  • Cosmology and ethnoscience
  • Economy, society and politics
  • Measurement, comparison and equivalence
  • Time
  • Money
  • Music, poetry and dance
  • Games and chance
  • Art and architecture
  • The ecology of number.