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The Anthropology of Numbers
Thomas Crump
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Description for The Anthropology of Numbers
paperback. Numbers play some part, often quite central, in almost all known cultures, yet the subject is rarely examined in detail from an anthropological perspective. This book aims to find out how people in a wide range of diverse cultures and in different historical contexts, use and understand numbers. Series Editor(s): Fortes, Meyer; Leach, Edmund; Goody, Jack; Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1 half-tones, 19 line diagrams, index. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521438070
SKU
KSG0035628
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Reviews for The Anthropology of Numbers
'The book makes a lively, well-informed, and thoroughly unconventional contribution to its subject … it should and will be read by any with an interest in this branch of anthropology.' R. H. Barnes, Anthropos 'Crump has soothed, stimulated, and occasionally transported me in the contemplation of numbers and mysteries.' Eric Korn, The London Review of Books