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by Thomas Crump


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Why do the Nuer stipulate forty cattle in brideprice? Why is the number ten so important in North American mythology? What does the anthropologist Clifford Geertz really mean to say when he talks about the correspondence of Balinese time cycles? Numbers play some part, often quite central, in almost all known cultures, yet until now the subject has never been examined in detail from an anthropological perspective. This book is the first attempt to find out how people in a wide range of diverse cultures and in different historical contexts, use and understand numbers. The opening chapters provide the basis for looking at the way numbers operate in different contexts, by looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications. The following eight chapters deal with specific themes: ethnoscience, politics, measurement, time, money, music, games and architecture. The final chapter relates such operations to social, economic and cultural factors.

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Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers.

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  • Title The Anthropology of Numbers
  • Author Thomas Crump
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 212
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1992-10-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780521438070 / 0521438071
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.95 x 5.92 x 0.51 in (22.73 x 15.04 x 1.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89034123
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.45
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