Eskimo String Figures
Author: Diamond Jenness
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 208
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Author: Diamond Jenness
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julia P. Averkieva
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0774844590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Caroline F. Jayne
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1962-01-01
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780486201528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiagrams and text illustrate the steps involved in creating over one hundred string figures while providing information on their origin and cultural background
Author: Thomas Thomson Paterson
Publisher:
Published: 1949
Total Pages: 106
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistribution of figures; local variations in names and form; method of construction, with diagrams.
Author: Caroline Furness Jayne
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric Vandendriessche
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-01-02
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 331911994X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does so by using interdisciplinary methods borrowed from anthropology, mathematics, history and philosophy of mathematics. The practice of string figure-making has long been carried out in many societies, and particularly in those of oral tradition. It consists in applying a succession of operations to a string (knotted into a loop), mostly using the fingers and sometimes the feet, the wrists or the mouth. This succession of operations is intended to generate a final figure. The book explores different modes of conceptualization of the practice of string figure-making and analyses various source material through these conceptual tools: it looks at research by mathematicians, as well as ethnographical publications, and personal fieldwork findings in the Chaco, Paraguay, and in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, which all give evidence of the rationality that underlies this activity. It concludes that the creation of string figures may be seen as the result of intellectual processes, involving the elaboration of algorithms, and concepts such as operation, sub-procedure, iteration, and transformation.
Author: Ernest S. Burch
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 1889963925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis landmark volume will stand for decades as one of the most comprehensive studies of a hunter-gatherer population ever written. In this third and final volume in a series on the early contact period Iñupiaq Eskimos of northwestern Alaska, Burch examines every topic of significance to hunter-gatherer research, ranging from discussions of social relationships and settlement structure to nineteenth-century material culture.
Author: International String Figure Association
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780486404004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects instructions drawn from the pages of String Figure Magazine explaining how to create such string "sculptures" as "Twinkling star," "Polar Bear," "Erupting volcano," and "Andromeda galaxy"
Author: Sandy Fussell
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Published: 2014-07-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 192197737X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn absorbing historical adventure by the award-winning author of the Samurai Kids series, Sandy Fussell. “The ancient ones whisper to me, Iluak,” Nana says. “They talk about you. They say a bear is waiting.” In the land of snow and ice, where the midwinter sun doesn’t rise and it’s black all day, Iluak is afraid. But he’s not afraid of the darkness. No one here is. He’s afraid of whiter things.
Author: David Grew
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 310
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