Mathematical foundations of social anthropology
Author: Paul A. Ballonoff
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-07-19
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 3111697711
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Author: Paul A. Ballonoff
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-07-19
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 3111697711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul A. Ballonoff
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 131
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Siegfried Frederick Nadel
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raymond L. Wilder
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0486490610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccessible to students and relevant to specialists, this remarkable book by a prominent educator offers a unique perspective on the evolutionary development of mathematics. Rather than conducting a survey of the history or philosophy of mathematics, Raymond L. Wilder envisions mathematics as a broad cultural phenomenon. His treatment examines and illustrates how such concepts as number and length were affected by historic and social events. Starting with a brief consideration of preliminary notions, this study explores the early evolution of numbers, the evolution of geometry, and the conquest of the infinite as embodied by real numbers. A detailed look at the processes of evolution concludes with an examination of the evolutionary aspects of modern mathematics.
Author: S.F. Nadel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1136542841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocussing on the methodology of social anthropology this book covers the following: · The aims of social anthropology · Observation and description · Psychology in observation · The material of observation · Institutions · Groupings · Explanation · Experimental anthropology · Psychological explanations · Function and pattern. Originally published in 1951
Author: Siegfried Ferdinand Nadel
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 426
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Willard McCarty
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-03-29
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1000566455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience in the Forest, Science in the Past: Further Interdisciplinary Explorations comprises of papers from the second of two workshops involving a group of scholars united in the conviction that the great diversity of knowledge claims and practices for which we have evidence must be taken seriously in their own terms rather than by the yardstick of Western modernity. Bringing to bear social anthropology, history and philosophy of science, computer science, classics and sinology among other fields, they argue that the use of such dismissive labels as ‘magic’, ‘superstition’ and the ‘irrational’ masks rather than solves the problem and reject counsels of despair which assume or argue that radically alien beliefs are strictly unintelligible to outsiders and can be understood only from within the system in question. At the same time, they accept that how to proceed to a better understanding of the data in question poses a formidable challenge. Key problems identified in the inaugural workshop, whose proceedings were published in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2019) and in HAU Books (2020), provided the basis for asking how obvious pitfalls might be avoided and a new or revised framework within which to pursue these problems proposed. The chapters in this book were originally published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.
Author: Thomas Crump
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-10-15
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521438070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNumbers 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.
Author: Jerry Dean Hofmann
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1990-12-31
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780422809306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.