The Anthropology of Space
The Anthropology of Space

Author: Rik Pinxten

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1512818399

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Ethnomathematics
Ethnomathematics

Author: Arthur B. Powell

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1997-04-17

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1438416415

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This collection brings together classic, previously published articles and new research to present the emerging field of ethnomathematics from a critical perspective, challenging particular ways in which Eurocentrism permeates mathematics education. The contributors identify several of the field's broad themes—reconsidering what counts as mathematical knowledge, considering interactions between culture and mathematical knowledge, and uncovering hidden and distorted histories of mathematical knowledge. The book offers a diversity of ethnomathematics perspectives that develop both theoretical and practical issues from various disciplines including mathematics, mathematics education, history, anthropology, cognitive psychology, feminist studies, and African studies written by authors from Brazil, England, Australia, Mozambique, Palestine, Belgium, and the United States.

Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality

Author: Ken Wilber

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2001-01-02

Total Pages: 880

ISBN-13: 0834821087

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Hailed as “one of the most significant books ever published,” this work of far-reaching vision is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of human consciousness In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of these domains. From the emergence of mind, he traces the evolution of human consciousness through its major stages of growth and development. Wilber particularly focuses on modernity and postmodernity: what they mean; how they impact gender issues, psychotherapy, ecological concerns, and various liberation movements; and how the modern and postmodern world conceive of Spirit. This second edition features forty pages of new material, new diagrams, and extensively revised notes.

Africana Resources and Collections
Africana Resources and Collections

Author: Hans E. Panofsky

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780810822399

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Comprises studies on the bibliographic control of various collections (e.g., films, museum materials, publications in African languages), background information on interlibrary cooperation, and an essay on improved online access to Africa-related materials in undergraduate collection. Annotation cop

The Manufacture of Knowledge
The Manufacture of Knowledge

Author: K.D. Knorr-Cetina

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 148328574X

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The anthropological approach is the central focus of this study. Laboratories are looked upon with the innocent eye of the traveller in exotic lands, and the societies found in these places are observed with the objective yet compassionate eye of the visitor from a quite other cultural milieu. There are many surprises that await us if we enter a laboratory in this frame of mind... This study is a realistic enterprise, an attempt to truly represent the social order of life in laboratories and institutes of research, just as they are. By bringing the philosophical issues to the surface as matters not of prejudgement but as matters of concern, Karin Knorr-Cetina has developed the first really positive challenge to the philosophy of science since the days of paradigms and internal definitions of meanings

MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education
MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education

Author: Rik Pinxten

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-16

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 3319262556

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This book defends that math education should systematically start out from the diverse out-of-school knowledge of children and develop trajectories from there to the Academic Mathematics tower of knowledge. Learning theories of the sociocultural school (Vygotsky and on) are used here, and ethnographic knowledge from around the world is shown to offer a rich and varied base for curricula. The book takes a political stand against the exclusively western focus in OECD analyses and proposals on math education. This book aims at agents in education and social actions in every cultural environment. But it is also attractive to mathematicians, anthropologists and other specialists. It offers a broad and scholarly view of knowledge and culture and a very original transcultural and transdisciplinarian approach to education. Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, UNICAMP/Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought
Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought

Author: Hans G. Kippenberg

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 3110874377

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Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.