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Intimations of infinity : the mythopoeia of the Iqwaye counting system and number / Jadran Mimica ; with an afterword by Roy Wagner.
Penn Museum Library DU740.42 .M56 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mimica, Jadran.
- Series:
- Explorations in anthropology
- Explorations in anthropology.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yagwoia (Papua New Guinean people).
- Numeration.
- Number concept.
- Infinite.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Mythopoeia of the Iqwaye counting system and number.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Berg ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- This is a remarkable work which captures the reader's imagination as only few books do. From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops a deeper and broader interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system and cosmology, culminating in a powerful critique of western assumptions about the development of rational thought.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 178-183.
- ISBN:
- 0854961453 :
- OCLC:
- 16468423
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