Intimations of Infinity: The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780854961450)

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Intimations of Infinity: The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems

$200.00

Intimations of Infinity: The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Jadran Mimica
ISBN-10: 0854961453
ISBN-13: 9780854961450
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1988
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.67w x 0.65d
By Jadran Mimica
By Jadran Mimica
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Jadran Mimica Lecturer in Anthropology, University College London

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