Intimations of Infinity

The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems

By: Jadran Mimica

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Hardcover | 1 July 1988 | Edition Number 1

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200 Pages

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21.6 x 13.8 x 1.27

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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.

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"... impressive not only for those who specialise in anthropology but for anyone concerned with understanding man." --Mainichi Daily News

"... complex, wide-ranging, provocative, irritating, unorthodox and most stimulating." --Canberra Anthropology

"... this book is without parallel...ethnographically rich and philosophically informed." --Oceania

"... Mimica has carried through a quite original piece of work and thought. This really is the kind of 'new anthropology' for which the discipline is searching." --Professor Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge

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