The Anthropology of Numbers

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Paperback | 14 December 1992

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Why do the Nuer stipulate forty cattle in brideprice? Why is the number ten so important in North American mythology? What does the anthropologist Clifford Geertz really mean to say when he talks about the correspondence of Balinese time cycles? Numbers play some part, often quite central, in almost all known cultures, yet until now the subject has never been examined in detail from an anthropological perspective. This book is the first attempt to find out how people in a wide range of diverse cultures and in different historical contexts, use and understand numbers. The opening chapters provide the basis for looking at the way numbers operate in different contexts, by looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications. The following eight chapters deal with specific themes: ethnoscience, politics, measurement, time, money, music, games and architecture. The final chapter relates such operations to social, economic and cultural factors.

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'The book makes a lively, well-informed, and thoroughly unconventional contribution to its subject ... it should and will be read by any with an interest in this branch of anthropology.' R. H. Barnes, Anthropos 'Crump has soothed, stimulated, and occasionally transported me in the contemplation of numbers and mysteries.' Eric Korn, The London Review of Books

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Mathematics History of Mathematics

List of illustrations	p. vi
Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. x
The ontology of number	p. 1
The cognitive foundations of numeracy	p. 14
Number and language	p. 31
Cosmology and ethnoscience	p. 47
Economy, society and politics	p. 60
Measurement, comparison and equivalence	p. 72
Time	p. 81
Money	p. 92
Music, poetry and dance	p. 103
Games and chance	p. 115
Art and architecture	p. 128
The ecology of number	p. 146
Notes	p. 151
References	p. 180
Index	p. 190
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