Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The ontology of number
- 2 The cognitive foundations of numeracy
- 3 Number and language
- 4 Cosmology and ethnoscience
- 5 Economy, society and politics
- 6 Measurement, comparison and equivalence
- 7 Time
- 8 Money
- 9 Music, poetry and dance
- 10 Games and chance
- 11 Art and architecture
- 12 The ecology of number
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The ontology of number
- 2 The cognitive foundations of numeracy
- 3 Number and language
- 4 Cosmology and ethnoscience
- 5 Economy, society and politics
- 6 Measurement, comparison and equivalence
- 7 Time
- 8 Money
- 9 Music, poetry and dance
- 10 Games and chance
- 11 Art and architecture
- 12 The ecology of number
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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- The Anthropology of Numbers , pp. 180 - 189Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990