Jadran Mimica

Intimations of Infinity

The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 144mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780854961450
• ISBN-10: 0854961453
• Artikelnr.: 21492281

Autorenporträt

Jadran Mimica Lecturer in Anthropology,University College London

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Counting System 3. The Authentic Constitution of the
Numerical Series 4. The Counting System in the Light of the Iqwaye View of
the Cosmos 5. The Image of Cosmic Totality and the Primordial Senses of
Infinity, 6. Iqwaye Counting, the Mathematical Infinite and the Problem of
the Understanding of other Mathematical Realities 7. Number and the
Existential Foundations of Anthropological Understanding of Other Cultures,
Afterword: Some Comments on the Iqwaye Mathematic