Numbers and the making of us : counting and the course of human cultures
| 1. Verfasser: |
Everett, Caleb
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2017.
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| Umfang/Format: |
viii, 297 pages ; 22 cm. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Prologue: On the success of our species
- Part One. Numbers pervade the human experience: Numbers woven into our present
- Numbers carved into our past
- A numerical journey around the world today
- Beyond number words: other kinds of numeric language
- Part Two. Worlds without numbers: Anumeric people today
- Quantities in the minds of young children
- Quantities in the minds of animals
- Part Three. Numbers and the shaping of our lives: Inventing numbers and arithmetic
- Numbers and culture: subsistence and symbolism
- Transformative tools.
