Download or read book Cat s Cradles of the Kiwai Papuans British New Guinea written by G. Landtmann and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea written by Gunnar Landtman and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea With an Introduction by Alfred C Haddon Etc With Plates and a Map written by Gunnar LANDTMAN and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kwakiutl String Figures written by Julia P. Averkieva and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the games people play, string figures afford nearly universal amusement, appearing in more cultures than any other. But although over 2,000 individual patterns have been recorded world-wide since 1888, when anthropologist Franz Boas first described a pair of Eskimo "cat's cradles," very few studies have explored North American Indian string figures. This intriguing volume publishes for the first time 102 string figures and 10 string tricks collected among the Kwakiutl Indians by Julia Averkieva, a young visiting Soviet scholar who accompanied Boas on his 1930 expedition to Vancouver Island. When she returned to Leningrad, Averkieva left her unpublished monograph with Boas, whose heirs eventually sent it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Averkieva's study represents the most comprehensive Native American string collection ever assembled from a single tribe. In addition to characterizing the social conditions that prompted string figure making among the Kwakiutl during the time of her field study, Averkieva noted step-by-step instructions for each figure and transcribed traditional accompanying chants. In editing and expanding Averkieva's manuscript, Mark Sherman addresses string figure enthusiasts as well as cultural anthropologists. Sherman includes in his introduction a complete description of basic openings and string figure moves. For each Kwakiutl figure he has prepared clear illustrations based on Averkieva's original photographs and pencil sketches. In addition he has tested each figure for workability, clarifying instructions where necessary and recasting them in Rivers and Haddon's standard terminology. Sherman's analysis of figure titles suggests that many aspects of Kwakiutl material culture and belief are preserved in string. In examining the ethnological value of the collection, he discusses the implications of observed similarities between Eskimo and Kwakiutl string figures. He also updates Averkieva's preliminary distribution data, interspersing the figure descriptions with references to related and identical figures from other cultures. Each analysis is keyed to an illustrated cross index. Kwakiutl String Figures will interest students of comparative cultures and will delight all who have time (and string) on their hands.

Download or read book Maori String Figures written by Johannes Carl Andersen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Revival Primitive Mentality 1923 written by Lucien Levy-Bruhl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primitive mind does not differentiate the supernatural from reality, but rather uses "mystical participation" to manipulate the world. According to Bruhl, moreover, the primitive mind doesn't address contradictions. The modern mind, by contrast, uses reflection and logic. Bruhl believed in a historical and evolutionary teleology leading from the primitive mind to the modern mind.

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Download or read book Aftermath written by James George Frazer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplement to Frazer's The Golden Bough, this 1936 work remains an important text for scholars of religion and anthropology.

Download or read book String Figures as Mathematics written by Eric Vandendriessche and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does so by using interdisciplinary methods borrowed from anthropology, mathematics, history and philosophy of mathematics. The practice of string figure-making has long been carried out in many societies, and particularly in those of oral tradition. It consists in applying a succession of operations to a string (knotted into a loop), mostly using the fingers and sometimes the feet, the wrists or the mouth. This succession of operations is intended to generate a final figure. The book explores different modes of conceptualization of the practice of string figure-making and analyses various source material through these conceptual tools: it looks at research by mathematicians, as well as ethnographical publications, and personal fieldwork findings in the Chaco, Paraguay, and in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, which all give evidence of the rationality that underlies this activity. It concludes that the creation of string figures may be seen as the result of intellectual processes, involving the elaboration of algorithms, and concepts such as operation, sub-procedure, iteration, and transformation.

Download or read book Maori String Games written by Johannes Carl Andersen and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Papua and New Guinea A K written by Peter Ryan and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1972 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 3 volumes contain a wealth of information and photos to give a strong reference resource for Papua and New Guinea.

Download or read book The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea A Nature born Instance of Rousseau s Ideal Community With an Introduction by Alfred C Haddon written by Gunnar Landtmann and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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