Download or read book Eskimo String Figures and Their Origin written by Thomas Thomson Paterson and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distribution of figures; local variations in names and form; method of construction, with diagrams.

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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.

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Download or read book Through darkening spectacles written by Diamond Jenness and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond Jenness was one of the most outstanding Canadian anthropologists of the early twentieth century. His books, The Indians of Canada and People of the Twilight, are classics. Now, details about the private life of this dedicated scholar are revealed in his own words augmented with contributions by his son Stuart.

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