Intimations of Infinity : The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems
ISBN: 9781000323009
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Taylor & Francis Group
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Subjects: History; Social Science;

This is a remarkable work which captures the reader's imagination as only few books do. 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.

Jadran Mimica Lecturer in Anthropology,University College London

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