String Figures From The Marquesas And Society Islands
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String Figures From The Marquesas And Society Islands
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Author : Willowdean Chatterson Handy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
String Figures From The Marquesas And Society Islands written by Willowdean Chatterson Handy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
String Figures From The Marquesas And Society Islands
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Author : Willowdean C. Handy
language : en
Publisher: Corinthian Press
Release Date : 1974-01-01
String Figures From The Marquesas And Society Islands written by Willowdean C. Handy and has been published by Corinthian Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974-01-01 with categories.
String Figures From The Marquesas And Society Islands Classic Reprint
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Author : Willowdean Chatterson Handy
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-10-09
String Figures From The Marquesas And Society Islands Classic Reprint written by Willowdean Chatterson Handy and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
Excerpt from String Figures From the Marquesas and Society Islands Although today there is no association in the native mind of definite figures with their ancient use as patterns for the lashings of canoes, coffins, house posts, adzes and the like, still there is interesting circumstantial evi dence regarding at least one of them (no humu, fig. 14, b). The sacred chant called oho cm 0 M otu-haiki, which was recited for the sacred first born, commemorates the pattern once used for the binding of the child's sacred adz. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
String Figures From Fiji And Western Polynesia
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Author : James Hornell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
String Figures From Fiji And Western Polynesia written by James Hornell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Games & Activities categories.
String Figures From The Marquesas And Society Islands
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Author : Willowdean Chatterson Handy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
String Figures From The Marquesas And Society Islands written by Willowdean Chatterson Handy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with Ethnology categories.
The String Figures Of Nauru Island
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Author : Honor C. Maude
language : en
Publisher: [email protected]
Release Date : 2001
The String Figures Of Nauru Island written by Honor C. Maude and has been published by [email protected] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Nauru categories.
Contains instructions for making and information about string figures of Nauru Island. Is a "definitive work on Nauruan ekadawa as well as commentary on Nauru's history and society."
String Figures As Mathematics
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Author : Eric Vandendriessche
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-01-02
String Figures As Mathematics written by Eric Vandendriessche and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-02 with Mathematics categories.
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.
String Figures From Pukapuka
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Author : Pearl Beaglehole
language : en
Publisher: [email protected]
Release Date : 1989
String Figures From Pukapuka written by Pearl Beaglehole and has been published by [email protected] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Ethnology categories.
String Figures Of The Tuamotus
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Author : Kenneth Pike Emory
language : en
Publisher: [email protected]
Release Date : 1979
String Figures Of The Tuamotus written by Kenneth Pike Emory and has been published by [email protected] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Games & Activities categories.
Kwakiutl String Figures
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Author : Julia P. Averkieva
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 1992-06-01
Kwakiutl String Figures written by Julia P. Averkieva and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-06-01 with Art categories.
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.