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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

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Author : A. Johnston Abraham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

String Figures written by A. Johnston Abraham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Family & Relationships categories.

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 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.

Kwakiutl String Figures

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Author : Julia P. Averkieva
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2000

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 2000 with categories.

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.