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The Anthropology of Numbers (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
The Anthropology of Numbers - Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Author: Thomas Crump
Why do the Nuer stipulate forty cattle in brideprice? Why is the number ten so important in North American mythology? What does the anthropologist Clifford Geertz really mean to say when he talks about the correspondence of Balinese time cycles? Numbers play some part, often quite central, in almost all known cultures, yet until now the subject...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521380454
ISBN-10: 0521380456
Publication Date: 6/29/1990
Pages: 211
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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