TY - BOOK ID - 5082883 TI - The anthropology of numbers PY - 1990 VL - 70 SN - 0521380456 0521438071 051162168X 9780521380454 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Economic anthropology KW - Numerals KW - Symbolism of numbers KW - Anthropologie économique KW - Nombres KW - Symbolisme des nombres KW - Folklore KW - Symbolism in folklore. KW - -Symbolism in folklore KW - #SBIB:39A4 KW - Number symbolism KW - Sacred numbers KW - Symbolic numbers KW - Mathematics KW - Commerce, Primitive KW - Economics, Primitive KW - Economics KW - Ethnology KW - Toegepaste antropologie KW - Economic anthropology. KW - Symbolism of numbers. KW - Folklore. KW - Anthropologie économique KW - Symbolism in folklore KW - Social Sciences KW - Anthropology KW - Numerals - Folklore UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5082883 AB - Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The author goes on to consider the relationship of numbers to specific themes, such as ethnoscience, politics, measurement, time, money, music, games and architecture. The Anthropology of Numbers is an original contribution to scholarship, written in a clear and accessible style. It will be of interest to anthropologists who study cognition, symbolism, primitive thought and classification, and to those in adjacent disciplines of psychology, cognitive science and mathematical social science. ER -