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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.

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J4600.90 --- J3390 --- J4624 --- Emperors --- -Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Heads of state --- Kings and rulers --- Monarchy --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Politics and law -- state -- emperor --- Biography --- Hirohito Emperor of Japan --- Japan --- Politics and government --- -Emperors --- Biography. --- -Japan: Politics and law -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- -J4600.90 --- Hirohito, --- Shōwa Tennō, --- Shōwa, --- Yuren, --- 裕仁, --- 昭和天皇, --- 昭和, --- Shōwa --- Yuren --- Hirohito --- 裕仁 --- 昭和天皇 --- 昭和 --- 迪宮裕仁

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An almost obsessional use of numbers characterizes Japanese popular culture. A wide variety of numerical formulae and strategies provide the means for explaining events and solving problems occurring in everyday life. These include such matters as the choice of the name for a child, ranking in almost any game or sport, the diagnosis and cure of illness or the decision to accept a new job. This text provides a general study of the field of Japanese popular numeracy. It introduces the reader to a world of numbers in which fortune-telling, the abacus and games involving numbers, as well as cur

Symbolism in folklore --- Numerals --- Symbolism of numbers --- Folklore --- Number symbolism --- Sacred numbers --- Symbolic numbers --- Mathematics --- Japan --- Civilization --- Social life and customs. --- J1741.70 --- J4150 --- Japan: Religion -- occultism -- numerology --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture

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