Ebook: Mapping time, space and the body: indigenous knowledge and mathematical thinking in Brazil

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; NOTE; FOREWORD; NOTE; INTRODUCTION: Mathematics and the Dream We Share of Inner Peace and Solidarity; MAPPING SPACE: COLONIAL MAP-MAKING AND THE FICTION OF TERRA NULLIUS; The Color Red: Naming the Newfound Land "Brasil"; Mapping Time: Before and After the Arrival of the "White Man"; Mapping the Body: The Body is the Guardian of the Guarani self; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; Who are Indigenous Peoples?; The Movement for Indigenous Rights; HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED; Part I: The Xingu Indigenous Park in Central Brazil.;Mapping Time, Space and the Body: Indigenous Knowledge and Mathematical Thinking in Brazil brings people, land and numbers together in the fight for justice. On this extraordinary voyage through ancestral territories in central and southern Brazil, the Xavante, Suyá, Kayabi, and other local nations use mapping as a tool to protect their human rights to lands and resources they have traditionally owned and acquired. Mathematics activities inside the classroom and in everyday life help explain how Indigenous Peoples understand the cosmos and protect the living beings that helped create it. The b.