Ebook: Intimations of infinity: the mythopoeia of the Iqwaye counting system and number
Author: Jadran Mimica
- Year: 1988
- Publisher: Berg Publishers
- Language: English
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This is a remarkable work which captures the reader's imagination as only few books do. From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops a deeper and broader interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system and cosmology, culminating in a powerful critique of western assumptions about the development of rational thought.
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