Author: Johannes Carl Andersen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Maori String Figures
Author: Johannes Carl Andersen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Maori String Games
Author: Johannes Carl Andersen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Māori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Māori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
String Figures from Pukapuka
Author: Pearl Beaglehole
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9780959611137
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9780959611137
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
String Figures of the Tuamotus
Author: Kenneth Pike Emory
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9780959611113
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9780959611113
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Kwakiutl String Figures
Author: Julia P. Averkieva
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774844590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774844590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Whai
Author: Kiwa Hammond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781776692781
Category : Readers (Primary)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Mahi and Hani explore a range of whai : (traditional Maori string games).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781776692781
Category : Readers (Primary)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Mahi and Hani explore a range of whai : (traditional Maori string games).
The String Figures of Nauru Island
Author: Honor C. Maude
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820201484
Category : Nauru
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Contains instructions for making and information about string figures of Nauru Island. Is a "definitive work on Nauruan ekadawa as well as commentary on Nauru's history and society."
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820201484
Category : Nauru
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Contains instructions for making and information about string figures of Nauru Island. Is a "definitive work on Nauruan ekadawa as well as commentary on Nauru's history and society."
String Figures and how to Make Them
Author: Caroline F. Jayne
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486201528
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Diagrams and text illustrate the steps involved in creating over one hundred string figures while providing information on their origin and cultural background
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486201528
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Diagrams and text illustrate the steps involved in creating over one hundred string figures while providing information on their origin and cultural background
String Figures from Hawaii
Author: Lyle Alexander Dickey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
String Figures as Mathematics?
Author: Eric Vandendriessche
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331911994X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does so by using interdisciplinary methods borrowed from anthropology, mathematics, history and philosophy of mathematics. The practice of string figure-making has long been carried out in many societies, and particularly in those of oral tradition. It consists in applying a succession of operations to a string (knotted into a loop), mostly using the fingers and sometimes the feet, the wrists or the mouth. This succession of operations is intended to generate a final figure. The book explores different modes of conceptualization of the practice of string figure-making and analyses various source material through these conceptual tools: it looks at research by mathematicians, as well as ethnographical publications, and personal fieldwork findings in the Chaco, Paraguay, and in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, which all give evidence of the rationality that underlies this activity. It concludes that the creation of string figures may be seen as the result of intellectual processes, involving the elaboration of algorithms, and concepts such as operation, sub-procedure, iteration, and transformation.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331911994X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does so by using interdisciplinary methods borrowed from anthropology, mathematics, history and philosophy of mathematics. The practice of string figure-making has long been carried out in many societies, and particularly in those of oral tradition. It consists in applying a succession of operations to a string (knotted into a loop), mostly using the fingers and sometimes the feet, the wrists or the mouth. This succession of operations is intended to generate a final figure. The book explores different modes of conceptualization of the practice of string figure-making and analyses various source material through these conceptual tools: it looks at research by mathematicians, as well as ethnographical publications, and personal fieldwork findings in the Chaco, Paraguay, and in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, which all give evidence of the rationality that underlies this activity. It concludes that the creation of string figures may be seen as the result of intellectual processes, involving the elaboration of algorithms, and concepts such as operation, sub-procedure, iteration, and transformation.