Author: Honor Maude
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Solomon Islands String Figures
Author: Honor Maude
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
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 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
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
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
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 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.
String Figures
Author: Caroline Furness Jayne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : String figures
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : String figures
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Art of String Figures
Author: International String Figure Association
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486829162
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Rooted in tribal customs and cultural traditions from around the world, making string figures is an ancient pastime that continues to charm people of all ages. This compilation of projects from String Figure Magazine presents easy-to-follow photographs and simple, step-by-step directions for creating more than two dozen captivating string figures that can jump, flip, and perform other tricks. In addition to basic instructions on how to get started, this guide features brief accounts of each figure's historical background. They include "Kidnapped Baby" and "Broken Home, Mended Home" from Hawaii, "A Flock of Birds" and "Old Man Chewing" from the Solomon Islands, and the Australian "Setting Sun." From the Congo come "Leopard's Mouth," "Rubber Band" from Tibet, and from India, "Scissors." Other figures spotlight the traditions of North America's Navajo and Kwakiutl peoples and natives of Brazil, Guyana, and Argentina. A great travel pastime and on-the-go activity, making string figures is a delightful, inexpensive, and easily acquired hobby.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486829162
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Rooted in tribal customs and cultural traditions from around the world, making string figures is an ancient pastime that continues to charm people of all ages. This compilation of projects from String Figure Magazine presents easy-to-follow photographs and simple, step-by-step directions for creating more than two dozen captivating string figures that can jump, flip, and perform other tricks. In addition to basic instructions on how to get started, this guide features brief accounts of each figure's historical background. They include "Kidnapped Baby" and "Broken Home, Mended Home" from Hawaii, "A Flock of Birds" and "Old Man Chewing" from the Solomon Islands, and the Australian "Setting Sun." From the Congo come "Leopard's Mouth," "Rubber Band" from Tibet, and from India, "Scissors." Other figures spotlight the traditions of North America's Navajo and Kwakiutl peoples and natives of Brazil, Guyana, and Argentina. A great travel pastime and on-the-go activity, making string figures is a delightful, inexpensive, and easily acquired hobby.
tacking and a tacktical methodology
Author: Louisa Bufardeci
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900470695X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
How can artists (and others) who find themselves in positions of privilege think differently about the way they do what they do in order to create the conditions for better, more just relations to flourish? Finding an answer to that question is at the heart of this book. After critiquing the relationship between contemporary art, race and privilege the author brings together First Nation and feminist philosophies of relationality, the game of string figuring, and her own history as an artist to propose an alternate methodology that puts relation at the centre of practice. She introduces the multivalent concept of “tacking”—a movement at an oblique angle to prevailing winds—in order to traverse the waters of contemporary art to challenge power and create a more just future.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900470695X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
How can artists (and others) who find themselves in positions of privilege think differently about the way they do what they do in order to create the conditions for better, more just relations to flourish? Finding an answer to that question is at the heart of this book. After critiquing the relationship between contemporary art, race and privilege the author brings together First Nation and feminist philosophies of relationality, the game of string figuring, and her own history as an artist to propose an alternate methodology that puts relation at the centre of practice. She introduces the multivalent concept of “tacking”—a movement at an oblique angle to prevailing winds—in order to traverse the waters of contemporary art to challenge power and create a more just future.