Numbers and the Making of Us : Counting and the Course of Human Cultures /
Everett, Caleb
Numbers and the Making of Us : Counting and the Course of Human Cultures / Caleb Everett. - 1 online resource (312 p.) : 7 halftones, 1 line illustration
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: On the Success of Our Species -- PART 1: Numbers Pervade the Human Experience -- 1. Numbers Woven into Our Present -- 2. Numbers Carved into Our Past -- 3. A Numerical Journey around the World Today -- 4. Beyond Number Words: Other Kinds of Numeric Language -- PART 2: Worlds without Numbers -- 5. Anumeric People Today -- 6. Quantities in the Minds of Young Children -- 7. Quantities in the Minds of Animals -- PART 3: Numbers and the Shaping of Our Lives -- 8. Inventing Numbers and Arithmetic -- 9. Numbers and Culture: Subsistence and Symbolism -- 10. Transformative Tools -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Number concepts are a human invention developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely: recent research shows that most specific quantities are not perceived in the absence of a number system. Numbers are not innate or universal; yet without them, the world as we know it would not exist.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674979185
10.4159/9780674979185 doi
Counting--Cross-cultural studies.
Number concept.
Numeration--Cross-cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
QA141 / .E947 2017
513.2/11
Numbers and the Making of Us : Counting and the Course of Human Cultures / Caleb Everett. - 1 online resource (312 p.) : 7 halftones, 1 line illustration
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: On the Success of Our Species -- PART 1: Numbers Pervade the Human Experience -- 1. Numbers Woven into Our Present -- 2. Numbers Carved into Our Past -- 3. A Numerical Journey around the World Today -- 4. Beyond Number Words: Other Kinds of Numeric Language -- PART 2: Worlds without Numbers -- 5. Anumeric People Today -- 6. Quantities in the Minds of Young Children -- 7. Quantities in the Minds of Animals -- PART 3: Numbers and the Shaping of Our Lives -- 8. Inventing Numbers and Arithmetic -- 9. Numbers and Culture: Subsistence and Symbolism -- 10. Transformative Tools -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Number concepts are a human invention developed and refined over millennia. They allow us to grasp quantities precisely: recent research shows that most specific quantities are not perceived in the absence of a number system. Numbers are not innate or universal; yet without them, the world as we know it would not exist.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674979185
10.4159/9780674979185 doi
Counting--Cross-cultural studies.
Number concept.
Numeration--Cross-cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
QA141 / .E947 2017
513.2/11