TY  - BOOK
AU  - Everett,Caleb
TI  - Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures 
SN  - 9780674979185
AV  - QA141 .E947 2017
U1  - 513.2/11 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Counting
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Number concept
KW  - Numeration
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674979185
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