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String figures as mathematics? = an anthropological approach to string figure-making in oral tradition societies /

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Title/Author:	String figures as mathematics?/ by Eric Vandendriessche.
Reminder of title:	an anthropological approach to string figure-making in oral tradition societies /
Author:	Vandendriessche, Eric.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2015.,
Description:	xix, 392 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	String figures. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11994-6
ISBN:	9783319119946 (electronic bk.)

String figures as mathematics? = an anthropological approach to string figure-making in oral tradition societies /
Vandendriessche, Eric.

String figures as mathematics?an anthropological approach to string figure-making in oral tradition societies /[electronic resource] :by Eric Vandendriessche. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2015. - xix, 392 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. - Studies in history and philosophy of science,v.360929-6425 ;. - Studies in history and philosophy of science ;v.28..

PART I: HOW TO STUDY STRING FIGURE-MAKING -- Chapter 1: String Figures and Ethnography -- Chapter 2: A Conceptualization of String Figure-Making -- PART II: MATHEMATICS AND STRING FIGURES -- Chapter 3: W.W. Rouse Ball’s Mathematical Approach to String Figures -- Chapter 4: Thomas Storer and the Concept of Heart-Sequence -- PART III: ANALYSING STRING FIGURE ALGORITHMS -- Chapter 5: Heart-Sequences and "Look-alike" String Figures -- Chapter 6: Understanding Transformations -- PART IV: STRING FIGURES IN THE FIELD -- Chapter 7: Cultural and Cognitive Aspects of String Figure-Making in Two Different Societies -- Chapter 8: Comparison of the Trobriander and Guarani-Nandeva String Figure Corpora -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- References -- Annexes.

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.

ISBN: 9783319119946 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-11994-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1065901
String figures.

LC Class. No.: GN455.S9

Dewey Class. No.: 793.9

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