Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas : Papua New Guinea Studies
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1107685699
ISBN-13
9781107685697
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 6th, 2014
Print length
400 Pages
Weight
542 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 16.00 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historySocial & cultural anthropology, ethnographySocial and cultural anthropologyChild & developmental psychologyChild, developmental and lifespan psychologyCognition & cognitive psychologyCognition and cognitive psychologyEducational psychologySocial and cultural history
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Through an ethnographic study of a Papua New Guinea cultural group, Geoffrey Saxe traces the emergence of numerical representations and ideas as people participate in collective practices of daily life. His findings will be useful for understanding shifting representational forms and emerging cognitive functions in any human community.
Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980 and 2001 with the Oksapmin, a remote Papua New Guinea group, Geoffrey B. Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical representations and ideas in the social history of the community. In traditional life, the Oksapmin used a counting system that makes use of twenty-seven parts of the body; there is no evidence that the group used arithmetic in prehistory. As practices of economic exchange and schooling have shifted, children and adults unwittingly reproduced and altered the system in order to solve new kinds of numerical and arithmetical problems, a process that has led to new forms of collective representations in the community. While Dr Saxe's focus is on the Oksapmin, the insights and general framework he provides are useful for understanding shifting representational forms and emerging cognitive functions in any human community.
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