The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic

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The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic Gary Urton, Primitivo Nina Llanos
Type:	eBook
Released:	1997
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Page Count:	142
Format:	pdf
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	0292785348
ISBN-13:	9780292785342

Review This is an extraordinary book.The Social Life of ... Textbook It is easily readable even for the non-mathematically inclined and non-Andeanists. It deals with issues of why one counts, what is counted, and how arithmetic operations are used in social life. -- Review Review This book is of virtuoso quality in ethnographic research and contains important fresh insights in every section, many of them touching whole areas of inquiry that nobody else has even tried to probe.... This is a major work by a major ethnographer. (Frank Salomon, Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison )