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 - Massachusetts Harvard Business Review Press 2017 - 297p
I. 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 anguage
II. Worlds without Numbers
5. Anumeric People Today
6. Quantities in the Minds of Young Children
7. Quantities in the Minds of Animals
III. Numbers and the Shaping of Our Lives
8. Inventing Numbers and Arithmetic
9. Numbers and Culture: Subsistence and Symbolism
10. Transformative Tools
9780674237810
Counting - Cross-cultural studies
513.211 / EVE
Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures - Massachusetts Harvard Business Review Press 2017 - 297p
I. 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 anguage
II. Worlds without Numbers
5. Anumeric People Today
6. Quantities in the Minds of Young Children
7. Quantities in the Minds of Animals
III. Numbers and the Shaping of Our Lives
8. Inventing Numbers and Arithmetic
9. Numbers and Culture: Subsistence and Symbolism
10. Transformative Tools
9780674237810
Counting - Cross-cultural studies
513.211 / EVE