Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures

By:

Everett, Caleb

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Harvard Business Review Press 2017 MassachusettsDescription: 297pISBN:

9780674237810

Subject(s):

Counting - Cross-cultural studies

DDC classification:

513.211 EVE

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Item type	Current library	Item location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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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

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