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Re: 2061 and Ethnomathematics
There is a nice volume that I came across a few months back,
which uses many examples from Chinese history, and a
smattering of references from elsewhere.
Crump, Thomas (1990). The Anthropology of Numbers. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge.
1. The ontology of number * 2. The cognitive foundations of
numeracy * 3. Number and language * 4. Cosmology and ethnoscience
* 5. Economy, society and politics * 6. Measurement, comparison
and equivalence * 7. Time * 8. Money * 9. Music, poetry and
dance * 10. Games and chance * 11. Art and architecture *
12. The ecology of number.