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Kwakiutl String Figures
Author | : Julia P. Averkieva |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1992-06-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780774804325 |
Of the games people play, string figures afford nearly universal amusement, appearing in more cultures than any other. But although over 2,000 individual patterns have been recorded world-wide since 1888, when anthropologist Franz Boas first described a pair of Eskimo "cat's cradles," very few studies have explored North American Indian string figures. This intriguing volume publishes for the first time 102 string figures and 10 string tricks collected among the Kwakiutl Indians by Julia Averkieva, a young visiting Soviet scholar who accompanied Boas on his 1930 expedition to Vancouver Island. When she returned to Leningrad, Averkieva left her unpublished monograph with Boas, whose heirs eventually sent it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Averkieva's study represents the most comprehensive Native American string collection ever assembled from a single tribe. In addition to characterizing the social conditions that prompted string figure making among the Kwakiutl during the time of her field study, Averkieva noted step-by-step instructions for each figure and transcribed traditional accompanying chants. In editing and expanding Averkieva's manuscript, Mark Sherman addresses string figure enthusiasts as well as cultural anthropologists. Sherman includes in his introduction a complete description of basic openings and string figure moves. For each Kwakiutl figure he has prepared clear illustrations based on Averkieva's original photographs and pencil sketches. In addition he has tested each figure for workability, clarifying instructions where necessary and recasting them in Rivers and Haddon's standard terminology. Sherman's analysis of figure titles suggests that many aspects of Kwakiutl material culture and belief are preserved in string. In examining the ethnological value of the collection, he discusses the implications of observed similarities between Eskimo and Kwakiutl string figures. He also updates Averkieva's preliminary distribution data, interspersing the figure descriptions with references to related and identical figures from other cultures. Each analysis is keyed to an illustrated cross index. Kwakiutl String Figures will interest students of comparative cultures and will delight all who have time (and string) on their hands.
Kwakiutl String Figures
Author | : Julia Averkieva |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1992-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780295706788 |
Kwakiutl String Figures
Author | : Julia P. Averkieva |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0774844590 |
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 12
Author | : Frank E. Lutz |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780266434009 |
Excerpt from Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 12: Part 1: String-Figures From the Patomana Indians of British Guiana Opening A consists in placing the string in Position 1 and taking up the palmar string of the left hand from the proximal side on the dorsum of the right index finger. Then reach between the strings of the right index loop thus formed and take up the palmar string of the right hand from the proximal side on the dorsum of the left index finger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Precarious
Author | : M. Catherine de Zegher |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780819563248 |
Two works in one. this is an exquisite art book offering the first comprehensive treatment of Vicuna's work in English.
Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts: Feminist Readings
Author | : Griselda Pollock |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2005-08-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134768508 |
Great collection from for top feminist art historians and thinkers Includes Griselda Pollock and Mieke Bal International perspective focusing on gender and race
Indigenous Knowledge and Ethnomathematics
Author | : Eric Vandendriessche |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2023-02-14 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3030974820 |
The book presents a series of ethnographic studies, which illustrate issues of wider importance, such as the role of cultural traditions, concepts and learning procedures in the development of formal (or mathematical) thinking outside of the western tradition. It focuses on research at the crossroads of anthropology and ethnomathematics to document indigenous mathematical knowledge and its inclusion in specific cultural patterns. More generally, the book demonstrates the heuristic value of crossing ethnographical, anthropological and ethnomathematical approaches to highlight and analyze—or "formalize" with a pedagogical outlook—indigenous mathematical knowledge. The book is divided into three parts. The first part extensively analyzes theoretical claims using particular ethnographic data, while revealing the structural mathematical features of different ludic, graphic, or technical/procedural practices in their links to other cultural phenomena. In the second part, new empirical studies that add data and perspectives from the body of studies on indigenous knowledge systems to the ongoing discussions in mathematics education in and for diverse cultural traditions are presented. This part considers, on the one hand, the Brazilian work in this field; on the other hand, it brings ethnographic innovation from other parts of the world. The third part comprises a broad philosophical discussion of the impact of intuitive or "ontological" premises on mathematical thinking and education in the light of recent developments within so-called indigenously inspired thinking. Finally, the editors’ conclusions aim to invite the broad and diversified field of scholars in this domain of research to seek alternative approaches for understanding mathematical reasoning and the adjacent adequate educational goals and means. This book is of interest to scholars and students in anthropology, ethnomathematics, history and philosophy of science, mathematics, and mathematics education, as well as other individuals interested in these topics.