A pagan arithmetic
Unstable sets in indigenous Amazonia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11935367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aparecida Vilaça (0000-0001-8753-7772, PPGAS/Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 304-324 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-0188 • E-ISSN: 1743-2790 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03080188.2020.1834723 |
| OpenAlex | W3134183948 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 39 |
In the Amazonian literature, the scarcity of numerical terms and lack of interest in counting, which characterize diverse indigenous peoples in the region, are usually associated with linguistic issues or cultural limitations. My purpose in this paper is to take a different approach and relate the enumeration processes of one of these peoples, the Wari’, to their conception of beings as intrinsically transformative, which affects the determination of quantities and the stability of sets
Amazon rainforest · Amazonian · Arithmetic · Biology · Discrete mathematics · Economics · Enumeration · Epistemology · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Scarcity · Sociology · Transformative learning · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills · Computer Science · History and Theory of Mathematics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Social Representations and Identity · Ecology
Nature, culture, and gender
The Anthropology of Numbers
Qualified value
Numerical Cognition Without Words
Exact and Approximate Arithmetic in an Amazonian Indigene Group
Number as a cognitive technology
Science and an African Logic
Nature and Society
Nature in culture or culture in nature? Chewong ideas of ‘humans’ and other species
Redefining Nature
The Falling Sky
The Quinary-Vigesimal System of Counting in Europe, Asia, and America
The Crystal Forest
The Social Life of Numbers
Cognition in Practice
Pontos de vista sobre a floresta amazônica
Society Against the State
Becoming Sinners
Song Paths The Ways and Means of Yaminahua Shamanic Knowledge
Quelques précautions dans l'emploi de l'idée de nombre
Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism
Matemática Concreta
The Logic of Misplaced Concreteness
Making Twos
Chronically Unstable Bodies
Making Kin Out Of Others In Amazonia
Inventing nature
Badiou's Number
Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã
The two and its many
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |