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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math CognitionCrypto-Mathematics in Ethnography: Estimation and Approximation via Ballparks and Eyeballing

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math Cognition: Crypto-Mathematics in Ethnography: Estimation... [Of course, I know that counting isn’t really maths, but the cognitive play in estimation and approximation might qualify! To set this up, some relations pertaining to mathematics and arithmetic, and to anthropology and ethnography, are in order, as ethnography is the quintessential way humans study humans, whether they’re aware of the process or not.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math CognitionCrypto-Mathematics in Ethnography: Estimation and Approximation via Ballparks and Eyeballing

Part of the Mathematics in Mind Book Series
Editors: Danesi, Marcel

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-22536-0
Pages
287 –302
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-22537-7_16
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Of course, I know that counting isn’t really maths, but the cognitive play in estimation and approximation might qualify! To set this up, some relations pertaining to mathematics and arithmetic, and to anthropology and ethnography, are in order, as ethnography is the quintessential way humans study humans, whether they’re aware of the process or not.]

Published: Sep 15, 2019

Keywords: Ethnography; Mathematics; Anthropology; Discrete; Indiscrete; Estimation; Approximation

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