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The Anthropology of Numbers

The Anthropology of Numbers

The Anthropology of Numbers

Thomas Crump

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Cambridge University Press
Año de edición:
1992
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Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
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9780521438070
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Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers.

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