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String Figures as Mathematics?String Figures and Ethnography

String Figures as Mathematics?: String Figures and Ethnography [This chapter focuses on the context and the goal of the early ethnographical collects of string figures. The Cambridge anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon (1855–1940) carried out the first significant study of string figures during the 1898–1899 expedition to the Torres Strait Islands, in collaboration with William H. R. Rivers (1864–1922). In 1902, they published an article in which they explained their methodology for collecting string figures. Indeed, Haddon and Rivers’ nomenclature stimulated and helped some anthropologists to collect string figures in their own fields. Influenced by the theory of diffusionism, most of the ethnographers interested in string figures in the early twentieth century began to collect and compare string figure patterns in order to obtain evidence of contacts between different societies. Haddon and Rivers methodology is precisely described in this chapter, and the reader is encouraged to memorize it and become a practitioner himself.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

String Figures as Mathematics?String Figures and Ethnography

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
ISBN
978-3-319-11993-9
Pages
13 –25
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-11994-6_2
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[This chapter focuses on the context and the goal of the early ethnographical collects of string figures. The Cambridge anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon (1855–1940) carried out the first significant study of string figures during the 1898–1899 expedition to the Torres Strait Islands, in collaboration with William H. R. Rivers (1864–1922). In 1902, they published an article in which they explained their methodology for collecting string figures. Indeed, Haddon and Rivers’ nomenclature stimulated and helped some anthropologists to collect string figures in their own fields. Influenced by the theory of diffusionism, most of the ethnographers interested in string figures in the early twentieth century began to collect and compare string figure patterns in order to obtain evidence of contacts between different societies. Haddon and Rivers methodology is precisely described in this chapter, and the reader is encouraged to memorize it and become a practitioner himself.]

Published: Oct 16, 2014

Keywords: Torres Strait Island; Distal Side; Proximal Side; Index Loop; Bearded Seal

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