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Book Review: Ethnomathematics--Challenging Eurocentrism Inmathematics Education, Edited Byarthur B. Powell And Marilyn Frankenstein, Karen Dee Michalowicz Nov 1997

Book Review: Ethnomathematics--Challenging Eurocentrism Inmathematics Education, Edited Byarthur B. Powell And Marilyn Frankenstein, Karen Dee Michalowicz

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Partly Fragmented, Partly Integrated: An Anthropological Examination Of "Postmodern Fragmented Subjects", Claudia Strauss Aug 1997

Partly Fragmented, Partly Integrated: An Anthropological Examination Of "Postmodern Fragmented Subjects", Claudia Strauss

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

It has become commonplace for anthropologists, historians, and other researchers to discuss the cultural and historical construction of "selves." One now-classic description of this sort is the historian E. P. Thompson's account (1963, 1967) of the way industrial capitalism created a greater time consciousness among English factory workers. More recently, the literary critic Frederic Jameson has written about the psychological effects of late-20th-century capitalism. Using as his evidence works of architecture, poetry, music, and other artistic and intellectual productions, he has argued that (at least in the United States, the focus of his description) the standardization of our environment, saturation …


Sand Songs: The Formal Languages Of Warlpiri Iconography, James V. Rauff Jul 1997

Sand Songs: The Formal Languages Of Warlpiri Iconography, James V. Rauff

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Book Review: The Crest Of The Peacock: Non-European Roots Of Mathematics,By George Gheverghese Joseph, Bernadette Anne Berken Jul 1997

Book Review: The Crest Of The Peacock: Non-European Roots Of Mathematics,By George Gheverghese Joseph, Bernadette Anne Berken

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.