Mapping Time, Space and the Body : Indigenous Knowledge and Mathematical Thinking in Brazil / / by Mariana Kawall Leal Ferreira.
Mapping Time, Space and the Body: Indigenous Knowledge and Mathematical Thinking in Brazil brings people, land and numbers together in the fight for justice. On this extraordinary voyage through ancestral territories in central and southern Brazil, the Xavante, Suyá, Kayabi, and other local nations...
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| Superior document: | New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- WHEN 1 + 1 ≠ 2
- Shamanic Map-Making in the Brazilian Amazon
- Tupi-Guarani Apocalyptic Visions of Time and the Body
- Map-Making in Southern Brazil
- The Two of us Together
- The Color Red
- Epilogue
- References
- About the Author.