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Women, Culture and Geometry in Southern Africa

Author : Paulus Gerdes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304105601
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Women, Culture and Geometry in Southern Africa written by Paulus Gerdes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of award winning book "Women and Geometry in Southern Africa: Suggestions for Further Research", published by the "Universidade Pedagógica" (Mozambique) in 1995. The original book contains chapters on geometrical ideas embedded in basket weaving, bead work, wall decoration, tattooing, and ceramics. The expanded edition includes a foreword by Sibusiso Moyo (Secretary of the African Mathematical Union Commission on Women in Mathematics in Africa, and Research Director of the Durban University of Technology, South Africa), afterwords by Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (Brazil) and Jens Hoyrup (Denmark), and the papers "Makwe colour inversion, symmetry and patterns" (Northeastern Mozambique) and "Symmetries on mats woven by Yombe women from the area along the Lower Congo." The book contains also a chapter written by Salimo Saide on the geometry of pottery decoration among Yao women (Nyassa Province, Mozambique). (2013, 276 pp.)

Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa

Author : Paulus Gerdes
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa written by Paulus Gerdes and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of the book is to call attention to some mathematical ideas incorporated in the patterns invented by women in Southern Africa. An appreciation of these mathematical traditions may lead to their preservation, revival and development. Use of female art traditional forms has implications in the field of mathematics education.

Women and Geometry in Southern Africa

Author : Paulus Gerdes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Women and Geometry in Southern Africa written by Paulus Gerdes and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geometry from Africa

Author : Paulus Gerdes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780883857151
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Geometry from Africa written by Paulus Gerdes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on geometric ideas from cultural activities from Subsaharan Africa to develop mathematical reasoning.

On the Production of Mathematical Knowledge in Central and Southern Africa

Author : Paulus Gerdes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Production of Mathematical Knowledge in Central and Southern Africa written by Paulus Gerdes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Archaeology of Body and Thought

Author : Tomasz Gralak
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 180327722X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Body and Thought written by Tomasz Gralak and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores what we as people can do with our bodies, what we can use them for, and how we can alter and understand them. With analysis based on artefacts found in graves, anthropomorphic images, and written sources, it considers the ways in which human groups from the Neolithic to the Migration Period have perceived and treated the body.

History of Mathematics in Africa: 2000-2011

Author : Paulus Gerdes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105141004
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book History of Mathematics in Africa: 2000-2011 written by Paulus Gerdes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Indigenous Knowledge and the Disciplines

Author : Gloria Emeagwali
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462097704
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book African Indigenous Knowledge and the Disciplines written by Gloria Emeagwali and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the multidisciplinary context of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems from scholars and scholar activists committed to the interrogation, production, articulation, dissemination and general development of endogenous and indigenous modes of intellectual activity and praxis. The work reinforces the demand for the decolonization of the academy and makes the case for a paradigmatic shift in content, subject matter and curriculum in institutions in Africa and elsewhere – with a view to challenging and rejecting disinformation and intellectual servitude. Indigenous intellectual discourses related to diverse disciplines take center stage in this volume with a focus on education, mathematics, medicine, chemistry and engineering in their historical and contemporary context.

Decolonising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in an Age of Technocolonialism

Author : Nhemachena, Artwell
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956551864
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Decolonising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in an Age of Technocolonialism written by Nhemachena, Artwell and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positing the notions of coloniality of ignorance and geopolitics of ignorance as central to coloniality and colonisation, this book examines how colonialists socially produced ignorance among colonised indigenous peoples so as to render them docile and manageable. Dismissing colonial descriptions of indigenous people as savages, illiterate, irrational, prelogical, mystical, primitive, barbaric and backward, the book argues that imperialists/colonialists contrived geopolitics of ignorance wherein indigenous regions were forced to become ignorant, hence containable and manageable in the imperial world. Questioning the provenance of modernist epistemologies, the book asks why Eurocentric scholars only contest the provenance of indigenous knowledges, artefacts and scientific collections. Interrogating why empire sponsors the decolonisation of universities/epistemologies in indigenous territories while resisting the repatriation/restitution of indigenous artefacts, the book also wonders why Westerners who still retain indigenous artefacts, skulls and skeletons in their museums, universities and private collections do not consider such artefacts and skulls to be colonising them as well. The book is valuable to scholars and activists in the fields of anthropology, museums and heritage studies, science and technology studies, decoloniality, policymaking, education, politics, sociology and development studies.

Mathematics in African History and Cultures

Author : Paulus Gerdes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430315377
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics in African History and Cultures written by Paulus Gerdes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes an updated version of the bibliography published in 2004 by the African Mathematical Union. The African Studies Association attributed the original edition a 'ÂÂspecial mention'ÂÂ in the 2006 Conover-Porter Award competition. The book contains over 1600 bibliographic entries. The appendices contain additional bibliographic information on (1) mathematicians of the Diaspora, (2) publications by Africans on the history of mathematics outside Africa, (3) time-reckoning and astronomy in African history and cultures, (4) string figures in Africa, (5) examples of books published by African mathematicians, (6) board games in Africa, (7) research inspired by geometric aspects of the 'ÂÂsona'ÂÂ tradition. The book concludes with several indices (subject, country, region, author, ethnographic and linguistic, journal, mathematicians). Professor Jan Persens of the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) and president of the African Mathematical Union (2000-2004) wrote the preface.

Mathematics Across Cultures

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401143013
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Mathematics Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Mathematics consists of essays dealing with the mathematical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Inca, Egyptian, and African mathematics, among others, the book includes essays on Rationality, Logic and Mathematics, and the transfer of knowledge from East to West. The essays address the connections between science and culture and relate the mathematical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

The Postcolonial Turn

Author : Rene Devisch
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956726818
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Turn written by Rene Devisch and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial turn in Africanist scholarship. As a whole, it provides five decennia-long lucid and empathetic research involvements by seasoned scholars who came to live, in local peoples own ways, significant daily events experienced by communities, professional networks and local experts in various African contexts. The book covers materials drawn from Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania. Themes include the Whelan Research Academy, rap musicians, political leaders, wise men and women, healers, Sacred Spirit churches, diviners, bards and weavers who are deemed proficient in the classical African geometrical knowledge. As a tribute to late Archie Mafeje who showed real commitment to decolonise social sciences from western-centred modernist development theories, commentators of his work pinpoint how these theories sought to dismiss the active role played by African people in their quest for self-emancipation. One of the central questions addressed by the book concerns the role of an anthropologist and this issue is debated against the background of the academic lecture delivered by Ren Devisch when receiving an honorary doctoral degree at the University of Kinshasa. The lecture triggered critical but constructive comments from such seasoned experts as Valentin Mudimbe and Wim van Binsbergen. They excoriate anthropological knowledge on account that the anthropologist, notwithstanding his or her social and cognitive empathy and intense communication with the host community, too often fails to also question her own world and intellectual habitus from the standpoint of her hosts. Leading anthropologists carry further into great depth the bifocal anthropological endeavour focussing on local peoples re-imagining and re-connecting the local and global. The book is of interest to a wide readership in the humanities, social sciences, philosophy and the history of the African continent and its relation with the North.

Education, Cultures, and Economics

Author : Angela W. Little
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135651779
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Education, Cultures, and Economics written by Angela W. Little and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume reviews the conflict between economic prescriptions for improved education in the developing world and local cultures. Among the issues reviewed are: conceptions of culture and economics in development and education literature, economic considerations of school systems to promote cultural goals, the differentiation of schools from other sites of cultural reproduction, learning experiences of various cultural groups, and the cross-cultural work of development agencies.

From History to Herstory

Author : Paul Leshota
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031669163
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book From History to Herstory written by Paul Leshota and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to contribute to reflections done on the gender equality agenda by combing through oral and written resources to unearth and document heroic displays of leadership by women of Africa in general and of Southern Africa in particular, that remain hidden under the rubble of Eurocentric, colonial and African patriarchal archive and hegemony. It seeks to open the archive of Southern Africa to unearth the names of women who have played an important role in shaping the course of Southern Africa history in every way. While acknowledging the systematic marginalisation of women's voices and identities by scribal patriarchy, the aim is to bring to life women's experiences and voices through critical engagement of sources of knowledge available to Africa in general and southern Africa in particular. The chapters of this book will contribute to the debate on gender equality and women empowerment by women themselves within the framework of Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 5.

Symmetry Comes of Age

Author : Dorothy Koster Washburn
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295983660
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Symmetry Comes of Age written by Dorothy Koster Washburn and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes together offer readers a new window into the communicative importance of design."--Jacket.

Geometry from Africa

Author : Paulus Gerdes
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470458306
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Geometry from Africa written by Paulus Gerdes and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on geometric ideas from cultural activities from Sub-Saharan Africa and demonstrates how they may be explored to develop mathematical reasoning from school level through to university standard. Paulus Gerdes provides a thoroughly illustrated and researched exploration of mathematical ideas, motifs and patterns. Many important mathematical points are brought to the fore, not via the formal ``theorem-proof'' method, but in a more schematic and diagrammatic manner. African artifacts, oral traditions, sand drawing and other forms of artwork with a geometric basis, all provide mathematical ideas for discussion in this unique book. Mathematicians and teachers of mathematics at all levels will be fascinated, as will anybody with an interest in African cultures.

Perspectives on Adults Learning Mathematics

Author : D. Coben
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 030647221X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Adults Learning Mathematics written by D. Coben and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore adult mathematics education. It aims to situate research and practice in adults learning mathematics within the wider field of lifelong learning and lifelong education. Topics covered include: mathematics and common sense; statistical literacy and numeracy; new theories on learning mathematics; mathematical competences for the workplace; ethnomathematics; and the training of tutors