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An Anthropology of Puzzles

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000185508
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book An Anthropology of Puzzles written by Marcel Danesi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a "puzzling organ" which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format. Noting the presence of puzzles everywhere in everyday life, Marcel Danesi looks at puzzles in society since the dawn of history, showing how their presence has guided large sections of human history, from discoveries in mathematics to disquisitions in philosophy. Danesi examines the cognitive processes that are involved in puzzle making and solving, and connects them to the actual physical manifestations of classic puzzles. Building on a concept of puzzles as based on Jungian archetypes, such as the river crossing image, the path metaphor, and the journey, Danesi suggests this could be one way to understand the public fascination with puzzles. As well as drawing on underlying mental archetypes, the act of solving puzzles also provides an outlet to move beyond biological evolution, and Danesi shows that puzzles could be the product of the same basic neural mechanism that produces language and culture. Finally, Danesi explores how understanding puzzles can be a new way of understanding our human culture.

The Puzzle Instinct

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253217080
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Puzzle Instinct written by Marcel Danesi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Humans are the only animals who create and solve puzzles--for the sheer pleasure of it--and there is no obvious genetic reason why we would do this. Marcel Danesi explores the psychology of puzzles and puzzling, with scores of classic examples. His pioneering book is both entertaining and enlightening." --Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times "... Puzzle fanatics will enjoy the many riddles, illusions, cryptograms and other mind-benders offered for analysis." --Psychology Today "... a bristlingly clear... always intriguing survey of the history and rationale of puzzles.... A] splendid study...." --Knight Ridder Newspapers

27304 Plexers Social Studies

Author : David Hammond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780769001272
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book 27304 Plexers Social Studies written by David Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authors of the bestselling Plexers and More Plexers come three new books to entertain and educate! Each puzzle is a pictorial code for an idea related to social studies, science, or arithmetic. To crack the code look for clues in the size, position, and direction of the letters and symbols in the box. Each book includes 245 reproducible puzzles (with answers). The puzzles encourage the development of a variety of problem-solving and critical thinking skills. For teachers, the puzzles fit into any curriculum -- as a basis for class discussion, cooperative learning activities or as bonus or challenge questions on tests and quizzes.

Mirror for Humanity

Author : Conrad Phillip Kottak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781260071429
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Mirror for Humanity written by Conrad Phillip Kottak and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This concise, student-friendly, current introduction to cultural anthropology carefully balances coverage of core topics and contemporary changes in the field. Mirror for Humanity is a perfect match for cultural anthropology courses that use readings or ethnographies along with a main text." --Amazon.

Modelling Puzzles in First Order Logic

Author : Adrian Groza
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030625478
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Modelling Puzzles in First Order Logic written by Adrian Groza and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping students involved and actively learning is challenging. Instructors in computer science are aware of the cognitive value of modelling puzzles and often use logical puzzles as an efficient pedagogical instrument to engage students and develop problem-solving skills. This unique book is a comprehensive resource that offers teachers and students fun activities to teach and learn logic. It provides new, complete, and running formalisation in Propositional and First Order Logic for over 130 logical puzzles, including Sudoku-like puzzles, zebra-like puzzles, island of truth, lady and tigers, grid puzzles, strange numbers, or self-reference puzzles. Solving puzzles with theorem provers can be an effective cognitive incentive to motivate students to learn logic. They will find a ready-to-use format which illustrates how to model each puzzle, provides running implementations, and explains each solution. This concise and easy-to-follow textbook is a much-needed support tool for students willing to explore beyond the introductory level of learning logic and lecturers looking for examples to heighten student engagement in their computer science courses.

Questions of Anthropology

Author : Rita Astuti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000183874
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Questions of Anthropology written by Rita Astuti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political leadership and genocide, and our personal fears and desires, from the quest to control the future and to find one's 'true' identity to the fear of being alone. Each essay starts with a question posed by individual ethnographic experience and then goes on to frame this question in a broader, comparative context. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Questions of Anthropology presents an exciting introduction to the purpose and value of Anthropology today.

Movies: 300 Word Search Puzzles

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Chartwell
ISBN 13 : 0785840133
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Movies: 300 Word Search Puzzles written by Marcel Danesi and published by Chartwell. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movies: 300 Word Search Puzzles puts your movie trivia knowledge to the test with 300 fun-filled word searches that will keep you on your toes for hours a time!

Braving the Street

Author : Irene Glasser
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782381570
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Braving the Street written by Irene Glasser and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced technological societies in the world are found huddled in a subway tunnel, squatting in a vacant building, living in a shelter, or camping out in an abandoned field or on a beach. Anthropologists have a long tradition of working in poverty subcultures and have been able to contribute answers to some of the puzzles of homelessness through their ability to enter the culture of the homeless without some of the preconceptions of other disciplines. The authors, anthropologists from the U.S.A. and Canada, offer us an analysis of homelessness that is grounded in anthropological research in North America and throughout the world. Both have in-depth experience through working in communities of the homeless and present us withthe results of their own work and with that of their colleagues.

The Curious History of the Riddle

Author : Marcel Danesi Ph.D.
Publisher : Wellfleet Press
ISBN 13 : 1577151984
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book The Curious History of the Riddle written by Marcel Danesi Ph.D. and published by Wellfleet Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Curious History of the Riddle investigates the fascinating origin and history of the riddle, from the very first riddle (the Riddle of the Sphinx) to the twenty-first century, with riddles found in pop culture, including movies (Us), television shows (Game of Thrones) video games, and escape rooms. Riddles are ageless, timeless, and so common that we hardly ever reflect upon what they are and how they originated. Most importantly, their invention helped in the development of lateral thinking, the form of thinking that is the foundation of all kinds of discoveries, from mathematics to science and beyond. In The Curious History of the Riddle, puzzle expert Marcel Danesi delves deep into the riddle's origin and history and covers these fascinating topics: 1. The Riddle of the Sphinx: Origins, Legends, Patterns What creature walks on all fours at dawn, two at midday, and three at twilight? (answer: man) 2. The Greek Anthology and the Exeter Book: Medieval Views and Uses of Riddles This chapter looks at the spread of the riddle in recreational and educational contexts. 3. The Merry Book of Riddles: Riddles in the Renaissance By the late Renaissance, riddles were being tailored more and more to produce humorous or whimsical effects. 4. Enigmas, Charades, and Conundrums: Riddles from the 1600s to the Twentieth Century After the Renaissance, riddles had become virtually every literate European person’s favorite form of recreation, and were included as regular features of many newspapers and periodicals 5. The Twentieth Century: Riddles as Children’s Literature In the twentieth century, riddles became specialized for children, spreading throughout children’s literature and educational manuals. 6. The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Riddles Go to the Movies and Online In this chapter, the focus is on riddles in various entertainment media, from best-selling novels such as Harry Potter, to movies, such as the Batman series. 7. Connections: Riddles and Rebuses This chapter explores the structure of rebuses as visual riddles, connecting them historically. Part history book, part puzzle book, The Curious History of the Riddle is fully illustrated with over 200 riddles interspersed throughout the text for solving.

Ethnographic Puzzles

Author : Kaj Århem
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Ethnographic Puzzles written by Kaj Århem and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study assesses how versatile are the techniques of classical anthropology when confronted by the ethnographically unfamiliar. Each essay seeks to elucidate an empirical problem through orthodox and heterodox uses of standard techniques.

Basic Dictionary of Puzzles and Games

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783962060152
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Basic Dictionary of Puzzles and Games written by Marcel Danesi and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Matrilineal Puzzle

Author : Johannes Lenhard
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656323836
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Matrilineal Puzzle written by Johannes Lenhard and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Pedagogy - Science, Theory, Anthropology, grade: 65, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: The term ‘matrilineal puzzle’ was coined by Richards (Richards, 1950) and treated in a variety of both theoretical and ethnographic studies (e.g. Fuller, 1976; Gough & Schneider, 1961; Needham, 1971; Weiner, 1988). Essentially, the ‘puzzle’ is better described as a conflict arising from the general design of matrilineages: being based on both a principle of female descent and masculine control, a matrilineage generates a direct competition between in-marrying husbands/fathers and maternal brothers. Where is the family to live? Who has authority over the children? As Gough and Schneider (1961:29) claim, the matrilineal group is very unlikely to persist if the husband gains to much authority over wife and children. Several solutions to this dilemma can be found in the literature as well as in ethnographic studies four of which I focus upon in the following. Let me, however, introduce the underlying concepts in the introductory paragraph.

Ahmes’ Legacy

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319932543
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Ahmes’ Legacy written by Marcel Danesi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at classic puzzles from the perspective of their structures and what they tell us about the brain. It uses the work on the neuroscience of mathematics from Dehaene, Butterworth, Lakoff, Núñez, and many others as a lens to understand the ways in which puzzles reflect imaginative processes blended with rational ones. The book is not about recreational or puzzle-based mathematics in and of itself but rather about what the classic puzzles tell us about the mathematical imagination and its impact on the discipline. It delves into the history of classic math puzzles, deconstructing their raison d’être and describing their psychological features, so that their nature can be fleshed out in order to help understand the mathematical mind. This volume is the first monographic treatment of the psychological nature of puzzles in mathematics. With its user-friendly technical level of discussion, it is of interest to both general readers and those who engage in the disciplines of mathematics, psychology, neuroscience, and/or anthropology. It is also ideal as a textbook source for courses in recreational mathematics, or as reference material in introductory college math courses.

The Culture Puzzle

Author : Mario Moussa
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523091843
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Culture Puzzle written by Mario Moussa and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate culture is critical to any organizational change effort. This book offers a proven model for identifying and leveraging the essential elements of any culture. In a world that changes at a dizzying pace, what can leaders do to build flexible and adaptive workplaces that inspire people to achieve extraordinary results? According to the authors, the answer lies in recognizing and aligning the elusive forces—or the “puzzling” pieces—that shape an organization's culture. With a combined seventy-five years' worth of research, teaching, and consulting experience, Mario Moussa, Derek Newberry, and Greg Urban bring a wealth of knowledge to creating nimble organizations. Globally recognized business anthropologists and management experts, they explain how to access the full power of your culture by harnessing the Four Forces that drive it: Vision: Embrace a common purpose that illuminates shared aspirations and plans. Interest: Foster a deep commitment to authentic relationships and your organization's future. Habit: Establish routines and rituals that reinforce “the way we do things around here.” Innovation: Promote the constant tinkering that produces surprising new solutions to old problems. Filled with case studies, personal anecdotes, and solid, practical advice, this book includes a four-part Evaluator to help you build resilient organizations and teams. The Culture Puzzle offers the definitive playbook for thriving amid constant transformation.

Margaret Mead

Author : Nancy C. Lutkehaus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691148082
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Mead written by Nancy C. Lutkehaus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-03 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using photographs, films, television appearances, and materials from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, this text explores the ways in which Margaret Mead became an American cultural heroine.

Science: 300 Crossword Puzzles

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Chartwell
ISBN 13 : 0785840109
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Science: 300 Crossword Puzzles written by Marcel Danesi and published by Chartwell. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science: 300 Crossword Puzzles puts your science knowledge to the test with 300 fun-filled crossword puzzles that will keep you on your toes for hours at a time.

Homo Mysterious

Author : David P. Barash
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199751943
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Homo Mysterious written by David P. Barash and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all that science knows about the living world, there are even more things that we don't know. They include such questions as why do women experience orgasm, menstruation and menopause, why do men have a shorter lifespan than women, and why does homosexuality exist? This book explores some of these mysteries.