String Figures

Author : Honor C. Maude
Publisher : [email protected]
ISBN 13 : 9789820201484
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The String Figures of Nauru Island written by Honor C. Maude and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains instructions for making and information about string figures of Nauru Island. Is a "definitive work on Nauruan ekadawa as well as commentary on Nauru's history and society."

Author : Julia P. Averkieva
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774844590
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kwakiutl String Figures written by Julia P. Averkieva and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Caroline F. Jayne
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486201528
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Figures and how to Make Them written by Caroline F. Jayne and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1962-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diagrams and text illustrate the steps involved in creating over one hundred string figures while providing information on their origin and cultural background

Author : International String Figure Association
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486404004
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fascinating String Figures written by International String Figure Association and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects instructions drawn from the pages of String Figure Magazine explaining how to create such string "sculptures" as "Twinkling star," "Polar Bear," "Erupting volcano," and "Andromeda galaxy"

Author : Caroline Furness Jayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Figures written by Caroline Furness Jayne and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Darsie
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402727870
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Games written by Richard Darsie and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides directions, illustrated with photographs, for making many different string figures-- from the fairly simple Jacob's Ladder to more complex Mt. Fuji-- along with information about their history and meaning.

Author : Eric Vandendriessche
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331911994X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Figures as Mathematics? written by Eric Vandendriessche and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does so by using interdisciplinary methods borrowed from anthropology, mathematics, history and philosophy of mathematics. The practice of string figure-making has long been carried out in many societies, and particularly in those of oral tradition. It consists in applying a succession of operations to a string (knotted into a loop), mostly using the fingers and sometimes the feet, the wrists or the mouth. This succession of operations is intended to generate a final figure. The book explores different modes of conceptualization of the practice of string figure-making and analyses various source material through these conceptual tools: it looks at research by mathematicians, as well as ethnographical publications, and personal fieldwork findings in the Chaco, Paraguay, and in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, which all give evidence of the rationality that underlies this activity. It concludes that the creation of string figures may be seen as the result of intellectual processes, involving the elaboration of algorithms, and concepts such as operation, sub-procedure, iteration, and transformation.

Author : Walter William Rouse Ball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Figures written by Walter William Rouse Ball and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diamond Jenness
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eskimo String Figures written by Diamond Jenness and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International String Figure Association
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486829162
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of String Figures written by International String Figure Association and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in tribal customs and cultural traditions from around the world, making string figures is an ancient pastime that continues to charm people of all ages. This compilation of projects from String Figure Magazine presents easy-to-follow photographs and simple, step-by-step directions for creating more than two dozen captivating string figures that can jump, flip, and perform other tricks. In addition to basic instructions on how to get started, this guide features brief accounts of each figure's historical background. They include "Kidnapped Baby" and "Broken Home, Mended Home" from Hawaii, "A Flock of Birds" and "Old Man Chewing" from the Solomon Islands, and the Australian "Setting Sun." From the Congo come "Leopard's Mouth," "Rubber Band" from Tibet, and from India, "Scissors." Other figures spotlight the traditions of North America's Navajo and Kwakiutl peoples and natives of Brazil, Guyana, and Argentina. A great travel pastime and on-the-go activity, making string figures is a delightful, inexpensive, and easily acquired hobby.