Indigenous Knowledge and Ethnomathematics
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3030974812 | 286 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 77 MB
The book presents a series of ethnographic studies, which illustrate issues of wider importance, such as the role of cultural traditions, concepts and learning procedures in the development of formal (or mathematical) thinking outside of the western tradition. It focuses on research at the crossroads of anthropology and ethnomathematics to document indigenous mathematical knowledge and its inclusion in specific cultural patterns. More generally, the book demonstrates the heuristic value of crossing ethnographical, anthropological and ethnomathematical approaches to highlight and analyze―or "formalize" with a pedagogical outlook―indigenous mathematical knowledge.