Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture

By Claudia Zaslavsky

Book Overview

This fascinating study of mathematical thinking among sub-Saharan African peoples covers counting in words and in gestures; measuring time, distance, weight, and other quantities; manipulating money... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871501600
• ISBN13: 9780871501608
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Prindle Weber & Schmidt
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This is one of the best books in African Studies.

Zaslavsky's "Africa Counts" will continue to be widely cherished for many years to come. Anyone haboring the old notion that Africans played no part in shaping world civlilization who is not changed by what appears in this book can only be someone with extraordinary racist tendencies. Zaslavky's book is effulgent because it demystifies mathematics without sacrificing details.