String Figures And How To Make Them

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 : Caroline F. Jayne
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4./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 Ravenio Books. This book was released on with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book may be regarded as an introduction to the study of String Figures—games which are widespread among primitive peoples, and played by weaving on the hands a single loop of string in order to produce intricate patterns supposed to represent certain familiar objects. I have gathered together the facts already known concerning these games, and, adding my own studies and the unpublished records of other observers, I have here described and illustrated the methods whereby about one hundred string figures are made. My purpose has been twofold: to interest other students in the subject, in order that additional figures and their methods may be collected among various tribes and races; and to reach a still larger public, that more people may share in the fascinations of the games themselves. The games are certainly fascinating, appealing as they do to young and to old, and to those debarred from all pastimes demanding physical exertion. Moreover, they are not unduly difficult; and, capable as they are of infinite variations, their charm ought to be inexhaustible.

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 : Caroline Furness Jayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Figures and how to Make Them written by Caroline Furness Jayne and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Caroline Jayne
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613811712
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Figures and How to Make Them written by Caroline Jayne and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1962-06 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fullest, clearest instruction on string figures from around the world: Eskimo, Navajo, Lapp, European, more. Cat's cradle, moving spear, lightning, stars. 950 illustrations.

Author : Caroline Furness Jayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book STRING FIGURES AND HOW TO MAKE THEM A STUDY OF CATS CRADLE IN MANY LANDS written by Caroline Furness Jayne and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Pat Brigandi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590469746
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book String Magic written by Pat Brigandi and published by . This book was released on 1993-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-follow directions teach you 7 individual string figures and the 13 steps of Cat's Cradle.

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 : Caroline Furness Jayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331922407
Total Pages : 468 pages
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Download or read book String Figures written by Caroline Furness Jayne and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from String Figures: A Study of Cat's-Cradle in Many Lands This book may be regarded as an introduction to the study of String Figures - games which are widespread among primitive peoples, and played by weaving on the hands a single loop of string in order to produce intricate patterns supposed to represent certain familiar objects. I have gathered together the facts already known concerning these games, and, adding my own studies and the unpublished records of other observers, I have here described and illustrated the methods whereby about one hundred string figures are made. My purpose has been twofold: to interest other students in the subject, in order that additional figures and their methods may be collected among various tribes and races; and to reach a still larger public, that more people may share in the fascinations of the games themselves. The games are certainly fascinating, appealing as they do to young and to old, and to those debarred from all pastimes demanding physical exertion. Moreover, they are not unduly difficuAbout the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.