[PDF] An Anthropology Of Puzzles eBook

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000185508

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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.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2004-02-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780253217080

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"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

Author : David Hammond
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 1999-06
Category : Plays on words
ISBN : 9780769001272

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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.

Author : Adrian Groza
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3030625478

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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.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2018-08-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3319932543

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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.

Author : Conrad Phillip Kottak
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9781260071429

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"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.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Chartwell
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0785840133

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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!

Author : Johannes Lenhard
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 3656323836

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Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Pedagogy - Theory of Science, 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.

Author : Nancy C. Lutkehaus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2010-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691148082

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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.