Intimations of Infinity

Jadran Mimica Lecturer in Anthropology,University College London

'... impressive not only for those who specialise in anthropology but for anyone concerned with understanding man'.Mainichi Daily News'... complex, wide-ranging, provocative, irritating, unorthodox and most stimulating.'Canberra Anthropology'... this book is without parallel...ethnographically rich and philosophically informed.'Oceania'... Mimica has carried through a quite original piece of work and thought. This really is the kind of 'new anthropology' for which the discipline is searching.'Professor Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge

• 1. Introduction 2. The Counting System 3. The Authentic Constitution of the Numerical Series 4. The Counting System in the Light of the Iqwaye View of the Cosmos 5. The Image of Cosmic Totality and the Primordial Senses of Infinity, 6. Iqwaye Counting, the Mathematical Infinite and the Problem of the Understanding of other Mathematical Realities 7. Number and the Existential Foundations of Anthropological Understanding of Other Cultures, Afterword: Some Comments on the Iqwaye Mathematic