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Direct linkSaxe, Geoffrey B.; Esmonde, Indigo – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2005
This article extends a framework for the study of culture-cognition relations to problems of historical research and diachronic analysis. As an illustrative case, we focus on mathematics in Oksapmin communities located in a remote highland area in central New Guinea. The Oksapmin, like their neighboring Mountain-Ok groups to the West,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Field Studies, Geographic Isolation, Social Science Research
