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Cover: Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures, from Harvard University PressCover: Numbers and the Making of Us in HARDCOVER

Numbers and the Making of Us

Counting and the Course of Human Cultures

Caleb Everett

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$27.95 • £20.95 • €25.00

ISBN 9780674504431

Publication: March 2017

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312 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

7 photos, 1 illus.

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  • SOCIAL SCIENCE: Anthropology: Cultural & Social
  • SCIENCE: Cognitive Science
  • LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Linguistics: General

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Caleb Everett is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami.

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  • At FiveThirtyEight, read an interview with Caleb Everett on “why we count”
  • Read a Smithsonian interview with Everett
  • In the Boston Globe, read about how Everett’s early exposure to one of the few anumeric groups in the world informed his work on numbers in human culture
  • On the University of British Columbia podcast Cited, listen to Everett explore what our world would be like without numbers
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  • 2018 PROSE Award, Language & Linguistics category, Association of American Publishers
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