Seeing Yolhu, Seeing Mathematics

 

   
 

 

Michael Cooke

 

Lecturer in Aboriginal Languages and Linguistics

(Centre for Australian Languages and Linguistics)

Batchelor College

November 1990

 

   
     
  Contents

 

   
  Title page to  page 1

 

  (PDF-295kb)

 

 

    

Seeing Yolhu, Seeing Mathematics

 

- Including Time and Number

 

- Including Measurement, Space and Money

 

 

 

 

 

Pages 2 to 13 (PDF-990kb)

 

Pages 13 to 18 (PDF-507kb)

 

   

Gurrutu - Yolhu Kinship Mathematics

- Including Moiety, Marriage Laws, Alternation of Moieties and Kinship Terminology

 

 

 

Pages 18 to 25 (PDF-590kb)

  - Including Recursion Patterns, Radial Symmetry, Relating Clans, and Malk – the subsection system

 

 

 

Pages 25 to 37 (PDF-877kb)

 

 

  Implications for Educators Pages

- Including Aboriginal Teacher Education

 

 

Pages 37 to 44 (PDF-740kb)

Pages 44 to 52 (PDF-786kb)

 

  Bibliography )  

Page 53 (PDF-97kb

     
 

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