Bamana sand divination: Recursion in ethnomathematics

American Anthropologist

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 112-122

  Eglash, Ron ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0031488288     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1997.99.1.112     Document Type: Article

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