عنوان

An anthropology of puzzles :

شابک

1350089869

شابک

1350089877

شابک

9781350089860

شابک

9781350089877

شابک اشتباه

1350089850

شابک اشتباه

9781350089853

عنوان اصلي

An anthropology of puzzles :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the role of puzzles in the origins and evolution of mind and culture /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Marcel Danesi.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2018.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Puzzles in Mind and History; Riddles, puzzles, and games; Historical sketch; Main puzzle types; Solving puzzles; Puzzle archetypes; Puzzles and human intelligence; 2 Riddles; Riddles as oral tradition; Solving riddles; Riddles and metaphor; Riddles and the origins of culture; 3 Word Games; Anagrams and acrostics; Cryptograms; Word squares, word searches, crosswords, and doublets; The ludic nature of language; 4 Visual Puzzles; Optical illusions; Vanishing tricks; Rebuses.

متن يادداشت

Geometric puzzlesThe tangram, the jigsaw, and the golden ratio; Mazes; Visual imaging; 5 Puzzles in Mathematics; The Ahmes papyrus; The magic square; Alcuin's propositiones; Fibonacci's Liber Abaci; Recreational mathematics; Mathematical method; Puzzle memes; 6 Puzzles and Logic; The nature of logic; The Monty Hall problem; Paradoxes and cognition; Logic deconstructed; Sudoku; Logic and imagination; 7 Puzzles and Human Intelligence; Homo ludens; Games of chance; Human intelligence; Mind and culture; Concluding remarks; References; Index.

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

8

متن يادداشت

"An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a "puzzling organ" which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format. Noting the presence of puzzles everywhere in everyday life, Marcel Danesi looks at puzzles in society since the dawn of history, showing how their presence has guided large sections of human history, from discoveries in mathematics to disquisitions in philosophy. Danesi examines the cognitive processes that are involved in puzzle making and solving, and connects them to the actual physical manifestations of classic puzzles. Building on a concept of puzzles as based on Jungian archetypes, such as the river crossing image, the path metaphor, and the journey, Danesi suggests this could be one way to understand the public fascination with puzzles. As well as drawing on underlying mental archetypes, the act of solving puzzles also provides an outlet to move beyond biological evolution, and Danesi shows that puzzles could be the product of the same basic neural mechanism that produces language and culture. Finally, Danesi explores how understanding puzzles can be a new way of understanding our human culture."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

codeMantra

شماره انبار

9781350089877

عنوان

Anthropology of puzzles.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9781350089853

موضوع مستند نشده

Brain-- Evolution.

موضوع مستند نشده

Cognition.

موضوع مستند نشده

Human evolution.

موضوع مستند نشده

Puzzles-- Psychological aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Puzzles-- Social aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Brain-- Evolution.

موضوع مستند نشده

Cognition.

موضوع مستند نشده

GAMES-- Reference.

موضوع مستند نشده

GAMES-- Travel Games.

موضوع مستند نشده

Human evolution.

موضوع مستند نشده

Philosophy of mind.

موضوع مستند نشده

Puzzles-- Psychological aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sociolinguistics.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sociology & anthropology.

موضوع مستند نشده

GAM-- 009000

موضوع مستند نشده

GAM-- 011000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Danesi, Marcel,1946-

تاريخ عمليات

20200822174227.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y