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In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and disenfranchisement, as well as in Mayan revitalization and grassroots environmental struggles. In the aftermath of thirty-six years of civil war, to count-both numerically and in the sense of having value-is a contested and qualitative practice of complex calculations encompassing war losses, migration, debt, and competing understandings of progress. Nelson makes broad connections among seemingly divergent phenomena, such as debates over reparations for genocide victims, Ponzi schemes, and antimining movements. Challenging the presumed objectivity of Western mathematics, Nelson shows how it flattens social complexity and becomes a raced, classed, and gendered skill that colonial powers considered beyond the grasp of indigenous peoples. Yet the Classic Maya are famous for the precision of their mathematics, including conceptualizing zero long before Europeans. Nelson shows how Guatemala's indigenous population is increasingly returning to Mayan numeracy to critique systemic inequalities with the goal of being counted-in every sense of the word.

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	05 novembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822375074
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	28 Mo

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Who Counts?

The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide Diane M. Nelson

Dûé Uéŝ péŝŝ Dûà à ôô 

éŝé  Qûààà pô 

Wéŝçéŝé pûŝ Séçéŝ

à ô Côéŝŝ Cààôpûçàô Dàà Néŝô, Dàé M., [àé] àûô. Wô çôûŝ? : é àéàçŝ ô éà à é àTé éôçé / Dàé Néŝô. àéŝ ç ïçûéŝ ôàçà éééçéŝ à é. îsbn  àçôé : à. àé

îsbn  . : à. àé îsbn  éôô . Gûàéàà—Hŝô—–. Gûàéàà—pôçŝ à ôéé—– . Géôçé—Gûàéàà—Hŝô— çéû.. Màéàçŝ—Sôçà àŝéçŝ. ï. é. F466.7.n46 205

.'—ç



Côé à: ïŝàé Rû . éôŝMaemáîca susracîvaSûàçé à, Aûà, Gûàéàà, . Sé àé , é çà àŝ, ôé ô éàç ô é éŝàé ŝàéàé, àŝ ŝôéôé ôôé é éàŝ é, é Rû éà à àà. é éôàçé àŝ éçàé ô Gûàéàà é ûŝ é ó, ô àŝ ŝàéàé  é Gûàéàà ŝàé  . pôô  àçŝçô Môàéŝ Sàôŝ.

Uŝé   éŝŝô ô ïŝàé Rû.

For Anasasîa, Sanos, Maudîîa, and Lochann

And or Chesea / Bradey, Edward, and Jake

In the begînnîng the whîte men trîed to inîsh wîth us usîng guns, whîps and dîseases. Now they use numbers.

—KuLussi Suyâ

Numbers weave patterns whîch people înhabît and whîch înhabît people.

—HeLen Verran

People need numbers very, very badly. And they don’t gîve a shît where they come from.

—Patrick BaLL, in Rosenberg 2012, 5

ï à ŝéàŝ éé é ôûŝà ôŝ à ŝàé Ié ôûŝà éŝ, W à çàô àé ô ôéŝôéŝ à çà éŝ à Iéŝ, ï é àéŝ éé àôŝ ŝ éé  à é ôŝ’ éà é ŝàé, Wôû ôû ŝûàç ô û ô I é çàà’ŝ àé?

chorus

ô ô ô ô ô ô ô ô ô ô ô ô ô ô ô pû ô ŝ à çà ô, Géé! û ŝ ŝ à ô ô; Yôû çà  à  à   ôû àŝ àé û, ï ô’ çàé à éàçé ŝàŝ, ï çà’ ô é ŝû

chorus

ï Càéçé ôô à Géô ôû ô à àûô é, A  à ŝ éŝ à ôû à ŝŝ ô çàûé é, A ûé ôô é ŝéé éà ô é ôéé ŝ ô ŝû, Hô ŝôô çôû é é  ôôŝ ŝéé Càé à Géé û? ôBabes în ToyandHéé à MàçDôôû 

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Contents 1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chapter Minus One

Part I. When You Count You Begin with 1, 2, 3 0  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bookkeeping 1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Before and AfterMath

Part II. Bonesetting 2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The Algebra of Genocide 3  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Reunion of Broken Parts

Part III. Mayan Pyramids 4  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100% Omnilife 5  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mayan Pyramid (Scheme)

Part IV. YES to Life = NO to Mining 6  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A Life’s Worth 7  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Beyond Adequacy

Preface xi / Notes 265 / References 281 / Index 297

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