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TINHLÈLÒ, Interweaving Art and Mathematics: Colourful Basket Trays from the South of Mozambique (eBook in color)

ByPaulus Gerdes

The book “TINHLÈLÒ, Interweaving Art and Mathematics: Colourful Basket Trays from the South of Mozambique” exhibits and analyses coloured circular winnowing baskets collected since the end of the 1970s (132 pp. colour). Foreword by Aires Aly, Prime Minister of the Republic of Mozambique: "The beauty in the collections of “Tinhléló” winnowing trays both surprises and fascinates the reader." "Tinhléló exist in each family of the vast Mozambique. We need to know that there are no factories for the production of the Tinhléló minalas. Tinhléló knowledge is endogenous knowledge that repeats itself, recreates itself, and adorns itself in the multiplicity of its models, sizes, colours, and functions. No conventional school orients this learning. The families, the remarkable, curious and master artisans, are the ones who are creating and maintaining these products of eloquent usefulness in our families. The families recreate the art of this mathematical weaving!..."

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Publication Date
Dec 4, 2013
Language
English
Category
Art & Photography
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All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): Paulus Gerdes

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