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. Ed(S): Holbrook, Jarita; Medupe, Rodney Thebe; Urama, Johnson O. - African Cultural Astronomy - 9789048176878 - V9789048176878
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African Cultural Astronomy

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Description for African Cultural Astronomy Paperback. Editor(s): Holbrook, Jarita; Medupe, Rodney Thebe; Urama, Johnson O. Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 476.

This is the first scholarly collection of articles focused on the cultural astronomy of Africans. It weaves together astronomy, anthropology, and Africa and it includes African myths and legends about the sky, alignments to celestial bodies found at archaeological sites and at places of worship, rock art with celestial imagery, and scientific thinking revealed in local astronomy traditions including ethnomathematics and the creation of calendars. Authors include astronomers Kim Malville, Johnson Urama, and Thebe Medupe; archaeologist Felix Chami, and geographer Michael Bonine, and many new authors. As an emerging subfield of cultural astronomy, African cultural astronomy researchers are focused on ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Series
Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048176878
SKU
V9789048176878
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Ref
99-15

Reviews for African Cultural Astronomy
From the reviews: "The 17 readable, stimulating papers deal with multiple topics: simple principles of looking at the heavens and what a person can get out of it as an anthropologist and a general observer … and finally how cultural astronomy is expressed today in African cultures. … Clearly a book for universities, this volume ... Read more

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