期刊全称 | African Cultural Astronomy | 期刊简称 | Current Archaeoastro | 影响因子2023 | Jarita C. Holbrook,Johnson O. Urama,R. Thebe Medup | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/151/150776/150776.mp4 | 发行地址 | There are no other books that deal solely with African Cultural Astronomy.Brings together the latest research on Africal Cultural Astronomy | 学科分类 | Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .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 training students specifically for doing research in Africa. The first part of the volume contains lessons and exercises to help the beginning student of African cultural astronomy. Included are exercises in archaeoastronomy, cultural anthropology, and naked-eye astronomy penned by authors who use these regularly use these methods for their research. This collection of lessons and research papers provides a foundation for the cultural astronomy researcher interested in doing work in Afri | Pindex | Conference proceedings 2008 |
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