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  title info:
    title: African Cultural Astronomy
    sub title: Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy research in Africa
  name:
    name part: Holbrook, Jarita C.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Urama, Johnson O.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Medupe, R. Thebe.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 260 p. online resource.
  abstract: Astronomy is the science of studying the sky using telescopes and light collectors such as photographic plates or CCD detectors. However, people have always studied the sky and continue to study the sky without the aid of instruments this is the realm of cultural astronomy. This is the first scholarly collection of articles focused on the cultural astronomy of Africans. It weaves together astronomy, anthropology, and Africa. The volume 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 Africa.
  table of contents: Chasing the Shadow of the Moon: The 2006 Ghana Eclipse Conference -- The Use of Ethnographic Methods in Cultural Astronomy Research -- A Brief Outline on the Geographical Background of Africa -- The Astronomical Gnomon -- Naked-eye Astronomy for Cultural Astronomers -- Leadership -- Integrating African Cultural Astronomy into~the~Classroom -- A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Eclipses -- Teaching Cultural Astronomy: On the Development and Evolution of the Syllabus at Bath Spa University and the University of Wales, Lampeter -- Evidence of Ancient African Beliefs in Celestial Bodies -- Astronomy of Nabta Playa -- Romans, Astronomy and the Qibla: Urban Form and Orientation of Islamic Cities of Tunisia -- The Timbuktu Astronomy Project -- The Cosmological Vision of the Yoruba-Idààcha of Benin Republic (West Africa): A Light on Yoruba History and Culture -- The Relationship Between Human Destiny and the Cosmic Forces – A Study of the IGBO Worldview -- Cultural Astronomy in the Lore and Literature of Africa -- Astronomy and Culture in Nigeria -- Participation and Research of Astronomers and Astrophysicists of Black African Descent (1900–2005).
  note: edited by Jarita C. Holbrook, Johnson O. Urama, R. Thebe Medupe.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Culture
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: History, general
  subject:
    topic: Regional and Cultural Studies
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: QB980-991
  classification: 520
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
  identifier: 9781402066399
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6639-9
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204155527.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-6639-9