Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the american tropics
de Urton, Gary ed; Aveni, Anthony F. ed.
Collection: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 385 .Éditeur: New York : The New York Academy of Sciences, 1982.Description: IX-365 p. : ill., carte ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0-89766-161-3 (br.); 0-89766-160-5 (rel.).N° Inventaire: L7280, EREA-434E.Thématique: Astronomie | Symbolisme | Archéologie | Calendrier | CosmosThématique spécifique: Architecture | Histoire des sciences | Relation nature-culture | Idéologie | Etoile | Khipu | Mythe | Modèle | Ethnologie | Astronomie | Ciel | Pleiades | Calendrier | Système de représentation | Codex | Anthropomorphisme | CosmologieGéographique: Amérique du Sud | La Mecque | Zone climatique tropicale | Amérique centrale | Colombie | Andes | Brésil | Hawaï | Mésoamérique | Mexique | PérouEthnique: Bororo | Aztèque | Inca | ChamulaContenu: Woven heaven, tangled earth: a weaver's paradigm of the mesoamerican cosmos / Cecilia F. Klein -- Pyramid and sacred mountain / Richard Fraser Townsend -- Precision in the layout of Maya architecture / Anthony F. Aveni, Horst Hartung -- Astronomy, cosmovision and ideology in pre-hispanic Mesoamerica / Johanna Broda -- The zenith, the mountain, the center, and the sea / Clemency Coggins -- A general consideration of the Maya correlation question / Beth A. Collea -- The double-headed dragon and the sky: a pervasive cosmological symbol / John B. Carlson -- Astronomical models of social behavior among some indians of Colombia / G. Reichel-Dolmatoff -- The pleiades and scorpius in Barsana cosmology / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- Catachilly: the role of the pleiades and of the southern Cross and 'alpha' and 'beta' centauri in the calendar of the Incas / r. t. Zuidema -- Astronomy at Mach Picchu / D. S. Dearborn, R. E. White -- The information system of middle horizon quipus / William J. Conklin -- Ethnoastronomy of the eastern bororo Indians of Malto Grosso, Brazil / Stephen M. Fabian -- Astromical alignements in medieval islamic religious architecture / David A. King -- Ahu a 'Umi Heiau: a native hawaiian astromical and directional register / Armando M. da Silva, Rubellite K. Johnson -- Summary: archaeoastronomy in the tropics / Owen Gingerich -- The tropical zone: land of opportunity / Sharon L. Gibbs -- Archaeostronomy, ethnoastronomy, and the history of science / Stephen C. Mccluskey -- Culture confronts nature in the dialectical world of the tropics / Billie Jean Isbell. Item type:

Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Éric-de-Dampierre | Fonds général | EREA-ETS 5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Consultation sur place | EREA-434E | ||
Éric-de-Dampierre | Fonds général | F 2230.5 .A8 A951 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Consultation sur place | L7280 |
Bibliogr. dissém., index.
Woven heaven, tangled earth: a weaver's paradigm of the mesoamerican cosmos / Cecilia F. Klein -- Pyramid and sacred mountain / Richard Fraser Townsend -- Precision in the layout of Maya architecture / Anthony F. Aveni, Horst Hartung -- Astronomy, cosmovision and ideology in pre-hispanic Mesoamerica / Johanna Broda -- The zenith, the mountain, the center, and the sea / Clemency Coggins -- A general consideration of the Maya correlation question / Beth A. Collea -- The double-headed dragon and the sky: a pervasive cosmological symbol / John B. Carlson -- Astronomical models of social behavior among some indians of Colombia / G. Reichel-Dolmatoff -- The pleiades and scorpius in Barsana cosmology / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- Catachilly: the role of the pleiades and of the southern Cross and 'alpha' and 'beta' centauri in the calendar of the Incas / r. t. Zuidema -- Astronomy at Mach Picchu / D. S. Dearborn, R. E. White -- The information system of middle horizon quipus / William J. Conklin -- Ethnoastronomy of the eastern bororo Indians of Malto Grosso, Brazil / Stephen M. Fabian -- Astromical alignements in medieval islamic religious architecture / David A. King -- Ahu a 'Umi Heiau: a native hawaiian astromical and directional register / Armando M. da Silva, Rubellite K. Johnson -- Summary: archaeoastronomy in the tropics / Owen Gingerich -- The tropical zone: land of opportunity / Sharon L. Gibbs -- Archaeostronomy, ethnoastronomy, and the history of science / Stephen C. Mccluskey -- Culture confronts nature in the dialectical world of the tropics / Billie Jean Isbell.
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