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Record #197014:
The cosmos: indigenous perspectives / Gregory A. Cajete.
Title: | The cosmos: indigenous perspectives / Gregory A. Cajete. |
Author(s): | Cajete, Gregory A. |
Date: | 2009. |
Publisher: | Durham, NC: Duke University |
In: | Alaska Native reader : history, culture, politics. (2009.), |
Abstract: | Overview of relationship between indigenous peoples and stars, links to creation myths and placement in larger cosmos. Considers indigenous perspectives on cosmic language and practical use of stars and astronomy. Also examines place of traditional environmental and astronomical knowledge in modern scientific culture. |
Notes: | In: The Alaska Native reader : history, culture, politics / Maria Shaa Tláa Williams, ed. |
Keywords: | 291.8 -- Oral history. 299 -- Religions, indigenous. 364.122/.124 -- Social change and associated problems. 39 -- Ethnography: Indians. Tlingit. 39 -- Ethnography: Eskimo. Yup'ik. 398 -- Native peoples, folk beliefs and tales. 398.22 -- Sagas and historic legends. 504.06 -- Environmental protection. 52 -- Astronomy. 527 -- Navigation. 910.2(211) -- Cold regions, life and travel. T -- Social anthropology and ethnography. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*49) -- Alaska. |
SPRI record no.: | 197014 |
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