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"10 out of 10 for the idea of bringing together difficult-to-access seminal articles and carefully selected newer material to provide an introductory reader." -- Clive Ruggles "CR"
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Gazing into the black skies from the Anasazi observatory at Chimney Rock or the Castillo Pyramid in the Maya ruins of Chichen Itza, a modern visitor might wonder what ancient stargazers looked for in the skies and what they saw. Once considered unresearchable, these questions now drive cultural astronomers who draw on written and unwritten records and a constellation of disciplines to reveal the wonders of ancient and contemporary astronomies. Cultural astronomy, first called archaeoastronomy, has evolved at ferocious speed since its genesis in the 1960s, with seminal essays and powerful rebuttals published in far-flung, specialized journals. Until now, only the most closely involved scholars could follow the intellectual fireworks. In this book, Anthony Aveni, one of cultural astronomy's founders and top scholars, offers a selection of the essays that built the field, from foundational works to contemporary scholarship. Including four decades of research throughout the Americas by linguists, archaeologists, historians, ethnologists, astronomers, and engineers, this reader highlights the evolution of the field through thematic organization and point-counterpoint articles. Aveni - an award-winning author and former National Professor of the Year - serves up incisive commentary, background for the uninitiated, and suggested reading, questions, and essay topics. Students, readers, and scholars will relish this collection and its tour of a new field in which discoveries about ancient ways of looking at the skies cast light on our contemporary views.
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Fascinating and detiled overview
8 July 2011
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This books offers a fascinating overview of the complexity of ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy edited by one of the foremost experts in the field. A large book, with every chapter well worth reading. It has sufficient detail to ensure the reader has the data available to make their own assessment of the interpretations offered. It has sufficient diversity to allow a bigger picture to build in the reader's mind of the critical role of astronomical observation in the practical lives of traditional cultures. Dealing only with the New World, it leads the reader to ask just how much astronomical knowledge exists in traditional cultures around the world. Hopefully, a swag of books of this quality will help offer a global picture. Buy, don't borrow. You'll want to keep going back to it.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
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