The spirit and the sky : Lakota visions of the cosmos /

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The interest of nineteenth-century Lakotas in the sun, moon, and stars was an essential part of their never-ending quest to understand the universe. "The Spirit and the Sky" presents a survey of the ethnoastronomy of the nineteenth-century Lakota and relates Lakota astronomy to their cultu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hollabaugh, Mark
Corporate Author: Indiana University, Bloomington. American Indian Studies Research Institute
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Series:Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Lakota cosmology.
Astronomy > Great Plains > History > 19th century.
Indian astronomy > Great Plains.
Indian cosmology.
Cosmology > History > 19th century.
Astronomie > Grandes Plaines > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Astronomie des Peuples autochtones > Grandes Plaines.
Cosmologie des Peuples autochtones.
Cosmologie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
1800-1899.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Astronomy.
Cosmology.
Indian astronomy.
Great Plains.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. The Lakota People; 2. The Sky; 3. Lakota Culture; 4. The Stars and Constellations; 5. The Sun and Moon; 6. Telling Time; 7. Eclipses and the Aurora Borealis; 8. Meteors and Comets; 9. The Sun Dance; 10. Contemporary Lakota Astronomy; 11. The Spirit and the Sky; Appendix: List of Museums; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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