Cultural astronomy in Latin America / editors: Steven R. Gullberg, C©♭sar Augusto Zen Vasconcellos.

Other author Gullberg, Steven R.
Other author Vasconcellos, C©♭sar A. Z.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoSingapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2024]
Descriptionxxiv, 398 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, charts ; 24 cm
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Contents Pacha : an Andean space-time construct, energized by the swaps of the dual concepts of urin and janan / Eusebio Manga-Quispe -- Astronomies of the European immigrants and their descendants in the southern Argentinean Chaco region / Armando Mudrik -- Maya skyscape iconology / Christopher Layser -- Toward an understanding : exploring the American southwest star connection to Mesoamerica / Mark Raney -- Heaven on Earth : inter-ethnic dialogues with sky entities / Alejandro Mart©Ưn L©đpez -- Caral, the moon, and the river in the preceramic Andes / A. C©♭sar Gonz©Łlez-Carc©Ưa and Juan A. Belmonte -- Historical sources and astronomical constellations in the northwest Amazon / Walmir Thomazi Cardoso -- Group E of Uaxact©ðn, Pet©♭n, Guatemala : archeoastronomical hypotheses and archeological reality / Ivan ¿¿prajc -- Inka astronomy south of the Tawantinsuyu / Gustavo Corrado and Sixto Gim©♭nez Ben©Ưtez -- Honduras between archeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy : cop©Łn, rock art, and Tolup©Łn cosmovision / Javier Mejuto -- Asterisms and time cycles : perspectives from Central West Chaco / Cecilia P. G©đmez -- The plate of the Andean worldview and the stars, heavenly bodies, and natural phenomena / Eusebio Manga-Quispe -- A revision of some lunar glyphs of the lunar series at Quirigua / Stanislaw Iwaniszewski -- The cultural legacy of the Incas : the road toward a genetic epistemological cognitive archeoastronomy / M©þnica Baptista Pereira Estr©Łzulas and Milton Rojas Gamarra -- Chankillo archeoastronomical complex / Steven Gullberg.
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LCCN 2023945287
ISBN9811281920 (hardcover)
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