Title: Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics /
Authors: Aveni, Anthony F.; Urton, Gary, 1946-; New York Academy of Sciences.
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences,
Year: 1982
Subjects: Indians, South American; Indians, North American; Indians, Central American; Astronomy; Indian astronomy Congresses.; Archaeoastronomy America Congresses.; Astronomy Congresses.; Indians, North American.; Americas; America Antiquities Congresses.
Contents: Woven heaven, tangled earth : a weaver's paradigm of the Mesoamerican cosmos / Cecelia F. Klein -- Pyramid and sacred mountain / Richard Fraser Townsend -- Precision in the layout of Maya architecture / Anthony F. Aveni and Horst Hartung -- Astronomy, cosmovisión, 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 Barasana cosmology / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- Catachillay : 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 and calendrics on the coast of Peru / Gary Urton -- Archaeoastronomy at Machu Picchu / D.S. Dearborn and R.E. White -- The information system of Middle Horizon quipus / William J. Conklin -- Ethnoastronomy of the eastern Bororo Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil / Stephen M. Fabian -- Astronomical alignments in medieval Islamic religious architecture / David A. King -- Ahu a ʻUmi Heiau : a native Hawaiian astronomical and directional register / Armando M. da Silva and Rubellite K. Johnson -- Summary : archaeoastronomy in the tropics / Owen Gingerich -- The tropical zone : land of opportunity / Sharon L. Gibbs -- Archaeoastronomy, ethnoastronomy, and the history of science / Stephen C. McCluskey -- Culture confronts nature in the dialectical world of the tropics / Billie Jean Isbell.