Title: Patterns in the sky :
Authors: Fabian, Stephen Michael.
Date: 2001
Publisher: Waveland Press,
Physical description: x, 125 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: Since the beginning of humankind, people around the world have had a stong interest in the powers and beings perceived in the sky. This compelling short work helps students fully understand and appreciate the ways in which non-Western indigenous and small-scale societies perceiver, conceptualize, and make use of what they astronomically observe.
Contents: Getting to know the sky : the basics -- The sun -- The moon -- The stars -- The planets -- Other celestial phenomena -- Ethnoastronomical fieldwork -- Ethnoastronomy in the context of human life.
Subject headings (LCSH): Ethnoastronomy.