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Pleiades Visions for Organ Solo: A Composition Supported by Documented ResearchWhitehouse, Matthew Robert January 2012 (has links)
Pleiades Visions is a three-movement work for organ solo inspired by indigenous music and mythology associated with the Pleiades (Seven Sisters) star cluster. Three cultural groups are represented in Pleiades Visions. The first movement, entitled "Uluru," draws from Australian Aboriginal music and mythology. The second movement, entitled "...life on other worlds," is based loosely on a Quechan (Yuman) Indian song. The concluding movement, entitled "Mauna Kea," is inspired by the opening lines of the Kumulipo, a creation chant of the Native Hawaiian culture. The source material for Pleiades Visions was identified through research incorporating techniques from the fields of cultural astronomy and ethnomusicology. This research represents a new line of inquiry for both fields. This document situates Pleiades Visions in the context of the organ literature, and suggests that Pleiades Visions might be the first organ work with a cultural astronomy inspiration. It also describes the research undergirding Pleiades Visions, demonstrates the manner in which that research informed the composition of the work, and addresses issues surrounding the use of indigenous source material in a culturally sensitive manner.
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American Indians and Fajada Butte: Ethnographic Overview and Assessment for Fajada Butte and Traditional (Ethnobotanical) Use Study for Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New MexicoStoffle, Richard W., Evans, Michael, Zedeño, M. Nieves, Stoffle, Brent W., Kesel, Cindy 28 February 1994 (has links)
This ethnographic overview documents the contemporary values of American Indians regarding Fajada Butte. The study defines which Indian tribes have traditional or historic cultural ties to Fajada Butte and Chaco Culture National Historical Park (NHP). The study was funded by the National Park Service on September 15, 1992, and was managed by the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office. The ethnographic overview is focussed on two broad issues: (1) Fajada Butte and its significance to American Indian people and (2) the traditional use of plants and their cultural significance to American Indian people. An additional goal of this study is to contribute information about to the process of general tribal -park consultation including Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
This study documented that 11 tribes and pueblos have cultural relationships with Fajada Butte and Chaco Culture NHP. American Indians feel a contemporary identification with the Fajada Butte and Chaco Culture NHP. There are three main ways for expressing this identification (1) direct descent ties, (2) tribal ties, and (3) ethnic ties. No tribal or pueblo representatives expressed knowledge of living families who are direct descendants from the people of Chaco; however, many of them stated that Chaco people were their direct ancestors. All tribes and pueblo representatives who participated in the on -site visit claimed tribal or pueblo ties to the people of Chaco.
The research also was concerned with the plant life of the area both on and around Fajada Butte. This study documented the American Indian traditional use placess around Fajada Butte and elsewhere in Chaco Canyon. All Indian representatives expressed the desire that the park continues to protect these plants from disturbance and emphasized the need to have a park-wide ethnobotanical study.
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Fajada Butte, Chaco Culture National Park: A Multi-tribal Affiliation PlaceStoffle, Richard W. January 2013 (has links)
This presentation was created to discuss the findings of the report American Indians and Fajada Butte.
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Chaco: More on Indian Identity and The Cant of Re-conquestStoffle, Richard W. January 2013 (has links)
This presentation provides photographs to help the reader further illustrate the report American Indians and Fajada Butte.
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Water management : the use of stars in OmanNash, Harriet January 2008 (has links)
Ancient settlements in Oman are frequently found where crops can be cultivated with groundwater distributed to fields by gravity flow. These irrigation systems are called aflāj (s. falaj), and they are still pivotal to community life: in 1997 over 3000 such systems were still in use. The allocation of falaj water among farmers traditionally depended on the use of the sun and the stars to track the passage of time. This practice, and particularly the use of stars, is disappearing rapidly: the availability of watches since c. 1970 means that there is now little technical reason to use the stars. The study records fast disappearing information on the ethnography of agricultural communities in northern Oman and, in particular, on the use of stars. It aims to identify the stars used and record the methods of stargazing in sufficient detail that the systems could be replicated if all local knowledge were lost. It also aims to raise awareness and improve the understanding of the significance of the traditional use of the stars in irrigated agriculture. This aspect of the cultural heritage of the region has not been written about previously in such detail. The research questions concern how, where and why stars are still used. There are several documents on falaj building and organisation in Oman, but relatively little on telling the time, and much less on the stars than on the use of the sun. The available documents were reviewed, but the main source for this study is data collected in the field, interviewing falaj managers and stargazers and watching the stars with them. Field work was carried out in different seasons since the stars used vary through the year. International experts were consulted on various aspects of the work, including Daniel Varisco on folk astronomy and Paul Kunitzsch on star names. The study focuses on five settlements where stars are used to this day. These are Qarya Beni Subh (Qarya), close to the mountains near the town of Al Hamra in the Interior Region; Al Fath, Zahib, Sudayra and Barzaman near the towns of Mudaybi and Sinaw in the Eastern Region. Additional information was obtained from a few other places for comparison, and during the course of the research it was found that only about eight of three thousand active falaj communities still use stars for time keeping. The methods of stargazing are given in detail, together with the names of the stars in Oman and their international classification where possible. It was found that the number of stars, the stars used, and their names in Oman vary from place to place. The time that each star represents is more variable than expected from the difference in length of night during the year. The stars used for falaj purposes are compared with those used in the region for navigation and with the stations of the moon of the Islamic calendar, but no evidence of any link between them was identified. On the basis of the history of falaj systems in Oman, the star names and the stars used, at least two of which are from the pre-Islamic Bedu tradition, it is concluded that the system of stargazing for timing water dates from pre-Islamic times, before the introduction of the stations of the moon. The main reason for the continued use of stars by a few communities, even though wristwatches are now widely available, is thought to be adherence to tradition both for its own sake and to avoid disputes over the sharing of water. It is considered unlikely that this ancient practice will survive more than 10 or 20 years unless the younger generation takes an interest in learning, and putting into practice, the traditions of their forefathers.
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O céu dos Tukano na escola Yupuri: construindo um calendário dinâmicoCardoso, Walmir Thomazi 28 September 2007 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2007-09-28 / In this work I will show as I constructed, with the Brazilian Tukano Indians, a
different concept in relation to the traditional calendars. The stellar dynamic
calendars are constituted of circles with representations that if relate with the
constellations observed in the Sky. Thus, to reach the objective to construct the
dynamic calendars I studied the Tukano constellations and I used techniques of
angular measures using the hands with students at Scholl Tukano Yupuri. I
constructed with the students of the School Tukano Yupuri a notebook of
constellations that served like a base for inquiries concerning the conceptions of this
people, regarding the relations between the Nature and the constellations positions.
The aboriginal constellations of the Tukano are associates with meteorological
phenomena, the vegetal world, the animal world, and spiritual world also. In this
study the tradition of the culture of the old aboriginals was congregated to the
inquiries of the students to produce the stellar dynamic calendars. This is one of the
points stronger than they associate this work with the Ethnomathematics Program / Ao longo desse trabalho, mostro como construí com os índios um calendário
estelar dinâmico que consiste em um conceito diferente em relação aos calendários
tradicionais
Os calendários estelares dinâmicos são constituídos de círculos com
representações que se relacionam com as constelações observadas no Céu. Assim,
para atingir o objetivo de construir os calendários dinâmicos estudei as constelações
Tukano e usei técnicas de medidas angulares usando as mãos. Construí com os
estudantes da Escola Tukano Yupuri um caderno de constelações que serviu de
base para investigações acerca das concepções desse povo, a respeito das
relações entre a Natureza próxima e o ocaso das constelações.
As constelações indígenas dos Tukano estão associadas com fenômenos
meteorológicos, do mundo vegetal, animal, espiritual e socioambiental.
Nesse estudo a tradição da cultura dos velhos indígenas foi reunida às
investigações dos estudantes para produzir os calendários estelares dinâmicos.
Esse é um dos pontos mais fortes que associam esse trabalho com o Programa
Etnomatemática
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Objetiva(a??o) da medida e contagem do tempo em pr?ticas socioculturais e educativasBarros, Osvaldo dos Santos 14 December 2010 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2010-12-14 / This thesis describes and analyzes various processes established and practiced by
both groups about the socio-cultural objective (action) the measurement and timing,
mobilized some socio-historical practices as the use of the gn?mon of the sundial and
reading and interpretation of movements celestial constellations in cultural contexts such
as indigenous communities and fishermen in the state of Par?, Brazil. The Purpose of the
study was to describe and analyze the mobilization of such practices in the socio-historical
development of matrices for teaching concepts and skills related to geometric angles,
similar triangles, symmetry and proportionality in the training of mathematics teachers. The
record of the entire history of investigation into the socio-historical practice, the formative
action was based on epistemological assumptions of education ethnomathematics
proposed by Vergani (2000, 2007) and Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (1986, 1993, 1996, 2001,
2004) and Alain Bishop conceptions about mathematics enculturation. At the end of the
study I present my views on the practices of contributions called socio-cultural and
historical for school mathematics, to give meaning to the concept formation and teaching
of students, especially the implications of Education Ethnomatematics proposed by
Vergani (2000) for training of future teachers of mathematics / Esta tese descreve a analisa alguns processos estabelecidos e praticados por dois
grupos socioculturais acerca da objetiva(a??o) da medi??o do tempo, mobilizados de
algumas pr?ticas s?cio-hist?ricas como o uso do gn?mon, do rel?gio de Sol e a leitura e
interpreta??o dos movimentos das constela??es celestes, em contextos culturais como as
comunidades ind?genas e de pescadores do estado do Par?. A finalidade do estudo foi
descrever a mobiliza??o de tais pr?ticas s?cio-hist?ricas na elabora??o de matrizes para o
ensino de conceitos e habilidades geom?tricas relacionadas a ?ngulos, semelhan?a de
tri?ngulos, proporcionalidade e simetria na forma??o de professores de Matem?tica. O
registro de toda a trajet?ria de investiga??o das pr?ticas s?cio-hist?ricas, da a??o
formativa, foi realizado com base nos pressupostos epistemol?gicos da Educa??o
Etnomatem?tica, propostos por Vergani (2000, 2007) e D Ambrosio (1986, 1993, 1996,
2001, 2004). e nas concep??es de Alain Bishop acerca da Encultura??o Matem?tica. Ao
final do estudo apresento minhas impress?es quanto ?s contribui??es mobilizadas das
pr?ticas s?cio-hist?ricas e culturais para a matem?tica escolar, no sentido de dar
significa??o ? forma??o conceitual e did?tica dos alunos, principalmente nas implica??es
da Educa??o Etnomatem?tica proposta por Vergani (2000, 2007) para a forma??o de
futuros professores de Matem?tica
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A systematics for interpreting past structures with possible cosmic references in Sub-Saharan AfricaWade, Richard Peter 05 May 2009 (has links)
This thesis presents a method of identifying astronomical expressionsinherent within the spatial geography, cultural landscapes, and layouts of structures with a view to implementing the systematics in an African context. In determining astronomical codes of the southern African pre - early farmer and metalworking archaeological sites - this review deals with oral tradition, rituals, formative calendars, fertility, meteorites, eclipses, bio-diversity, sustainable agriculture, rainmaking and the general star lore. Conclusions are drawn from the hypothesis that certain structures functioned as astronomical expressions by use of monoliths and other configurations, with specific examples of how these possibilities were drawn from aspects within the Mapungubwe/Zimbabwe Cultural Complex and the preceding riverine cultural formations. / Dissertation (MSc(Applied Science))--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Architecture / unrestricted
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