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Ethnoastronomy in Madura, Indonesia: Observations of the Night Sky and Eclipses
2021For thousands of years the appearance of the night sky on a dark moonless night captivated people throughout Indonesia, including those on the island of Madura. Indeed, the Madurese have their own ideas about the night sky, and they used the appearance or the presence of different stars or groups of stars (asterisms) in everyday life, especially during
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Education As Change, 2009 This paper is a case study of rural Basotho preservice students’ cultural and indigenous experiences of astronomy (ethnoastronomy) explored through focus group interviews conducted at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The study uses a Vygotskian social-cultural lens in viewing how the different ways that astronomical phenomena, namely, events linked to ...
Nadaraj Govender
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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2019 Abstract The Saka calendrical inscriptions recorded the time journey in its own specific way, such as the use of suklapaksa and kresnapaksa, equipped with saptawara, pancawara and sadwara day names. At the next stage, it is addedd with wuku. During the Majapahit era, the time dimensional recording was expanded to include such elements as
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Ethnoastronomy of the Eastern Bororo Indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil
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Utilizing Nautical Tradition Value Through Ethnoastronomy in Learning Social Science [PDF]
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences Education - "Multicultural Transformation in Education, Social Sciences and Wetland Environment" (ICSSE 2017), 2018 Mina Holilah, Erlina Wiyanarti
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Living Ethnoastronomy: Discovering the Connectedness of the Human Spirit Beneath the Night Sky
The Physics Teacher, 2017We are writing this article from opposite sides of the Earth and are getting ready to meet again in December 2017 to continue our project of bringing the world together through physics education, one constellation at a time. With the events in France, Belgium, Germany, United States, and United Kingdom fresh in our minds, there is not a more critical ...
Richard Paul Hechter, Nayif Awad
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Watchers of the Pleiades: Ethnoastronomy among Native Cultivators in Northeastern North America
Ethnohistory, 1978Iroquois and Algonquian cultivators of northeastern North America are among the world's varied cultures to observe the bright cluster of stars known as the Pleiades. According to documentary, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence these northeast natives appear to have related the coincidence of the Pleiades' celestial positions in spring and fall ...
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The giant, the wintermaker, and the hunter: contextual ethnoastronomy towards cultivating empathy
Physics Education, 2019Abstract ‘It is the belt!’ This is how middle school teachers in a science teaching professional development program rationalized why they believe Orion is the most recognizable of all constellations in the night sky.
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Honduras Between Archeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy: Copán, Rock Art, and Tolupán Cosmovision
This work intends to make a journey to the main Honduran heritage elements related to astronomical knowledge, mainly through the investigations carried out, or in process, in the country. The ethnicity of the Copán archeological site is visited, thus inviting the reader to rethink its architectural and astronomical elements.exaly +3 more sources