In this Book
- Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University Press of Colorado
- Series: Mesoamerican Worlds Series
This collection's wide range of outstanding scholarship reveals that cultural astronomy has come into its own. The diverse topics addressed by the contributors include the correlation between Colonial Northern Zapotec and Gregorian calendars, the period of use of the Dresden Codex Venus table and the significance of the Lunar Almanacs that precede it, a new interpretation of an Inka tapestry mantle as a commemorative calendar, temple orientations in Hawai'i and church orientations in Medieval England, and the connection in cultural imagery between astronomers (science) and wizards (magic).
Contributors include: Harvey M. Bricker, Victoria R. Bricker, Edward E. Calnek, Clemency Coggins, John Justeson, Edwin C. Krupp, Stephen C. McCluskey, Susan Milbrath, Clive Ruggles, David Tavárez, Barbara Tedlock, Dennis Tedlock, Gary Urton, and R. Tom Zuidema. Mesoamerican Worlds Series
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxi-xxii
- Editors’ Note
- p. xxiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-15
- 4: Moon Woman Meets the Stars
- pp. 121-156
- 6: The Measure of Man
- pp. 209-244
- 7: A Multi-Year Tukapu Calendar
- pp. 245-268
- 11: High Fashion
- pp. 355-374
- Contributors
- pp. 375-376