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Auteur(s) : Hollabaugh, Mark Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The spirit and the sky [Texte imprimé] : Lakota visions of the cosmos / Mark Hollabaugh

Publication : Lincoln : University of Nebraska press, 2017

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm

Collection : Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians series

Lien à la collection : Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Comprend : The Lakota people ; The sky ; Lakota culture ; The stars and constellations ; The sun and moon ; Telling time ; Eclipses and the aurora borealis ; Meteors and comets ; The sun dance ; Contemporary Lakota astronomy ; The spirit and the sky.

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-231) and index
"The interest of nineteenth-century Lakotas in the sun, moon, and stars was an essential part of their never-ending quest to understand the universe. The Spirit and the Sky presents a survey of the ethnoastronomy of the nineteenth-century Lakota and relates Lakota astronomy to their cultural practices and beliefs. The center of Lakota belief is the unfathomable and sacred nature of the world in which they live and of the stars above--extraordinary and wakhán (mysterious)--both of which constitute an integral part of this holistic world. Mark Hollabaugh offers a detailed analysis of all aspects of Lakota culture that have a bearing on their astronomy, including telling time, Lakota names for the stars and constellations as they appeared on the Great Plains, and the phenomena of meteor showers, eclipses, and the aurora borealis. Hollabaugh's explanation of the cause of the aurora that occurred at the death of Black Elk in 1950 is a new contribution to ethnoastronomy."--Dust jacket

Sujet(s) : Cosmologie indienne d'Amérique -- Grandes Plaines (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Teton (Indiens) -- Rites et cérémonies -- 19e siècle Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Teton (Indiens) -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Astronomie -- Religion -- Grandes Plaines (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet