The Great Canoes In The Sky
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The Great Canoes In The Sky
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Author : Stephen Robert Chadwick
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-11-29
The Great Canoes In The Sky written by Stephen Robert Chadwick and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-29 with Science categories.
Presenting spectacular photographs of astronomical objects of the southern sky, all taken by author Stephen Chadwick, this book explores what peoples of the South Pacific see when they look up at the heavens and what they have done with this knowledge. From wives killing brothers to emus rising out of the desert and great canoes in the sky, this book offers the perfect blend of science, tradition and mythology to bring to life the most famous sights in the heavens above the southern hemisphere. The authors place this starlore in the context of contemporary understandings of astronomy. The night sky of southern societies is as rich in culture as it is in stars. Stories, myths and legends based on constellations, heavenly bodies and other night sky phenomena have played a fundamental role in shaping the culture of pre-modern civilizations throughout the world. Such starlore continues to influence societies throughout the Pacific to this day, with cultures throughout the region – from Australia and New Zealand in the south to New Guinea and Micronesia in the north - using traditional cosmology as a means of interpreting various aspects of everyday life.
The Great Canoe
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Release Date : 2001
The Great Canoe written by and has been published by Groundwood Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The Carib Indians are warned by their sky god to build canoes in order to escape a world-wide flood, but few believe him.
Water And Sky
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Author : Alan S. Kesselheim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Water And Sky written by Alan S. Kesselheim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Fiction categories.
"One drizzly spring morning, the author and his companion paddled their overloaded canoe out into the swift current of the Athabasca River near Jasper, Alberta. Two thousand miles and fourteen months later, they beached it for the last time at the Inuit settlement of Baker Lake, Northwest Territories, just south of the Arctic Circle" -- Book jacket.
Sky Stories
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Author : Roger Ptak
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 1998
Sky Stories written by Roger Ptak and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Nature categories.
Most of the constellations, the patterns of stars found in the night sky, are connected with the ancient myths which people developed to give meaning to what they saw in the sky, based on the experience of their culture. The ideas of modern astronomy play a similar role for us today. They are stories which help us understand the phenomena we discover when we look deeper into the sky than is possible with eyes alone. In this book, the ancient sky stories and those of modern astronomy are woven together in a unique way. Coverage includes twenty-four important constellations as well as the sun and the moon and the sky as a whole. For each of these, one of the old stories is tied together with the astronomical understanding of a key feature in that part of the sky, allowing one story to serve as a reminder for the other.
Haunted Northern California
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Author : Charles A. Stansfield
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2009-06-10
Haunted Northern California written by Charles A. Stansfield and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-10 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Northern California has a dark side--a hidden world of ghosts, monsters, and devils.
Earth Sea And Sky Or Marvels Of The Universe
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Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Earth Sea And Sky Or Marvels Of The Universe written by Henry Davenport Northrop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Astronomy categories.
Includes chapters on the narwhal, arctic voyages of discovery and the aurora.
World Of Patterns
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Author : Rens Bod
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2022-05-10
World Of Patterns written by Rens Bod and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-10 with History categories.
A comprehensive account of the methods of knowledge production throughout human history and across the globe. The idea that the world can be understood through patterns and the principles that govern them is one of the most important human insights—it may also be our greatest survival strategy. Our search for patterns and principles began 40,000 years ago, when striped patterns were engraved on mammoths' bones to keep track of the moon's phases. What routes did human knowledge take to grow from these humble beginnings through many detours and dead ends into modern understandings of nature and culture? In this work of unprecedented scope, Rens Bod removes the Western natural sciences from their often-central role to bring us the first global history of human knowledge. Having sketched the history of the humanities in his ground-breaking A New History of the Humanities, Bod now adopts a broader perspective, stepping beyond classical antiquity back to the Stone Age to answer the question: Where did our knowledge of the world today begin and how did it develop? Drawing on developments from all five continents of the inhabited world, World of Patterns offers startling connections. Focusing on a dozen fields—ranging from astronomy, philology, medicine, law, and mathematics to history, botany, and musicology—Bod examines to what degree their progressions can be considered interwoven and to what degree we can speak of global trends. In this pioneering work, Bod aims to fulfill what he sees as the historian's responsibility: to grant access to history's goldmine of ideas. Bod discusses how inoculation was invented in China rather than Europe; how many of the fundamental aspects of modern mathematics and astronomy were first discovered by the Indian Kerala school; and how the study of law provided fundamental models for astronomy and linguistics from Roman to Ottoman times. The book flies across continents and eras. The result is an enlightening symphony, a stirring chorus of human inquisitiveness extending through the ages.
Mars
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Author : Stephen James O'Meara
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2020-06-15
Mars written by Stephen James O'Meara and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-15 with Science categories.
Mars is a small world with a big reputation. This mysterious, singular planet—with volcanoes that dwarf Mount Everest, a canyon system that would stretch fully across the United States, and curious landscapes that perhaps once harbored water—has fascinated us for centuries. In the most up-to-date account available of the elusive Red Planet, Stephen James O’Meara follows our longstanding love affair with this unique celestial body, from the musings of humanity’s first stargazers to the imaginings of science-fiction writers, radio broadcasters, and filmmakers, to the latest images and discoveries from the Curiosity rover. The book also reviews plans for piloted missions to Mars—and what it will take for those missions to succeed.
Between The Tides
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Author : David Pickell
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2003-04-15
Between The Tides written by David Pickell and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Featuring hundreds of original, color photographs, this fascinating study of New Guinea chronicles the rituals and daily life of this remote and culturally rich region. Between the Tides offers a compelling mix of New Guinean storytelling, history, natural history, politics, and culture. David Pickell brings warmth and intelligence to his subject, and Kal Muller's photographs are surprising and evocative. Together, author and photographer show how an isolated, nomadic past meets a worldly, urban future, history confronts superstition, and a false and imposed sense of shame yields to a new, and still fragile, pride. Their journey took them from the dusty New Guinea frontier town of Timika to tiny Lakahia island, along two hundred miles of twisting mangrove creeks and the relentlessly uncooperative Arafura sea. What they found was a culture facing the delicate, sometimes humorous, occasionally painful, and always interesting process of change.
Under Heaven S Brow
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Author : Ward Hunt Goodenough
language : en
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Release Date : 2002
Under Heaven S Brow written by Ward Hunt Goodenough and has been published by American Philosophical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Religion categories.
For the people of Chuuk and for students of religion and Micronesian culture, this book pulls together and makes available in English the somewhat scattered published accounts (largely in German), along with Goodenough's own (as yet unpublished) information about religious beliefs and ritual practices in pre-Christian Chuuk. The materials are presented in a way that seeks to document and illustrate a particular approach, a functional one, to understanding the kinds of human concerns that give rise to religious behavior. Simply to describe traditional beliefs and rituals without the relevant social background information leaves the reader without any feeling for what were the emotional concerns, engendered by life in Chuukese society, that ritual practices helped people address. Ward Goodenough offers a theoretical introduction, the necessary background information about Chuuk and the ways in which members of Chuukese society experienced themselves and their fellows, the world view and overall set of beliefs providing the intellectual framework within which ritual practices were formulated and understood, and the various bodies of ritual practices. He concludes the book with a summary that pulls together how the rituals described appear to related to the emotional concerns that growing up and living in Chuuk tended to create.