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- Title
Star Performances and Cosmic Clutter.
- Authors
Timothy R. Pauketat; Thomas E. Emerson
- Abstract
Are there long-term processes invisible over short spans? And if so, how might they relate to the loci of long-term social change, those performative or practical moments wherein agents enact, embody, or otherwise engage traditions, landscapes, or structures? Here, we are particularly concerned with the experience of starry skies as these were historically reckoned through cluttered object fields and cosmic events. These are key to understanding the emergent properties of ethnoastronomies and cultural landscapes that, in certain moments, may be described as leading to historical conjunctures.
- Subjects
ANTHROPOLOGICAL research; ETHNOASTRONOMY; SOCIAL change; CULTURAL landscapes; METAPHYSICAL cosmology; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2008, Vol 18, Issue 1, p78
- ISSN
0959-7743
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0959774308000085