Reachable stars : patterns in the ethnoastronomy of eastern North America /

Reachable stars : patterns in the ethnoastronomy of eastern North America /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lankford, George E., 1938-
Imprint:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 303 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Indian cosmology. Indian mythology -- East (U.S.) Indian mythology -- Great Plains. Ethnoastronomy -- East (U.S.) Ethnoastronomy -- Great Plains. Ethnoastronomy. Indian cosmology. Indian mythology. Great Plains. East United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11157263

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ISBN:	9780817380939 0817380930 0817315683 9780817315689 9780817315689 0817315683 9780817354282 081735428X
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-297) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	Modern Westerners say the lights in the sky are stars, but culturally they are whatever we humans say they are. Some say they are Forces that determine human lives, some declare they are burning gaseous masses, and some see them as reminders of a gloried past by which elders can teach and guide the young - mnemonics for narratives. Lankford's volume focuses on the ancient North Americans and the ways they identified, patterned, ordered, and used the stars to light their culture and illuminate their traditions. They knew them as regions that could be visited by human spirits, and so the lig.
Other form:	Print version: Lankford, George E., 1938- Reachable stars. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007 9780817315689 0817315683
Standard no.:	9780817315689

Table of Contents:

Four ethnoastronomies
The star husband
The morning stars
The morning star of the Winnebago
Stars in the north : bears, biers, and boats
The star cluster
The star women
The path through the stars
The starry hand
The serpent in the stars
Some ethnoastronomical insights.