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The Imagined Sky: Cultural Perspectives

Cultural Perspectives

  • Hardback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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For enthusiasts of cultural history and astronomy.

Shows how sky imagery has influenced human culture.

You will uncover the rich history of the heavens.

Explore how human imagination and culture have shaped our understanding of the sky through these eleven fascinating essays.

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The sky forms fifty percent of our visual world and as such has a voice across cultures. This sky-voice is informed by human images, dreams, and aspirations and thus is complex and contains great diversity. The inherent nature of this sky-voice is transmitted from one generation to another through text, image, oral tradition, physical mapping, and painted description. This volume, written by some of the most noted scholars in their fields, acknowledges the presence of such a voice, from the sky's movement mirrored in the archoeastronomy of British prehistory, the apocalyptic myths of comets and meteors, sky cartography reflected in European globes and frescoes, Australian aboriginal sky myths, the issue of disappearing dark skies, contemporary reflections on the sky, and the recognition that sky imagery has persisted in similar forms since its potential roots in the Palaeolithic period. These eleven essays offer critical engagement in understanding the sky in human imagination and culture and contribute to this new field emerging within the academy.
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  • Title

    The Imagined Sky: Cultural Perspectives

  • Author

    Darrelyn Gunzburg

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Equinox Publishing Ltd

  • Published

    October 2016

  • Weight

    568g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781781791677

  • ISBN-10

    1781791678

  • Eden Code

    4325144