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The Imagined Sky: Cultural Perspectives
D (Ed) Gunzburg
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Description for The Imagined Sky: Cultural Perspectives
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Gunzburg, Darrelyn. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRLK; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 5135.
The sky forms fifty percent of our visual world and has a voice across cultures. This complex sky-voice contains great diversity and is informed by human images, dreams, and aspirations. 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 is written by some of the most noted scholars in their fields of British history, history of art, social anthropology, Greek horoscopes and narratology, globe cartography, comets and Irish mythology, western astronomy, Australian aboriginal sky astronomy and mythology, and cultural astronomy and astrology. These scholars ... Read more
The sky forms fifty percent of our visual world and has a voice across cultures. This complex sky-voice contains great diversity and is informed by human images, dreams, and aspirations. 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 is written by some of the most noted scholars in their fields of British history, history of art, social anthropology, Greek horoscopes and narratology, globe cartography, comets and Irish mythology, western astronomy, Australian aboriginal sky astronomy and mythology, and cultural astronomy and astrology. These scholars ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Equinox
Condition
New
Series
The Imagined Sky: Cultural Perspectives
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781791684
SKU
V9781781791684
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Ref
99-16
About D (Ed) Gunzburg
Darrelyn Gunzburg teaches in the School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the Department of the History of Art at the University of Bristol.
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