Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Polynesian star names
Abstract
In this paper we report on a 15-year project to construct a comprehensive catalogue of Hawaiian starnames documented in historical sources, published during the IAU General Assembly. Hawaiian star knowledge represents incomparable intangible heritage relating to Polynesian navigation in the Pacific. It both informs and motivates living cultural traditions aiming to reconstruct and build upon such knowledge.
- Publication:
-
IAU Focus Meeting
- Pub Date:
- October 2016
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2016IAUFM..29A.140R
- Keywords:
-
- Astronomical heritage;
- Intangible heritage;
- navigation;
- cultural astronomy