The representations of the sky among the Tomaraho
Abstract
The Tomárãho is an ethnic group of the Paraguayan Chaco who maintained close contact with nature and developed original ways of explaining and understanding it. This article presents the first results of an interdisciplinary project seeking to provide a detailed analysis of different astronomical elements in the imagined sky of the Tomárãho.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2014
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1408.0221
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1408.0221
- Bibcode:
- 2014arXiv1408.0221S
- Keywords:
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- Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Article in Spanish, PDF document including 10 figures