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Cultural astronomy

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Cultural astronomy, sometimes called the study of Astronomy in Culture, has been described as investigating "the diversity of ways in which cultures, both ancient and modern, perceive celestial objects and integrate them into their view of the world."^[1] As such, it encompassed the interdisciplinary fields studying the astronomies of current or ancient societies and cultures.^[2] It developed from the two interdisciplinary fields of archaeoastronomy, the study of the use of astronomy and its role in ancient cultures and civilizations, and ethnoastronomy, "a closely allied research field which merges astronomy, textual scholarship, ethnology, and the interpretation of ancient iconography for the purpose of reconstructing lifeways, astronomical techniques, and rituals."^[3] It is also related to historical astronomy (analyzing historical astronomical data), history of astronomy (understanding and study and evolution of the discipline of astronomy over the course of human knowledge) and history of astrology (investigating relationships between astrology and astronomy).

Examples[edit]

Ancient Greek astronomy

Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world

Australian Aboriginal astronomy

Serbian folk astronomy

Tibetan astronomy

Nakh peoples#Cosmology_and_creation

References[edit]

^ Ruggles, Clive L. N.; Saunders, Nicholas J. (1993), "The Study of Cultural Astronomy", in Ruggles, Clive L. N.; Saunders, Nicholas J. (eds.), Astronomies and Cultures, Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, pp. 1–31, ISBN 0-87081-319-6

^ Holbrook, Jarita; Urama, Johnson O.; Medupe, R. Thebe, eds. (2008), African Cultural Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol. 6, Bibcode:2008ASSP....6.....H, doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6639-9, ISBN 978-1-4020-6638-2

^ Baity, Elizabeth Chesley (1973), "Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy So Far", Current Anthropology, 14 (4): 390, JSTOR 2740842

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Astronomy

Astronomy by

Manner	Amateur Observational Sidewalk Space telescope
Celestial subject	Galactic / Extragalactic Local system Solar
EM methods	Radio Submillimetre Infrared (Far-infrared) Visible-light (optical) Ultraviolet X-ray History Gamma-ray
Other methods	Neutrino Cosmic rays Gravitational radiation High-energy Radar Spherical Multi-messenger
Culture	Australian Aboriginal Babylonian Chinese Egyptian Greek Hebrew Indian Inuit Maya Medieval Islamic Persian Serbian folk Tibetan

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