Reachable Stars: Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North America

by George E. Lankford

Modern Westerners say the lights in the sky are stars, but culturally they are whatever we humans say they are. Some say they are Forces that determine human lives, some declare they are burning gaseous masses, and some see them as reminders of a gloried past by which elders can teach and guide the young--mnemonics for narratives. Lankford's volume focuses on the ancient North Americans and the ways they identified, patterned, ordered, and used the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081735428X
• ISBN13: 9780817354282
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.7"