The representations of the sky among the Tomaraho [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.0221


The Tom\’ar\~aho 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 Tom\’ar\~aho.

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G. Sequera and A. Gangui
Mon, 4 Aug 14
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Comments: Article in Spanish, PDF document including 10 figures