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Author Hollabaugh, Mark

Title The spirit and the sky : Lakota visions of the cosmos / Mark Hollabaugh
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. The Lakota People; 2. The Sky; 3. Lakota Culture; 4. The Stars and Constellations; 5. The Sun and Moon; 6. Telling Time; 7. Eclipses and the Aurora Borealis; 8. Meteors and Comets; 9. The Sun Dance; 10. Contemporary Lakota Astronomy; 11. The Spirit and the Sky; Appendix: List of Museums; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary The interest of nineteenth-century Lakotas in the sun, moon, and stars was an essential part of their never-ending quest to understand the universe. "The Spirit and the Sky" presents a survey of the ethnoastronomy of the nineteenth-century Lakota and relates Lakota astronomy to their cultural practices and beliefs. The center of Lakota belief is the unfathomable and sacred nature of the world in which they live and of the stars above-extraordinary and wakhan (mysterious)-both of which constitute an integral part of this holistic world. Mark Hollabaugh offers a detailed analysis of all aspects of Lakota culture that have a bearing on their astronomy, including telling time, Lakota names for the stars and constellations as they appeared on the Great Plains, and the phenomena of meteor showers, eclipses, and the aurora borealis. Hollabaugh's explanation of the cause of the aurora that occurred at the death of Black Elk in 1950 is a new contribution to ethnoastronomy
Notes Published in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Lakota cosmology.
Astronomy -- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century
Indian astronomy -- Great Plains
Indian cosmology.
Cosmology -- History -- 19th century
1800-1899.
SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Astronomy
Cosmology
Indian astronomy
Indian cosmology
Lakota cosmology
Great Plains
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Indiana University, Bloomington. American Indian Studies Research Institute.
LC no. 2016048204
ISBN 9781496201454
1496201450
1496200403
9781496200402
9781496208231
1496208234