Night skies of Aboriginal Australia : a noctuary / Dianne Johnson
- Bib ID:
- 296619
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Johnson, Dianne D. (Dianne Dorothy)
- Description:
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- [Sydney, N.S.W.] : Oceania Publications, University of Sydney, 1998
- [viii], 147 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 186451356X
- Series:
- Oceania monographs ; 47.
- Summary:
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge, beliefs and practices associated with the night sky - astonomy; cosmology - sky dome and its support, access to the sky world and the land of the dead; star stories; seasonal calendars - illustrates calendars from Miriam, Mabuiag and Mwalang Islands, Gagadju and Yaraldi; marine and terrestrial navigation; sky maps from the Torres Strait; mythology - sun, moon, stars - Pleiades (seven sisters stories), Milky Way, Magellanic Clouds, dark areas (emu stories); recent Aboriginal writing about the night sky; review of literature on Aboriginal astronomy; sky maps and kinship relations - Aranda and other traditions; association with healing and magic; astronomical knowledge - star movements, eclipses, halos, Aurora Australis, comets, meteorites, earthshine, crepuscular rays; illustrations of bark paintings depicting celestial phenomena; contact history and the changing mythology of the sky; Appendix 1 - constellations and associated mythology.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 140-147.
- Subject:
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- Astronomy, Aboriginal Australian
- Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore
- Yolngu people (NT SD53)
- Torres Strait Islanders (Qld TSI SC54, SC55)
- Indigenous knowledge - Astronomy
- Stories and motifs - Sun
- Stories and motifs - Moon
- Stories and motifs - Emu
- Stories and motifs - Creation / Cosmology
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Stories and motifs - Celestial phenomena
- Stories and motifs - Stars
- Yaraldi / Yaralde people (S8) (SA SI54-13)
- Stories and motifs - Night
- Health - Treatments - Traditional - Clever people
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- Publication date:
- 1998
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