An Anthropology of the skies: South American perspectives on Cultural Astronomy

LÓPEZ, ALEJANDRO MARTÍN

Londres

Conferencia; Keynote Lectures in Skyscape Archaeology; 2023

Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, research and teaching centre within the Institute of Education and Humanities at University of Wales Trinity Saint David; y el Journal of Skyscape Archaeology

Cultural astronomy in South America,during the last twenty years, has been an academic area of great activity andresults. From an ethnoastronomical work among indigenous peoples in deepdialogue with anthropology and social sciences in general, a solid approach tothe socially constructed character of the human experience of the sky has beenformed. This has also allowed the approach of academic astronomy itself, as ahuman enterprise, with a socio-anthropological perspective. It is a point ofview that recovers the political dimension of the knowledge production andreinserts it into the whole of human activity. In this seminar we will seek toaddress some central axes of our understanding of indigenous astronomies anddiscuss how these perspectives allow us to "provincialize" allastronomies.