1st Bridges Between Cultures:equinoxes, light and culture

ROS, R.; GARCIA, B; LÓPEZ, A.

Albedo

Lugar: Barcelona; Año: 2021 p. 62

978-84-15771-89-0

Astronomy has been a paradigm of scientificity in the "West" for  centuries. It has also been considered a fascinating discipline and, simultaneously, devoted to the study of issues far appart from worldly concerns and interests. This combination of factors has made it difficult to understand the historical and socially situated character of astronomical knowledge in particular, and scientific knowledge in  general. Cultural astronomy is an interdisciplinary area, which aims precisely to understand the various types of knowledge and practices about the sky of human societies as part of their social and cultural life. That is to say, to think about them, no more and no less, than with thesame perspective that we understand everything else that humans do.