Inca Cosmovision: The Astronomical Legacy of an Andean Empire
暫譯: 印加宇宙觀：安第斯帝國的天文遺產
Gullberg, Steven, Rojas Gamarra, Milton
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-09-14
- 售價: $2,370
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,251
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 186
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3031675797
- ISBN-13: 9783031675799
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商品描述
The Inkas (Quechua spelling) worshipped the Sun, and their emperor was thought to be the son of the Sun. They conquered most of the Andes and their former empire is replete with examples of their astronomy. They used solar positions on the horizon for calendrical purposes and managed their crops and religious festivals in this manner. Many examples remain of their intentional light and shadow effects that demonstrate their sophisticated understanding of the Sun's movement and of solar horizon events.
Evidence of their astronomy can only be fully understood in its cultural context, and that is the focus of this book. Inka Cosmovision explores the cosmic worldview of the Inkas from the perspective of oral traditions passed from one generation to the next among the Inkas' living descendants. You will learn about Inka astronomy in a way that you perhaps have never encountered. An author of the book is Quechua, a descendant of the Inkas, and what you will read benefits greatly not only from the field research of both authors, but from the many stories he learned from his parents and grandparents and from his Amauta, a highly respected Indigenous teacher of Inka culture. This book enlightens about Inka cosmovision as no other has before.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
印加人（Quechua拼寫）崇拜太陽，他們的皇帝被認為是太陽之子。他們征服了大部分安第斯山脈，昔日的帝國中充滿了他們天文學的例證。他們利用太陽在地平線上的位置來制定日曆，並以此管理農作物和宗教節慶。許多例子仍然保留著他們故意創造的光影效果，展示了他們對太陽運動和太陽地平線事件的深刻理解。
他們的天文學證據只有在其文化背景下才能被充分理解，而這正是本書的重點。《印加宇宙觀》從印加人活著的後裔之間代代相傳的口述傳統的角度，探索印加人的宇宙觀。您將以一種您或許從未遇見過的方式了解印加天文學。本書的作者是Quechua，印加人的後裔，您所閱讀的內容不僅受益於兩位作者的實地研究，還受益於他從父母、祖父母以及他尊敬的印加文化原住民教師Amauta那裡學到的許多故事。本書以無與倫比的方式啟發了對印加宇宙觀的理解。
作者簡介
Steven Gullberg holds a Ph.D. in astronomy from James Cook University (Australia) and is a Professor of Cultural Astronomy at the University of Oklahoma (USA), where he is Lead Faculty for the School of Integrative and Cultural Studies. He also serves as President of Commission C5 Cultural Astronomy in the International Astronomical Union (IAU). He has conducted extensive field research on the astronomy of the Inkas in the Peruvian Andes and has written many research papers. He also is the author of Astronomy of the Inca Empire: Use and Significance of the Sun and the Night Sky. At the University of Oklahoma, he led the development of an archaeoastronomy distance-learning program designed to educate researchers around the world. Dr. Gullberg is the Managing Editor of the Journal of Astronomy in Culture, and he as well is regularly invited to present papers at international conferences as he endeavors to globally advance the field of archaeoastronomy.
Milton Rojas Gamarra earned his PhD in Intercultural Education at the University of Santiago (Chile). His doctoral thesis was in archaeoastronomy and his Masters degree was in astrophysics. Milton is a Professor of Physics at the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (Peru). Milton is a descendant of the original Quechua people and has dedicated himself to preserving their wisdom, their ethos, and their worldview. His first language is Quechua. Dr. Rojas Gamarra has studied the astronomy of the Inkas for more than 30 years and benefits greatly from the oral traditions that have been passed on to him by his grandparents and by his Amauta, Emilio Huaman Huillca.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
史蒂芬·古爾伯格擁有澳洲詹姆斯庫克大學的天文學博士學位，並且是美國奧克拉荷馬大學文化天文學的教授，擔任整合與文化研究學院的首席教員。他同時也是國際天文聯合會（IAU）C5文化天文學委員會的主席。他在秘魯安第斯山脈進行了廣泛的印加天文學田野研究，並撰寫了許多研究論文。他也是《印加帝國的天文學：太陽與夜空的使用與意義》（Astronomy of the Inca Empire: Use and Significance of the Sun and the Night Sky）的作者。在奧克拉荷馬大學，他主導了設計用於全球研究人員的考古天文學遠程學習計劃的開發。古爾伯格博士是《文化中的天文學期刊》（Journal of Astronomy in Culture）的主編，並且經常受邀在國際會議上發表論文，致力於全球推進考古天文學領域。
米爾頓·羅哈斯·加馬拉在智利聖地亞哥大學獲得跨文化教育的博士學位。他的博士論文是關於考古天文學，碩士學位則是天體物理學。米爾頓是秘魯庫斯科國立聖安東尼奧阿巴德大學的物理學教授。他是原住民克丘亞族的後裔，致力於保護他們的智慧、倫理和世界觀。他的母語是克丘亞語。羅哈斯·加馬拉博士研究印加天文學已超過30年，並從祖父母和他的Amauta艾米利奧·華曼·惠卡那裡獲得了豐富的口述傳統。
