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(2008) African cultural astronomy, Dordrecht, Springer.
Teaching cultural astronomy
on the development and evolution of the syllabus at bath spauniversity and the university of wales, lampeter
Nick Campion
pp. 109-119
TheMaster of Arts in CulturalAstronomy andAstrology at the University of Wales, Lampeter, formerly taught at Bath Spa University in England, is the first degree of its kind in the world. (I shall refer to the discipline as Cultural Astronomy, with initial letters as upper case, and the phenomena which it studies as cultural astronomy, all lower case). My definition combines both the discipline and the phenomenon; "Cultural astronomy: the use of astronomical knowledge, beliefs or theories to inspire, inform or influence social forms and ideologies, or any aspect of human behaviour. Cultural astronomy also includes the modern disciplines of ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy" (Campion 1997: 2).
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6639-9_9
Full citation:
Campion, N. (2008)., Teaching cultural astronomy: on the development and evolution of the syllabus at bath spauniversity and the university of wales, lampeter, in J. C. Holbrook, J. Urama & R. Thebe Medupe (eds.), African cultural astronomy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 109-119.
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