Indigenous astronomical traditions as related by the first ethnologists in Brazil
Volume 10 (2008): Astronomy and Cosmology in Folk Traditions and Cultural Heritage, pp. 99–104
Pub. online: 20 December 2008
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
1 November 2007
1 November 2007
Revised
2 July 2008
2 July 2008
Published
20 December 2008
20 December 2008
Abstract
This work aims to present a panorama of the space-time of certain Brazilian native peoples, and especially the Tupi-Guarani and the Apinayé, as reported by some of the early ethnologists who traveled to Brazil, including Paul Ehrenheich, Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Curt “Nimuendajú” Unkel, as well the Canadian naturalist C. F. Hartt. This ethnohistoric data is compared to recent fieldwork.