论文标题
非洲天体妇女
Celestial Women of Africa
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论文摘要
非洲和非洲人的土著天文学表现出与世界其他地方发现的土著天文学相同的模式，例如观察天体以及其他自然现象所建立的农业日历。非洲是大多数国家的大陆，可以用作其巨大的文化多样性的指标，并且鉴于如此多样性，非洲土著天文学具有独特的地方方面。本章回答以下问题：妇女如何出现在非洲人的土著天文学中？所考虑的天体是太阳，月亮，金星星球，雷德斯星毒和少量其他女性天体。从北，南，东部，西部和中非绘制了例子，并有需要注意的是，这些只是该地区的例子，而不是该地区的典范。妇女使用月球的阶段来跟踪月经，通常月亮是女性，金星也是女性，天体妇女被用来表示妇女应如何行为。专注于天体妇女为文化天文学研究带来了不同的视角，从而阐明了天空缠绕在文化中的其他方式。
The indigenous astronomy in Africa and of Africans exhibits many of the same patterns as indigenous astronomy found in other parts of the world such as with agricultural calendars established by observing celestial bodies as well as other natural phenomenon. Africa is the continent with the most countries which can be used as an indicator of its immense cultural diversity, and given such diversity there are unique local aspects to African indigenous astronomy. This chapter answers the question: How do women appear in the indigenous astronomy of Africans? The celestial bodies considered are the Sun, the Moon, the planet Venus, the Pleiades asterism and a small collection of other female celestial bodies. Examples are drawn from North, South, East, West and Central Africa with the caveat that these are merely examples from the region and not exemplars of the region. Women use the phases of the moon to track their menses, usually the moon is female as is Venus, and celestial women are used to signal how women should behave. Focusing on celestial women brings a different lens to cultural astronomy research that elucidates additional ways that that the sky is entwined in culture.
