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African Cultural Astronomy

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Chasing the Shadow of the Moon: The 2006 Ghana Eclipse Conference
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    Chapter 2 The Use of Ethnographic Methods in Cultural Astronomy Research
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    Chapter 3 A Brief Outline on the Geographical Background of Africa
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    Chapter 4 The Astronomical Gnomon
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    Chapter 5 African Cultural Astronomy
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    Chapter 6 Leadership
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    Chapter 7 Integrating African Cultural Astronomy into~the~Classroom
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    Chapter 8 A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Eclipses
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    Chapter 9 Teaching Cultural Astronomy: On the Development and Evolution of the Syllabus at Bath Spa University and the University of Wales, Lampeter
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    Chapter 10 Evidence of Ancient African Beliefs in Celestial Bodies
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    Chapter 11 Astronomy of Nabta Playa
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    Chapter 12 Romans, Astronomy and the Qibla: Urban Form and Orientation of Islamic Cities of Tunisia
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    Chapter 13 The Timbuktu Astronomy Project
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    Chapter 14 The Cosmological Vision of the Yoruba-Idààcha of Benin Republic (West Africa): A Light on Yoruba History and Culture
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    Chapter 15 The Relationship Between Human Destiny and the Cosmic Forces – A Study of the IGBO Worldview
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    Chapter 16 Cultural Astronomy in the Lore and Literature of Africa
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    Chapter 17 Astronomy and Culture in Nigeria
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    Chapter 18 Participation and Research of Astronomers and Astrophysicists of Black African Descent (1900 2005)
Attention for Chapter 11: Astronomy of Nabta Playa
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Chapter title
Astronomy of Nabta Playa
Chapter number 11
Book title
African Cultural Astronomy
Published in
ADS, January 2008
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-6639-9_11
Book ISBNs
978-1-4020-6638-2, 978-1-4020-6639-9
Authors

J. McKim Malville, Romauld Schild, Fred Wendorf, Robert Brenmer, Malville, J. McKim, Schild, Romauld, Wendorf, Fred, Brenmer, Robert

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 8%
Unknown 11 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 17%
Lecturer 1 8%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 8%
Student > Master 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 6 50%
Linguistics 1 8%
Social Sciences 1 8%
Unknown 4 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 May 2023.
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#3,346,526
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#1,915
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#13,473
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#41
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