Program

Research Programs: Conferences

Period of Performance

4/1/1983 - 9/30/1984

Funding Totals

$9,133.00 (approved)
$9,133.00 (awarded)


International Conference on Ethnoastronomy: Indigenous Astronomical and Cosmological Traditions of the World

FAIN: RX-20373-83

University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141)
John B. Carlson (Project Director: October 1982 to October 1990)

To support a conference of historians of science, astronomers, anthropologists,and art historians conducting research in the relatively new field of ethnoastronomy--the study of indigenous, usually non-Western, astronomical systems and cosmologies. Publication is planned.