Article ID: CBB502441072

Mabel Cook Cole's Philippine Folk Tales: an ethnoastronomical analysis (2022)

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Although anthropologists, and more recently astronomers, have studied and published on the astronomical beliefs and practices of different Philippine ethnic groups, one other source of information available to ethnoastronomers is the astronomical data contained in myths and legends. This paper analyses the astronomical stories contained in the book Philippine Folk Tales. These stories were compiled and annotated by the American anthropologist Mabel Cook Cole and published in 1916, and they focus on Indigenous views of the Sun, the Moon and the stars. Most of the 'folk tales' in Cole's book derive from northern Luzon and ethnic groups in the Davao district on the island of Mindanao.

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Authors & Contributors
Hamacher, Duane W.
Fuller, Robert S.
Leaman, Trevor M.
Gullberg, Steven
Alejandro Martín López
Anderson, Michael G.
Journals
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
American Indian Quarterly
Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of Astronomy in Culture
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
Publishers
Springer International Publishing
Cambridge University Press
Peter Lang
Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz
Springer
University of Alabama Press
Concepts
Cosmology
Ethnoastronomy
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Astronomy
Sun
Moon
People
Aristarchos of Samos
Philolaus of Croton
Time Periods
Ancient
18th century
Precolumbian period (America)
17th century
19th century
Medieval
Places
Australia
Greece
Argentina
Chile
Mesopotamia
Philippines
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