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A eucalyptus in the moon: folk astronomy among European colonists in northern Santa Fe province, Argentina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2011

Armando Mudrik
Armando Mudrik*
Affiliation:
Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina email: mudrik@mail.oac.uncor.edu
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Abstract

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In this paper, we present a study about cultural astronomy among European colonists who settled in the northern area of the Argentinean province of Santa Fe, which is part of the southern Chaco. These colonists arrived among waves of immigration occurring in Argentina in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Ethnographic field research among these rural immigrants and their descendants revealed that a set of asterisms were distributed according to the origins of the different European communities and also according to their uses in agriculture, animal husbandry and meteorology.

Keywords

Argentinean ChacoEuropean immigrant colonistscultural astronomy

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