Lamba Indigenous Astronomy Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/lamba-indigenous-astronomy/ Astronomy for a better world! Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:35:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Lamba Indigenous Astronomy Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/lamba-indigenous-astronomy/ 32 32 update https://astro4dev.org/update-31/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:35:52 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18280 Acquisition of materials/equipment for the documentary Documentary production: The project area was divided into four zones for which the project team visited to consolidate the information collected in the earlier survey. Transcription of the findings has been done. Editing of video clips is not yet complete. The documentary will be available to the public by June [...]

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]]> Overview of project https://astro4dev.org/overview-of-project-16/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:46:18 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17019 The results of an inquiry into the indigenous and cultural astronomy of the Lamba people of the Copperbelt Province of Zambia have been reported in the first stage inquiry. The study has assessed the oral astronomy knowledge, culture and beliefs which relate to celestial bodies, astronomy events and related behaviour that are held by the [...]

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