Plaints soient les Indiens du cosmos

While since the late 1960s, Americans draw in the Native American culture hoping to give a sense of their life back in a materialist society, the NASA space programme reflects a cosmology and an ethos injuring Zuni cosmology. Far from the Western understanding of the outer space as composed of unliv...

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Main Author: Jane M. Young
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Language:fra
Published: Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances 2018-03-01
Series:Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rac/1064
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description While since the late 1960s, Americans draw in the Native American culture hoping to give a sense of their life back in a materialist society, the NASA space programme reflects a cosmology and an ethos injuring Zuni cosmology. Far from the Western understanding of the outer space as composed of unliving bodies, Zuni cosmology lays on a holistic vision of the universe, where celestial bodies are personified regarding a rich and ancestral mythology. Thus, the Apollo space programme could be seen as its antithesis, but also as the translation of the historical opposition among Native and non-Native Americans. Because the analysis of a cosmology allows to highlight ideological mechanisms involved in the organization of a society and the latter’s policies, defining a space programme has to be thought in relation with the understanding of the universe and the role that human beings hold in it.
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Plaints soient les Indiens du cosmos
Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances
outer space exploration
mythology
folklore
Zuni
cosmology
moon
title Plaints soient les Indiens du cosmos
title_full Plaints soient les Indiens du cosmos
title_fullStr Plaints soient les Indiens du cosmos
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title_short Plaints soient les Indiens du cosmos
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topic outer space exploration
mythology
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moon
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