Abstract
Scientific and cultural values attached to night skies are today explored by global astronomical tourism – a specialized form of tourism designed to observe starry skies. So far, astrotourism has reproduced Western concepts of astronomy and cosmology, while with the help of archaeo- and ethnoastronomy, tourists may also take account of native astronomies.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Atkinson M (2007) To navigate time. Contemplations on sky and land, an Australian experience. In: Marín C, Jafari J (eds) Starlight, a common heritage. Starlight Initiative and Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, pp 93–101
Bakich ME (2004) Reclaim the night sky. Astronomy 32(6):38–43
Ballart J (1997) El patrimonio histórico y arqueológico: valor y uso. Aries, Barcelona
Bender B (1995) Stonehenge – contested landscapes (Medieval to present-day). In: Bender B (ed) Landscape, politics and perspectives. Berg, Oxford, pp 245–279
Bender B (1998) Stonehenge: making space. Berg, Oxford
Biörnstad M (1989) The ICOMOS international committee on archaeological heritage managements (ICAHM). In: Cleere HF (ed) Archaeological heritage management in the modern world. One world archaeology, 9. Unwin Hyman, London, pp 70–75
Blain J, Wallis RJ (2004) Sacred sites, contested rites/rights: contemporary pagan engagements with the past. J Mater Culture 9(3):237–261
Cameron P (2007) The right to starlight under international law. In: Marín C, Jafari J (eds) StarLight, a common heritage, Canary Islands. StarLight Initiative and Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, pp 237–245
Camp SL (2006) Disjunctures in nationalist rhetoric at Ireland’s BrúnaBóinne visitor centre. In: Meethan K, Anderson A, Miles S (eds) Tourism consumption and representation: narratives of place and self. CAB International, Wallinford/Cambridge, MA, pp 24–45
Carlson JB (1999) Pilgrimage and the equinox “serpent of light and shadow” phenomenon at the Castillo, Chichén Itzá, Yucatán. Archaeoastronomy: Journal of Astronomy in Culture 14(1):136–152
Dietler M (1994) Our ancestors the Gauls: archaeology, ethnic nationalism and the manipulation of celtic identity in modern Europe. Am Anthropologist 96(3):584–605
Hutson SR (2010) Dwelling, identity, and the Maya relational archaeology at Chunchucmil. Altamira, Lanham
Hutton R (1996) The stations of the Sun: a history of the ritual year in Britain. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Iwaniszewski S (2006) Astronomy in cultural landscapes: new challenges for World heritage issues. In: Paper presented at the forum UNESCO university and heritage 10th international seminar, Cultural landscapes in the 21st century (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 11–16 April 2005). http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/unescolandscapes/files/IWANISZEWSKIStanislaw.pdf. Acceded Nov 2012
Johnson D (2011) Interpretations of the Pleiades in Australian Aboriginal astronomies. In: Ruggles CLN (ed) Archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy: building bridges between cultures. IAU Symposium, 278. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 291–297
Lash S, Urry J (1998) Economías de signos y espacio. Sobre el capitalismo de la posorganización. Amorrortu, Buenos Aires
Marín C, Orlando G (2009) (eds) Starlight reserves and World heritage scientific, cultural and environmental values. In: International workshop and expert meeting. The Starlight Initiative, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, and the UNESCO World Heritage Center, Fuerteventura. http://www.starlight2007.net/pdf/FinalReportFuerteventuraSL.pdf. Acceded Nov 2012
McCluskey SC (2008) Nationalism and politics of the recovery of past astronomies. ArchaeologiaBaltica 10:263–267
Miller D (1987) Material culture and mass consumption. Blackwell, Oxford
Morieson J (2006) From “Archaeo” to “Ethno” – an indigenous Australian astronomy: the story of action research into Boorong astronomy since 1995. In: BostwickT W, Bates B (eds) Viewing the sky through past and present cultures. Pueblo Grande Museum Anthropological papers, 15. City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department, Phoenix, pp 139–148
Patrick JD (1974) Midwinter sunrise at Newgrange. Nature 249:517–519
Renfrew C, Bahn P (1991) Archaeology: theories. Methods and practice. Thames and Hudson, New York
Richmond AM (2006) The night sky: our most valuable, but vanishing, cultural resource. In: Bostwick TW, Bates B (eds) Viewing the sky through past and present cultures. Pueblo Grande Museum anthropological papers, 15. City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department, Phoenix, pp 453–461
Sachse F (ed) (2006) Maya ethnicity: the construction of ethnic identity from preclassic to modern times. ActaMesoamericana, 19. Anton Saurwein, München
Shanks M, Tilley C (1992) Re-constructing archaeology. Theory and practice, 2nd edn. Routledge, London
Smith L (2004) Archaeological theory and the politics of cultural heritage. Routledge, Abingdon and New York
Sofaer A, Sinclair RM (1987) Astronomical markings at three sites on Fajada Butte, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. In: Carlson JB, Judge WJ Jr (eds) Astronomy and ceremony in the prehistoric southwest. Papers of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. Maxwell museum of anthropology, Albuquerque, pp 13–70
Talalay LE (2004) The past as commodity. Archaeological images in modern advertising. Public Archaeology 3:205–216
Trigger BG (1989) A history of archaeological thought. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
van Binsbergen WMJ (2005) Commodification: things, agency, and identities: introduction. In: van Binsbergen W, Geschiere P (eds) Commodification: things, agency, and identities. Lit Verlag, Münster, pp 9–51
Wallis RJ (2003) Shamans/neo-shamans: ecstasy, alternative archaeological and contemporary pagans. Routledge, London and New York
Williamson RA, Farrer CR (eds) (1992) Earth and sky, visions of the cosmos in native American folklore. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this entry
Cite this entry
Iwaniszewski, S. (2015). Astrotourism and Archaeoastronomy. In: Ruggles, C. (eds) Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_21
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_21
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-6140-1
Online ISBN: 978-1-4614-6141-8
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyReference Module Physical and Materials ScienceReference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics