title: Rural diurnal timing practices based on stars observation
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metadata.value: Petriashin, Stanislav S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-01-24T12:09:40Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-01-24T12:09:40Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Petriashin S. S. Rural diurnal timing practices based on stars observation. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 4, pp. 865–877.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/ spbu02.2017.413
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8923
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to the study of Russian ethnoastronomy, especially knowledge of the constellations
  (Ursa Major, Orion’s Belt, Pleiades) that were used for time-orientation during the night.
  The study’s main sources are materials from the card catalogue of the Dictionary of Russian folk dialects
  and the Astronomical card catalogue of Ural Federal University that represent ethnoastronomical
  knowledge from the 1960s to the 1980s. In informants’ speech we can distinguish one group of texts,
  which are termed ‘orientational rules’. These texts tend to be formulaic, aphoristic, and describe the
  position of heavenly bodies, corresponding moments of time and action. Every rule orients one properly
  only during a special seasonal period, but this fact has not ever been explicitly expressed in the
  texts. Astronomical reconstruction of seasonal limitations of 68 texts (38 for Ursa Major, 8 for Pleiades,
  22 for Orion’s Belt) was made through digital planetarium software. Analysis showed that time-reckoning
  based on star observation was practiced not so much in winter, as in autumn (from August till
  December) and spring. The reconstructed functional time period of these practices corresponds with
  seasonal works, represented in orientational rules and astronyms (astronomical appellations). Seasonal
  limitations of every constellation were also corrected with objective features of their movement in
  the sky that determined the most optimal and usable time for their observation. Refs 30. Figs 3.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnoastronomy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: astronyms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: time-reckoning
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: constellations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: calendar
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: background knowledge
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Rural diurnal timing practices based on stars observation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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