<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px">Official Call for Abstracts Oxford X 2014<br></div><div><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px"><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px">
The Oxford X theme is “Astronomy, Indigenous Knowledge, and Interpretation.” There has been an ongoing tension in archaeoastronomy over interpretations of alignments and sky knowledge that are consistent with existing knowledge of the culture under examination. Added to this is the possibility that when working with living cultures more than one interpretation may exist. Indigenous Knowledge Studies (IKS) which works from within cultures is working to incorporate sky knowledge, whereas cultural astronomy is working to incorporate more knowledge about cultures. The conference will bring together these communities and others to examine the linkages, theories, and INTERPRETATIONS of the human relationship to the sky.</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px">Call for Abstracts:<br></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px">Please submit abstracts of between 400 and 600 words on the theme of "Astronomy, Indigenous Knowledge, and Interpretation" or more broadly on archaeoastronomy, history of astronomy, literature, divination, art or other areas of research connected to studying people and their relationships to the sky. The conference is multidisciplinary so please state in the abstract from which discipline you have drawn your data collection and analysis methods. Include your hypothesis/theory, data source, and conclusions. About cited references:</p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px">Your abstract may be sent back asking for references if they are not included and deemed necessary by the SOC. References are not included in the abstract word count. </p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px"><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px">Please email abstracts directly in the body of the email to <a href="mailto:oxfordx2014@gmail.com" target="_blank">oxfordx2014@gmail.com</a>. </p>
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Deadlines:</p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px">Abstracts Due March 1, 2014</p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px">Decisions before April 1, 2014</p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px">
Conference Website:</p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px"><a href="http://culturalastronomy.saao.ac.za/" target="_blank">culturalastronomy.saao.ac.za</a></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.09090805053711px">
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