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performance of their children in all aspects of education. Parents wish their children to
become medical doctors, lawyers, and other such professions. They do not want them to
become fishermen. However, fish is an important part of their diet and the fishing needs
to be done. Therefore, the children are taught a scaled-down version of their traditional
navigation to enable them to travel safely to nearby fishing areas and return, only. They
are not taught night navigation.
Navigation practices of Africa have received little study. However, the National
Science Foundation has recently provided funds to do a study of the navigation practices
in East Africa. Hopefully, the results of this study will lead to more scholarship on
African celestial navigation methods.
References
Bartle, Philip F.W. 1978. Forty Days: The Akan Calendar Africa 48, no. 1:80–84.
Blier, Suzanne Preston. 1987. The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in
Batammaliba Architectural Expression. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Frampton, J. 1929. The Travels of Marco Polo. London: Argonaut Press.
Holbrook, J.C. 1998. Unpublished interview with Suzanne Preston Blier.
——. 1999. Unpublished interview in Gabes, Tunisia.
——. 2002. Celestial Navigation, Charfia, and the Blind Navigator. Berlin: The Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science, in press.
LaPin, Dierdre, and Francis Speed. 1984. Sons of the moon: A Film. Berkeley: University of
California Extension Media Center.
Snedegar, K. 1997. Ikhwezi. Mercury 26:12–15.
Turton, D., and C.Ruggles. 1978. Agreeing to Disagree: The Measurement of Duration in a
Southwestern Ethiopian Community, Current Anthropology 19, no. 3, 585–600.
JARITA C.HOLBROOK
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