The representations of the sky among the Tomaraho

Abstract

The Tom\'ar\~aho is an ethnic group of the Paraguayan Chaco who maintained close contact with nature and developed original ways of explaining and understanding it. This article presents the first results of an interdisciplinary project seeking to provide a detailed analysis of different astronomical elements in the imagined sky of the Tom\'ar\~aho.

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