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Geography and ethnography : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies /

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The editors of this volume bring together leading specialists who have analyzed the thoughts and records of a wide range of pre-modern societies from around the globe and across the ages. A wide range of common questions are examined, from evidence, interpretations, and methodology to the way geogra...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Raaflaub, Kurt A., Talbert, Richard J. A., 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Series:Ancient world--comparative histories.
Subjects:
Geographical perception > Cross-cultural studies.
Human geography > Cross-cultural studies.
Civilization, Ancient.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Where the black antelope roam: dharma and human geography in India / Christopher Minkowski
  • Humans, demons, gods and their worlds: the sacred and scientific cosmologies of India / Kim Plofker
  • Structured perceptions of real and imagined landscapes in early China / Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu
  • Nonary cosmography in ancient China / John B. Henderson
  • Knowledge of other cultures in China's early empires / Michale Loewe
  • The Mississippian peoples' worldview / Kathleen DuVal
  • Aztec geography and spatial imagination / Barbara E. Mundy
  • Inca worldview / Catherine Julien
  • Masters of the four corners of the heavens: view of the universe in early Mesopotamian writings / Piotr Michalowski
  • The world and the geography of otherness in pharaonic Egypt / Gerald Moers
  • On earth as in heaven: the apocalyptic vision of world geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees / James M. Scott
  • 'I know the number of the sand and the measure of the sea': geography and difference in the early Greek world / Susan Guettel Cole
  • Continents, climates, and cultures: Greek theories of global structure / James Romm
  • The geographical narrative of Strabo of Amasia / Daniela Dueck
  • The Roman worldview: beyond recovery? / Richard J.A. Talbert
  • The medieval Islamic worldview: Arabic geography in its historical context / Adam J. Silverstein
  • The Book of Curiosities: an eleventh-century Egyptian view of the lands of the infidels / Emilie Savage-Smith
  • Geography and ethnography in medieval Europe: classical traditions and contemporary concerns / Natalia Lozovsky
  • Europeans plot the wider world, 1500-1750 / David Buisseret.