Geography and ethnography [electronic resource] : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert.
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| Language: | English |
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Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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| Series: | Ancient world--comparative histories.
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Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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.