Geography and ethnography : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert.
This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies.: Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery; Provides cross-cultural comparison of a...
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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