Geography and ethnography : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies, edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index

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List of Figures
1.
Introduction/
Richard J. A. Talbert
Kurt A. Raaflaub
p. 1
2.
Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India/
Christopher Minkowski
p. 9
3.
Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India/
Kim Plofker
p. 32
4.
Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China/
Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu
p. 43
5.
Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China/
John B. Henderson
p. 64
6.
Knowledge of Other Cultures in China's Early Empires/
Michael Loewe
p. 74
7.
Mississippian Peoples' Worldview/
Kathleen DuVal
p. 89
8.
Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination/
Barbara E. Mundy
p. 108
9.
Inca Worldview/
Catherine Julien
p. 128
10.
Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings/
Piotr Michalowski
p. 147
11.
World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt/
Gerald Moers
p. 169
12.
On Earth as it is in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees/
James M. Scott
p. 182
13.
'I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea': Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World/
Susan Guettel Cole
p. 197
14.
Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure/
James Romm
p. 215
15.
Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia/
Daniela Dueck
p. 236
16.
Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery?/
Richard J. A. Talbert
p. 252
17.
Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context/
Adam J. Silverstein
p. 273
18.
Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels/
Emilie Savage-Smith
p. 291
19.
Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns/
Natalia Lezovsky
p. 311
20.
Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500-1750/
David Buisseret
p. 330
Index.
p. 344

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Dimensions: 26 cm.

Extent: xv, 357 p.

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