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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TextSeries: Ancient world--comparative historiesPublisher: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xv, 357 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444315653; 144431565X; 9781444315660; 1444315668Subject(s): Geographical perception -- Cross-cultural studies | Human geography -- Cross-cultural studies | Civilization, Ancient | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography | Civilization, Ancient | Geographical perception | Human geographyGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Cross-cultural studies.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Geography and ethnography.DDC classification: 304.2/3 LOC classification: G71.5 | .G46 2010ebOnline resources: Wiley Online Library | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India; Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials.
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