Geography and Ethnography ：Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies

Publication subTitle ：Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies

Author： Kurt A. Raaflaub  

Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year： 2009

E-ISBN: 9781444315660

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781405191463

Subject： K901 human geography

Language： ENG

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Description

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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Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Series Editor's Preface

1 Introduction

2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India

3 Humans, Demons, Gods, and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India

4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China

5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China

6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China's Early Empires

7 The Mississippian Peoples' Worldview

8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination

9 Inca Worldview

10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings

11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt

12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees

13 "I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea": Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World

14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure

15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia

16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery?

17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context

18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels

19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns

20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500–1750

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