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

Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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

Editor(s): Kurt A. Raaflaub, Richard J. A. Talbert

Published Online: 17 DEC 2009

Print ISBN: 9781405191463

Online ISBN: 9781444315653

DOI: 10.1002/9781444315653

Series Editor(s): Kurt Raaflaub

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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

Table of contents

    1. You have free access to this content
      Front Matter (pages i–xvii)

    2. Chapter 1

      Introduction (pages 1–8)

      Richard J. A. Talbert and Kurt A. Raaflaub

    3. Chapter 2

      Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India (pages 9–31)

      Christopher Minkowski

    4. Chapter 3

      Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India (pages 32–42)

      Kim Plofker

    5. Chapter 4

      Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China (pages 43–63)

      Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu

    6. Chapter 5

      Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China (pages 64–73)

      John B. Henderson

    7. Chapter 6

      Knowledge of Other Cultures in China's Early Empires (pages 74–88)

      Michael Loewe

    8. Chapter 7

      The Mississippian Peoples' Worldview (pages 89–107)

      Kathleen DuVal

    9. Chapter 8

      Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination (pages 108–127)

      Barbara E. Mundy

    10. Chapter 9

      Inca Worldview (pages 128–146)

      Catherine Julien

    11. Chapter 10

      Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings (pages 147–168)

      Piotr Michalowski

    12. Chapter 11

      The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt (pages 169–181)

      Gerald Moers

    13. Chapter 12

      On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees (pages 182–196)

      James M. Scott

    14. Chapter 13

      “I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea”: Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World (pages 197–214)

      Susan Guettel Cole

    15. Chapter 14

      Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure (pages 215–235)

      James Romm

    16. Chapter 15

      The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia (pages 236–251)

      Daniela Dueck

    17. Chapter 16

      The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? (pages 252–272)

      Richard J. A. Talbert

    18. Chapter 17

      The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context (pages 273–290)

      Adam J. Silverstein

    19. Chapter 18

      The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels (pages 291–310)

      Emilie Savage-Smith

    20. Chapter 19

      Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns (pages 311–329)

      Natalia Lozovsky

    21. Chapter 20

      Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500–1750 (pages 330–343)

      David Buisseret

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      Index (pages 344–357)

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