Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Raaflaub, Kurt A.
• Talbert, Richard J. A., 1947-

Description

xv, 357 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Summary

The editors of this volume bring together leading specialists who have analyzed the thoughts and records of a wide range of pre-modern societies from around the globe and across the ages. A wide range of common questions are examined, from evidence, interpretations, and methodology to the way geographic and ethnographic concepts and views of the cosmos were developed and expressing.--[book cover]

Series Statement

Ancient world--comparative histories

Uniform Title

Ancient world--comparative histories.

Subject

• Geschichte
• 800 b.C.-500 a.C
• 500-1500
• Geographical perception > Cross-cultural studies
• Human geography > Cross-cultural studies
• Civilization, Ancient

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 : views 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.

ISBN

• 9781405191463 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1405191465 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781118589854 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009020183

OCLC

• 349180020
• SCSB-12681681

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library