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

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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] 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