Geography and Ethnography – Perceptions of the World in Pre–Modern Societies

<p>List of Figures vii</p>
<p>Notes on Contributors xi</p>
<p>Series Editor′s Preface xvii</p>
<p>1 Introduction 1<br /> Richard J. A. Talbert and Kurt A. Raaflaub</p>
<p>2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India 9<br /> Christopher Minkowski</p>
<p>3 Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India 32<br /> Kim Plofker</p>
<p>4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China 43<br /> Hsin–Mei Agnes Hsu</p>
<p>5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China 64<br /> John B. Henderson</p>
<p>6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China s Early Empires 74<br /> Michael Loewe</p>
<p>7 The Mississippian Peoples Worldview 89<br /> Kathleen DuVal</p>
<p>8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination 108<br /> Barbara E. Mundy</p>
<p>9 Inca Worldview 128<br /> Catherine Julien</p>
<p>10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings 147<br /> Piotr Michalowski</p>
<p>11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt 169<br /> Gerald Moers</p>
<p>12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees 182<br /> James M. Scott</p>
<p>13 ′I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea′: Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World 197<br /> Susan Guettel Cole</p>
<p>14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure 215<br /> James Romm</p>
<p>15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia 236<br /> Daniela Dueck</p>
<p>16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? 252<br /> Richard J. A. Talbert</p>
<p>17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context 273<br /> Adam J. Silverstein</p>
<p>18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh–Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels 291<br /> Emilie Savage–Smith</p>
<p>19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns 311<br /> Natalia Lozovsky</p>
<p>20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500 1750 330<br /> David Buisseret</p>
<p>Index 344</p>