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Raaflaub, Kurt A. [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
Geography and Ethnography : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / ed. by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J. A. Talbert. - Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - xv, 357 S. : Ill., Kt. - (The ancient world - comparative histories)
ISBN 978-1-4051-9146-3
£ 80,00 / EUR 92,00
DDC: 304.23

Beschreibung
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

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

Herausgeber
KURT A. RAAFLAUB is David Herlihy University Professor, and Professor of Classics and History, at Brown University. His numerous publications include The Discovery of Freedom (2004) and Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007, co-authored with Josiah Ober and Robert Wallace). He is also the editor of Social Struggles in Archaic Rome (Blackwell, 2005), and War and Peace in the Ancient World (Blackwell, 2007), and co-editor of A Companion to Archaic Greece (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). Faculty profile.
RICHARD J.A. TALBERT is William Rand Kenan, Jr, Professor of History and Classics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the editor of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (2000), and co-editor of Space in the Roman World: Its Perception and Presentation (2004), as well as of Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods (2008). His major study Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered will appear in 2010. Profile page.

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