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020 $a9781405191463 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a1405191465 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn349180020
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245 00 $aGeography and ethnography :$bperceptions of the world in pre-modern societies /$cedited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert.
260 $aChichester, U.K. ;$aMalden, MA :$bWiley-Blackwell,$c2010.
300 $axv, 357 p. :$bill., maps ;$c26 cm.
490 1 $aThe ancient world--comparative histories
505 0 $aWhere 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aGeographical perception$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aHuman geography$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aCivilization, Ancient.
700 1 $aRaaflaub, Kurt A.
700 1 $aTalbert, Richard J. A.,$d1947-
830 0 $aAncient world--comparative histories.
856 $uhttp://bvbm2.bib-bvb.de:8993/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018952972&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA$zInhaltsverzeichnis