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Geography and Ethnography


Geography and Ethnography

Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies
Ancient World: Comparative Histories 1. Aufl.

von: Kurt A. Raaflaub, Richard J. A. Talbert

121,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 17.12.2009
ISBN/EAN: 9781444315660
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 384

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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. <ul> <li>Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery</li> <li>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</li> <li>Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials<br /> </li> </ul>
<p>List of Figures vii</p> <p>Notes on Contributors xi</p> <p>Series Editor's Preface xvii</p> <p>1 Introduction 1<br /> <i>Richard J. A. Talbert and Kurt A. Raaflaub</i></p> <p>2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India 9<br /> <i>Christopher Minkowski</i></p> <p>3 Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India 32<br /> <i>Kim Plofker</i></p> <p>4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China 43<br /> <i>Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu</i></p> <p>5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China 64<br /> <i>John B. Henderson</i></p> <p>6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China’s Early Empires 74<br /> <i>Michael Loewe</i></p> <p>7 The Mississippian Peoples’ Worldview 89<br /> <i>Kathleen DuVal</i></p> <p>8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination 108<br /> <i>Barbara E. Mundy</i></p> <p>9 Inca Worldview 128<br /> <i>Catherine Julien</i></p> <p>10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings 147<br /> <i>Piotr Michalowski</i></p> <p>11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt 169<br /> <i>Gerald Moers</i></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 /> <i>James M. Scott</i></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 /> <i>Susan Guettel Cole</i></p> <p>14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure 215<br /> <i>James Romm</i></p> <p>15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia 236<br /> <i>Daniela Dueck</i></p> <p>16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? 252<br /> <i>Richard J. A. Talbert</i></p> <p>17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context 273<br /> <i>Adam J. Silverstein</i></p> <p>18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels 291<br /> <i>Emilie Savage-Smith</i></p> <p>19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns 311<br /> <i>Natalia Lozovsky</i></p> <p>20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500–1750 330<br /> <i>David Buisseret</i></p> <p>Index 344</p>
<p>“The basic premise, not to be dismissed, is that other 'ancient' or 'pre-modern' societies can inform us about the Classical and Near Eastern progenitors of our own, if we are prepared to look and learn."  (<i>Ancient West and East</i>, 2014)</p> "In sum, the editors, and the publisher, are to be congratulated on producing, a stimulating volume which provides expert guidance to many aspects of the foreign country which is the past." (Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science, 2011) <p>"The 20 papers originated in a workshop held at Brown University in March 2006 and fully reflect the series' world focus and broad definition of ancient societies." (<i>CHOICE</i>, July 2010)</p>
<b>Kurt A. Raaflaub</b> is David Herlihy University Professor, and Professor of Classics and History, at Brown University. His numerous publications include <i>The Discovery of Freedom</i> (2004) and <i>Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece</i> (2007, co-authored with Josiah Ober and Robert Wallace). He is also the editor of <i>Social Struggles in Archaic Rome</i> (Blackwell, 2005), and <i>War and Peace in the Ancient World</i> (Blackwell, 2007), and co-editor of <i>A Companion to Archaic Greece</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). <p><b>Richard J.A. Talbert</b> 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 <i>Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World</i> (2000), and co-editor of <i>Space in the Roman World: Its Perception and Presentation</i> (2004), as well as of <i>Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods</i> (2008). His major study <i>Rome’s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered</i> will appear in 2010.</p>
Societies have typically reflected upon their place in the world in relation to the space in which they live, those who surround them, the universe, and divine forces that they believe determine their fate. In this fascinating volume, the editors 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. Some societies, like the Chinese, Greeks, and Arabs, have left extensive written cultural and scientific documentation. Others, as in India and Mesopotamia, used myth and epic for memory and understanding. Still others, such as the Incas and Aztecs, did not write, but their ideas and beliefs can be recovered from later narratives, as well as from their artwork, monuments, and shaping of the landscape.<br /> <br /> 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 expressed. The resulting cross-cultural comparisons clearly describe the specific characteristics of these societies, how they differ and overlap. What emerges is a rich and astonishing variety of responses developed to meet universal challenges.
“Inspirational in conception, seamless in execution, and exemplary in cohesion, this book of twenty well-written essays on the diversity of world views from antiquity to the sixteenth century has an important message for modern ‘one world’ globalism.”<br /> <i>Catherine Delano-Smith, Institute of Historical Research, University of London</i>

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