Talbert Richard J. A.Raaflaub Kurt A. - Geography and ethnography: perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies

Geography and Ethnography

The Ancient World: Comparative Histories

Series Editor: Kurt Raaflaub

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Household and Family Religion in Antiquity

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Epic and History

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

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The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub

Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World

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The Gift in Antiquity

Edited by Michael L. Satlow

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Edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner

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Geography and ethnography : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J. A. Talbert.
p. cm. (The ancient world comparative histories)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-9146-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-118-58985-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Geographical perceptionCross-cultural studies. 2. Human geographyCross-cultural studies. 3. Civilization, Ancient. I. Raaflaub, Kurt A. II. Talbert, Richard J. A., 1947
71.5.G46 2010
304.23dc22
2009020183

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Cover image: MSS 972, folio 29a: map of the Mediterranean from a treatise by al-Istakhi. The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, courtesy of the Khalili Family Trust.
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David Buisseret received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was formerly Garrett Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington, and now in retirement works out of the Newberry Library, Chicago. His special interests cover early modern France, the colonial Caribbean, and the history of cartography. He has most recently edited The Oxford Companion to World Exploration (2007), and Jamaica in 1687: The Taylor Manuscript at the National Library of Jamaica (2008).

Susan Guettel Cole received her PhD in Classics at the University of Minnesota. She is Professor of Classics at the State University of New York in Buffalo. In 1990 she was Directeur dEtudes Associ at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. She has published Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace (1984), and Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space (2004). She is working on Dionysiac Inscriptions of Asia Minor and on Pigs for Demeter, an examination of the rituals and gestures associated with the worship of Demeter.

Daniela Dueck received her PhD in History from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and is Senior Lecturer in History and Classics at Bar Ilan University in Israel. She has published, in addition to articles and chapters, Strabo of Amasia: A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome (2000), and has co-edited Strabos Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia (2005). In addition, she maintains a strong interest in the Greek Minor Geographers.

Kathleen DuVal received her PhD in History at the University of California, Davis, and held an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the history faculty at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on early America, particularly cross-cultural relations on North American borderlands. She is the author of The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2006), and co-author of Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America (forthcoming 2009). She is currently writing a history of the American Revolution on the Gulf Coast.

John B. Henderson is Bell Professor of History at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. His publications, translated into various languages (including Korean and Chinese), include The Development and Decline of Chinese Cosmology (1984); Scripture, Canon, and Commentary: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Exegesis (1991); The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, and Early Christian Patterns (1998). He is co-editor of Notions of Time in Chinese Historical Thinking (2006).

Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania. She held a three-year Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University, and a Mellon Research Scholarship at Stanford University. She is currently Director of Education and Dean of the Confucius Institute at the China Institute in New York. She is also an international expert for UNESCOs World Heritage Centre on the transnational nomination of the Silk Roads, for which she wrote a policy paper on the universal value of road systems in ancient empires. An article by her on ancient Chinese cartography was published in the