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Geography and ethnography : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies
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Geography and ethnography : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies

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Where 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.

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