Geography and Ethnography -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Editor's Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India -- 3 Humans, Demons, Gods, and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India -- 4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China -- 5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China -- 6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China's Early Empires -- 7 The Mississippian Peoples' Worldview -- 8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination -- 9 Inca Worldview -- 10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings -- 11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt -- 12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees -- 13 "I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea": Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World -- 14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure -- 15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia -- 16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? -- 17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context -- 18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels -- 19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns -- 20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500-1750 -- Index.