Searching for the middle ground from the end of the earth

This article examines how ancient authors of different provenances outlined the centre and the end of the world and how this influenced the way they evaluated bodies from the periphery. Geographic reference, gender and skin colour have especially intersected in sources of medical provenance. The Eth...

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Main Author: Weissenrieder, Annette 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: NTWSA 2014
In: Neotestamentica
Year: 2014, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 115-161
Further subjects:B Gaza
B Judith Butler
B Ancient Geography
B Jerusalem
B Physiognomy
B Expansion of the Roman Empire under Hadrian
B Ancient Ethiopia
B Theory of naming
B "Ungrammaticality"
B Embodiment of space
B Michel Riffaterre
B Ethnographic and ethnological theories
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