Mythogeography

These contemporaries, in effect, amount to all peoples of the world known at the time of our author, with the exception of the Indians and the Chinese, knowledge of whom was, curiously, largely confined to the lore of mythogeography and of fantastic ethnology.

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The mythogeographies of Australian Aborigines, for example, recount the peregrinations of founding ancestors and civilizing heroes, who leave peoples, languages, and cultures in their wake (Berndt and Berndt 1970, 15-29).

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It constitutes a mythogeography of the ancient world, a fabulous bestiary, a botanical thesaurus, a dictionary of natural science, a catalog of geological substances and rare jewels, a guide to portents and omens, a register of medical ailments, an apothecary's handbook, and a medley of folkloric and ethnological material...

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As a result, the perceived differences in economic systems and domestic institutions—as well as the moral characteristics associated with these systems and institutions—became “laminated onto the landscape” of the South, creating a “mythogeography” to be dissected and disseminated by Northerners made mobile by the war.

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