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Summary:

Civilisation is a debated concept and is often associated with the prerogatives of the 'West', colonial histories, and even emerging global politics. In this book, Stephen Feuchtwang and Michael Rowlands use the examples of Africa and China to provide a new conceptualisation that challenges traditional notions of 'civilisation'. They explain how to understand duration and continuity as long-term processes of transformation. Civilisations are best seen as practices of feeding and hospitality, of rituals and manners of living and dying, of entering the portals into the invisible world that surrounds and encompasses us, of healing and the knowledge of the encompassing universe and its powers, including its ghosts and demons. Civilisations furnish the moral ideals for people to live by and aspire to and they are changed more by the actions of disappointed grassroots and their little traditions than by their ruling authorities. Just as they revitalise and change their civilisations, this book revitalises and changes the way to think about civilisations in the humanities, the historical and the social sciences.

Author/Creator:

Feuchtwang, Stephan , author

Contributors:

Rowlands, M. J. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Civilisation recast: theoretical and historical perspectives [by Feuchtwang, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Civilisation recast [by Feuchtwang, S.] (Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019 — ISBN 9781108484343; LCCN 2019019444)

Subjects:

Civilization — History

Ethnology — Africa

Ethnology — China

Civilization

Ethnology

Africa

China

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jul 2019).
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 04, 2019).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 218 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

CB69 .F48 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781108594875 (electronic book)
1108594875 (electronic book)
1108754430 (electronic book)
9781108754439 (electronic bk.)
9781108484343 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781108706186 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1112672314