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Norbert Elias's African Processes of Civilisation: On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana

Norbert Elias's African Processes of Civilisation: On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana

Reicher, Dieter
Mennell, Barbara
Jitschin, Adrian

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3658378484
ISBN13: 9783658378486
Publisher: Springer vs
Published: Jan 12 2023
Pages: 247
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
In 1962 Norbert Elias was invited as a temporary professor at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra. He taught, employed fieldwork, travelled, and met many people in postcolonial Africa. When Elias left Ghana in 1964, he had laid the basic groundwork for a fundamental sociological argument on human societies.

The volume on hand is a selection of his unpublished writings based on these experiences. Together they touch upon not only the well-known criticism of Eurocentrism and a developmental perspective but also what could be considered the core of Elias's work: the concept of civilisation. In a foreword, Dieter Reicher and Adrian Jitschin have endeavoured to explain and break down the relations of Elias's African experience to the rest of his work and biography. They also clarified some misleading interpretations of Elias's time in Africa. Finally, Arjan Post has uncovered the previously unknown fascinating story of Elias' encounter with Malcolm X in an epilogue.

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