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Norbert Elias's African processes of civilisation : on the formation of survival units in Ghana

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Norbert Elias's African processes of civilisation : on the formation of survival units in Ghana / Dieter Reicher, Adrian Jitschin, Arjan Post, Behrouz Alikhani, editors ; in collaboration with Stephen and Barbara Mennell.
Author
Elias, Norbert, 1897-1990
Publication
  • Wiesbaden, Germany : Springer VS, [2022]
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
  • Reicher, Dieter
  • Jitschin, Adrian
  • Post, Arjan
  • Alikhani, Behrouz, 1977-
  • Mennell, Stephen
  • Mennell, Barbara
Description
viii, 247 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"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 The volume on hand is a selection of his unpublished writings based on these experiences.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. Norbert Elias was an essential sociological theorist who coined the need for a 'reality congruent' orientation of big history."--
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. 2022
Alternative Title
  • Works. 2022
  • African processes of civilisation
  • On the formation of survival units in Ghana
Subject
  • Civilization
  • Social conditions
  • Ghana > Social conditions
  • Africa > Civilization
  • Africa
  • Ghana
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247).
Call Number
HN832.A8
ISBN
  • 9783658378486
  • 3658378484
  • 9783658378493 (canceled/invalid)
  • 3658378492 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • on1338680626
  • 1338680626
  • SCSB-14467759
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries