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02506aam a2200373 i 4500 001 749EDE6AFF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191105010136 008 190501s2019 enkab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019019444 020 $a 1108706185 020 $a 9781108706186 020 $a 1108484344 020 $a 9781108484343 035 $a (OCoLC)1099832469 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a GN645 F438 2019 100 1 $a Feuchtwang, Stephan $e author. 245 10 $a Civilisation recast : $b theoretical and historical perspectives / $c Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics and Political Science and Michael Rowlands. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a vi, 218 pages : $b illustrations (black and white), maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Ethnology $z Africa. 650 0 $a Ethnology $z China. 650 0 $a Civilization $x History. 700 1 $a Rowlands, M. J., $e author. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200103023415.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213022100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=749EDE6AFF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search