Norbert Elias’s African Processes of Civilisation : On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana
1st ed. 2022
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3658378484
ISBN-13
9783658378486
Edition
1st ed. 2022
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Imprint
Springer VS
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 12th, 2023
Print length
247 Pages
Ksh 10,800.00
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In 1962 Norbert Elias was invited as a temporary professor at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra. 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.
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The volume on hand is a selection of his unpublished writings based on these experiences.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.Get Norbert Elias’s African Processes of Civilisation by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden and it has pages.
