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

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 huma...

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Other Authors: Reicher, Dieter (Editor), Jitschin, Adrian (Editor), Post, Arjan (Editor), Alikhani, Behrouz (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Problems of researching traditional societies
  • The Krobo people. Socio- and psycho-geneses of a stateless society
  • African and Western civilising processes