| Description |
1 online resource (226 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Some Precedents; Our Approach; Chapter 1 Civilisation A Critical and Constructive Review; Durkheim and Mauss on Civilisation; Transcendence, Immanence, and Writing; Writing and Archaic Civilisations; The Longue Durée and Political Economy; Civilisation and Its Discontents; The Civilising Process and Modernity as Civilisation; Historical Human Types: Hierarchical and Anti-Hierarchical Civilisations; Evaluative and Conceptual Challenges to Civilisational Dominance |
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Marshall Sahlins and Others on Spreads of Cultures and CivilisationCivilisation as Knowledge; Barbarity and the Transformation of Civilisations; Chapter 2 Civilisation in This Book; The Content of Civilisation; Encompassment and Ideology but not Necessarily Social Hierarchy; Borders, Centres, and Differentiation; Learning through Ritual; Locality and Descent; Ontology and Civilisation; Sequences of Transformation versus Singular Evolution; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Long-Term Traditions of Food, Substance, and Sacrifice: Interpreting Cultures of Ingestion in West, South, and East Asia |
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Pottery or Grinding: Pre-Agricultural Functional AlternativesBoiling and Sticky Foods: The East Eurasian Culinary Long Term; Boiling and Sticky Foods, Commensal Substances, and Ancestral Spirits; Roasting, Bread, and Sacrificial Propitiation: A West Eurasian Long Term; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Neolithicities From Africa to Eurasia and Beyond; Neolithicising the 'Uncivilised'?; Food Globalisations and African Connections; The Accompanying Spread of Prestige Goods; Resurrecting Diffusionism; Neolithicising the Afro-Asian Corridor; Civilised or Uncivilised?; Differentiating the Silk Roads |
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ConclusionChapter 5 Ancestors, Civilisation, and Hierarchy: Some Comparisons from Africa; Hierarchy, Renunciation, and Salvation; Ancestors and Cults of Affliction; Africa/China Comparisons; 'Stripping' and Retrieving Critique; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Civilisation in China; Food Offerings and Centres: Ancestors and Shamans; Increasing Hierarchy; The Importance of Divination in the Centring of Rule; A Chinese Version of Stranger Kings; The Increasing Importance of Noble and Royal Ancestors; Bodily Immortality and the Propitiation of Ancestors |
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Political-Economic and Civilisational Changes Accompanying IronCreation as Transgression; Salvation Enters Death Ritual: The Immortality of the Soul; In-Mixing of Civilisations: Turning China into a Land of Buddhism; Further Conquests, Transformations of Buddhism and Local Cultures; Conclusion: Transformations and Their Results; General Conclusion; Chapter 7 Civilisation and the Government of 'Civilisation' in Contemporary China; Sage Rule and Self-Cultivation; Absorption of the Civilisation of the Modernising Project and Its State |
| Summary |
Shows what humanity has borrowed and shared as a common heritage |
| Notes |
Ideas of 'Public Good' in the Transformation of Civilisation in China |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Civilization -- History.
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Ethnology -- Africa.
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Ethnology -- China.
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Civilization
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Ethnology
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Africa
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rowlands, Michael
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| ISBN |
9781108754439 |
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1108754430 |
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