Inventing Western civilization
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Inventing Western civilization
Monthly Review Press, 1997
- : pbk.
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Includes index
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Description
What is civilization? The term, commonly identified with "uplift" and "order," has come to take on another meaning: the "civilized" versus the "primitive." This book is about the idea of civilization and how, at different times, the concept has been used by the powerful in order to defend their status. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of early societies, anthropologist Thomas C. Patterson shows how class, sexism, and racism have been integral to the appearance of "civilized" societies in Western Europe.
Table of Contents
- Inventing civilization
- civilization and its boosters
- civilization and its critics
- inventing barbarians and other uncivilized peoples
- uncivilized peoples speak.
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