Balancing the Shifting Layers of Civilisation

Authors

  • Hans-Peter Waldhoff Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29311/hf.v10i1.5507

Keywords:

Elias, Africa, Ghana, Two-Stage Process of Civilisation, Otherness, Unconscious

Abstract

Review essay on Dieter Reicher / Adrian Jitschin / Arjan Post / Behrouz Alikhani (Eds.), Norbert Elias’s African Processes of Civilisation: On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2023, 255 pp., paperback, €74.89

Author Biography

Hans-Peter Waldhoff, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Außerplanmäßiger Professor, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.

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Published

2026-10-30

How to Cite

Waldhoff, H.-P. (2026). Balancing the Shifting Layers of Civilisation. Human Figurations, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.29311/hf.v10i1.5507

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2026): Human Figurations: The Journal of Social Processes

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