Balancing the Shifting Layers of Civilisation

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

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Human Figurations
Published
2026-10-30
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https://doi.org/10.29311/hf.v10i1.5507
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Sociology and Norbert Elias
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Balancing the Shifting Layers of Civilisation

Hans-Peter Waldhoff
Human Figurations
Sociology and Norbert Elias
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Balancing the Shifting Layers of Civilisation

Hans-Peter Waldhoff
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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

Human FigurationsVol. 10(1)
University of Göttingen (DE)
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Sociology and Norbert Elias
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