Re: Civilization?

on civilization/culture distinction, the classic texts are:

Febvre, Lucien (1973).  "Civilisation:  evolution of a word and a group of
ideas" in Peter Burke, ed., A New Kind of History: from the writings of
Febvre. trans. K. Folca. New York: Harper and Row.

(if you read French, check out the original in the collection below -
Febvre's essay on "civilisation" is followed by Emile Tonnelat's on
"Kultur"

Lucien Febvre (1930).
"Civilisation:  volution d'un mot et d'un groupe d'idees" in Centre
International de Synthse, ed., Civilisation: le mot et l'ide. Paris: La
Renaissance du Livre].


Elias, Norbert (1994 [1939]).  The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and
Psychogenetic Investigations. ed. Eric Dunning, Johan Goudsblom and
Stephen Mennell. trans. Edmund Jephcott. Oxford: Blackwell.

Kroeber, A. L.  and Clyde Kluckhohn (1963 [1952]).  Culture: A Critical
Review of Concepts and Definitions. New York: Vintage.


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Boris Stremlin
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