Book contents
- Civilisation Recast
- Civilisation Recast
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Civilisation: A Critical and Constructive Review
- Chapter 2 Civilisation in This Book
- Chapter 3 Long-Term Traditions of Food, Substance, and Sacrifice: Interpreting Cultures of Ingestion in West, South, and East Asia
- Chapter 4 Neolithicities: From Africa to Eurasia and Beyond
- Chapter 5 Ancestors, Civilisation, and Hierarchy: Some Comparisons from Africa
- Chapter 6 Civilisation in China
- Chapter 7 Civilisation and the Government of ‘Civilisation’ in Contemporary China
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Chapter 4 - Neolithicities: From Africa to Eurasia and Beyond
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 July 2019
- Civilisation Recast
- Civilisation Recast
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Civilisation: A Critical and Constructive Review
- Chapter 2 Civilisation in This Book
- Chapter 3 Long-Term Traditions of Food, Substance, and Sacrifice: Interpreting Cultures of Ingestion in West, South, and East Asia
- Chapter 4 Neolithicities: From Africa to Eurasia and Beyond
- Chapter 5 Ancestors, Civilisation, and Hierarchy: Some Comparisons from Africa
- Chapter 6 Civilisation in China
- Chapter 7 Civilisation and the Government of ‘Civilisation’ in Contemporary China
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
For over forty years, Jack Goody has maintained that for all the major societies of Eurasia, modern urban cultures represented a continuous development that started in the Bronze Age (Goody 2006: 55). The ‘big break’ in social development for Goody was from ‘Neolithic Society’, whose knowledge he characterised in terms described by Lévi-Strauss as the ‘science of the concrete’ (Lévi-Strauss 1969: 15).
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- Civilisation RecastTheoretical and Historical Perspectives, pp. 75 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019