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Chapter 5 - Ancestors, Civilisation, and Hierarchy: Some Comparisons from Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2019

Stephan Feuchtwang  and
Michael Rowlands
Stephan Feuchtwang
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Michael Rowlands
Affiliation:
University College London
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Summary

In this chapter we take up again the relation between civilisation and hierarchy. As presented in chapters 1 and 2, we have followed Dumont’s central argument that hierarchy as a ritual ideal of purity over pollution encompasses secular power. For Dumont, hierarchy is inseparable from holism, the valorisation of the social whole.

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Civilisation Recast
Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
 , pp. 95 - 115
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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