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   Nitin Pai (nitin@thinktanki.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 14:54:39 JST Nitin Pai

   Lucy Hughes-Hallett reviews Josephine Quinn: “One of the big ideas behind her book is that civilisation/culture (the terms are not exactly interchangeable) has evolved through a process of exchange and communication linking human communities over millennia and across vast tracts of land and sea. Civilisation is at once an amorphous but unified whole, and a conglomeration of thousands of separate cultures, in each of which shared elements are differently combined. (1/2)

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     Quinn argues that the habit of bundling those entities according to geographical principles – as Europe, Asia and Africa; or as West, East and South – is so simplistic as to lead to all sorts of false conclusions, some ideologically toxic (West is best), others just plain wrong.” https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2024/02/the-myth-of-the-west (2/2)