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Ever since the anthropologists' sense of the word 'culture' overtook the conventional use, the adjective 'cultured' likewise has fallen into disuse, 1 and the usage of the term civilisation has no less undergone a sea-change. The paradigm of Greco-Roman civilisation had the longest run for its money, those interested in art and archaeology looking to Egypt, China or Japan by way of contrast, or, another way in which some scholars examined these civilisations, generalising about them in the course of a largely speculative view of history. Travellers' tales brought evidence of 'other' civilisations whose essential traits still persisted, and imperial expansion discovered in them intransigencies and resistances to be overcome as far as possible and, in any case, looked down on. The extraordinary, and in the 'long view' highly unlikely, combination of Greco-Roman institutions and Christian ideology that produced what came to be known as Christendom, perpetuated a distinction between the civilised and the barbarian/ heathen that continued into near contemporary times. The construction of 'otherness' was boosted by a shift in Christian theologising from 'All have sinned', which provided

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Author

Margaret Chatterjee

Publisher

Macmillan Press; St. Martin's Press; Palgrave Macmillan

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349395248

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Judaism