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Culture and Eurocentrism Disruptions Disruptionsisaseriesthatinterrogatesandanalysesdisruptionswithinandacross suchfieldsanddisciplinesascultureandsociety,mediaandtechnology,literature andphilosophy,aestheticsandpolitics. Serieseditor: PaulBowman,Reader,CardiffSchoolofJournalism,MediaandCulturalStudies, CardiffUniversity,UK EditorialReviewBoard: BenjaminArditi,ProfessorofPolitics,NationalUniversityofMexico,Mexico ReyChow,AnneFirorScottProfessorofLiterature,DukeUniversity,USA Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, The New School, New York,USA Catherine Driscoll, Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies, The UniversityofSydney,Australia BenHighmore,ProfessorofCulturalStudies,UniversityofSussex,UK Richard Stamp, Senior Lecturer of English and Cultural Studies, Bath Spa University,UK Jeremy Valentine, Reader in Media, Culture and Politics, Queen Margaret University,Edinburgh,UK TitlesintheSeries BearingSocietyinMind:TheoriesandPoliticsoftheSocialFormation,SamuelA. Chambers OpenEducation:AStudyinDisruption,PaulinevanMourikBroekman,GaryHall, TedByfield,ShaunHidesandSimonWorthington WhatLiesBetween:VoidAestheticsandPostwarPolitics,MattTierney MartialArtsStudies,PaulBowman LivingScreens:ReadingMelodramainContemporaryFilmandTelevision,Mo- niqueRooney Word:BeyondLanguage,BeyondImage,MariamMotamediFraser CultureandEurocentrism,QadriM.Ismail AgainstValueintheArtsandEducation,editedbySamLadkin,RobertMcKay andEmileBojesen(forthcoming) ImprintsofRevolution:VisualRepresentationsofResistance,GuadalupeGarcía andLisaB.Y.Calvente(forthcoming) DisruptingMaize:Food,BiotechnologyandNationalisminContemporaryMexico, GabrielaMéndezCota(forthcoming) Culture and Eurocentrism Qadri Ismail London•NewYork PublishedbyRowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd. UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB www.rowmaninternational.com Rowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd.isanaffiliateofRowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706,USA WithadditionalofficesinBoulder,NewYork,Toronto(Canada),andLondon (UK) www.rowman.com Copyright©2015byQadriM.Ismail Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsys- tems,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomay quotepassagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:HB978-1-7834-8633-5 ISBN:PB978-1-7834-8634-2 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Ismail,Qadri,author. Cultureandeurocentrism/QadriIsmail. pagescm.--(Disruptions) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-78348-633-5(cloth:alk.paper)--ISBN978-1-78348-634-2(pbk.:alk.paper)- -ISBN978-1-78348-635-9(electronic) 1.Civilization,Modern.2.Culture.3.Eurocentrism.I.Title. CB358.I862016 909.8--dc23 2015026668 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsof AmericanNationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperfor PrintedLibraryMaterials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Formyteachers HAIG,TK,KJ EWS,GCS JM Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction:CultureAsProblem 1 1 Culture/Race/Nature:Arnold,Tylor 13 2 (Civil)Society/Nature:Hobbes,Locke,Macaulay 39 3 Imagination/Imitation:Shelley,Hobbes,Macaulay, Kipling,Malinowski 67 4 Culture/s:Williams,Leavis,Spencer 99 5 “Race”/Cultures:DuBois,Fletcher,Boas,Turner, “Jefferson” 137 Conclusion:Modernity,Eurocentrism,Postcoloniality 195 Bibliography 207 Index 217 vii
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