Minding The Campus

What Does ‘Civilization’ Mean? (opens in new tab)

In 1975, I had an ear finely tuned for evidence of “ethnocentrism,” the readiness to judge matters by the standards of one’s own culture. I had just finished my undergraduate degree in anthropology and was struggling to find some footing in a world that was indifferent to my exquisite sense of whose culture should prevail […] The post appeared first on .

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