![]() ![]() Is civilisation just about populating an area or is it more complicated? The Cree, the Native tribe Harry encounters, had an old, complicated civilisation which settlers wiped off the map. “The question of what constitutes civilised behaviour is at the heart of the plot. For those who are interested, the suggestion for recommended reading was Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and its sequel, Homo Deus.Ĭolonialisation VS Assimilation: explorations of culture in Patrick Gale’s ‘A Place Called Winter’ Please feel free to add any of your own thoughts is the comment section! Below is the essay which was used to frame that discussion. Our first book of the term – Patrick Gale’s A Place Called Winter – takes us to Edwardian England and Frontier Canada, and has led us to discuss the concept of culture and civilisation. ![]()
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