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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Robert Redfield
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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A Civilization, as distinct from a primitive society, is expressed and recorded in the written works of its reflective and highly creative minds. It develops what simpler forms of living have not: a “great tradition” of the literate and critical few. Beneath and within this high culture live the common people, whose “little tradition” is creator and then creature of the philosophy, science and fine art of the great tradition.

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Community Studies in Japan and China: A Symposium
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954

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