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  • Introduction : making contact and mapping the terrain / Johann P. Arnason
  • Mauss revisited : the birth of civilizational analysis from the spirit of anthropology / Johann P. Arnason
  • Approaching civilization from an anthropological perspective : the complexities of Norbert Elias / Hans Peter Hahn
  • Civilizational analysis and archaeology : prospects for collaboration / Yulia Prozorova
  • The use and abuse of civilization : an assessment from historical anthropology for South Arabia's history / Andre Gingrich
  • Civilization as a key guiding idea in South Asia / David N. Gellner
  • Indian imbroglios : Bhakti neglected; or, The missed opportunities for a new approach to a comparative analysis of civilizational diversity / Martin Fuchs
  • The Indianization and localization of textual imaginaries : Theravada Buddhist statecraft in mainland Southeast Asia and Laos in the context of civilizational analysis / Patrice Ladwig
  • Frontier as civilization? : sociocultural dynamics in the uplands of Southeast Asia / Oliver Tappe
  • Anthropology, civilizational analysis, and the Malay world / Joel S. Kahn
  • Chinese civilization in comparative perspective : some markers / Stephan Feuchtwang
  • Technological choices and modern material civilization : reflections on everyday toilet practices in rural South China / Gonçalo Santos
  • Theoretical paradigm or methodological heuristic? : reflections on Kulturkreislehre with reference to China / Yang Shengmin and Wu Xiujie
  • Nomads and the theory of civilizations / Nikolay N. Kradin
  • The "orthodox", "Eurasian", or "Russian orthodox" civilization? / Milena Benovska-Sabkova
  • Afterword : anthropology, Eurasia and global history / Chris Hann.