Johann P. Arnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia and Associate of the Department of Historical Sociology in the Faculty of Human Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He is the author of Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions and editor of many books, including (with Marek Hrubec) Social Transformations and Revolutions: Reflections and Analyses. Chris Hann is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He is the coauthor (with Keith Hart) of Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique and the coeditor (with Stephen Gudeman) of Economy and Ritual: Studies of Postsocialist Transformations.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Contact and Mapping the TerrainJohann P. Arnason1. Mauss Revisited: The Birth of Civilizational Analysis from the Spirit of AnthropologyJohann P. Arnason2. Approaching Civilization from an Anthropological Perspective: The Complexities of Norbert EliasHans Peter Hahn3. Civilizational Analysis and Archaeology: Prospects for CollaborationYulia Prozorova4. The Use and Abuse of Civilization: An Assessment from Historical Anthropology for South Arabia’s HistoryAndre Gingrich5. Civilization as a Key Guiding Idea in South AsiaDavid N. Gellner6. Indian Imbroglios: Bhakti Neglected; Or, The Missed Opportunities for a New Approach to a Comparative Analysis of Civilizational DiversityMartin Fuchs7. The Indianization and Localization of Textual Imaginaries: Theravada Buddhist Statecraft in Mainland Southeast Asia and Laos in the Context of Civilizational AnalysisPatrice Ladwig8. Frontier as Civilization?: Sociocultural Dynamics in the Uplands of Southeast AsiaOliver Tappe9. Anthropology, Civilizational Analysis, and the Malay WorldJoel S. Kahn10. Chinese Civilization in Comparative Perspective: Some MarkersStephan Feuchtwang11. Technological Choices and Modern Material Civilization: Reflections on Everyday Toilet Practices in Rural South ChinaGonçalo Santos12. Theoretical Paradigm or Methodological Heuristic?: Reflections on Kulturkreislehre with Reference to ChinaYANG Shengmin and WU Xiujie13. Nomads and the Theory of CivilizationsNikolay N. Kradin14. The "Orthodox," "Eurasian," or "Russian Orthodox" Civilization?Milena Benovska-SabkovaAfterword: Anthropology, Eurasia, and Global HistoryChris HannContributorsIndex

Johann P. Arnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia and Associate of the Department of Historical Sociology in the Faculty of Human Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He is the author of Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions and editor of many books, including (with Marek Hrubec) Social Transformations and Revolutions: Reflections and Analyses. Chris Hann is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He is the coauthor (with Keith Hart) of Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique and the coeditor (with Stephen Gudeman) of Economy and Ritual: Studies of Postsocialist Transformations.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Contact and Mapping the TerrainJohann P. Arnason1. Mauss Revisited: The Birth of Civilizational Analysis from the Spirit of AnthropologyJohann P. Arnason2. Approaching Civilization from an Anthropological Perspective: The Complexities of Norbert EliasHans Peter Hahn3. Civilizational Analysis and Archaeology: Prospects for CollaborationYulia Prozorova4. The Use and Abuse of Civilization: An Assessment from Historical Anthropology for South Arabia’s HistoryAndre Gingrich5. Civilization as a Key Guiding Idea in South AsiaDavid N. Gellner6. Indian Imbroglios: Bhakti Neglected; Or, The Missed Opportunities for a New Approach to a Comparative Analysis of Civilizational DiversityMartin Fuchs7. The Indianization and Localization of Textual Imaginaries: Theravada Buddhist Statecraft in Mainland Southeast Asia and Laos in the Context of Civilizational AnalysisPatrice Ladwig8. Frontier as Civilization?: Sociocultural Dynamics in the Uplands of Southeast AsiaOliver Tappe9. Anthropology, Civilizational Analysis, and the Malay WorldJoel S. Kahn10. Chinese Civilization in Comparative Perspective: Some MarkersStephan Feuchtwang11. Technological Choices and Modern Material Civilization: Reflections on Everyday Toilet Practices in Rural South ChinaGonçalo Santos12. Theoretical Paradigm or Methodological Heuristic?: Reflections on Kulturkreislehre with Reference to ChinaYANG Shengmin and WU Xiujie13. Nomads and the Theory of CivilizationsNikolay N. Kradin14. The "Orthodox," "Eurasian," or "Russian Orthodox" Civilization?Milena Benovska-SabkovaAfterword: Anthropology, Eurasia, and Global HistoryChris HannContributorsIndex

Johann P. Arnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia and Associate of the Department of Historical Sociology in the Faculty of Human Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He is the author of Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions and editor of many books, including (with Marek Hrubec) Social Transformations and Revolutions: Reflections and Analyses. Chris Hann is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He is the coauthor (with Keith Hart) of Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique and the coeditor (with Stephen Gudeman) of Economy and Ritual: Studies of Postsocialist Transformations.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Contact and Mapping the TerrainJohann P. Arnason1. Mauss Revisited: The Birth of Civilizational Analysis from the Spirit of AnthropologyJohann P. Arnason2. Approaching Civilization from an Anthropological Perspective: The Complexities of Norbert EliasHans Peter Hahn3. Civilizational Analysis and Archaeology: Prospects for CollaborationYulia Prozorova4. The Use and Abuse of Civilization: An Assessment from Historical Anthropology for South Arabia’s HistoryAndre Gingrich5. Civilization as a Key Guiding Idea in South AsiaDavid N. Gellner6. Indian Imbroglios: Bhakti Neglected; Or, The Missed Opportunities for a New Approach to a Comparative Analysis of Civilizational DiversityMartin Fuchs7. The Indianization and Localization of Textual Imaginaries: Theravada Buddhist Statecraft in Mainland Southeast Asia and Laos in the Context of Civilizational AnalysisPatrice Ladwig8. Frontier as Civilization?: Sociocultural Dynamics in the Uplands of Southeast AsiaOliver Tappe9. Anthropology, Civilizational Analysis, and the Malay WorldJoel S. Kahn10. Chinese Civilization in Comparative Perspective: Some MarkersStephan Feuchtwang11. Technological Choices and Modern Material Civilization: Reflections on Everyday Toilet Practices in Rural South ChinaGonçalo Santos12. Theoretical Paradigm or Methodological Heuristic?: Reflections on Kulturkreislehre with Reference to ChinaYANG Shengmin and WU Xiujie13. Nomads and the Theory of CivilizationsNikolay N. Kradin14. The "Orthodox," "Eurasian," or "Russian Orthodox" Civilization?Milena Benovska-SabkovaAfterword: Anthropology, Eurasia, and Global HistoryChris HannContributorsIndex