Arn ason ( 2018 ) provides a full and well-contextualised exposition of their article, and of Mauss's subsequent text. For him, they are the inspiration for what he calls 'civilisational analysis', which is close to what we are doing. But in this book, we seek to be more precise than Mauss or Arnason in delineating what we mean conceptually by 'civilisation'.
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