Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Filipowicz, Patrycja, The Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Imagery in South-Central Anatolia. (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) 262 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-797>
ISBN 978-3-032-02757-3 hard ¥27,584.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book provides a synthesis of Late Neolithic / Early Chalcolithic imagery from South-Central Anatolia, encompassing both Central Anatolia and the Lake District. It explores the nature of transformations and continuities in imagery during the period between 6500-5500 BC. The author examines three main categories of artifacts - pottery, figurines and stamp seals - to trace the presence and transformation of particular images in time. The Neolithic site of Catalhoeyuek (7100- 5950 BC) in Central Anatolia is renowned for its elaborate art found inside the houses. A wide variety of anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and geometric motifs and themes were reproduced on wall paintings, reliefs and mobile objects. The author addresses the question of what happened with the repertoire of motifs in the upper levels of Catalhoeyuek and after its abandonment, and what circumstances might have been related to this transformation. To reassess the imagery, data was collected from Late Neolithic levels at Catalhoeyuek investigated by the Polish team since 2001, as well as from four intensively excavated sites from the Lakes region: Hacilar, Kurucay, Hoeyuecek and Bademagaci. The author applies the semiotic perspective of American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, which they argue is a useful framework for discussing the imagery and its transformation over time. The analytical model used is the so-called replication, which allows grasping the diachronic changes. It has never been applied to studies on Neolithic / Chalcolithic imagery.

Galili, Ehud / Horwitz, Liora Kolska (eds.), Atlit-Yam, a Submerged Pre-Pottery Neolithic C Site off the Carmel Coast, Israel: 9,000 Years Under the Sea. (When the Land Meets the Sea) 494 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-799>
ISBN 978-3-032-03013-9 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book focuses on the submerged Pre-Pottery Neolithic C settlement of Atlit-Yam (dated to the end of the tenth millennium to end of the ninth millennium BP). Located off the Carmel coast of Israel, it is the earliest and best preserved of 23 submerged prehistoric in situ sites known off the Israeli Mediterranean Sea coast. The site is a unique underwater archaeological locality due to the extensive investigations that have been undertaken and which have exposed a large area comprising a range of architectural features, as well as the broad spectrum, richness and excellent preservation of the finds. The site offers insights into the processes of settlement inundation, which is relevant to sea-level rise nowadays, as well as the circumstances of survival and discovery of submerged sites worldwide. The chapters in this volume, the first of two, presents aspects of the Atlit-Yam site, including the site's archaeological and physical setting and aspects its material culture (architecture, burials, groundstone and lithic artefacts). These data sets are used to reconstruct aspects of the technology and lifestyle of the community that inhabited it and highlights similarities to contemporaneous sites in the hinterland. The second volume, will deal with the economy, diet and health status of the inhabitants, the site's chronology, and reconstructed paleoenvironment including the geological and geomorphological setting of the site assessed in relation to sea-level rise. This book fills gaps in our knowledge of the coastal Neolithic of the Southern Levant, by providing an in-depth review of the archaeological remains discovered at this unique, submerged site.

Goudie, Andrew, Landscape Heritage of the World with Google Earth. 201 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <756-852>
ISBN 978-3-031-95554-9 hard ¥35,108.- (税込) EUR 139.99

The rationale of this book is to provide carefully selected images from Google Earth, to discuss what they show, and to provide references to the heritage sites portrayed so that readers can go deeper if they wish. Taking examples from all over the world, this book aims to demonstrate their value for understanding heritage landscapes and for appreciating their aesthetics. It is organised around different types of landscape and the processes that created them, rather than regionally or on the basis of age. It includes a large number of archaeological sites that have been designated as UNESC0 World Heritage Sites. Google Earth has proved to be important for demonstrating some of the threats that major sites have been exposed to, including during recent wars in the Middle East. The landscapes discussed are those of Water Management, Agricultural Management, War, Burial, Mines, Quarries and Salterns, Cities and Settlements, Tells, Theatres, Amphitheatres, and Hippodromes, Churches, Temples, Pagodas, and Mosques, and Geoglyphs.

Kennedy, Melissa / O'Donnell, Erin (eds.), People, Place and Nature in Indigenous-Settler Relations: Recentring the More-than-Human World. (Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World 10) 274 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-855>
ISBN 978-3-032-03599-8 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This edited collection is an essential resource for understanding contemporary Indigenous-settler relations across three major settler colonial contexts, bringing together First Nations and settler scholars, practitioners, artists and community organisations from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the USA. The book provides students and researchers with critical frameworks for analysing how colonial power relations shape contemporary injustices while exploring Indigenous-led pathways toward transformation. Organised into three sections - Words of the Land, Unmaking Extraction, and Restoring Country, Restoring Justice - the collection demonstrates how relationships between people, place, and the more-than-human world are articulated through Indigenous water governance, cultural restoration projects, decolonial museum practices, traditional ecological knowledge, and community-controlled care systems. Chapters engage theoretical rigor with practical case studies, offering concrete examples of how Indigenous knowledge systems provide solutions to environmental and social challenges. Featuring majority Indigenous authorship and innovative cross-cultural collaborations, this collection models meaningful scholarly engagement while centring Indigenous perspectives. Essential for scholarships in Indigenous studies, environmental justice, colonialism, and social justice, this volume contains critical insights in envisioning more just futures grounded in relationality and care.

Kuppinger, Petra (ed.), Second-Hand Cultures and Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing, and Care. 290 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-856>
ISBN 978-3-031-99874-4 hard ¥35,108.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores activities in the global landscape of second-hand cultures and economies of reuse, repair, sharing and care. Individual chapters provide ethnographic studies of how ordinary people live, revive, create, and refine practices of reuse, repair, sharing and care as they seek to prolong the lifespan of goods, contribute to planetary health, make a living, and create communities. The authors introduce practices like children's clothes swapping, repair of appliances, or reuse of domestic fabrics, and analyze how people exchange and share goods (farmers' market), buy used items in different venues, reuse or recycle materials (tires), repair items for resale (TVs), or avoid purchasing new goods (free stores). The volume examines activities in different settings across North America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and Asia, and analyzes specific economic, gendered, social and cultural contexts, material conditions, and motivations. The authors theorize global second-hand circuits and economies and the potential of ordinary people and small projects in the making of a more sustainable and equitable world. This book will be of interest to readers in environmental anthropology or sociology, environmental studies, sustainability studies, consumer studies, and material and popular culture studies.

中国の考古学の歴史と実践ハンドブック
Hein, Anke / Lovell, Julia (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History and Practice of Chinese Archaeology. (Oxford Handbooks) 1104 pp. 2026:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <756-756>
ISBN 978-0-19-780032-4 hard ¥55,910.- (税込) US$ 262.00

Khan, Muhammad Nasim, Gandhara: Captured Art and Archaeology. 422 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <756-782>
ISBN 978-981-9669-77-6 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book presents primarily firsthand information from some mysterious and unpublished archaeological sites excavated in the Swat Valley in the 1980s. In addition, new studies of Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, rock art, and ancient routes leading to and through Gandhara, as well as the analyses of epigraphic and numismatic evidence presented here, argue for a reconsideration of the established political, cultural, and religious history of Gandhara. The book also focuses on previously unknown discoveries, reviews selected research works, and critically reexamines some older finds by situating and studying them in their respective archaeological and landscape contexts. The inclusion of archaeological data and their study in a broader geographical and cultural context is also the objective of this book. Furthermore, it studies the reasons for the mixing of cultures and the processes of compromise, particularly between Gandhara, Central Asia and China.

Longhitano, Gabriella / Groemer, Karina et al. (eds.), Weaving and Wearing Identity: Personal Adornment in Past Societies. (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) 283 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-1015>
ISBN 978-3-032-03905-7 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines questions surrounding body adornments and its link to identity in archaeology, looking at theoretical and interpretive frameworks that are relevant to the study of different categories of personal ornaments. Identity is a crucial topic in archaeology where its concept is investigated through the study of many categories of material culture. As self-representation, identity constitutes a choice through which an individual or a group want to be seen by others. The volume covers a wide geographical and chronological frame from the Upper Paleolithic era to Medieval times, examining North, Central, and Southern Europe as well as regions in Southwest Asia and North Africa. This book is based on a session organised at the European Archaeological Association (EAA) in 2023, with a commonality, namely, body adornments. Participants explored the ways in which possessing, wearing and/or trading personal ornaments was a means through which individual and social identity could be expressed in antiquity. This volume is of relevance to archaeological researchers, practitioners, and students.

McKenzie, Catriona J. / Tilley, Lorna et al. (eds.), Applied Bioarchaeology: Making an Impact. (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory) 282 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-1016>
ISBN 978-3-032-04691-8 hard ¥35,108.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This is the first book to address theory and practice in Applied Bioarchaeology-a term used to describe bioarchaeological research which addresses matters of relevance today, and which actively engages people in the research process in ways that are respectful and relevant to the studied population, their communities, and their descendants. This book provides examples of best practice; identifies challenges and opportunities for developing the field of Applied Bioarchaeology; and illustrates the role of bioarchaeology in effecting change through advocacy and activism. The book is divided into four parts. The first part, 'Using Past Experience to Inform Modern Behaviour and Health', demonstrates how bioarchaeology has the potential to contribute towards better appreciation of the diverse factors that influence behaviour and health, and how this information can shape, inform, and empower future decision-making, from individuals to wider health policies. The second part, 'Developing Community-Led Research', focuses on developing active community engagement in bioarchaeological research, with chapters arguing for community-led research designed to empower a wide range of peoples that have been marginalized (or even ignored) in traditional archaeological practice. The third part, 'Bioarchaeology and the Arts', illustrates how Applied Bioarchaeology is enhanced by cross-disciplinary teamwork, and how the arts can be used to create safe spaces to explore difficult issues, to aid us in critically reflecting on our practices, to interrogate gaps in knowledge, and to develop new ideas and ways of thinking, learning, and creating knowledge. The final part, 'A Way Forward', is a personal reflection written by Lorna Tilley, which argues the case for developing the field of Applied Bioarchaeology and suggests some possible approaches for achieving this goal.

Gahman, Levi / Penados, Filiberto / Coc, Cristina et al., Defending Community, Territory, and Indigenous Environmental Relations. (Elements in Indigenous Environmental Research) 104 pp. 2025:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <755-883>
ISBN 978-1-009-45454-4 hard ¥16,032.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-45457-5 paper ¥5,247.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

This Element addresses a range of pressing challenges and crises by introducing readers to the Maya struggle for land and self-determination in Belize, a former British colony situated in the Caribbean and Central America. In addition to foregrounding environmental relations, the text provides deeper understandings of Q?eqchi? and Mopan Maya people's dynamic conceptions and collective defence of community and territory. To do so, the authors centre the voices, worldviews, and experiences of Maya leaders, youth, and organisers who are engaged in frontline resistance and mobilisations against institutionalised racism and contemporary forms of dispossession. Broadly, the content offers an example of how Indigenous communities are reckoning with the legacies of empire whilst confronting the structural violence and threats to land and life posed by the driving forces of capital accumulation, neoliberal development, and coloniality of the state. Ultimately, this Element illustrates the realities, repercussions, and transformative potential of grassroots movement-building 'from below.' This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Uimonen, Paula, Sea Cucumber Stories. (Multispecies Anthropology) 168 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <755-903>
ISBN 978-1-041-08363-4 hard ¥15,446.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

Sea Cucumber Stories explores multispecies entanglements and ocean worldings, from a sea cucumber perspective. Drawing on environmental, multispecies and ocean anthropology, it enlists the sea cucumber to tell stories of how and why the ocean and its creatures matter to life on our blue planet. The chapters draw on multisited, multimodal and multisensory fieldwork in Tanzania, where the sea cucumber is undergoing interesting transformations, from an ocean creature created by God to a commodity in the global seafood market, farmed for export to China. While breaking new ground in multispecies anthropology, this creative book builds on the author's earlier work in digital and literary anthropology. Sea cucumber stories are told from an imaginary as well as a scholarly perspective. The sea cucumber is treated as a fellow creature to draw attention to the wonders of multispecies undersea worlds and the troubles of human exploitation of what is perceived as a marine resource.

結婚と道徳的想像
Carsten, Janet, Marriage and the Moral Imagination. (New Departures in Anthropology) 292 pp. 2026:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <755-91>
ISBN 978-1-009-60104-7 hard ¥23,320.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-009-60102-3 paper ¥7,287.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00

吉田三郎著、D.C.ウッド編訳『男鹿寒風山麓農民日録』
Yoshida, Saburo, Diary of a Farmer at the Foot of Mt. Kanpu: Living Off the Land in Northern Japan, 1935-1936. Tr., ed., & annotated by D. C. Wood. 277 pp. 2025:8 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <755-759>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9802-1 hard ¥14,938.- (税込) US$ 70.00

On March 13, 1935, in a small village on the craggy Oga Peninsula in northeastern Japan, an industrious vegetable farmer named Yoshida Saburo began writing a one-year chronicle of his life and community, having received the assignment from Tokyo financier Shibusawa Keizo, a passionate folklore enthusiast and ethnological research supporter. In his diary, Yoshida reports meticulous discussions of farming and village life, providing thorough documentation of his family's meals, daily itemized tallies of income and expenditures, plus crop and household financial data going back seven years. His coverage of folkways, customs, and superstitions give insight into traditions and faith, while illuminating his progressivism that is further highlighted by critiques of other farmers' methods. Yoshida reveals a microcosm populated by unsympathetic landlords, destitute tenant farmers, disenfranchised young men, vulnerable young women, and increasingly covetous villagers amidst poverty, all within a contracting economy and a growing imperialist state. Yet it is not an isolated world; the village is strongly connected to the outside at the local and regional levels, and to the state. Yoshida's chronicle is representative of the living conditions of at least sixty percent of Japan's population in the 1930s, shedding light on an important period in the country's modern history-an era that was the culmination of seven decades of political and economic development, with rising rural poverty exacerbated by a clash between feudalism and capitalism. In the historical record, Yoshida himself is a rare and valuable link between the farmer of the early modern period and that of the early postwar era. His diary was published in 1938 by the Attic Museum (which was founded by Shibusawa), complete with 160 illustrations, including photographs taken by the author, before slipping into semilegendary status. This annotated and amended English version, containing more than twenty new photographs, allows the world to vicariously experience a tiny farming village in prewar Japan through Yoshida's precise documentation.For his translation of the diary, Donald C. Wood received the 2022-2023 Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize, awarded by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University in New York.

Theriault, Noah, A Forest of Dreams: Capitalism, Conservation, and Indigenous Rights in the Philippines. 277 pp. 2025:9 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <755-782>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9950-9 hard ¥14,938.- (税込) US$ 70.00

Lohmann, Roger Ivar (ed.), Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Interspecies Cultures. 270 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <755-787>
ISBN 978-1-041-11181-8 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Interspecies Cultures explores diverse canine-human relationships in ancient and contemporary Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australia.Anthropologically combining ethnographic, archaeological, biological, and linguistic evidence, the chapters demonstrate that from Hawaiian backyards to the Australian outback, both dogs and humans act differently depending on the cultural conditions connecting them in their multi-species communities.This book rewards readers with a profound understanding of the intricate and dynamic relation-ships between dogs and humans, highlighting the significant impact these interspecies interac-tions have on shaping cultural and ecological landscapes.

Wilson, Robert A., Kin Matters: Relational Beings in the Fragile Sciences. (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science) 320 pp. 2026:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <755-79>
ISBN 978-0-19-782590-7 hard ¥22,407.- (税込) US$ 105.00

南米の考古学ハンドブック
Aldenderfer, Mark / Sepulveda, M. / Neves, E. G. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of South American Archaeology. (Oxford Handbooks) 1256 pp. 2026:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <755-854>
ISBN 978-0-19-539136-7 hard ¥67,221.- (税込) US$ 315.00

オルメカ文明ハンドブック
Pool, Christopher A. / Wendt, Carl J. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Olmecs. (Oxford Handbooks) 856 pp. 2025:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <755-868>
ISBN 978-0-19-090030-4 hard ¥51,216.- (税込) US$ 240.00

Candelise, Lucia / Bindi, Serena (eds.), Intangible Cultural Heritage and Traditional Medical Knowledge: Safeguarding Healing and Medical Practices in a Globalized World. (Routledge Studies in Heritage) 256 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <755-324>
ISBN 978-1-041-04074-3 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This compelling volume addresses key issues at the critical intersection of intangible cultural heritage and traditional medical practices, highlighting the urgent need for their preservation in an increasingly globalized world.The chapters within this book explore key themes such as the paradox of authenticity versus rationalization in traditional healing, the political implications of heritage-making in diverse contexts-from India and China to Mexico and Chile-and the role of local communities in asserting their medical knowledge as part of their cultural identity. Contributions from experts in anthropology, political science, law, and history provide a rich, multidisciplinary perspective on how these practices are integrated into contemporary heritage processes. By examining case studies that illustrate both the challenges and successes of safeguarding traditional medical knowledge, this book offers original insights into the evolving concept of intangible cultural heritage. It emphasizes the significance of these practices in fostering cultural resilience and identity, making it a vital addition to the discourse on heritage studies and global health. This work not only enriches our understanding of traditional medical practices but also advocates for their recognition and protection in a rapidly changing world.This book serves as an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in the dynamics of intangible cultural heritage and traditional medical practices.

Jephcott, Freya L. / Ash, Hillary A. / McGuire, C. (eds.), Epidemiological Obfuscation: Historical and Contemporary Case Studies. (Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology) 312 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <755-333>
ISBN 978-1-032-84701-6 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Epidemiology ostensibly exists to reveal and ascribe features to burdens of disease at a population level. However, as the designated arbiter of visibility in public health, it is well-positioned to also obscure burdens of disease with significant implications for both social justice and disease control. This edited volume brings together empirical accounts of epidemiological obfuscation developed by public health researchers from diverse fields, including medicine, history, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology, and rhetoric. In reading across these rich accounts, we begin to characterise what epidemiological obfuscation is, the situations in which it occurs, and the practices underlying it. As such, the book not only serves as a catalogue of independently interesting and robustly developed accounts of important episodes in the history and contemporary practice of epidemiology, but also as a foundational body of scholarship on this central but oft overlooked aspect of epidemiology, namely, its ability to obscure as well as elucidate.

S.Coleman他編　宗教人類学ハンドブック
Robbins, Joel / Coleman, Simon (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Anthropology of Religion. (Oxford Handbooks) 720 pp. 2026:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <755-190>
ISBN 978-0-19-967621-7 hard ¥43,725.- (税込) GB￡ 150.00

Anthropologists of religion study themes central to the understanding of humanity, such as the power of ritual, the authority of language, and the exemplary character of myth. This Handbook brings together leading specialists to explain the historical and intellectual background to how anthropologists approach religion, and to show why its study remains a dynamic means of reflecting on contemporary life around the globe. Each chapter combines overviews of a given topic with original observations, and the Handbook is structured for ease of teaching. Five sections guide the reader on different routes through the field, helping to provoke further questions on historical and intellectual approaches; 'Indigenous' religions; 'World' religions; enduring themes; and emergent themes. The aim is to help students and researchers recognize how and why the field has been organized in certain ways, but also to make them feel confident enough to challenge its assumptions and to consider directions it might go in the future. This Handbook provides an excellent introduction to some of the most important elements of anthropology, including the discipline's emphases on comparison, embodied experience, and scepticism toward taken-for-granted categories. It also shows how religious practices remain entangled with some of the pressing themes and questions of our time, including how we perceive and treat our environment, ways in which we deal with religious and cultural differences, and the religious dimensions of virtual and mediated means of communication.

文化人類学－グローバルな力、ローカルな生活　第5版
Eller, Jack David, Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives. 5th ed. 474 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <755-1066>
ISBN 978-1-041-00916-0 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-00915-3 paper ¥23,899.- (税込) GB￡ 81.99

The 5th edition of Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives offers a clear and readable introduction to the field of cultural anthropology, with a special focus on how digital technologies and social media function as prime global forces that are nevertheless used, adapted, transformed, or ignored by people in their everyday local lives.This thoroughly modern textbook challenges traditional views of anthropology by positioning it as uniquely qualified to analyze our tech-enhanced social world, exploring the "myth and mess" of digital life through ethnographic case studies spanning diverse global contexts. This updated 5th edition offers significant enhancements including a new chapter on applied anthropology, expanded coverage of gender studies, four new extended case studies, and fresh ethnographic examples featuring digital phenomena like Facebook in Turkey, hashtag activism, and COVID-19 responses in Bhutan.Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives is ideal for undergraduate students in anthropology and related social sciences, as well as researchers interested in the cultural dimensions of technology, globalization, and contemporary social movements.

生物人類学の基礎
Kissel, Marc, Bioanthropology: The Basics. (The Basics) 178 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <755-1069>
ISBN 978-1-032-48722-9 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-48723-6 paper ¥5,535.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99

Bioanthropology: The Basics offers an engaging and accessible introduction to the science of biological anthropology, exploring human origins, evolution, and the biological dimensions of what it means to be human.Through illuminating examples and case studies, this comprehensive text guides readers through essential topics while connecting our evolutionary past to contemporary discussions about human variation. Topics covered include:Human originsDNAPrimatesEvolutionBioanthropology: The Basics is ideal for undergraduate students approaching biological anthropology for the first time, scholars from other disciplines seeking cross-disciplinary insights, and general readers curious about human origins and the scientific study of what makes us human.

Parigoris, Angelos, Archaeology and the Narratives of Iceland's Past: Materializing the Nation. 264 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <755-1071>
ISBN 978-1-041-10663-0 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Archaeology has long been entangled with nationalist and colonial narratives, shaping and reshaping identities through material culture. This book investigates the entanglement of archaeology with nationalism and its role in shaping Icelandic identity.This book delves into this entanglement through four case studies, examining archaeological remains, historical sources, and ethnological materials. It reveals how material culture has been used to reinforce nationalist narratives while also offering a framework to challenge them. By focusing on the intersection of materials, discourses, and histories, the book uncovers how archaeology has been implicated in a colonial-cum-nationalist rhetoric, influencing modern interpretations of the past. It also highlights how the field can be used to deconstruct entrenched national myths and open up new avenues of inquiry.Archaeology and the Narratives of Iceland's Past will inform scholars and students across archaeology, history, and anthropology, while encouraging a broader public awareness of the complex relationship between material culture and national identity.

Quilty, Emma, Witch Power: Hexing the Patriarchy with Feminist Magic. 208 pp. 2025:9 (Polity Pr., UK) <755-1073>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6446-0 hard ¥5,335.- (税込) US$ 25.00 *

When most people hear the word 'witch', they immediately think of crones conspiring over a cauldron, a force of dark and vindictive power. But to hundreds of thousands across the world, being a witch is a living, everyday reality, much more varied than the fairytale image. Witch Power follows Emma Quilty - herself a witch and an anthropologist - on an immersive journey into contemporary witchcraft, from Witchcamp retreats to 'red tent' menstrual events, Voodoo priestesses running ghost tours from their vans to TikTokers casting hexes on a viral scale. Attentive to the history of witchcraft, she reveals the role power plays in how the figure of the witch has changed over time to suit the ever-present need to control and demonize women. Because to be a witch is to live in defiance of society's expectations and rules. But while the witch is always castigated as a threat, Quilty finds that the witch is never alone: the witch is a survivor and a symbol of resistance. Ultimately, Witch Power is a provocation and an invitation to readers to experience with the author what it means to embrace witchiness and what witchy feminism could bring to your life.

Rankin, Lisa / Abadia, Oscar Moro / Dotte-Sarout, E. (eds.), Indigenous Archaeology in Two Hemispheres: Approaches to Inuit and First Nations Pasts in Canada, Australia and Greenland. 440 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <755-1074>
ISBN 978-1-032-07706-2 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Indigenous Archaeology in Two Hemispheres: Approaches to Inuit and First Nations Pasts in Canada, Australia and Greenland examines the history and current experiences of Inuit and Australian First Nations peoples in archaeology.The book explores recent work by Australian, Canadian and Greenlandic scholars and community partners in a context marked by globalization. This cross-national interdisciplinary approach enriches the research with Indigenous voices from the Eastern Arctic and Australia, aiding the exploration of the similarities and differences in Inuit and First Nations peoples' historical experiences and the challenges they face currently. Chapters call into question the traditional frameworks that have shaped research on the past of Indigenous people in these regions, frameworks that promote imbalanced power relationships, and endorse a collaborative agenda that rejects the objectification of other worldviews and alterities. The book is organised around four main themes considered: historical approaches; current challenges to Inuit and First Nations archaeology; data sovereignty; and Indigenous perspectives.The book will be of interest to students and researchers in archaeology, anthropology, history, art history, the history of science and cultural heritage management.

Slimak, Ludovic, The Last Neanderthal: Understanding How Humans Die. 210 pp. 2025:9 (Polity Pr., UK) <755-1076>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6958-8 hard ¥6,391.- (税込) US$ 29.95

It's August 2015. After twenty-five years of archaeological research in a secluded cave overlooking the Rhone Valley in southern France, Ludovic Slimak uncovers the remains of a Neanderthal, frozen in time - a discovery that casts fresh light on a critical turning point in human history. Could these remains belong to one of the last Neanderthals? As scientists from around the world analyze the site, their findings disrupt everything we thought we knew about the final days of these ancient humans. This discovery takes us to the defining threshold when multiple human species, once coexisting in the same world, are wiped from history-leaving Homo sapiens as the sole human survivor.Slimak takes the reader on an extraordinary journey of discovery that is both scientific and profoundly human, blending rigorous research with evocative storytelling. This breathtaking exploration of the past not only unearths the lost world of the Neanderthals but forces us to confront the unspoken question: is this how humanity dies? A compelling narrative spanning millennia, The Last Neanderthal is both a groundbreaking scientific revelation and a profound reflection on the fragility of humanity and the threads that connect us to the distant past.

Smith, Monica L., How Urbanism Changes Foodways. (Elements in the Archaeology of Food) 75 pp. 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <755-1077>
ISBN 978-1-009-56488-5 hard ¥16,032.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-56492-2 paper ¥5,247.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation, and cuisine. This Element examines the 6,000-year history of urbanism through the archaeological perspective of food, using the analysis of cooking and eating vessels, botanical remains, and animal bones along with texts and iconographic evidence to understand the foodways that spurred and accompanied the growth of cities. Human-environmental changes took place as farmers became fewer in number but increasingly essential as providers of food for city-based consumers. The Element also examines the ways in which cities today share patterns of food production and consumption with the first urban settlements, and that we can address questions of sustainability, nutritional improvement, and other desired outcomes by recognizing how the growth of cities has resulted in distinct constraints and opportunities related to food.

Nitzke, Solvejg, Making Kin with Trees: A Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Care. (Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference) 259 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-904>
ISBN 978-3-031-96800-6 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book analyzes how trees act as mediators of interspecies relationships in popular science writing and creative nonfiction. Making Kin with Trees argues that trees emerge as agents of "arboreal poetics" shaping not only fictional but also material interactions. Following how speculative care practices infuse scientific and poetic texts, formatting practices of reading, sensing, knowing, and communicating (with) trees while affirming both cultural and scientific meaning making processes. This book shows how arboreal thinking connects and might ultimately require breaking down the barrier between fact and fiction, human and plant, onlooker and artwork. This book will be of interest to audiences based in fields including environmental humanities, science and technology studies and ecocriticism, and everyone engaged in science communication and interested in the relationship between scientific fact and narrative.

〔英訳〕利他主義、贈与、象徴交換－コントからデュルケーム、モース、ブルデューまで
Steiner, Philippe, Altruism, Gifts and Symbolic Exchange: From Comte, to Durkheim, Mauss and Bourdieu. Tr. by P. Hamilton. (Theory Workshop 4) 245 pp. 2025:9 (Brill, NE) <754-947>
ISBN 978-90-04-42246-9 hard ¥57,684.- (税込) EUR 230.00

Altruism, gifts and symbolic exchange refer to a vast set of practices deeply embedded in our market societies. They were successively theorized by Auguste Comte, Marcel Mauss, and Pierre Bourdieu. This book follows the outline of a history that has hitherto been glimpsed only as a series of fragments and which needs to be reassembled in order to see its full scope. This history is structured in terms of three stages: a critique of political economy, a theoretical construction backed by empirical practices, and, finally, an assessment of the social effects of the dissemination of economic knowledge.

Jarosz, Katarzyna, Museums in Central Asia and the Construction of National Narratives: Curating Identity. 240 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-802>
ISBN 978-3-031-97046-7 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores the role museums play in shaping the cultural and historical identities of Central Asia. Through an analysis of around 50 museums, this book offers insights into how these "memory machines" contribute to contemporary identity formation in Central Asia, serving as both cultural guardians and storytellers. It traces the development of these institutions from the Russian colonial era to the present, examining how they have navigated the region's complex socio-political landscape. The book addresses various themes, such as the influence of Soviet policies on museum development, the relationship between religion and atheism in museum narratives, and the renewed interest in pre-Soviet cultural heritage. It also considers how museums utilise historical figures and scientific achievements to craft national stories, exploring identity through the dual perspectives of settled and nomadic lifestyles.

ハラッパー文明ハンドブック
Prabhakar, V. N., Handbook of Harappan Civilization: Recent Insights and Discoveries. 481 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <754-818>
ISBN 978-981-9686-34-6 hard ¥55,172.- (税込) EUR 219.99

This handbook provides an in-depth finding on the Harappan Civilization (~Indus Civilization, Sarasvati-Sindhi, Sindhu-Sarasvati Civilization) that flourished from ~2600-1900 BCE in the Greater Indus Region. It presents the emerging perspectives of the Harappan Civilization and includes the results from the recent excavations in South Asian sites. The book begins with the evidence on settled human life, the factors that led to the domestication of plants and animals, and the cumulative effect on the triggering of urban processes. It highlights the evidence of the emergence of towns and villages, aided by the technology of copper and trade, in different parts of the Greater Indus Region, ultimately culminating in the Harappan Civilization. It illustrates the hallmark features of the Harappan Civilization and recent findings. It updates the latest knowledge on topics like the script and the people, the ultimate transformation into a rural culture again, mainly due to climatic changes. It presents the scientific techniques and methodologies employed in investigating the past, particularly the Harappan Civilization. It enables the students to pursue similar lines of research in the ever-growing field of applying sciences in archaeology. The richly illustrated book with maps and photographs assists researchers and scholars in understanding the archaeological facts and information related to the Harappan Civilization.

Klaufus, Christien, Life and Death in Latin American Cities: The Necropolis at Stake. (Death and Culture) 224 pp. 2025:10 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <754-883>
ISBN 978-1-5292-4500-4 hard ¥23,320.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

The infrastructure of death is an undeniable part of urban life, yet it is often overlooked in the study of cities. This book explores the intricate dynamics between the living and the dead in six Latin American cities: Bogota, Medellin, Lima, Buenos Aires, Quetzaltenango and Cuenca. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research, the author investigates how urban death infrastructures - such as cemeteries and spaces for the deceased - are shaped by rapid urbanization, legacies of violence, neoliberal policies and alternative spiritual practices. With a fresh Global South perspective, this unique contribution will challenge the boundaries of death studies, placing the infrastructure of death at the heart of urban life.

Jarvis, Charlotte (ed.), Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Deep Sea Mining. (SpringerBriefs in Archaeology) 161 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <754-894>
ISBN 978-3-031-98237-8 paper ¥7,520.- (税込) EUR 29.99

This open access brief is a pioneering work that is one of the first book publications to cover underwater cultural heritage and deep seabed mining. Bringing together a variety of perspectives, the work is designed to serve several purposes and educate a few different types of readers. The work introduces and offers a history on deep seabed mining, the legal context, and how it fits into the new UN Convention on Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ treaty), the International Seabed Authority (DSM governing body), and the ecological impacts of deep seabed mining. The brief is also aimed at marine ecologists and other ocean scientists who may already be aware of the DSM and the ecological impacts, but not of the cultural heritage at risk. It introduces deep-water archaeology to them and a few case studies of heritage at risk, like in New Zealand or polluting wrecks. Finally, the book offers suggestions for steps forward and case studies of cultural heritage being included in environmental impact assessments. By the end of the book, all parties should feel educated enough to begin championing a ban on, or more regulations for, seabed mining. One additional strength of the book is that it gives voice to those without a traditional academic background. Intangible cultural heritage has been a hotbed issue in mining regulations and many indigenous voices, especially from the Pacific, have been loudly outspoken at the ISA. While writing thousand-word academic journal articles was not in their wheelhouse, they have given permission for their speeches to be transcribed and included in the book. This will bring a new set of voices into the scientific discourse on the issue. The book is also set up to have many images to de-mystify the deep and show readers the beauty that must be protected.

Johnson, Rebecca / McKenzie, Debra / Napoleon, Val et al., Ravens Talking: Indigenous Feminist Legal Studies. 277 pp. 2025:12 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <754-478>
ISBN 978-1-4875-5142-1 hard ¥20,273.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-5147-6 paper ¥7,884.- (税込) US$ 36.95

While awareness of the sexual and gendered colonial violence faced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people has grown, the field of Indigenous law and beyond has yet to fully engage with Indigenous feminisms, gender, and sexuality in a sustained way. Ravens Talking challenges this gap, treating Indigenous feminisms as essential, insightful, and deeply transformative. Through critical feminist analyses, this book examines key issues in Indigenous law, demonstrating how legal understandings shift when gender is consistently, meaningfully, and creatively engaged. The contributors to this collection confront the forms of power shaping these essential conversations and bring to the fore intergenerational Indigenous feminisms; Indigenous law and gender; the forms of expression and translation between and across legal and political worlds; and the rich array of disagreements and conflicts between Indigenous women. Ravens Talking intends to capture the complexities arising from Indigenous feminisms in living contexts to provoke questions and develop critical perspectives. Both intellectually rigorous and practically grounded, Ravens Talking is a vital contribution encouraging dialogue on Indigenous legal traditions, justice, and sovereignty.

Brandel, Andrew / Das, Veena / Laugier, Sandra et al., A Matter of Detail: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics. (Anthropological Horizons) 277 pp. 2025:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <754-32>
ISBN 978-1-4875-5064-6 hard ¥13,871.- (税込) US$ 65.00

A Matter of Detail inspires new ways of thinking about detail by bringing anthropology, philosophy, art history, and aesthetics into direct conversation. Co-editors Brandel, Das, Laugier, and Pitrou challenge a long-standing assumption that the history of detail begins with European modernity and follows a teleological course from an object of scorn to a sign of the good. In its place, they offer a history of attention to detail that draws on classical and vernacular histories and traditions found in grammar, ritual, and poetics around the world. Emphasizing detail as a method and moving between its usage as a noun (detail) and a verb (detailing) enables them to tell stories about the reassembly of detail across accidents, contingencies, and unintended consequences.From this vantage, the book argues that details are not always small and insignificant. Rather, there is a dynamic relationship between the minute and the grand, detail and surface, which makes the proliferation of details threatening to the idea of an authoritative and integrated imagination of the whole. This expanded context generates ways of conceiving detail as a conceptual and moral mode of self-formation and being toward others, both human and non-human.

Paulovich, Natallia, The Taste of Agency: Cooking, Gender, and Social Change in Georgia. 262 pp. 2025:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-1024>
ISBN 978-3-031-97813-5 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores the evolving role of women in Georgian society through the lens of food and cooking. Drawing on ethnographic research in Ozurgeti, it reveals how domestic practices serve as powerful expressions of female agency. From the 19th century to the post-Soviet era, Georgian women have used food to navigate socio-economic crises, reshape family structures, and preserve cultural identity. The book combines feminist anthropology and food studies to challenge assumptions about women's roles in traditional societies. By focusing on everyday acts of sustenance, it offers a nuanced view of how women actively shape both private and public life. A vital contribution to gender studies, anthropology, and post-Soviet research, this book enhances our understanding of food as a site of social change.

Bundgaard, Helle / Dalsgard, Anne Line, Resonant Ethnography: Understanding the World through Writing. (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology) 255 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <754-1053>
ISBN 978-3-031-97746-6 paper ¥12,536.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book explores what it means-and what it takes-to write ethnographic texts that resonate with both fieldwork and readers. It approaches writing as a form of embodied thinking and encourages conceptual openness and a willingness to experiment. Drawing on exemplary texts and the authors' experiences as teachers and writers, it explores the importance of attentiveness, imagination, and ethical engagement. Grounded in anthropology and phenomenology, and inspired by literature, it weaves conceptual reflection with practical guidance and literary sensibility. Throughout the book, the authors show how ambiguity, affect, and imagination can foster understanding. Each chapter focuses on a key aspect of the writing process, exploring fundamentals such as time, voice, argument, and composition. More than just a guide to writing, Resonant Ethnography is an invitation to think, feel, and imagine through writing, and to appreciate what ethnography can be in the world today.

Dossa, Parin, Ethics of Co-Existence: Ethno-Photography. 277 pp. 2025:12 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <754-1054>
ISBN 978-1-4875-6181-9 hard ¥18,992.- (税込) US$ 89.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-6182-6 paper ¥7,884.- (税込) US$ 36.95

How do we go about creating a socially just world where we can coexist equitably? What is it like to be cognizant of human-nature family? What are the forces that compromise our humanity? Ethics of Coexistence sheds light on these questions through the activist pedagogy of ethno-photography, brought to light by female research participants in Afghanistan, India, Kenya, and Canada. Making a case for interrelatedness and conviviality, this book foregrounds stories that have yet to be heard. Evoking a multivocality of responses, ethno-photography opens spaces for the co-construction of knowledge that does not reach a point of closure. It gently prompts us to identify spaces of intervention where we are not mere onlookers but active participants working towards transformative change; what affects "them" impacts "our" lives too. At a time when our world is entangled in a multifaceted crisis, Ethics of Coexistence maps a pathway for a socially just world by means of civic consciousness.

Henry, Eric, Keep Talking: An Invitation to Linguistic Anthropology. 296 pp. 2025:12 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <754-1055>
ISBN 978-1-4875-6370-7 hard ¥25,608.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-6371-4 paper ¥9,592.- (税込) US$ 44.95

Language is not merely a set of words and grammatical rules; it is a deeply cultural phenomenon we use to navigate our social lives and craft our identities. Linguistic anthropology situates language in this essential context. A distinctively Canadian take on the field of linguistic anthropology, Keep Talking provides an up-to-date and detailed introduction to the discipline.Linguistic anthropologist Eric S. Henry draws on the significant research he has conducted on modernity, language, and culture to create an accessible, foundational guide on the subject for all students. A key argument laced throughout the chapters of this textbook is the idea that language is a form of social action - speaking is also doing. From oral performances to texting, from learning a first language to mixing others together, Keep Talking guides students through all the major concepts of the field while highlighting scholars and research relevant to the Canadian experience. Major areas of focus include Indigenous languages, the role of gender and ethnicity in communication, and doing research in the field. With an approachable writing style, this book includes images, tables, and text boxes along with summaries of further reading for students. Wide-ranging and deeply current, this textbook is perfectly suited for readers interested in the intersections of language and culture.

Matila, Tuuli, The Contemporary Archaeology of Emotions: Re-Framing the Past and Present. (SpringerBriefs in Archaeology) 101 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <754-1060>
ISBN 978-3-032-00964-7 paper ¥11,282.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This SpringerBrief examines emotions in the past through contemporary archaeological materials. The author explores this topic using the context of a former working-class neighbourhood in northern Finland that existed during the Cold War era (1947-1987). Finland offers an interesting context to examine this because of the twofold emotional frames; the Cold War and capitalism versus the nascent welfare state. The push and pull between the values emphasizing universal care and compassion against the hardline militarisation and financial competition results in accessing different and, sometimes, contradictory emotions. It also affords a gendered view into the past and such an angle could be attempted in the context of the deep past as well. This book offers several examples on how emotions could be accessed in the deep past and draws parallels between the examples from a contemporary 'western' country and various archaeological cultures and contexts. Emotions can be a bridge to access the secrets of human behavior. Such bridging is the core strength of archaeological education, but rarely are emotions acknowledged in the process. Lastly, this book underlines the role of emotions, specifically empathy, in archaeological education and in destabilizing contemporary political notions on social norms and contracts.

Newberry, Janice, Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory: Collaborative Design and Ethnographic Refusal. 277 pp. 2025:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <754-1061>
ISBN 978-1-4875-6001-0 hard ¥18,139.- (税込) US$ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-6002-7 paper ¥6,177.- (税込) US$ 28.95

Raising Spirit in Blackfoot Territory examines the ethnographic dilemmas that arose across the run of the Raising Spirit project. This book asks what ethnography can be in the era of reconciliation based on this multi-year, multimodal, collaborative project to articulate child-rearing values in Blackfoot Territory. Collaborative work between a university and Indigenous community organization to build a digital storytelling library brought together researchers young and old, Indigenous and settler, university and community based. This book centrally concerns ethnography as a form of expertise and its need for a decolonizing fix. Young researchers were positioned as para-ethnographers and tasked with identifying cultural values for the digital library. Their design-influenced innovations to code collaboratively were an inspired answer to the political and ethical questions of knowledge production in a time of Indigenous resurgence and racial reckoning. Yet, when asked to serve as culture experts, young Indigenous researchers refused. The generative power of their refusals revealed the possibility for new imaginaries that exceed ethnographic recognition.Anthropologist Jan Newberry probes deeply into important questions on how to produce knowledge in a system that was designed to erase the voices it now is trying to bring to the fore. This work contributes to the reimagining of ethnographic methods in anthropology and productively expands attention to issues of expertise and ethnographic collaboration with Indigenous peoples.

Olthuis, John, On Dismantling Settler Colonialism: An Insider's Perspective on Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. (UTP Insights) 277 pp. 2025:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <754-1063>
ISBN 978-1-4875-6922-8 hard ¥7,469.- (税込) US$ 35.00

On Dismantling Settler Colonialism challenges conventional approaches to reconciliation, urging Canadians to move away from the notion of assimilation - where Indigenous peoples are expected to conform to the values and structures of settler colonial society. Instead, this book advocates for a true reconciliation: one that fosters the creation of political, economic, social, and cultural spaces where Indigenous nations can self-govern, restore their traditional lands, and live in harmony with the earth according to their own values and beliefs. Through deeply personal reflections on over five decades of activism in the communities of the Dene Nation, Grassy Narrows First Nation, Temagami First Nation and the Innu Nation of Labrador, John A. Olthuis shares his powerful journey of working to dismantle settler colonialism. He brings to light the many neglected blueprints for true reconciliation, including discussions of over 700 recommendations for systemic change put forth by the Penner Report, The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. This book offers a powerful exploration of how the challenging work of dismantling settler colonialism can be a transformative and deeply healing process for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples alike.

Lynnette, Arnold / Guzman, J. R. / Avera, E. et al. (eds.), Language and Health in Action. 256 pp. 2025:12 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <753-506>
ISBN 978-0-19-893391-5 hard ¥28,858.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-893392-2 paper ¥10,202.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00

Health and wellbeing are profoundly shaped by communication processes. Language and Health in Action explores these interconnections by bringing together cutting-edge global scholarship from linguistic and medical anthropology. The book highlights the centrality of language practices and language ideologies in how professionals, individuals, families, and communities navigate illness and pursue health across the lifecourse, in clinical contexts, and beyond. Each chapter includes immersive examples from qualitative and ethnographic research, captured in clear and accessible prose. The volume includes a breadth of perspectives on public and global health that include topics such as infectious disease and chronic illness, mental health and addiction, disability, dying, and healing. Contributions shed light on urban and rural settings and the experiences of immigrants, indigenous communities, and other racialized populations. Chapters profile research conducted in Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, South Korea, Mexico, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United States. The book is organized into five thematic sections: clinical interaction, language access, community and communicability, language and environment, and healing practices. To support student readers and instructors, the book begins with an introduction to key terms in social scientific approaches to language and health, and each chapter includes a series of discussion and reflection questions. The volume demonstrates that linguistic and communicative practices, which are often taken for granted, nevertheless have far-reaching consequences for health outcomes.

Zhang, Liming, Ethnography of Religious Beliefs and Social Orders in Ethnic Areas. 199 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-234>
ISBN 978-981-9616-16-9 hard ¥30,092.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book presents a fascinating study of the religion of minority groups living in rural areas in Yunnan province in the early twenty-first century and how they use religious rituals to show their own nationality and spiritual culture. By exploring these minority groups, e.g., the Dai, Bulang, and De'ang, the book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship between religion and social functions and of the ways in which globalization and modernity are experienced at the most personal level. It provides valuable insights into how minority people negotiate sacred /secular demands and requirements, how they experience a sense of satisfaction and comfort in Buddhist temples, and how that experience shapes their sense of identity, worldview, values, and relations with others. In closing, the book gives a voice to the experiences of Buddhists, who are one of the most important-and yet least visible-signs of religion freedom in China's reform processes. It offers a unique guide for all readers, who are interesting in oriental studies, and an ideal reference book for Anthropology and Buddhism courses at colleges and universities.

Kaneff, Deema, Resources and Everyday Conflicts in Rural Ukraine: Theorizing Social Change. 300 pp. 2025:12 (U. Pittsburgh Pr., US) <753-1640>
ISBN 978-0-8229-4877-3 hard ¥25,608.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-0-8229-6773-6 paper ¥7,469.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Social change is a topic of central interest in the social sciences. The upheavals and reforms that swept across former socialist states in Eurasia offer a rich array of case studies to deepen our understanding of this phenomenon. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in an ethnically Bulgarian community in rural Ukraine, Kaneff uniquely brings to light a range of hidden conflicts and everyday tensions, as well as new alliances and solidarities resulting from the redistribution of resources following Ukrainian independence. A focus on five key resources provides a means to explore the way in which relationships have been contested and renegotiated in this small community, with implications that go far beyond those boundaries.

de Cesari, Chiara / Modest, Wayne / Pagliuca Pelacani, M., Decolonizing the Museum: Art, Activism and the Question of Race in Curation. (Museums in Focus) 144 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <753-1684>
ISBN 978-1-032-41159-0 hard ¥15,446.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

This book asks what it means to decolonize museums in theory and practice. It explores recent calls by activists and artists for social change in and through museums, and how museums have responded to these calls and interventions.The point of departure for this volume are the burgeoning global debates around racism that have compelled many museums and public institutions to confront their complicity in colonialism, both past and present. Building on interviews with curators, cultural practitioners, artists and activists, as well as the authors' ongoing involvement with movements aimed at decolonising museums, this volume explores how anti-racist activism and artivism have transformed museums, as well as the broader social and political significance of these transformations. The book focuses on the practices, approaches, and strategies that are being adopted in efforts to decolonize museums and cultural institutions; where they succeed and fail; and the similarities and differences between these initiatives. It discusses specific exhibitions and whether they represent colonialism as past phenomenon or as enduring racial logics forcefully shaping the present. It analyzes both mainstream European museums as well as grassroots, museum-like initiatives that aim to reckon with colonialism and race in different contexts. Core to the argument is the issue of how memory, heritage and museum studies, the disciplines that explore, explain and staff museums, have engaged or not with race.Decolonizing the Museum will be valuable for those studying or researching in the fields of Museum Studies, Heritage, Memory and Art Studies, Decolonial theory, Postcolonialism, Race and Racism, and Cultural Politics. Providing an important window into the political role of curators, the politics of race in transforming museums, it will also be beneficial to museum practitioners as well as activists and artists with a stake in these institutions.

Bender, Margaret / Belt, Thomas N., The New Voice of God: Language, Worldview, and the Cherokee Bible. 190 pp. 2025:7 (U. Oklahoma Pr., US) <753-170>
ISBN 978-0-8061-9542-1 hard ¥9,603.- (税込) US$ 45.00

For Christian European missionaries among the Cherokees at the turn of the eighteenth century, translating the Bible meant wrestling with the extreme structural differences between Cherokee and English. The New Voice of God reveals how these linguistic differences encoded basic predispositions and orientations toward the physical, spiritual, and social worlds- and how their translation in turn encodes the profound linguistic and cultural exchange manifested in the making of the Cherokee Bible. While the introduction of Christianity shaped Cherokee communicative practices and culture, the Cherokee language also reshaped the Bible to reflect a definitive Native worldview. Focusing on three books of the Cherokee Bible - Genesis, John, and Matthew - Margaret Bender and Thomas N. Belt demonstrate how Christianity, written in and on Cherokee terms, can be uniquely and distinctly Cherokee, while remaining undeniably Christian. For example, Cherokee's rich and complex grammar work against English's noun-centeredness, yielding creative approximations of European objects as conditions and essences as events. Cherokee's radically different pronoun structure includes the reader in Biblical conversation in surprising ways. The authors also explain the relevance of the Cherokee Indigenous writing system - invented by Sequoyah, a non-Christian native speaker - to the complex spiritual landscape of the nineteenth century. Their analysis suggests that the Cherokee Bible records this cross-cultural encounter at a deep philosophical level, providing evidence that microlinguistic detail powerfully and intricately reflects macrosociological phenomena. In showing how Cherokee Christians ingeniously adapted Christian practices to create unique social and spiritual identities, The New Voice of God documents how this adaptation - manifest in the translation of Christian texts into Cherokee - not only bridged two vastly different languages but also exposed deep philosophical differences, challenging Western cultural norms and reshaping spiritual discourse.

Matias, Jo Zalea / Scheyhing, Nicola et al. (eds.), Diversity in Visual Representations of the Past: Representation Matters. (Themes in Contemporary Archaeology) 110 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-1712>
ISBN 978-3-031-98240-8 hard ¥27,584.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This volume presents an overview of the diversity - or lack thereof - in visual representations of the European past that are found in archaeology, museums, and media. While publications discussing gender stereotypes in European archaeological media exist, other identities remain underrepresented - namely, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), those with visible and invisible disabilities, and very young and very old. This volume offers insight into these gaps in European media and archaeology, while also providing alternative explanations for interpreting these often-stereotyped identities and methodologies for inclusion. The chapters within this volume are divided into four themes.Themes cover the development of images of the past and discusses how images are chosen in museums. The book identifies who is missing in images of the past, with topics on representing individuals with disabilities/children in museums, the Other in Roman art, and Scythians in museums and books and critiques approaches to representation and diversity in media, such as in textbooks, popular media, and children's books. Finally, the book challenges the lack of diversity and a proliferation of stereotypes in images of the past and asks, how do we improve on them and create new ones. Overall, this book addresses the need for diversity in images, both within academic archaeology and with the broader public.

デジタル・エスノグラフィの実践
Proctor, Devin (ed.), Practicing Digital Ethnography. 376 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <753-1724>
ISBN 978-1-032-67264-9 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-66042-4 paper ¥10,199.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

Practicing Digital Ethnography offers a comprehensive introduction to the essential methods, concepts, and practices of conducting ethnographic research in digital environments.Written by sixty global contributors across twelve chapters with accompanying case studies and concept explorations, this book provides both theoretical foundations and practical guidance for digital ethnographic work. It covers research approaches for diverse digital contexts including social media, virtual spaces, video games, and hybrid physical-technological settings, while addressing the deployment of tools like artificial intelligence, big data, mapping technologies, and multimodal methodologies. The book examines ethical challenges specific to digital research environments while maintaining a commitment to reflexive, co-present research that acknowledges how our interactions with digital technologies transcend boundaries of citizenship, race, gender identity, age, and ability.Practicing Digital Ethnography is ideal for students and researchers in anthropology, media studies, science and technology studies, and communications who seek to understand contemporary hyper-mediated environments, as well as professionals outside academia who need practical, accessible guidance for conducting rigorous digital research.