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

Pritzker, Sonya E., Learning to Love: Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China. 288 pp. 2024:7 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <728-999>
ISBN 978-0-472-07686-4 hard ¥17,077.- (税込) US$ 75.00
ISBN 978-0-472-05686-6 paper ¥6,818.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Learning to Love offers a range of perspectives on the embodied, relational, affective, and sociopolitical project of "learning to love" at the New Life Center for Holistic Growth, a popular "mind-body-spirit" bookstore and practice space in northeast China, in the early part of the 21st century. This intimate form of self-care exists alongside the fast-moving, growing capitalist society of contemporary China and has emerged as an understandable response to the pressures of Chinese industrialized life in the early 21st century. Opening with an investigation of the complex ways newcomers to the center suffered a sense of being "off," both in and with the world at multiple scales, Learning to Love then examines how new horizons of possibility are opened as people interact with one another as well as with a range of aesthetic objects at New Life. Author Sonya Pritzker draws upon the core concepts of scalar intimacy-a participatory, discursive process in which people position themselves in relation to others as well as dominant ideologies, concepts, and ideals-and scalar inquiry-the process through which speakers interrogate these forms, their relationship with them, and their participation in reproducing them. In demonstrating the collaborative interrogation of culture, history, and memory, she examines how these exercises in physical, mental, and spiritual self-care allow participants to grapple with past social harms and forms of injustice, how historical systems of power continue in the present, and how they might be transformed in the future. By examining the interactions and relational experiences from New Life, Learning to Love offers a range of novel theoretical interventions into political subjectivity, temporality, and intergenerational trauma/healing.

Marcondes, Danilo, Skepticism and the New World: The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity. 122 pp. 2024:10 (Lexington Books, US) <728-78>
ISBN 978-1-66693-554-7 hard ¥21,631.- (税込) US$ 95.00

The arrival of Europeans in the New World in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, often neglected by historians of philosophy, is a crucial historical event that transformed modern thought. Skepticism and the New World: The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity argues that the encounter between Europeans and the inhabitants of the New World challenges Europeans' concept of a universal human nature and leads to new forms of skepticism. Contrasting a theological and political debate on the rights of indigenous peoples with the rights of conquest and "just war" of the Spanish, Danilo Marcondes examines their anthropology, exploring how the French saw the indigenous cultures of the New World and how they shaped their epistemology.

Isomae, Jun'ichi, Listening to the Voices of the Dead: The 3-11 Tohoku Disaster Speaks. Tr. by L. E. Riggs & Manabu Takechi. 216 pp. 2024:11 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <728-975>
ISBN 978-0-472-07707-6 hard ¥15,939.- (税込) US$ 70.00
ISBN 978-0-472-05707-8 paper ¥9,108.- (税込) US$ 40.00

Listening to the Voices of the Dead is an account of the author's search for disquieted voices of the dead in the wake of the March 11, 2011, Tohoku Disaster and his attempt to translate those voices for the living. Isomae Jun'ichi considers the disaster a challenge for outside observers to overcome, especially for practitioners of religion and religious studies. He chronicles the care and devotion for the dead shown by ordinary people, people displaced from their homes and loved ones. Drawing upon religious studies, Japanese history, postcolonial studies, and his own experiences during the disaster, Isomae uncovers historical symptoms brought to the surface by the traumas of disaster. Only by listening to the disquiet voices of the dead, translating them, and responding to them can we regain our true selves as well as offer peace to the spirits of the victims. While Listening to the Voices of the Dead focuses on this one event in Japanese history and memory, it captures a broadening critique at the heart of many movements responding to how increasing globalization impacts our sense of place and community.

Candea, Matea / Fedirko, Taras / Heywood, P. et al. (eds.), Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power. (Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life) 528 pp. 2025:2 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <728-567>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4884-1 paper ¥11,372.- (税込) US$ 49.95

Bringing together leading anthropologists, this collection sheds light on the vast topic of freedoms of speech from a comparatively human perspective. Freedoms of Speech provides a sustained, empirical exploration of the variety of ways freedom of speech is lived, valued, and contested in practice; envisioned as an ideal; and mediated by various linguistic, ethical, and material forms. From Ireland to India, from Palestine to West Papua, from contemporary Java to early twentieth-century Britain, and from colonial Vietnam to the contemporary United States, the book broadly interrogates the classic vision of a singular "Western liberal tradition" of freedom of speech, exploring its internal complexities and highlighting alternative perspectives on the relationship between speech, freedom, and constraint in other times and places. Chapters analyse subjects commonly linked to freedom-of-speech debates, shedding new light on familiar topics that include campus speech codes, defamation, and press freedom, while also exploring unexpected ones such as therapy, gift-giving, and martyrdom. These analyses not only provide unexpected perspectives and unique insights but also address a myriad of questions, contributing to a rich, interdisciplinary, and human understanding of the nature of freedom of speech.

Grandia, Liza, Kernels of Resistance: Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power. 392 pp. 2024:11 (U. Washington Pr., US) <728-284>
ISBN 978-0-295-75329-4 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 105.00
ISBN 978-0-295-75330-0 paper ¥6,831.- (税込) US$ 30.00

The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and wonRight before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala's legislature into lifting its national ban on genetically modified (GM) crops and criminalizing traditional seed saving practices. Maya elders responded with a campaign of mass civil disobedience, blocking highways until the Guatemalan Congress repealed this "Monsanto Law." Uniting rural and urban Guatemalans, this uprising spotlighted the existential threat of GM corn to the livelihood, dignity, and cultural heritage of maize-producing milperos (small farmers) throughout Mesoamerica. Ten years later, Mexico is also facing down US trade aggression to defend a 2020 presidential ban on the import of GM corn for human consumption. Liza Grandia chronicles how diverse coalitions in Mexico and Guatemala have defended their sacred maize against corporate threats to privatize it. Rather than just "voting with their forks" like the consumer-driven US food movement, Mesoamerican farmers and their allies have voted with their feet through direct action. In a world of interconnected trade, their victories chart a path that other food movements might follow. They also show how everyday people can demand better regulatory protections for environmental health and forge more climate-resilient agricultural systems with native seed saving.Dramatic and timely, Kernels of Resistance celebrates this Indigenous triumph over corporate greed.

Minnis, Paul E. / Freedman, Robert, Plants for Desperate Times: The Diversity of Life-Saving Famine Foods. 208 pp. 2024:10 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <728-286>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5376-1 hard ¥22,770.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5375-4 paper ¥7,969.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Sepulveda, Charles A., Native Alienation: Spiritual Conquest and the Violence of California Missions. (Indigenous Confluences) 2024:11 (U. Washington Pr., US) <728-195>
ISBN 978-0-295-75326-3 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 105.00
ISBN 978-0-295-75327-0 paper ¥6,831.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missionsSites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions played a central role in the brutal subjugation of the region's Indigenous peoples. Mainstream California history, however, still largely presents a romanticized portrait of the creation of the twenty-one Spanish missions between San Diego and Sonoma in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Providing a corrective to this benign historiography, Charles A. Sepulveda reconstructs the violence toward Native people as well the resistance and refusals of his ancestors and other Native people during and after the Spanish genocide. The conquest enforced the attempted spiritual possession of Native souls and the physical position of Native bodies and the land. At the same time, it strengthened the Spanish view of California's Indigenous people as disposable. Sepulveda demonstrates how enslavement was a key method of conquest, putting to rest the myth of the Spanish as benevolent and beneficial. Centering the experiences of Native peoples, Sepulveda brings to light the gendered dimensions of the conquest and genocide. His fuller history confronts the erasure of Indian individuality and resistance and historicizes the relationship between enslavement, dispossession, and environmental degradation. He also illuminates the mission system's central role in destroying Indigenous people's relationships to the land while examining the practice's centuries-long impact on the lives of Native people. A groundbreaking reconsideration, Native Alienation transforms our understanding of California Indian history.

Procter, Caitlin / Spector, Branwen (eds.), Inclusive Ethnography: Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier and More Ethical. 232 pp. 2024:4 (Sage, UK) <728-23>
ISBN 978-1-5296-2003-0 hard ¥32,186.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5296-2002-3 paper ¥10,822.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

How can you do ethnographic field research in a safe way for you and the people you work with? In this nuanced, candid book, researchers from across the globe discuss core challenges faced by ethnographers, reflecting on research from preparation to dissemination and how identity interacts with the realities of doing fieldwork. Building on the work of the editors' The New Ethnographer Project, which has been seeking to change the way ethnographic methods are approached and taught since 2018, the book: Promotes an inclusive approach that invites you to learn from the challenges faced by a diverse range of scholars.Addresses underexplored issues including emotional and physical safety in the face of ableism, homophobia and racism.Challenges assumptions of what it means to produce knowledge by conducting fieldwork. Whether you're an undergraduate student or an experienced researcher, this book will help you do fieldwork that is safer, healthier and more ethical.

Anders, Allison Daniel / Noblit, George W. (eds.), Evolutions in Critical and Postcritical Ethnography: Crafting Approaches. 296 pp. 2024:8 (Springer, GW) <728-1206>
ISBN 978-3-031-58826-6 hard ¥34,338.- (税込) EUR 139.99

Moving beyond traditional critical ethnography, postcritical ethnographies accept as a key premise that studies which are critical of the social world must also turn critique back on the ethnographer, the study, and its process. The book includes an introduction to the evolutions of critical ethnography and postcritical ethnography and exemplar chapters from contributors who engaged in long-term ethnographic studies. Accompanying each chapter is an introductory preface and margin notes created by the editors to underscore the methodological 'moves' made by each author. Addressing the distinct orientations critical and postcritical ethnographies take, the book illuminates how different authors think, enact, and represent their critical and postcritical/post-critical work. In this way the book is pedagogical within and across each chapter. Each contributor has produced a chapter that includes a brief summary of their respective long-term inquiry project with emphases on relation in the being, doing, and theorizing of qualitative research. Contributors discuss their navigation of commitments across the arc of their research and engage critical social theory, interrogating issues of power and ideology. Each chapter includes retrospective analytical reflections on the long-term ethnographic work contributors completed. The chapters address interpretivist commitments to emic analyses, metaphor, and representation and each contributor's personal and professional commitments to equity and justice. The chapters engage critical social theories, crip horizons, critical race theory, and queer theory, as well as critical and queer pedagogies, de/colonialism, and post-humanism. A summary chapter addresses key issues in contemporary postcritical/post-critical qualitative research. The book is designed to prepare novice qualitative researchers to craft, conduct, and represent postcritical/post-critical qualitative research. The book provides guidance for researchers who are interested in social critique, equity, and justice and who seek to avoid the failures in the last quarter of the 20th Century of critical ethnography.

Counihan, Carole / Hojlund, Susanne (eds.), Chefs, Restraurants, and Culunary Sustainability. 2024:6 (U. Arkansas Pr., US) <728-1277>
ISBN 978-1-68226-264-1 hard ¥22,757.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-1-68226-265-8 paper ¥7,502.- (税込) US$ 32.95

Bowser, Brenda J. / Cameron, Catherine M. (eds.), Landscapes of Movement and Predation: Perspectives from Archaeology, History, and Anthropology. (Amerind Studies in Archaeology) 344 pp. 2024:10 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <728-1355>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5335-8 hard ¥17,077.- (税込) US$ 75.00

Davis, Elizabeth Anne, The Time of the Cannibals: On Conspiracy Theory and Context. (Thinking from Elsewhere) 320 pp. 2024:11 (Fordham U. Pr., US) <728-1359>
ISBN 978-1-5315-0884-5 hard ¥25,047.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5315-0885-2 paper ¥7,286.- (税込) US$ 32.00

In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals reconsiders this history and the public discourse on it to reconsider how we think about conspiracy theory, and specifically, what it means to understand conspiracy theories "in context." The months after Papadopoulos's body was stolen saw intense public speculation in Cyprus, including widespread expressions of sacrilege, along with many false accusations against Cypriots and foreigners positioned as his political antagonists. Davis delves into the public discourse on conspiracy theory in Cyprus that flourished in the aftermath, tracing theories about the grave robbery to theories about the division of Cyprus some thirty-five years earlier, and both to longer histories of imperial and colonial violence. Along the way, Davis explores cross-contextual connections among Cyprus and other locales, in the form of conspiracy theories as well as political theologies regarding the dead bodies of political leaders. Through critical close readings of academic and journalistic approaches to conspiracy theory, Davis shows that conspiracy theory as an analytic object fails to sustain comparative analysis, and defies any general theory of conspiracy theory. What these approaches accomplish instead, she argues, is the perpetuation of ethnocentrism in the guise of contextualization. The Time of the Cannibals asks what better kind of contextualization this and any "case" call for, and proposes the concept of conspiracy attunement: a means of grasping the dialogic contexts in which conspiracy theories work recursively as matters of political and cultural significance in the long duree.

Falk, Dean, The Botanic Age: Planting the Seeds of Human Evolution. 272 pp. 2024:9 (Aevo UTP, CN) <728-1360>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4664-9 hard ¥6,818.- (税込) US$ 29.95

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful? The beginning of the Stone Age, marked by the invention of stone tools, has traditionally dominated discussions about the origin and evolution of human intelligence. However, feminist anthropologists have long theorized that the first tools were actually nests, slings, and baskets that would not have survived in the archaeological record.In The Botanic Age, leading evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk argues that millions of years of weaving botanical materials and woodworking preceded the Stone Age, facilitating the basic neurological underpinnings for humankind's later creative and technological inventions. She further suggests that mothers and infants may hold the key to understanding a series of events that eventually kindled the emergence of advanced cognitive abilities, including language and music.The Botanic Age takes readers millions of years into the past to a time before our relatives began living full-time on the ground. From stationary hominin sleeping trees in Africa to beached trees on the shores of Indonesia, the impact of the Botanic Age on hominin evolution was far-reaching. Only from this vantage point "in the trees" can we really begin to understand how and why our ancestors evolved - and how we became human.

Fleming, Luke Owles, On Speaking Terms: Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship. (Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life) 296 pp. 2024:12 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <728-1361>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4970-1 hard ¥13,662.- (税込) US$ 60.00

Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into "joking" and "avoidance" relations? Foundational figures in the human sciences, from E.B. Tylor and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown to Sigmund Freud and Claude Levi-Strauss, have sought to explain why some classes of kin are normatively expected to prank and tease one another while others must studiously avoid each other's presence. In this extensively researched comparative study, linguistic anthropologist Luke Owles Fleming offers a bold new answer to this problem.With a particular focus on avoidance relationships, On Speaking Terms argues that in order to understand cross-cultural convergences in the patterning of kinship-keyed comportments, we must attend to the sociolinguistic codes through which kinship relationships are enacted. Drawing on ethnographic data from more than one hundred different societies, the book documents and analyses parallels in the linguistic and non-verbal signs through which avoidance relationships are experientially realized. With dedicated discussions of Aboriginal Australian "mother-in-law languages," name and word tabooing practices, pronominal honorification, and non-verbal strategies of interactional and sensorial avoidance, it reveals recurrent sociolinguistic patterns attested in kinship avoidance. In demonstrating the vital role of sociolinguistic codes for transforming kinship categories into phenomenologically rich relationships, On Speaking Terms makes an important contribution to the anthropology of kinship.

Goldfarb, Kathryn E. / Bamford, Sandra (eds.), Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care. 238 pp. 2024:10 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <728-1362>
ISBN 978-1-9788-4143-7 hard ¥34,155.- (税込) US$ 150.00
ISBN 978-1-9788-4142-0 paper ¥9,095.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing decades of scholarly research. But what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is anything but 'warm and fuzzy' but is characterized, instead, by neglect, violence, negative affect, or a lack of nurturance and care? In the three interlinked sections of this volume, the view that kinship is about "solidarity" and "care" is challenged by exploring how kin relations are not only about connection and inclusion but also about disconnection, exclusion, neglect, and violence. Kinship relationships that feel "positive" and "good" take a great deal of perseverance and work; there is nothing "natural" about kinship ties as being based on positive sociality. In these chapters, the contributors take seriously the contingency of kinship relations (the moments when kinship breaks down or is a source of suffering) and how this prompts scholars to develop new theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Haley, Brian D., Hopis and the Counterculture: Traditionalism, Appropriation, and the Birth of a Social Field. 352 pp. 2024:10 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <728-1364>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5366-2 hard ¥22,770.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5365-5 paper ¥7,969.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Jacobsen, Kristina, Sing Me Back Home: Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics. (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom) 296 pp. 2024:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <728-1366>
ISBN 978-1-4875-5385-2 hard ¥18,216.- (税込) US$ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-5386-9 paper ¥7,502.- (税込) US$ 32.95

Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, Sing Me Back Home explores language and culture through songwriting as an ethnographic method. Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork writing songs with Sardinian musicians, artisans, shepherds, poets, and language activists, Kristina Jacobsen asks: How are Sardinian lives and language ideologies narrated against the backdrop of American music? The book shows how Sardinian musicians sing their own history between the lines. It reveals how Sardinian songs become a site of transduction where, through the process of songwriting, recording, and performance, the energy from one genre of music and lingua-culture is harnessed to signal another one much closer to home. Sing Me Back Home is accompanied by original songs written and recorded in the field, with links to songs in each chapter. It includes songwriting prompts and lyrics, a glossary of key terms, and photographs from the field. Drawing on work from critical collaborative research, auto-ethnography, public anthropology, arts-based research, and ethnographic poetry, this sensory ethnography offers new ways for us to hear culture through stories and songs.

Jelinski, Jamie, Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada. (McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History) 424 pp. 2024:6 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <728-1367>
ISBN 978-0-228-02198-8 hard ¥17,077.- (税込) US$ 75.00

In 1891 J. Murakami travelled from Japan, via San Francisco, to Vancouver Island and began working in and around Victoria. His occupation: creating permanent images on the skin of paying clients.From this early example of tattooing as work, Jamie Jelinski takes us from coast to coast with detours to the United States, England, and Japan as he traces the evolution of commercial tattooing in Canada over more than one hundred years. Needle Work offers insight into how tattoo artists navigated regulation, the types of spaces they worked in, and the dynamic relationship between the images they tattooed on customers and other forms of visual culture and artistic enterprise. Merging biographical narratives with an examination of tattooing's place within wider society, Jelinski reveals how these commercial image makers bridged conventional gaps between cultural production and practical, for-profit work, thereby establishing tattooing as a legitimate career.Richly illustrated and drawing on archives, print media, and objects held in institutions and private collections across Canada and beyond, Needle Work provides a timely understanding of a vocation that is now familiar but whose intricate history has rarely been considered.

McClaurin, Irma, Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics. 25th Anniversary Ed. 296 pp. 2024:11 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <728-1369>
ISBN 978-1-9788-4330-1 hard ¥34,155.- (税込) US$ 150.00
ISBN 978-1-9788-4329-5 paper ¥6,818.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In the discipline's early days, anthropologists by definition were assumed to be white and male. Women and black scholars were relegated to the field's periphery. From this marginal place, white feminist anthropologists have successfully carved out an acknowledged intellectual space, identified as feminist anthropology. Unfortunately, the works of black and non-western feminist anthropologists are rarely cited, and they have yet to be respected as significant shapers of the direction and transformation of feminist anthropology. In this volume, Irma McClaurin has collected-for the first time-essays that explore the role and contributions of Black feminist anthropologists. She has asked her contributors to disclose how their experiences as Black women have influenced their anthropological practice in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States and how anthropology has influenced their development as Black feminists. Every chapter is a unique journey that enables the reader to see how scholars are made. The writers present material from their own fieldwork to demonstrate how these experiences were shaped by their identities. Finally, each essay suggests how the author's field experiences have influenced the theoretical and methodological choices she has made throughout her career. Not since Diane Wolf's Feminist Dilemmas in the Field or Hortense Powdermaker's Stranger and Friend have we had such a breadth of women anthropologists discussing the critical (and personal) issues that emerge when doing ethnographic research.

Reetz, Elizabeth C. / Sperling, Stephanie T. (eds.), A Practitioner's Guide to Public Archaeology: Intentional Programming for Effective Outreach. 208 pp. 2024:8 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <728-1374>
ISBN 978-1-5381-8081-5 hard ¥21,631.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-5381-8082-2 paper ¥8,652.- (税込) US$ 38.00

AQ: Many archaeologists learn by trial and error while developing public programs and events and are mostly unaware that others in the profession are undergoing the same challenges. Archaeologists seldom receive professional development on K-12 pedagogy, public engagement, program design, or assessment. For many in the field, public outreach is often an under-funded and under-resourced extension of an already overwhelming workload; yet this work is incredibly important. InA Practitioner's Guide to Public Archaeology: Intentional Programming for Effective Outreach, more than thirty public archaeology practitioners will help you reduce the guesswork and stress behind program planning in this engaging and reader-friendly handbook. A complement to the growing library of public archaeology publications, the authors exclusively focus on key components of planning, implementing, and assessing public archaeology programming. Learn how to connect with your audience; build an accessibility mindset; create intentional goals and outcomes; identify resources, collaborators, and other logistical needs; and conduct assessments to better understand your impact. Discover ideas and techniques for all ages programming, like public excavations, site tours, festivals, and lectures; K-12 presentations and events, including formal and nonformal educational programs that occur inside and outside of a classroom; and community-based heritage management programs that include those designed for recurring participation by active, trained volunteers. Throughout the book, curated case study excerpts provide a diversity of perspectives and offer practical insights. The book concludes with a collection of logistics templates and real-world examples to help you streamline your program preparation. Drawing from decades of experience, you'll discover guidance on navigating challenges, celebrating successes, and lessons learned. Whether you are new to public archaeology or a seasoned expert, this book offers valuable insights for all practitioners.

Ward, Shannon M., Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau. (Anthropological Horizons) 240 pp. 2024:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <728-1006>
ISBN 978-1-4875-5866-6 hard ¥27,324.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-5867-3 paper ¥6,135.- (税込) US$ 26.95

In Amdo, a region of eastern Tibet incorporated into mainland China, young children are being raised in a time of social change. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, Chinese state development policies are catalysing rural to urban migration, consolidating schooling in urban centres, and leading Tibetan farmers and nomads to give up their traditional livelihoods. As a result, children face increasing pressure to adopt the state's official language of Mandarin.Amdo Lullaby charts the contrasting language socialization trajectories of rural and urban children from one extended family, who are native speakers of a Tibetan language known locally as "Farmer Talk." By integrating a fine-grained analysis of everyday conversations and oral history interviews, linguistic anthropologist Shannon M. Ward examines the forms of migration and resulting language contact that contribute to Farmer Talk's unique grammatical structures, and that shape Amdo Tibetan children's language choices. This analysis reveals that young children are not passively abandoning their mother tongue for standard Mandarin, but instead are reformatting traditional Amdo Tibetan cultural associations among language, place, and kinship as they build their peer relationships in everyday play.

Roy, Arpan, Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference. (Anthropological Horizons) 192 pp. 2024:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <728-1059>
ISBN 978-1-4875-5871-0 hard ¥13,662.- (税込) US$ 60.00

Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic portrait of Dom Romani communities living between Palestine and Jordan, zooming in on everyday life in working-class neighborhoods, and under conditions of perpetual war and instability.The book focuses on how Doms are able to sustain ethnic difference through kinship, even when public performances of difference are no longer emphasized; a kind of alterity that is neither visible by obvious markers like race or religious difference, nor detected by the antennas of the state. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Amman, Roy makes a case for such "other" alterity for Romani people and other groups in the region.Analyzing intimate ethnographic scenes through anthropological theories of kinship, psychoanalysis, social theory from the Global South, and more, the book reveals how alterity in the Middle East does not adhere to rigid identitarian categories. Ultimately, Relative Strangers demonstrates the inadequacy of transposing models of pluralism centered on European and American experiences of minoritization onto other contexts.

Williams, Selase W. / Spencer-Walters, Tom, Sierra Leone Krio: Language, Culture, and Traditions. 328 pp. 2024:8 (Hamilton Books, US) <728-1113>
ISBN 978-0-7618-7450-8 paper ¥9,787.- (税込) US$ 42.99

Canessa, Andrew / Picq, Manuela Lavinas, Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State. 216 pp. 2024:11 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <728-1118>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5396-9 hard ¥14,800.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Opperman, Stephanie Baker, Cold War Anthropologist: Isabel Kelly and Rural Development in Mexico. 248 pp. 2024:11 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <728-1133>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5391-4 hard ¥12,523.- (税込) US$ 55.00

Glueck, Kim / Thubauville, Sophia (eds.), Saving and Being Safe Away from Home: Savings and Insurance Associations in Ethiopia and Its Diaspora. (Culture and Social Practice) 250 S. 2024:8 (Transcript, GW) <727-870>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7127-8 paper ¥12,265.- (税込) EUR 50.00

Savings and insurance associations are widespread not only in Ethiopia but also in its diaspora, even in countries with diversified and comprehensive formal financial institutions. The contributors to this volume give a comprehensive overview of these associations in Ethiopia and its diaspora and, at the same time, ask what the activities within these associations tell us about their members' future aspirations and ideas of a "good life".

Roca-Sanchez, Juanita, Bolivia and the Making of the Global Indigenous Movement: Anthropology, Development and Transnationalism. (Routledge Studies in Indigenous Peoples and Policy) 256 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-908>
ISBN 978-1-03-257870-5 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book investigates how western anthropological trends, development discourse and transnational activism came to create and define the global indigenous movement.Using Bolivia as a case study, the author demonstrates through a historical research, how international ideas of what it means and does not mean to be indigenous have played out at the national level. Tracing these trends from pre-revolutionary Bolivia, the Inter-American indigenismo in the 1940s up to Evo Morales' downfall, the book reflects on Bolivia's national-level policy discourse and constitutional changes, but also asks to what extent these principles have been transmitted to the country's grassroots organisations and movements such as "Indianismo", "Katarismo", "CSUTCB" and "CIDOB". Overall, the book argues that indigeneity can only be adequately understood, as a longue duree anthropological, political, and legal construction, crafted within broader geopolitical contexts. Within this context, the classical dichotomy between "indigenous" and "whites" should be challenged, in favour of a more nuanced understanding of plural indigeneities.This book will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of global studies, political anthropology, history of anthropology, international development, socio-legal studies, Latin American history, and indigenous studies.

Borgstrom, Erica / Visser, Renske, Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement. (Critical Approaches to Health) 198 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-270>
ISBN 978-1-03-233061-7 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-233062-4 paper ¥10,822.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

Critical Approaches to Death Dying and Bereavement is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, based on social, cultural, historical, political, and medical contexts. It looks at the complex ways in which death and dying are managed, from the political level down to end of life care, and the inequalities that surround and impact experiences of death, dying and bereavement.Readers are introduced to key theories such as the medicalisation, as well as contemporary issues, such as social movements, pandemics, and assisted dying. The book stresses how death is not only a biological process or event, but rather shaped by a range of intersecting factors. Issues of inequalities in health, inequities in support, and intersectional analyses are to the fore, and each chapter is dedicated to an issue that has interdisciplinary resonance, thus showcasing the wider socio-cultural and political factors that impact this time of life.It is valuable reading for scholars in thanatology and death studies, and for those in related fields such as sociology of health, medical and social anthropology and interdisciplinary social science courses.

Li, Chuan, Collaborating for Museum Innovation: Technological, Cultural, and Organisational Innovation in Spanish Museums. (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology) 180 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <727-341>
ISBN 978-1-03-200239-2 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book is a fresh reflection on the study of museum innovation, with special attention paid to the enabling role of collaboration within the process. It sets out to capture the innovation dynamics of museums and explore to what extent and how collaborative arrangement can contribute to different types of innovative activities in the museum sector. The book presents a holistic review of museum innovation from multiple perspectives of, among others, economics, sociology, museology and organizational study, while adopting an interdisciplinary approach to explore and analyse the innovation process and collaboration mechanism from the viewpoint of economics and sociology. The research presented is based on three interdependent aspects: firstly, a holistic definition and taxonomy of innovation in museum organisations; secondly, qualitative and quantitative analysis of the enabling role of collaboration in technological, cultural and organizational innovation in museums; and thirdly, multiple case studies for the identification and evaluation of effective collaboration models in different types of innovation. This is a problem-oriented study, which avoids focusing on those large and super museums that have been well-documented in prior studies; instead, it concentrates on small-and medium-sized museums, which account for more than 85% of museums in the world and have become the main resources of cultural tourism and the creative economy at a regional level. Primarily written for postgraduates, researchers and academics interested in innovation study, innovation in cultural and creative sectors, and museum study, the findings may also have important implications on innovation management and policy for regional museums and public authorities.

世界の宗教における自己と死後の理念入門　第2版
Sumegi, Angela, Understanding Death: Ideas of Self and the Afterlife in Religions of the World. 2nd ed. 336 pp. 2024:9 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <727-159>
ISBN 978-1-394-18513-9 paper ¥8,868.- (税込) US$ 38.95

What is death? How can we respond to death? Why must we die? Where do we go from here? Do we go anywhere? Understanding Death offers a thorough introduction to the views and practices of various religions regarding death and life after death. Drawing on examples from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Shamanic traditions, this student-oriented textbook explores how different conceptions of the "self" or soul inform the way humans interpret life and assign meaning to the phenomenon of death. Incorporating contributions from members of each faith, Understanding Death provides readers with a comparative overview of how death is expressed and constructed in religious texts and canonical interpretations. Accessible chapters discuss how major religions address the nature of death itself while illustrating how history, philosophy, and ritual reflect what is important in understanding the meaning of death in that religion. Now in its second edition, Understanding Death is revised and updated throughout, featuring three entirely new chapters on Sikhism, Jainism, as well as changing attitudes and new technologies related to death and dying in the twenty-first century. Understanding Death: Ideas of Self and the Afterlife in Religions of the World, Second Edition, is an ideal textbook for undergraduate students and lecturers in Religious Studies programs, and an excellent resource for non-specialist readers interested in the subject.

Wijnia, Lieke / Bielo, James S. (eds.), Museums as Ritual Sites: Civilizing Rituals Reconsidered. 288 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-165>
ISBN 978-1-03-227009-8 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Museums as Ritual Sites critically examines the assumption that museums inherently function as ritual sites and, in turn, are poised to exert influence on cultural and societal change.Bringing together a diverse, international group of interdisciplinary scholars and curators, the volume celebrates and critically engages with Carol Duncan's seminal work, Civilizing Rituals. Presenting a wide-ranging exploration of how museums function as liminal zones in broader societal contexts, the book discusses major topics identified as functioning at the heart of the above-mentioned paradigm shift: diversity and inclusion, consumption, religion, and tradition. These topics are studied through the lens of their ritual implications in museum practice. Presenting case studies on ethnographic, art, history, community, and memorial practices in museums, the book reflects the diversity of the contemporary international museum field. As such, the volume presents a critical and updated revision of the ritual perspective on museums - both as it was presented by Duncan and as it has since been developed in the field of museum studies.Museums as Ritual Sites will be essential reading for academics and students working in museum studies, heritage studies, cultural anthropology, religious studies, and ritual studies. Museums as Ritual Sites will also be of interest to those working across the humanities and social sciences who are interested in the intersection of museums or archives with indigeneity and decolonization.

Rodon, Thierry / Theriault, S. / Keeling, A. et al. (eds.), Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods: Rights, Revenues, and Resistance. (Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development) 348 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <727-224>
ISBN 978-1-03-251628-8 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book maps the encounters between Indigenous Peoples and local communities with mining companies in various post-colonial contexts.Combining comparative and multidisciplinary analysis, the contributors to this volume shine a light on how the mining industry might adapt its practices to the political and legal contexts where they operate. Understanding these processes and how communities respond to these encounters is critical to documenting where and how encounters with mining may benefit or negatively impact Indigenous Peoples. The experiences and reflections shared by Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors will enhance our understanding of evolving practices and of the different strategies and discourses developed by Indigenous Peoples to deal with mining projects. By mobilizing in-depth fieldwork in five regions-Australia, Canada, Sweden, New Caledonia, and Brazil-this body of work highlights voices often marginalized in mining development studies, including those of Indigenous Peoples and women.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of mining and the extractive industries, sustainable development, natural resource management, and Indigenous Peoples.

Burger, Tim / Mahar, Usman / Schild, Pascale et al. (eds.), The Multi-Sided Ethnographer: Living the Field beyond Research. (Culture and Social Practice) 328 S. 2024:5 (Transcript, GW) <727-1105>
ISBN 978-3-8376-6677-9 paper ¥12,755.- (税込) EUR 52.00

As ethnographic fieldwork blurs the boundaries between >private< and >professional< life, ethnographers always appear to be on duty, looking out for valuable encounters and waiting for the next moment of disclosure. Yet what lies in the gaps and pauses of fieldwork? The contributions in this volume dedicated to anthropologist Martin Soekefeld explore methodological and ethical dimensions of multi-sided ethnographic research. Based on diverse cases ranging from hobbies over kinship ties to political activism, the contributors show how personal relationships, passions and commitments drive ethnographers in and beyond research, shaping the knowledge they create together with others.

Carroll, Alicia, Indiscipline: Reading Collaboratively Written Native American Autobiography. 224 pp. 2024:10 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <727-1106>
ISBN 978-1-4696-7875-7 paper ¥7,957.- (税込) US$ 34.95

In the last few years, there have been myriad media reports regarding Federal Indian boarding schools and their grisly history of violence and cultural erasure against Native people in the United States. The US government recently acknowledged its role for the first time with the Department of the Interior's publication of the ""Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report."" In this book, Alicia Carroll tells the history of one form of literary Native resistance to this violence, that of the collaboratively written autobiography. Focusing on work by Hopi boarding school residents, Carroll shows readers that collaborative autobiographical authorship is a practice of Indigenous intellectual sovereignty, using a method they dub indiscipline: a strategy of defying, refusing, or purposefully failing to follow mandates to conform to settler colonial sex and gender norms, including heteronormativity, the binary construct of sex and gender, and the idea of personhood itself. Through collaboratively written autobiography, Carroll argues that Native authors not only resisted colonial attempts to use sex and gender to alienate them from their homelands and bodies, they created an important Indigenous literary genre that informs our understanding of Native life and art today.

Fixico, Donald L., The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge. 2nd ed. 216 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-1107>
ISBN 978-1-03-271019-8 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-269467-2 paper ¥10,530.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Now in its second edition, The American Indian Mind in a Linear World examines the persistence of Native peoples in retaining their own worldviews, from the pre-Columbian era into the twenty-first century.The book explores the ways in which Indian people who are close to their cultural traditions think in a circular fashion, understand by relying on visual analysis, and make decisions from an Indigenous logic. Yet, Comanches have a different reality from Mohawks, Apache ethos is not like that of the Lakota, and Indian men and women see things differently. How and why is the Native mind different from the western world? Why have white teachers and missionaries tried to change the minds of Native students? The Indian perspective is not wrong; it is simply different and inclusive, another way of looking at the world and universe. This edition updates the discussion with a new chapter on contemporary American Indian intellectualism and further analysis of the preservation of Indigenous traditional knowledge.Approachable and engaging, this volume is a key resource for students and scholars of Native American and Indigenous studies and Indigenous history.

Round, Phillip H., Inscribing Sovereignties: Writing Community in Native North America. (Critical Indigeneities) 304 pp. 2024:10 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <727-1113>
ISBN 978-1-4696-8069-9 paper ¥7,957.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Before European settlers arrived in North America, more than 300 distinct languages were being spoken among the continent's Indigenous peoples. But the Euro-American emphasis on alphabetic literacy has historically hidden the power and influence of Indigenous verbal and nonverbal language diversity on encounters between Indigenous North Americans and settlers. In this pathbreaking work, Phillip H. Round reveals how Native North Americans sparked a communications revolution in their adaptation and resistance to settlers' modes of speaking and writing. Round especially focuses on communication through inscription-the physical act of making a mark, the tools involved, and the social and cultural processes that render the mark legible. Using methods from history, literary studies, media studies, linguistics, and material culture studies, Round shows how Indigenous graphic practices embodied Native epistemologies while fostering linguistic innovation.Round's broad theory of graphogenesis-creating meaningful inscription-leads to new insights for both the past and present of Indigenous expression in a range of forms. Readers will find powerful new insights into Indigenous languages and linguistic practices, with important implications not just for scholars but for those working to support ongoing Native American self-determination.

Smith, Shelley L., Developing the Hall of Human Origins: Adaptive Resilience. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums) 256 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <727-1114>
ISBN 978-1-03-267997-6 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book focuses on the development of the National Museum of Natural History's David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins. As one of the most visited human evolution exhibits in the world and the largest such exhibit in the United States of America, it has tremendous influence on public perception and knowledge of human evolution. The chapters explore how this exhibit came about, how it has changed since opening, and the associated educational and public outreach activities of members of the Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. The author uses the term 'adaptive resilience' to describe a central theme of the exhibit, our species' adaptation to changing environments as a key feature of our success, and to refer to the resilience of Richard B. Potts in creating his vision for the hall. Contextual sections situate the hall's development within the history of paleoanthropology, the politics of evolution and climate change, and African contributions. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of anthropology and museum studies as well as the history of science and science communication.

人類学とデザインの実践必携
Spears, Jenessa Mae / Miller, Christine Z. (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design. 472 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-1115>
ISBN 978-1-03-237416-1 hard ¥62,909.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00

The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the relationship between these two fields and their current state, outlining key concepts and current debates as well as positing directions for future practice and research. Bringing together original work from a diverse group of established and emerging professionals, this volume joins a wider conversation about the trajectory of this transdisciplinary movement and inspired by the continuing evolution of Anthropology and Design as they have adapted to accelerating and unpredictable conditions in arenas that span sectors, economies, socio-cultural groups, and geographies. It homes in on both the growing convergence and tensions between them, while exploring how individuals from both fields have found ways of mixing, experimenting, and evolving theory and new forms of practice, highlighting the experimental theories and practices their transdisciplinarity has generated.The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design is a valuable reference tool for practitioners, scholars, and upper-level students in the fields of Anthropology and Design, as well as related disciplines.

Jain, Pankaj (ed.), Visual Anthropology of Indian Films: Religious Communities and Cultural Traditions in Bollywood and Beyond. 127 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-1058>
ISBN 978-1-03-277828-0 hard ¥39,501.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book provides a unique insider's look at the world's largest film industry, now globally known as 'Bollywood' and challenges existing notions about Indian films.Indian films have been a worldwide phenomenon for decades. Chapters in this edited volume take a fresh view of various hidden gems by maestros such as Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy, V Shantaram, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Shakti Samant, Rishikesh Mukherjee, and others. Other chapters provide a pioneering review and analysis of the portrayal of Indian religious communities such as Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Parsis. The themes covered include unique Indian feminism and male chauvinism, environment and climate issues, international locations and diaspora tourism, religious harmony and conflict, the India-Pakistan relationship, asceticism, and renunciation in Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. Unlike many recent studies of Indian films, these chapters do not distinguish between popular and serious cinema. Many chapters focus on Hindi films, but others bring insights from films made in other parts of India and its neighbouring countries.One of the chapters in this volume was originally published in the book titled Film and Place in an Intercultural Perspective India-Europe Film Connections, edited by Krzysztof Stachowiak, Hania Janta, Jani Kozina, and Therese Sunngren-Granlund. Another chapter was originally published in Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology. All other chapters were originally published in Visual Anthropology.

Singh, Kundan / Maheshwari, Krishna, Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children: A Francophone Postcolonial Analysis. 259 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-941>
ISBN 978-3-031-57626-3 hard ¥12,261.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-57629-4 paper ¥9,808.- (税込) EUR 39.99

Euro-American misrepresentations of the non-West in general, and in particular on Hinduism and ancient India, run deep and have far greater colonial connections than that have been exposed in academia. This book analyzes the psycho-social consequences that Indian American children face after they are exposed to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. The authors show that there is an intimate connection-an almost exact correspondence-between James Mill's colonial-racist discourse and the current school-textbook discourse. The very parameters and coordinates on which James Mill constructed the discourse are the ones that are being used to describe Hinduism, Hindus, and ancient India in the textbooks currently. Consequently, this archaic and racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces in the Indian American children a psychological impact quite similar to what racism is known to produce: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon similar to racelessness where the children dissociate from the tradition and culture of their ancestors. This book argues that the current school textbook discourse on Hinduism and India needs to change so that the Indian American children do not become victims of overt and covert racism. For the change to occur, the first step is to recognize the overarching and pervasive influence of the colonial-racist discourse of James Mill on the textbooks. For the reconstruction of the discourse to take place, the first step is to engage in a thorough deconstruction, which is what the book attempts.

Pillen, Alex, Endurance: Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World. (Brill Kurdish Studies 1) 220 pp. 2024:10 (Brill, NE) <726-965>
ISBN 978-90-04-70951-5 hard ¥29,436.- (税込) EUR 120.00

In Endurance , Alex Pillen portrays a sense of being unique within Kurdish cultural spheres. How to feel unique despite devastating violence, cultural oppression and assimilation is a question faced by many communities globally. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is a focal point for such uniqueness. When a culture is under siege and many have lost a former way of life it may not be clear how a society looks itself in the mirror, finds its reflection. Alex Pillen's portrayal of Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World locates such lines of reflection within everyday language. The fear of a random geopolitical pair of dice is global, a fear to be honed when reading this account of uniqueness in the face of totalising loss

Pintchman, Tracy, Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple. 200 pp. 2024:11 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <726-222>
ISBN 978-0-19-067301-7 hard ¥22,542.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-067302-4 paper ¥4,997.- (税込) US$ 21.95

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen years of field work, Tracy Pintchman reveals how the Parashakthi Temple has become a site of theological and ritual innovation. A unique spiritual community, the temple does not simply reproduce Indian goddess traditions, but instead reimagines Hinduism and the Hindu Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape. The congregation's faith is grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Like her congregants, Pintchman suggests, the goddess is emblematic of the qualities of a new immigrant; she embraces the opportunities her new home affords her and refashions herself, but she does not forget her roots, keeping one foot planted in her Indian homeland and another planted firmly in her new land, the United States. Pintchman considers larger issues concerning the creativity of immigrant Hindu communities and the ways in which diaspora contexts facilitate the production of new forms of Hinduism that are made possible by globalization and modern technology.

Letiche, Hugo / De Loo, Ivo / Moriceau, Jean-Luc, How Do I Conduct Ethnographic Research? (Elgar Dissertation Companions) 176 pp. 2024:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-23>
ISBN 978-1-80392-652-0 hard ¥23,408.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-80392-654-4 paper ¥7,884.- (税込) GB￡ 26.95

Providing indispensable guidance to how to engage in and carry out ethnographic research, this book highlights the potential advantages and possible pitfalls of this type of qualitative studies. Hugo Letiche, Ivo De Loo and Jean-Luc Moriceau paint a full picture of this fascinating research approach, focusing on its adaptability in the field, when researchers become actively involved with those who they are researching.How Do I Conduct Ethnographic Research? addresses three forms of ethnographic analysis: ethnography, autoethnography, and netnography. Each chapter begins with specific aims to be addressed, and is concluded with helpful exercises to strengthen both one's theoretical and practical academic skills. Stressing the role of researcher choice-making, this timely book aids the reader in devising a unique approach that best suits the context of their research.This book is crucial for postgraduate students of business and management, marketing, strategy and organization, as well as related subject areas such as finance and human resource management. Those who are new to ethnographic research will additionally find this guide to be invaluable.

Haddad, Fernando, The Excluded Third: Contribution to a Dialectical Anthropology. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 288) 171 pp. 2024:8 (Brill, NE) <726-1142>
ISBN 978-90-04-70089-5 hard ¥44,889.- (税込) EUR 183.00

In view of the new forays from biology into the Humanities, this book aims not only to demonstrate the inconsistencies of the theory of evolution in addressing cultural dynamics but also to offer an alternative that begins from a resumption of the dialogue between anthropology and historical materialism in which dialectics reintroduces itself to anthropology from different premises and the role of symbolic language within materialism is reevaluated.

Hofmann, Daniela / Frieman, C. J. / Furholt, M. et al., Negotiating Migrations: The Archaeology and Politics of Mobility. (Debates in Archaeology) 264 pp. 2024:8 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1143>
ISBN 978-1-350-42766-2 hard ¥21,945.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00

As a species, we have always been mobile and migration was a habitual feature of prehistoric life. This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies mainly from the European Neolithic, but also from the Pacific, the US Southwest, the medieval Migration Period and the historical Great Lakes, to discuss how a focus on small-scale inter-personal relations - on the power struggles, negotiations and choices that people make in everyday settings - can help us understand migration events in archaeology. While much archaeological scholarship, using isotopes and aDNA, focuses on migrations as large-scale phenomena and crisis responses, this book offers a new approach by exploring how moving on was embedded in social practice. This book offers a novel reinterpretation of how the political aspects of migration shaped past people's worlds in Europe and beyond, drawing on archaeological, historical, linguistic and aDNA evidence. Overall, the conclusion is that a bottom-up approach can help us to understand migration in the past at a variety of scales, in many different regions of the world The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre of Advanced Studies in Oslo.

van Roekel, Eva / Murphy, Fiona (eds.), A Collection of Creative Anthropologies: Drowning in Blue Light and Other Stories. (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology) 319 pp. 2024:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-1150>
ISBN 978-3-031-55104-8 hard ¥11,035.- (税込) EUR 44.99

A Collection of Creative Anthropologies brings together a series of creative work of anthropologists who share the art of writing that arises from 'ordinary' engagement and reveals its potential for the reimagining of anthropological futures and alternative worlds. This is a collection of creative anthropology anchored in experimentality and encouragement. A book that defies imaginaries of academic convention through the cultivation of a mundus imaginalis requiring moments of pause, of introspection, and of discomfort. This centring of creativity at the heart of anthropology subtly conveys how the complex ethical and moral issues around fieldwork and anthropological theorising can be reflected on through writing otherwise, in creative spaces such as this book. A Collection of Creative Anthropologies fits the current call for radical revisions of the academic canon in anthropology, and the social sciences and humanities more broadly.

Darmangeat, Christophe, Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be: At the Origin of Male Domination. (Historical Materialism Book Series 323) 316 pp. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <726-123>
ISBN 978-90-04-53523-7 hard ¥38,021.- (税込) EUR 155.00

When was male domination established in human societies, and why did it take hold? How does humanity's most remote past inform today's feminist struggle? This new, updated edition of Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be - available for the first time in English translation - represents a timely contribution to the debate, drawing on the accumulated knowledge of ethnology and archaeology. While noting the many outdated aspects of Morgan and Engels' seminal work, this vast synthesis, guided by a rigorous materialist approach, renews Marxist analysis on a theme that is at once remote and pressingly topical.

石田慎一郎著　羽と角と守護者たち－あるアフリカ農村の社会的変遷
Ishida, Shin-ichiro, Feathers, Horns and Guardians: A Study of Social Transition in an African Community. 244 pp. 2024:2 (Trans Pacific Pr., AT) <100-6445>
ISBN 978-1-920850-31-9 hard ¥15,016.- (税込) US$ 65.95
ISBN 978-1-920850-32-6 paper ¥10,462.- (税込) US$ 45.95

Pipatti, Otto, The Origins Of Human Social Nature: Westermarckian Sociology and Social Anthropology. 264 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-1063>
ISBN 978-3-031-55146-8 hard ¥29,432.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book is the first comprehensive study of Westermarckian sociology and social anthropology, which flourished in Finland for half a century, until the Second World War. Edward Westermarck (1862-1939) was not only the founder of Finnish sociology but also Britain's first professor of sociology, influencing and contributing to teaching and research at LSE for nearly three decades. In Finland, a group of disciples shared his Darwinian interest in the human mind and the comparative study of the origins of social phenomena. Like Westermarck, they also conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork beyond Europe. Many of them became internationally renowned scholars who published their works through leading British publishers. The book traces his influence on British sociology and social anthropology more broadly also by considering his work and students at LSE, who emphasised their debt to Westermarck. Drawing on both published writings and unpublished archival material, the book offersa reinterpretation of 'origin' as the Westermarckian school's core concept.

Greenhalgh, Susan, Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. 352 pp. 2024:8 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-920>
ISBN 978-0-226-82914-2 hard ¥26,185.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-83473-3 paper ¥5,692.- (税込) US$ 25.00

Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet industry needs. The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. Public health critics pointed to sugary soda as a main culprit and advocated for soda taxes that might decrease the consumption of sweetened beverages-and threaten the revenues of the giant soda companies. Soda Science tells the story of how industry leader Coca-Cola mobilized allies in academia to create a soda-defense science that would protect profits by advocating exercise, not dietary restraint, as the priority solution to obesity, a view few experts accept. Anthropologist and science studies specialist Susan Greenhalgh discovers a hidden world of science-making-with distinctive organizations, social networks, knowledge-making practices, and ethical claims-dedicated to creating industry-friendly science and keeping it under wraps. By tracing the birth, maturation, death, and afterlife of the science they made, Greenhalgh shows how corporate science has managed to gain such a hold over our lives. Spanning twenty years, her investigation takes her from the US, where the science was made, to China, a key market for sugary soda. In the US, soda science was a critical force in the making of today's society of step-counting, fitness-tracking, weight-obsessed citizens. In China, this distorted science has left its mark not just on national obesity policies but on the apparatus for managing chronic disease generally. By following the scientists and their ambitious schemes to make the world safe for Coke, Greenhalgh offers an account that is more global-and yet more human-than the story that dominates public understanding today. Coke's research isn't fake science, Greenhalgh argues; it was real science, conducted by real and eminent scientists, but distorted by its aim. Her gripping book raises crucial questions about conflicts of interest in scientific research, the funding behind familiar messages about health, and the cunning ways giant corporations come to shape our diets, lifestyles, and health to their own needs.