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

Santasombat, Yos (ed.), Bio-Cultural Diversity, Ethnicity, and Local Knowledge: From Lanna to Northeast India. 331 pp. 2026:2 (Springer, GW) <762-819>
ISBN 978-981-9542-41-3 hard ¥42,060.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book explores the interconnections between biodiversity, cultural knowledge, and resource management in Lanna in Northern Thailand, and Northeast India. By examining traditional practices, economic activities, and gender roles, the book contributes to the repertoire of local knowledge concerning resource management which may lead to policies that balance conservation with sustainable development. Today, urban and rural communities worldwide, especially in tropical regions, face crises in economic, agricultural, environmental, and cultural dimensions. The breakdown of human-nature relationships has become an urgent issue that people globally are beginning to recognize. Crucial research questions in biodiversity studies are: how can we extract lessons from various field studies to restore local communities' capacity to manage biodiversity? How can we empower communities to regain control over production, utilization, and genetic resource development, including knowledge about food, medicine, and other natural resources? Relevant to scholars in anthropology, environmental social sciences, ethnic and cultural studies, this is a timely volume in sustainable development studies in Asia.

Zangrando, Atilio Francisco Javier et al. (eds.), Archaeology of the South Coast of Tierra del Fuego: Cultural Niches and the Diversity of Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers. (The Latin American Studies Book Series) 210 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <762-867>
ISBN 978-3-032-09486-5 hard ¥31,544.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book brings together recent results of extensive and varied archaeological, stable isotope and ancient DNA research from the south coast of Tierra del Fuego and carefully integrates them with earlier archaeological, ethnographical and paleoenvironmental works in the region. Fuegian societies have fascinated travelers, naturalists and scientists during the last two centuries. The chapters analyze and review data on demographic trends, the trophic relations between human and faunal communities in ancient food webs and population genetics, providing a comprehensive picture of the hunter-gatherer history in the Fuegian Andes.During the last decade, new perspectives and methodologies in archaeological research have taken place in the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego. Now, new results are emerging on the long-term interaction between human and coastal ecosystems. This book attempts to tell this state of the art in a comprehensive and approachable manner. In this sense, the book synthesizes current research that will be accessible to students and professionals alike.

Runk, Julie Valasquez et al., Interwoven Rosewood: Collaborative Ecologies, Colonial Entanglements, and Indigenous Resistance. 424 pp. 2026:5 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <762-889>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5693-9 hard ¥22,440.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-4606-0 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Interweaving Rosewood is a collaborative exploration of the global rosewood trade and its entanglements with Indigenous lifeways, colonial histories, and environmental crises. Co-authored by Julie Velasquez Runk and members of the Wounaan National Congress and its Local Congress of the Maje community, this book traces the story of cocobolo rosewood from Wounaan lands in Panama to international markets, revealing how centuries of settler colonialism and extractive capitalism continue to shape landscapes, livelihoods, and relationships. At its heart, the book is a meditation on well-being and belonging-how people live in relation to land, each other, and the more-than-human world. Drawing on more than a decade of community-based research and six collaborative book workshops, the authors weave together first-person narratives, ecological analysis, historical context, and Indigenous knowledge. The result is a richly textured account that challenges dominant narratives of environmental degradation by centering Wounaan experiences of joy, resistance, and conviviality. The book's structure reflects its method: interwoven chapters authored or spoken by Wounaan colleagues, grounded in consent protocols and shaped by ancestral storytelling traditions. Accessibly written, Interweaving Rosewood is ideal for courses in environmental conservation, Indigenous studies, anthropology, Latin American studies, and political ecology. With its interdisciplinary reach and classroom-ready discussion questions, the book invites readers to reflect on the global forces behind environmental catastrophe-and the enduring power of Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and becoming.

Jernigan, Kasey, Commod Bods: Embodied Heritage, Foodways, and Indigeneity. 272 pp. 2026:2 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <762-955>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5622-9 hard ¥22,440.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5621-2 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00

The term "commod bod" is used with humor and affection. It also offers a critical way to describe bodies shaped by long-term reliance on U.S. federal commodity food programs. In Commod Bods, Kasey Jernigan shares her ongoing collaborative research with Choctaw women and describes the ways that shifting patterns of participation in food and nutrition assistance programs (commodity foods) have shaped foodways; how these foodways are linked to bodies and health, particularly "obesity" and related conditions; and how foodways and bodies are intertwined with settler colonialism and experiences of structural violence, identity making, and heritage in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Organized thematically, the book moves from a critical history of obesity and health in Indian Country to narratives of Choctaw women navigating food, memory, and belonging. Chapters such as "Food and Fellowship" and "Heritage, Embodied" center personal stories that show how food is not only sustenance but also a site of connection, resistance, and meaning making. Food is critical to cultural survival and affirmation. For Choctaw people, the intentional demise of traditional foodways and dependence on federal food programs are specific experiences that inform part of what it means to be Choctaw today.

Lewis, David C., Culture Change: Ethnicity, Values and 'Becoming Human'. 369 pp. 2026:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <762-959>
ISBN 978-981-9508-31-0 hard ¥28,915.- (税込) EUR 109.99

All cultures change - but some aspects change more rapidly than others. Drawing on extensive experience of various cultures, in this book David Lewis develops a model that differentiates between the rates of change in different aspects of a culture.Culture teaches us how to relate to other human beings, so David also explores aspects of what it means to be human. Some distinctively human features that are influenced by culture include the development of a sense of humour, a sensitivity to the voice of one's conscience and a capacity to look towards the future with hope.

Adler, Michael A., Transilient Acts and Resilient Villages: Pueblo Community Persistence in the Northern Rio Grande. 340 pp. 2026:4 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <762-995>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4884-2 hard ¥16,830.- (税込) US$ 75.00

A powerful rethinking of resilience through the lens of Pueblo history, this work reveals how Tiwa communities in the Northern Rio Grande used culturally intentional strategies to adapt, transform, and endure across a millennium of change. Anthropologist Michael A. Adler introduces the concept of transilience-culturally intentional acts that address existential threats and enable transformation-as a framework for interpreting the long-term persistence of Tiwa communities. Focusing on the Tiwa-speaking communities of Taos, Picuris, and Pot Creek Pueblos, Adler shows how social and ritual organization, architectural change, and sacred geographies were mobilized in response to disruption. He challenges conventional resilience theory, which emphasizes systemic stability, instead centering Indigenous agency, mobility, and sacred practice as key to understanding cultural endurance. Grounded in decades of collaborative research with Pueblo communities, Transilient Acts and Resilient Villages is a vital contribution to southwestern archaeology. It offers a compelling model for how archaeology can respectfully engage with descendant communities and provides essential insights for scholars, students, and community members seeking to understand the complexities of cultural persistence in the face of change.

Arakawa, Fumiyasu / Seowtewa, Octavius / Retzinger, Dylan, Collaboration in Practice: Transforming Community-Based Research in the Southwest. 200 pp. 2026:4 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <762-996>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5635-9 hard ¥22,440.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5634-2 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Focusing on the Chavez Cave collections in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Collaboration in Practice presents a study of the partnership between New Mexico State University and the Zuni Cultural Resource Advisory Team (ZCRAT). Rather than centering on artifact analysis, the authors emphasize the collaborative process itself-visiting the site, curating an exhibition, and co-authoring this volume-as a model for ethical and respectful research. The book situates this collaboration within the broader historical and political context of archaeology and museology. It critically explores how museums and academic institutions can shift from extractive practices to ones that prioritize Indigenous sovereignty, knowledge systems, and cultural continuity. Through personal narratives, historical context, and methodological insights, the authors highlight the challenges and transformative potential of working collaboratively. They show how true collaboration requires humility, mutual respect, and a commitment to shared authority in both research and representation. Ultimately, this work charts a path forward for community-based research that centers Indigenous voices and values. It advocates for an archaeology that is not only more inclusive but also more meaningful to the communities whose histories are being studied. A vital resource for scholars, students, and practitioners, this work seeks to engage in ethical, reciprocal, and culturally grounded research in the Southwest and beyond.

Hernandez Castillo, R. Aida, Digging for Hope: A Feminist Ethnography in the Land of Mass Graves. 400 pp. 2026:4 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <762-997>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5649-6 hard ¥22,440.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5648-9 paper ¥8,302.- (税込) US$ 37.00

In the shadow of Mexico's ongoing human rights crisis, Digging for Hope offers a powerful feminist ethnography of resistance, care, and collective memory. Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, R. Aida Hernandez Castillo documents the courageous work of women-led search collectives who, in the face of extreme violence, search for their disappeared loved ones. Through physical and spiritual practices such as exhumation, mourning, and poetic remembrance, these women reclaim dignity for the dead and challenge a society that has normalized disappearance. At the heart of this book is a profound exploration of what HernAndez Castillo calls a "pedagogy of love"-a political and ethical framework rooted in care, solidarity, and the refusal to forget. These women are not only searching for bodies; they are building emotional communities, crafting new languages of justice, and offering a reimagining of what it means to resist violence. Their practices, often overlooked by traditional scholarship, restore humanity and dignify the disappeared. Digging for Hope is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the gendered dimensions of violence and the grassroots movements that rise in response. With clarity and compassion, HernAndez Castillo brings readers into the intimate spaces of grief and resistance, offering a model for feminist ethnography that is both rigorous and deeply humane.

Rios, Gabriela Raquel, Indigenous Genres of the Human: Locating the Intersections of Indigeneity and Latinidad. 336 pp. 2026:4 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <762-1001>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5267-2 hard ¥22,440.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5266-5 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

In this work, scholar Gabriela Raquel Rios considers how Latina/o/x communities engage in the ethical reclamation of indigeneity. Through case studies that include testimonios and other Indigenous storytelling practices, RIos reveals how cultural logics of colonization continue to shape-and often constrain-understandings of indigeneity across Latin America and in the United States. Addressing different genres of human and what contemporary indigeneity and reclaiming indigeneity looks like across Latin American contexts, chapters in this work examine digital bruja poetry, Aymara women's Lucha Libre in Bolivia, Raramuri dance in Mexico, and Indigenous Khipu in the Andes. The author weaves her own story of being from southern Texas and traveling to Mexico throughout the book. Bridging Sylvia Wynter's theory of "genres of the human" with critical Latinx indigeneity studies, Chicana/o/x studies, decolonial theory, and rhetorical new materialisms, this book challenges readers to rethink what it means to be human, Indigenous, and Chicanx in the wake of colonial violence. Rather than reinforcing binaries defined by settler colonialism, RIos proposes a framework that centers community knowledge and grounded practices. Her work opens space for dialogue, listening, and healing, emphasizing that reclaiming indigeneity requires attention to the stories, movements, and rhetorical practices that emerge from within communities themselves.

奴隷制の比較考古学ハンドブック
Leone, Mark Paul / Webster, Jane Louise (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Comparative Archaeology of Slavery. (Oxford Handbooks) 712 pp. 2026:8 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <762-1003>
ISBN 978-0-19-755126-4 hard ¥46,675.- (税込) US$ 208.00

Liu, Chang, Conservation of Uncertain Archaeological Sites: Prehistoric Scottish Brochs. (Creativity, Heritage and the City 4) 194 pp. 2026:2 (Springer, GW) <762-1004>
ISBN 978-981-9539-84-0 hard ¥34,173.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book approaches the study from architectural perspectives, analyzing the collection of brochs' features and classifying them based on regional differences. By identifying regional standard models and hypothesizing design schemes, it reveals insights into the methods and strategies used by ancient builders. This understanding not only aids in interpreting brochs but also makes these uncertain archaeological sites more readable and accessible. The major conclusion of this book is the framework of interpretive conservation, offering practical guidance for the consolidation, restoration, and reconstruction of brochs. It advocates for holistic conservation projects that move beyond preservation, proposing dynamic changes to sites that enhance interpretation and public engagement. With its innovative approach and comprehensive analysis, this book is an indispensable resource for archaeologists, architects, and heritage professionals, offering ideas with potential applications to broader heritage conservation efforts worldwide.

Loendorf, Chris (ed.), Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past. (Amerind Studies in Archaeology) 288 pp. 2026:4 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <762-1005>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5646-5 hard ¥16,830.- (税込) US$ 75.00

Collaborative Archaeology brings together a diverse group of scholars and tribal cultural resource professionals to showcase how Indigenous knowledge is transforming archaeological practice. Edited by Chris Loendorf, this volume features twelve case studies that highlight the power of partnership between Native American communities and archaeologists. These collaborations not only enrich our understanding of the past but also affirm Indigenous cultural continuity. From the establishment of Tribal Historic Preservation Offices to tribally led research initiatives, the book illustrates how Native voices are reshaping the field. This timely collection bridges disciplinary divides between archaeology, history, and traditional knowledge, challenging outdated narratives that separate "prehistory" from living Indigenous communities. Contributors demonstrate how ethical, community-based research can lead to more accurate and respectful interpretations of the past. Collaborative Archaeology is essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners committed to scientific understanding and cultural preservation. Contributors Nicole Armstrong-Best Skylar Begay Jennifer Bess Hannah F. Chavez Robert B. Ciaccio Shannon Cowell William H. Doelle Karl A. Hoerig Anabel Galindo Barnaby V. Lewis Chris Loendorf Brian Medchill Linda Morgan Laurene G. Montero Stephen E. Nash Eloise Pedro Glen E. Rice Teresa Rodrigues Hoski Schaafsma Thomas E. Sheridan Katrina Soke Lindsey Vogel-Teeter Anastasia Walhovd Kelly Washington Reylynne Williams M. Kyle Woodson Aaron M. Wright

考古学－歴史記述と理論
Murray, Tim, Archaeology: Historiography and Theory. 336 pp. 2026:1 (Springer, GW) <762-1006>
ISBN 978-3-032-11845-5 hard ¥34,173.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines our understanding of the ways in which we produce and consume archaeological knowledge and proposes that this should play a greater role in our attempts to describe and comprehend the nature and purpose of archaeology, and the nature of archaeological knowledge. During the past fifty years prehistoric archaeologists have sought to promote or oppose several redefinitions of archaeological goals and approaches that have emphasized, variously, the liberating or constraining power of critical self-reflection. While practitioners have continued to expand the storehouse of archaeological data, they have also been engaged in active investigation of archaeological goals and approaches, and in intensifying debate over what it is proper or relevant for practitioners to do. Prehistoric archaeology is now much more than a method of data collection and analysis which is transformed into culture history (or exemplifications of material culture theory) by the acts of comparison and interpretation. The central premise of this book is that the kind of understanding sought here should significantly improve our ability to work towards convincing solutions to many of the practical puzzles and problems with which we currently concern ourselves. The author also argues that this understanding will help to redefine the terms under which the collectivity of archaeological practitioners can be considered to be a functioning community.

Weiss, Joseph, Irreconcilable: Indigeneity and the Violence of Colonial Erasure in Contemporary Canada. (Critical Indigeneities) 224 pp. 2026:3 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <761-879>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9372-9 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9373-6 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Since the early 2000s, the Canadian government has attempted reconciliation with Indigenous nations through varied efforts: treaty processes, government commissions, rebranding campaigns for settler-owned businesses, workshops for state and local officials, school curriculum changes, and a recently christened national holiday However, as Joseph Weiss argues, these state-driven initiatives reinforce Indigenous subordination to the settler state. This incisive study of the varied responses from both Indigenous Nations and individuals to reconciliation illuminates how it is implicated in ongoing colonial erasure. Critically engaging with a variety of fields, including Indigenous studies, anthropology, history, political theory, semiotics, and museum studies, Weiss captures the multiple scales at which these contested dynamics unfold and explores their underlying technologies of erasure. Irreconcilable unpacks how reconciliation offers amends for anti-Indigenous violence while disavowing responsibility for that violence, and argues that settler promises of reconciliation cannot be reconciled to the fact of Indigenous sovereignty. Nevertheless, Weiss illustrates how Indigenous Peoples refuse erasure at every turn, instead building alternate futures and lived worlds that are not always already colonially overdetermined.

Lau, Ting Hui, Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism. 240 pp. 2026:7 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <761-993>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4568-4 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4718-3 paper ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00

What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do people carry on amid rupture, loss, and grief? Decolonial Endurance explores these questions through the turbulent lives of Indigenous Lisu subsistence farmers in China's Eastern Himalayas, bordering Myanmar and Tibet. Like many of China's Indigenous borderlands, this mountainous region has long borne the force of encroaching Chinese state power. Since the 1980s, the Chinese state has been compelling the Lisu to give up their subsistence lifeways, move into urban settlements, and send their children to government boarding schools. In exchange for the so-called gifts of development - healthcare, income, and education - they suffer environmental and social catastrophes such as mass landslides, strange new illnesses, and toxic food. Drawing on over a decade of engagement with the Lisu, Ting Hui Lau takes readers into the world of ex-shamans, heart-pained mothers, restless spirits, and demon-mad migrants as they grapple with the fallout from state development, which Lau argues is the latest phase in a centuries-long project of settler colonialism along China's Southwest frontier. At once a portrayal of loss and an ethnography of hope, Lau chronicles Lisu worldmaking amid this destruction, centering their quiet resistance through everyday acts of communal caretaking. In a time of escalating geopolitical and ecological crisis, this book calls for a new decolonial politics rooted in the transformative power of endurance.

Pipyrou, Stavroula / Sorge, Antonio (eds.), Emergent Axioms of Violence. 116 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <761-691>
ISBN 978-1-041-23125-7 hard ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book highlights the diverse and complicated ways that violence becomes axiomatic, namely through political rhetoric, epistemological impositions, and colonial legacies. Considering how axiomatic violence emerges from events of rupture as well as slow-moving structural inequalities, authors interrogate both the novelty and mundane quality of the current political moment. Approaching violence as axiomatic expands the conceptual lexicon for discussing how rhetorics, metaphors, and prescriptive assumptions can be inherently violent and become normalised, losing their event-like status. Through the routinisation of the extraordinary, truths become indisputable. Axioms combine neoteric and foundational violence to lend legitimacy to apparently incontestable categories of domination, disenfranchisement, and epistemological governance.This book will be an asset to students and researchers of political theory, philosophy, and social anthropology and those interested in learning about the intersections of post-colonial and post-liberal anthropology, violence, and power.The chapters in this book were first published as a special issue of Anthropological Forum and are accompanied by a new Afterword.

Watanabe, Chika, Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of Fire. 264 pp. 2026:7 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <761-842>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4624-7 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4688-9 paper ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00

We live in a fragile world. This much is evident as stories abound of natural disasters that wipe out communities in an instant. How can we survive the future on such a planet, amid intensifying climate change? This question is particularly poignant along the Ring of Fire, a tectonic belt in the Pacific region that routinely faces some of the most devastating disasters in the world. Based on ethnographic research spanning seven years, Play to Survive examines the work of preparedness training in Japan and Chile, two primary nations along the Ring of Fire that experience frequent and intense disasters. Experts from these countries have often collaborated to create some of the most advanced disaster preparedness systems in the world. Chika Watanabe traces how local city officials, NGOs, and members of neighborhood and grassroots organizations are, counterintuitively, using fun, playful methods to teach preparation for our darkest hours. While there are many important studies of post-disaster response, much less is written about the future-orientation of disaster preparedness. This book shows how a transnational group of preparedness experts orient people toward potential disasters in gentle and hopeful ways, focusing on improvisation and repair. In a time of political and environmental destabilization globally, this book offers a unique look at how playful preparedness can reset relationships to environments, to the future, and to each other.

Boas, Franz, The Franz Boas Papers. Volume 3: Paper Bridges Between Franz Boas and Russian Anthropology. Ed. by D. V. Arzyutov et al. (Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition) 1064 pp. 2026:7 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <761-1348>
ISBN 978-1-4962-3882-5 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00

Anthropology is inseparable from writing, whether in field diaries, letters, articles, or books. Among these writings, letters form paper bridges-holding a special place as material artifacts uniquely capable of building scholarly communities and sustaining relationships with field collaborators long after the fieldwork is completed.The story of Franz Boas, one of the founders of American anthropology, can be imagined as a res publica literaria, a network that, like its Renaissance prototype, shaped the contours of transnational anthropology. This two-part volume chronicles more than forty years of Boas's collaborations and friendships with Russian and Soviet anthropologists, following a small group of anthropologists as they built the house of Arctic and Siberian anthropology. Through these letters, readers are introduced to a lesser-known aspect of Boas's political life and his ambition to redefine anthropology as a transnational discipline, one that transcended national borders and political obstacles. Through meticulously gathered correspondence from more than thirty archives in the United States, Russia, France, and Norway, The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 3 reveals an untold chapter in the history of anthropology.

Drennan, Robert / Peterson, Christian / Berrey, C. Adam, The Emergence of Social Complexity: A Global Archaeological Comparison. 300 pp. 2026:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <761-1349>
ISBN 978-1-009-70273-7 hard ¥27,423.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

The emergence of social complexity is at the heart of archaeological inquiry, but to date, there has been insufficient global comparative analysis of this phenomenon. This volume offers archaeologists and other social scientists reconstructions of past societies in all parts of the world, some of which challenge currently popular accounts. Using recently developed analytical approaches robust enough to yield compatible results from disparate datasets, the reconstructions presented here rest on fresh comparative analysis of archaeological data from 57 regions. They reveal the highly varied pathways to social complexity in ways that make it possible to see previously conflicting ideas as complementary. The analytical approaches and the full datasets are presented in detail in the book as well as an online data base. Offering new insights into the forces that have shaped human societies for millennia, this study provides a deeper understanding of the ways in which archaeology uses the material remains of past societies to reconstruct how they were organized.

Farrar, Margaret E. / Kaul, Adam, Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest. (Anthropology of Contemporary North America) 260 pp. 2026:7 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <761-1350>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4351-5 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4962-4721-6 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Becoming Utopia centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it "Utopia on the Prairie," home to a radical communal religious sect that emigrated from Sweden in the 1840s. Through rich textual and ethnographic analyses, Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul tell the story of what happens when a small, historically significant Midwestern community negotiates the contradictory impulses of twenty-first-century place-making. At first glance, Bishop Hill is simply a small heritage tourism destination in Midwestern flyover country, but further inspection reveals it to be a complex place that mixes a deep nostalgia for the past undercut by complex origin stories of displacement and colonialism, an active historic preservation movement amid futuristic green energy technologies built by multinational corporations, and a commitment to localism in the context of omnipresent globalization.Based on fifteen years of fieldwork, Becoming Utopia is an interdisciplinary contribution to conversations about the importance and meaning of place-making, heritage-making, and sustainability (social, economic, and environmental) in the twenty-first century.

Magnani, Matthew / Magnani, Natalia, The Craft of Belonging: Material Culture and Social Boundaries in Sapmi. 224 pp. 2026:4 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <761-1354>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4066-1 paper ¥10,085.- (税込) US$ 44.95

The Craft of Belonging explores the role of craft and its mediation of social boundaries, particularly in communities that are under state pressure. Anthropologists Matthew Magnani and Natalia Magnani blend anthropology and archaeology to explore the role of craft in community-making from prehistory to present with the Sami, the Indigenous peoples of Northern Europe. Sapmi, the Sami homeland, has sat at a material crossroads for millennia. Forests, tundras, and extended social networks offered raw materials autochthonous and imported. Wood, antler, cloth, and silver were crafted to cope with Arctic climates and state incursions. Integrating archaeological, ethnographic and Indigenous perspectives to reveal the transformative nature of material culture, The Craft of Belonging shows how long-term perspectives accentuate the shifting meanings and malleability of material social boundaries. Local agencies intersect with changing trade networks, colonialism and climate change, to resonate through the production, uses and signals of Sami craft (duodji). This book thus contends that ancestral material cultures, far from static cultural domains, are innovative sites of social transformation used to assert rights to land, water, and community belonging.

P.メトカーフ著　人類学の基礎　第2版
Metcalf, Peter A., Anthropology: The Basics. 2nd ed. (The Basics) 258 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <761-1355>
ISBN 978-1-032-75687-5 hard ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-032-75689-9 paper ¥6,395.- (税込) GB￡ 20.99

The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores anthropological concepts and themes. In this immensely readable book, Peter A. Metcalf makes large and complex topics both accessible and enjoyable, arguing that the issues anthropology deals with are all around us, in magazines and newspapers and on television. He tackles topics such as:What is anthropology?How the issues of anthropology arise in everyday life.How can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones?What is culture, anyway?How do anthropologists study culture?What are the key theories and approaches used today?How has the discipline changed over time?Decolonising anthropology.New to this edition are a reframing of gender and feminist theory, discussions of queer anthropology, as well as an entirely new chapter on decolonizing anthropology. This student-friendly text provides an overview of the fundamental principles of anthropology and is an invaluable guide for anyone wanting to learn more about this fascinating subject.

O'Neill, Colleen, Waging Sovereignty: Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century. 240 pp. 2026:2 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <761-1356>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9327-9 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9328-6 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Orser, Charles E., Jr., Historical Archaeology. 4th ed. 450 pp. 2026:5 (Routledge, UK) <761-1357>
ISBN 978-1-041-04087-3 hard ¥57,893.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00
ISBN 978-1-041-04086-6 paper ¥36,564.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

Historical Archaeology offers students a comprehensive and accessible introduction to historical archaeology, and highlights the regional, cultural, and ethnic diversity of the modern historical period.This volume covers key methods and concepts, including fundamental theories and principles, the history of the field, and basic definitions, it also includes a practical look at career prospects for interested readers. It discusses central topics of archaeological research such as time and space, survey and excavation methods, and analytical techniques, encouraging readers to consider the possible meanings of artifacts. This fourth edition has been heavily revised to reflect the changes to the discipline. As well as updating the case studies the many revisions include: information on new technological approaches in surveying, excavating, and documenting sites and buildings; a focus on global cultural preservation and heritage; updates on maritime and underwater archaeology; and new additions on conflict archaeology. A new chapter on Indigenous and underserved community voices in archaeology, drawing on recent scholarship, has been added to reflect the importance of this topic in current teaching.Drawing on the author's extensive experience as an historical archaeologist, Historical Archaeology continues to be an ideal resource for students studying this rapidly expanding global field, demonstrating the real importance of this subject to our understanding of the world in which we live today.

Pollard, Mark / Armitage, R. A. / Batt, C. M. et al., Analytical Chemistry in Archaeology. 2nd ed. (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology) 2026:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <761-1359>
ISBN 978-1-009-52545-9 hard ¥35,040.- (税込) GB￡ 115.00
ISBN 978-1-009-52546-6 paper ¥11,578.- (税込) GB￡ 38.00

Price, Max, Food Taboos in Archaeology. (Elements in the Archaeology of Food) 75 pp. 2026:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <761-1360>
ISBN 978-1-009-66357-1 hard ¥16,758.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-66361-8 paper ¥5,484.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

Anthropologists have struggled with the concept of the food taboo for over a century; and archaeologists struggle with detecting them in the material signatures of the past. Yet by recognizing that ancient peoples must have followed taboos, some of which may have persisted for thousands of years, we gain insight into how cultural traditions shaped the ways in which people ate and interacted with their environments. This Element concerns food and the cultural structures that surround it. It provides an overview of the history and anthropological understandings of food taboos, and offers critical engagement with the current archaeological method and theory investigating these. Archaeological case studies, including the pig taboo in Judaism and ethnoarchaeological analysis of various mammalian taboos among the Nukak of Amazonia, shed light on the difficulties and prospects of studying food taboos in the material record.

Prior, Charles W. A., Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty, from Roanoke to the Republic. 278 pp. 2026:5 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <761-1361>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4484-0 hard ¥14,586.- (税込) US$ 65.00

L.ローゼン著　部族
Rosen, Lawrence, Tribes: Challenging the Image, Shifting the Paradigm. 218 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <761-1362>
ISBN 978-1-041-14932-3 hard ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-041-14930-9 paper ¥12,794.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

Tribes: Challenging the Image, Shifting the Paradigm reconsiders the concept of "tribe" in political, cultural, and academic discourse, offering a dynamic alternative to outdated and damaging stereotypes.This book critiques the popular portrayal of tribes as static, violent, or regressive, arguing instead for an understanding of tribal life as adaptive, egalitarian, and resilient. Drawing on examples from colonial history, contemporary war zones, and indigenous sovereignty movements, it explores how tribes disperse power, resist conquest, and regenerate through ritual and cultural practice. The volume challenges the misuse of "tribalism" in modern politics and repositions tribes as vital actors in global conversations about identity, governance, and resource rights. Through comparative analysis, it proposes a new paradigm that recognizes tribes as shape-shifters rather than fixed structures.Tribes: Challenging the Image, Shifting the Paradigm is ideal for students and researchers interested in anthropology, human rights, international relations, and political rhetoric.

リプロダクション研究－人類学の視点
Unnithan, Maya / Davis-Floyd, Robbie A. et al. (eds.), Exploring Reproduction: Anthropological Perspectives. 234 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <761-1364>
ISBN 978-1-032-39386-5 hard ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-032-39387-2 paper ¥12,794.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

Exploring Reproduction: Anthropological Perspectives introduces students to the dynamic field of the anthropology of reproduction, examining how human reproduction is shaped by cultural, historical, and political forces.This textbook engages with key issues such as fertility, infertility, assisted reproductive technologies, childbirth, contraception, reproductive governance, genetics, and justice. Drawing on foundational anthropological concepts-like personhood, stratified reproduction, and biopolitics-it introduces students to the various ways in which reproduction intersects with gender, sexuality, kinship, and social institutions. Through case studies and theoretical insights, the book showcases the relevance of anthropological approaches to understanding reproductive health, rights, and policy across diverse contexts.Exploring Reproduction: Anthropological Perspectives is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology, sociology, public health, allied medicine, biology, and related fields exploring reproduction, identity, and power.

White, Daniel / Cook, Emma / De Antoni, Andrea, Affect As Cultural Critique: Methods for Anthropological Discovery. 312 pp. 2026:3 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <761-1367>
ISBN 978-1-4875-5979-3 paper ¥8,739.- (税込) US$ 38.95 *

Affect as Cultural Critique assembles leading anthropologists, affect theorists, and artist-activist scholars to ask, what if the most constructive response to moments of ethnographic puzzlement was not the formulation of an answer but the cultivation of a feeling? What if understanding the powerful effects of discourses requires somatic rather than semiotic exercises? And where habits of academic professionalism prohibit experiencing possible worlds - what if anthropology as a discipline could leverage affect to differently connect and cultivate collaboration with others? In line with growing movements to decolonize the academy, the essays in Affect as Cultural Critique feature ethnographic accounts of people actively describing, experimenting with, and otherwise exercising affect in ways that challenge the academy's inherited models for analyzing emotional life. Through an experimental collection of traditional ethnographic essays and artist-activist-generated critiques, this volume explores how everyday modes of feeling function as methods of knowing. By centering non-academic and non-Western affective practices as answers to traditional theoretical problems generated primarily by Western theorists, Affect as Cultural Critique seeks new trajectories for the discipline through a rediscovery of discovery itself as a guiding professional aim, as methodological inspiration, and as a source of reflexive critique of the discipline's philosophical and theory-heavy analytics.

Hong, Emily, Borderland Solidarity: Indigenous Law, Media, and Environmental Activism in Kachinland. 240 pp. 2026:6 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <761-1016>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4504-2 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4694-0 paper ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00

Kachinland is an unrecognized state in the borderlands of Myanmar, India, China, and Thailand. Its geography throws into sharp relief the intersecting dynamics of British colonialism, settler colonialism, and protracted war between the Kachin Independence Army and the Myanmar Army. Kachinland's rich natural resources - including jade and hydropower - are coveted by the junta-led Myanmar government and its energy hungry neighbor, China. As resource extraction and land confiscation intensifies, Kachin activists and artists turn to Indigenous law and media to stem the tide of displacement and dispossession. Emily Hong follows a diverse cast of Kachin activists, punk rock musicians, women farmers, and armed group leaders dreaming up new futures for Kachinland. She examines how they draw on the infrastructures of the borderlands - cross-border media tactics, inter-ethnic solidarity, and an expanded sense of the law and political possibility - to sustain activism for the long-haul. With critical awareness of the colonial legacies of the region and of anthropology itself, Hong uncovers the limitations and liberatory potential of borderland solidarity, offering a powerful lens for understanding global activism and for navigating collaborative ethnography. Through evocative storytelling and sensory ethnography, Hong's book challenges readers to move beyond a Western lens on solidarity to ask what activists, artists, and anthropologists alike can learn from centering non-Western ways of theorizing and embodying political sensation and collective action.

Harms, Arne / Ley, Lukas (eds.), Coastal Futures: Life Between and at the Edges of the Sea. (Anthropological Horizons) 256 pp. 2026:2 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <761-1164>
ISBN 978-1-4875-8164-0 paper ¥8,963.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Coastal Futures explores the profound transformation of our relationship with the world's coasts, as nearly 40 percent of humanity now lives within 100 kilometers of the sea. Moving beyond the traditional view of coasts as simple boundaries between land and water, this book reveals the coast as a diverse, networked landscape shaped by intertidal ecologies, sprawling infrastructures, and everyday practices that reach far beyond the shore. By uncovering the "coastalization" of society, the book highlights the growing significance of shores in understanding contemporary life and environmental change. Drawing on rich ethnographic research, the volume challenges traditional notions of the coast as simply a physical object or maritime boundary. Instead, it closely examines the diverse material forms and infrastructural connections that define coastal spaces, envisioning new futures for these vital zones. Coastal Futures argues that a scientific inquiry into the dynamic interplay of society and coastlines is both urgent and essential, encouraging more responsible and imaginative ways of living with and on the coast. Ultimately, the book redeems the coast as a geo-ontological force-one that shapes, enables, and constrains the transformative energies of global assemblages, rather than serving as a passive backdrop to human activity.

環境人類学ハンドブック　第2版
Shoreman-Ouimet, Eleanor / Fredlund, Jessie et al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology. 2nd ed. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 508 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-1190>
ISBN 978-1-032-74561-9 hard ¥74,651.- (税込) GB￡ 245.00

This book illustrates the ways in which today's environmental anthropologists are constructing new paradigms for understanding the multiplicity of players, pressures, and ecologies in every environment, and the value of cultural knowledge of landscapes.The Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary topics in environmental anthropology and thorough discussions on the current state and prospective future of the field in seven key sections. As the contributions to this Handbook demonstrate, the subfield of environmental anthropology is responding to cultural adaptations and responses to environmental changes in multiple and complex ways. As a discipline concerned primarily with human-environment interaction, environmental anthropologists recognize that we are now working within a pressure cooker of rapid environmental damage that is forcing behavioural and often cultural changes around the world. As we see in the breadth of topics presented in this volume, these environmental challenges have inspired renewed foci on traditional topics such as food procurement, ethnobiology, and spiritual ecology; and a broad new range of subjects, such as resilience, nonhuman rights, architectural anthropology, industrialism, and education. The second edition includes greater coverage of topics that have grown increasingly pertinent not only to the field of environmental anthropology, but to peoples, places, and species around the world since the publication of the original volume. To this end, the new edition includes chapters dedicated to illustrating the role of environmental anthropologists in the struggle for environmental justice and elucidating instances of environmental racism, climate change, the effects of the global pandemic, and much more.This comprehensive, holistically oriented second edition is an ideal resource to not only inform students and scholars on the history and challenges of environmental anthropology today, but to prepare them to apply the anthropological skill set to address challenges of justice, health, conservation, and wellbeing in a climate changed world.

Prato, Giuliana B. / Mollica, Marcello (eds.), Ethnographies of Urban Heritage: Politics, Memories, Conflict. (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology) 302 pp. 2026:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <760-694>
ISBN 978-3-032-08655-6 hard ¥42,060.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Drawing on historical and contemporary ethnographic research, this edited collection addresses tangible and intangible forms of urban heritage, their impact on urban policies, and their consequences for urban life, both at individual and social levels. The chapters look at culturally diverse concepts of heritage in their social and historical context, bringing out the potential conflict that cultural memories and ideological approaches may generate and the related processes of social and political legitimation. The book offers different perspectives on how culturally driven urban policies interlink with power dynamics. It will contribute to understanding how memory practices may reflect changing historical narratives, political and ideological projects, and the (re)definition of social identities. This book is of special interest to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, urban history, ethnographic research, material culture, social and political sciences, and archaeology.

Aziz, Heba / El-Said, Osman Ahmed et al. (eds.), Opportunities for Heritage: Fostering Innovation, Conservation and Sustainability. (Springer Proceedings in Archaeology and Heritage) 403 pp. 2026:1 (Springer, GW) <760-746>
ISBN 978-3-032-08672-3 hard ¥52,576.- (税込) EUR 199.99

This conference proceedings, Opportunities for Heritage: Fostering Innovation, Conservation and Sustainability, is the outcome of the first international conference with the same title. The challenges in the pursuit of heritage protection and sustainable development are closely intertwined with the intricate relationship between social and economic environments, often clashing with the need to preserve heritage. It became apparent that further discussions are needed to address the pressing issues facing World Heritage around the world. This book documents the discourse on the interlinkages of heritage and sustainable development by bringing together researchers, practitioners and stakeholders from the fields of heritage at multiple levels to explore the opportunities heritage offers in implementing the UN agenda 2030, and the innovative solutions created to efficiently manage it. It highlights experiences in management including tourism management, the interlinkage between tangible and intangible heritage, living heritage, heritage digitalization and the economic opportunities provided by heritage. The work also addresses the questions of how to meet the needs and aspirations of the communities central to the sustainable management of heritage and their development aspirations. Overall, it emphasizes the importance of heritage for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and for building peace and creating resilient communities, aiming to be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in the field of heritage.

Boccagni, Paolo / Lacroix, Thomas, Death in Migration: Foregrounding Loss, Grieving and Memory Out of Place. (Global Migration and Social Change) 176 pp. 2026:2 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <760-795>
ISBN 978-1-5292-4351-2 hard ¥24,376.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

What happens when death becomes part of the journey of international migrants? This book examines how mortality is woven into the experience of displacement and migration. From perilous border crossings to the business of repatriation and contested burial grounds, it reveals the hidden geographies and politics that underpin the death of migrants in transit or abroad. Drawing together diverse research across disciplines, it offers a cohesive framework for understanding the industries, rituals and emotional labour surrounding migrant death. Whether through bureaucratic processes, artistic productions, activist mobilisations or collective mourning, death becomes not an endpoint, but a powerful force shaping how migration is lived, governed and remembered.

Forrest, John / Forrest-Blincoe, Badger, An Introduction to Holistic Anthropology. 2026:1 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <760-796>
ISBN 978-1-394-26599-2 paper ¥9,188.- (税込) US$ 40.95

Hadzimuhamedovic, Amra (ed.), Heritage Reconstruction and People: Integrated Recovery After Trauma. (Heritage Studies) 424 pp. 2026:2 (Springer, GW) <760-799>
ISBN 978-3-032-09808-5 hard ¥39,431.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book examines heritage reconstruction and its relationship to community recovery after cultural trauma. Its content and structure situate it within a new body of theory concerned to shift focus from physical buildings and ensembles to people, from the material to the social. The contributions integrate the social meaning of heritage with the subjective feelings and needs of individuals engaged in processing cultural trauma. The collection of studies touches upon sociological, psychological, healing, and anthropological dimensions of heritage recovery. The new question that this book brings to the heritage discourse is: Can cultural heritage serve as a medium for healing societal trauma? The volume is divided into five thematic sections: 1. Coming to terms with the past; 2. Inclusiveness; 3. Building Resilience; 4. People in Focus; 5. Crossing borders. The nexus between people and heritage is explored through case studies on diverse recovery contexts - Bosnia, Gazza, Syria, Iraq, Uganda, Albania, Nepal, Zanzibar, Lebanon - different practices of international organisations, and formative documents of contemporary international doctrine. Difficult issues of justice, ethics, human rights, sustainable development, and the lengthy process of coming to terms with life after trauma are brought into contact with technical challenges and cultural, historical, and economic contexts. The book establishes the theory of inclusive heritage discourse, which reconciles informal heritage practices and authorised heritage discourse, and will be relevant for academic researchers, students and professionals in the field of heritage studies but also in conflict, human rights, and humanitarian studies.

Papoli-Yazdi, Leila, A New Garbology Manifesto. (Copernicus Books) 129 pp. 2026:1 (Springer, GW) <760-801>
ISBN 978-3-032-03430-4 paper ¥5,254.- (税込) EUR 19.99

This book offers an updated version of Garbology (Archaeology of Garbage), a subfield of archaeology that critically examines modern waste and consumerism. It weaves academic rigor with the author's personal narratives and experiences in the field. The work contains facts and evidence from multiple communities and considers the author's journey from being a politically marginalized professor in Iran to co-founding a garbology-centered startup in Sweden. This perspective offers a compelling narrative, accessible not just to scholars but to anyone seeking a new way to explore and discuss modern civilization's wicked problems. What distinguishes this work is its practical approach: it not only critiques consumer behaviors but also offers actionable solutions through an archaeological lens. With detailed case studies, the author positions garbology as a transformative tool for grassroots activism and social change. Ultimately, A New Garbology Manifesto serves as a powerful call to action, highlighting the deep connections between waste, socio-economic inequality, and environmental justice. It equips scholars, policymakers, and NGOs with practical strategies to tackle hyperconsumerism and climate challenges across both the Global South and North.

東欧諸国におけるエスノポリティクス－国家安全保障のための含意
Karolak-Michalska, Magdalena, Ethnopolitics in Eastern European Countries: Implications for National Security. (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology 145) 316 pp. 2025:11 (Brill, NE) <760-514>
ISBN 978-90-04-74733-3 hard ¥34,702.- (税込) EUR 132.00 *

This book is interdisciplinary and competently explains the complex relationship between ethnicity, politics and security in Eastern Europe. Magdalena Karolak-Michalska diagnoses and predicts how the determinants of ethnopolitics are being securitized and what implications this process has for the security of Eastern Europe (Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine). The lack of optimal legal solutions in ethnopolitics and the increased activity of nationalist organizations promote the occurrence of ethnic conflicts and disintegration movements in Eastern Europe. This pioneering monograph also contains a catalog of important recommendations that can be used in improving systems for monitoring ethnopolitical processes and strengthening the security of Eastern Europe.

Gauss, Valdis, The Formosan 'Shooting the Sun' Myths: Aboriginal Oral Histories in Taiwan. (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) 227 pp. 2026:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <760-573>
ISBN 978-3-032-08491-0 hard ¥34,173.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers a comprehensive corpus and analysis of all the Formosan 'Shooting the Sun' myths. The 'Shooting the Sun' myths describe a series of historical events in mythology that is preceded by the origins of man myths and followed by the deluge myths. These diverse mythologemes are an integral part of the national culture in Taiwan, particularly among the Austronesian tribes. The myths continue to be the subjects of contemporary art exhibits, literary works, public works, performances, and political protests, and remain essential tribal icons upon which various ritualistic practices are founded. Ninety 'Shooting the Sun' myths from over forty different sources published between 1903 and 2024 covering all of Taiwan's tribes are anthologized and explored in this book.

Tongxue, Tan, Anthropological Methodologies: Chinese Perspectives. 221 pp. 2026:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <760-578>
ISBN 978-981-9531-16-5 hard ¥36,802.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book addresses the pressing challenges of the twenty-first century-an era marked by crises and uncertainty-by advocating for anthropology's vital role in fostering compassionate intercultural dialogue and promoting harmonious coexistence between humanity and the non-human world. Through a collection of thought-provoking essays, it explores how non-Western perspectives, particularly Chinese methodologies, can enrich anthropological practice and help transcend the limitations imposed by Western-centric paradigms. Rather than replacing one form of ethnocentrism with another, the book calls for a more balanced and inclusive conversation across cultures. Within this framework, anthropology is reimagined not merely as the interpretation or writing of culture, but as an active process of cultural communication, negotiation, and reconciliation. True intercultural understanding, the book argues, can only be achieved when diverse cultural subjects engage in dialogue on equal footing-making the "doing" of anthropology a collaborative and transformative endeavor.

Greenwood, Susan, Magical Mind: A Shamanic Narrative. (Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism) 227 pp. 2026:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <760-110>
ISBN 978-3-032-06727-2 hard ¥39,431.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This magical narrative aims to take you on a journey following a golden string first written about by the eighteenth-century poet, artist and shaman William Blake. Focused on my experience of such a journey as an anthropologist researching magic, it details the effects of my own shamanic soul loss and eventual soul retrieval. Both personal and universal, it combines multiple forms of knowledge encountered through more-than-human realms of the inspirited imagination that have resonance with how we live today.

Koga, Yukiko, Unrepayable Debt: Law, Redress, Reconciliation, and the Unmaking of Empire. 240 pp. 2026:6 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <759-799>
ISBN 978-0-226-84596-8 hard ¥25,806.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84598-2 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

What does it mean, and take, to repay the unrepayable? In the 1990s, a series of lawsuits was raised on behalf of Chinese survivors of violence and enslavement by the Japanese empire. Both inside and outside the courtroom, a movement emerged as Chinese victims, their descendants, and Japanese lawyers and activists forged transnational and intergenerational collaborations, seeking redress and reconciliation, and leading to a sea change in the legal sphere and settlements with implicated corporations. Asking what happens when moral and financial debts both demand and defy repayment, Unrepayable Debt explores what it takes to reckon with the nature and the scale of imperial violence, set against the entangled processes of decolonization and deimperialization.

D'Alpoim Guedes, Jade / Aldenderfer, Mark, The Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau. (Cambridge World Archaeology) 350 pp. 2026:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-811>
ISBN 978-1-108-48187-8 hard ¥28,946.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

The Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau offers a comprehensive survey of past and recent research on the prehistory of the plateau, from its early peopling to the eve of the foundation of the Tibetan Empire in the 7th C. The first English language book-length study of the Tibetan past, it is organized around eight chapters that describe modern and ancient environments, historical speculations about ancient Tibet by mystics, fascists, and contemporary scholars, evidence of the first peoples to live and thrive on the plateau, the arrival of the domesticated plants and animals that transformed the subsistence economy, and the emergence of early forms of status and prestige. The book concludes with a discussion of how the past informs environmental conservation and heritage preservation and explores how archaeological data are used by the Chinese state to create an alternative vision of the Tibetan past at odds with indigenous Tibetan perspectives.

Yu, Shuenn-der / Lee, Anru (eds.), Why Taiwan: Anthropological Perspectives. (Routledge Research on Taiwan Series) 244 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-829>
ISBN 978-1-041-06361-2 hard ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *

This book considers why Taiwan matters independent of the China-centric paradigm by both examining anthropological research on Taiwan as well as how to study Taiwan anthropologically, re-asserting the ontological status of Taiwan as a legitimate object of scholarly inquiry.

Chatterji, Roma / Shreyas, Amaan, Superheroes in Indian Comics: Deliberations from Anthropology. 236 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-858>
ISBN 978-1-041-00280-2 hard ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-041-00369-4 paper ¥12,794.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

There is a prevailing sense that commercial Superhero Comics cannot be serious objects of academic enquiry. It is the hallowed graphic novel, with its auteur/author, for which serious work is reserved. This volume presents the work of three publishing houses who publish Superhero Comics in Delhi and Mumbai. It analyses their techniques of narration associated with the serial publication of commercial comics such as open-ended plots, frequent re-boots of the storyline, extended story arcs, and a complex narrative universe to throw into sharper relief the value of superhero comic books as distinct from the graphic novel. Through an exploration of commercial Superhero Comics, the authors wish to draw attention to a fluidity embedded in Superhero Comics, which is influenced by external pressures of distribution and production that are generally ignored in the desire to view a comic text as a discrete and disembodied whole. Superhero Comics then emerge as a post-modern vehicle to test serious socio-political issues in the mode of fantasy. This ethnographic attempt to understand the contexts of production, circulation, and consumption of Superhero Comics will be of interest to comics scholars, students of popular culture, sociology, social anthropology, literature, and the arts.

Khatchadourian, Lori / Smith, Adam T. / Lindsay, Ian et al., Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict. 204 pp. 2026:7 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <759-706>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8737-9 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-8738-6 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95

Heritage Forensics introduces a new framework for investigating cultural heritage caught up in war, ethnic cleansing, and secrecy. The volume combines satellite-based spatial analysis with humanistic research and humanitarian concern to document the impact of the protracted conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijan on the medieval and modern heritagescape of the South Caucasus. Drawing on the findings of Caucasus Heritage Watch, the authors demonstrate how cultural erasure, looting, and violence have inflicted harm on historical sites and the descendant communities for whom they hold enduring significance. Out of the forensic materials provided by the Nagorno-Karabakh Wars, Lori Khatchadourian, Adam T. Smith, Ian Lindsay, and Husik Ghulyan offer a reflexive approach for bearing witness to abuses of cultural heritage that emphasizes historical and political context and the careful use of powerful technologies in an era of post-truths. Heritage Forensics establishes a model for investigating cultural heritage threatened by political violence and is an invaluable resource for scholars, journalists, activists, and policy makers alike.

Backman, Aina, Anthropology and Immigration Detention Work in Sweden: Being an Outsider Inside the Fence. 304 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-1168>
ISBN 978-1-032-93490-7 hard ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book offers an anthropological inquiry into the labor underpinning immigration detention in Sweden, examining the daily practices, institutional efforts, and forms of knowledge production that sustain the detention regime.Drawing upon fieldwork involving time spent with detention workers while wearing a uniform, the author offers a rare, immersive perspective, providing insights from detention departments, offices, meetings, training sessions, isolation cells, and control rooms. By situating these practices in relation to the European and international deportation industry, the book analyses how detention is not only executed but also increasingly optimized and made the subject of social scientific understanding. Through this lens, the study sheds light on the operational procedures that shape contemporary immigration control. By bringing Martin Heidegger's critique of modern technology into dialogue with this anthropological study of detention work, the book offers an analytical lens on how technology shapes not only practice but perception. Rather than treating technological systems within detention as tools to be studied, this book foregrounds the idea that technological thinking preconditions how detention is conceived, analyzed, and understood.Anthropology and Immigration Detention Work in Sweden is suitable for scholars of incarceration, immigration, and deportation, particularly in Nordic and European contexts.

Barrett, Christopher K., Data Analysis Basics for Anthropology: A Primer on the Collection, Configuration, and Interpretation of Quantitative Data. 206 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <759-1169>
ISBN 978-1-032-99767-4 hard ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-032-99766-7 paper ¥12,794.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

This accessible guide introduces readers to the essential process of collecting, organizing, testing, and interpreting quantitative data in biological Anthropology and Archaeology. Written in straightforward language, it avoids complex mathematical theory and programming jargon in favor of practical application, making statistical concepts approachable for students and researchers at all levels.Through relevant anthropological and archaeological examples, readers learn critical data analysis skills including determining sample sizes, identifying outliers, handling missing data, testing normality, evaluating hypotheses, and estimating effect size and statistical power. All techniques are demonstrated using R Statistics and other free, open-source software, providing hands-on experience with industry-standard tools without additional cost.This concise volume bridges the gap between theoretical statistics and real-world application, equipping readers with the fundamental skills needed to conduct and interpret their own research in biological anthropology and archaeology. This book will be perfect for undergraduate and graduate students new to quantitative methods, researchers returning to the field, and instructors seeking a practical supplement for statistics and research methods courses.