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

Jehom, Welyne Jeffrey, Enriching Iban Pua Kumbu: Weaving Tradition and Innovation in an Indigenous Society. 243 pp. 2026:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <766-829>
ISBN 978-981-9941-32-2 hard ¥31,808.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Alcantara, Keitlyn, An Archaeology of Milpa Cultures: Maize and Ecological Worldbuilding in Central Mexico. 340 pp. 2026:8 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <766-889>
ISBN 978-1-68340-660-0 hard ¥24,805.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-68340-627-3 paper ¥7,892.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Inside the farming traditions that have supported food sovereignty and community resistance in past and present TlaxcalaIn this book, Keitlyn Alcantara draws on research from the state of Tlaxcala in Mexico to describe how its people resisted imperial domination and survived centuries of upheaval. Threatened by embargoes from the Aztec Empire and later colonial pressures, the Tlaxcalteca relied on the milpa-a maize-based agricultural system-and on the many wild plants within it that supported change and survival. Alcantara reveals the milpa as a living foodweb and philosophy of interconnection that sustained communities through terrace farming, household gardens, use of wild and domesticated fruit and nut trees, and the stewardship of rivers and wetlands.An Archaeology of Milpa Cultures bridges past and present to show how ancient strategies of interdependence continue to nourish contemporary campesino food sovereignty movements in Tlaxcala, even amid industrial pollution and monocropped landscapes. Incorporating bioarchaeological dietary isotope studies, Indigenous worldviews, and ethnographic research, this book illuminates how food sovereignty became a cornerstone of community resistance. Alcantara demonstrates that the lessons of the milpa inspire new visions for climate resilience, inviting readers to imagine a future rooted in collaboration, diversity, and care for the land.

Glowacki, Mary / Cook, Anita G. (eds.), Empire of the Ancestors: The Wari of the Middle Horizon. (Archaeology of South America) 410 pp. 2026:8 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <766-891>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7965-3 hard ¥24,805.- (税込) US$ 110.00

Uncovering evidence that ancestor veneration was deeply rooted in Wari society, shaping Wari expansion, rituals, and statecraftThis volume examines the central role of ancestors in Andean society during the Wari Empire of the Middle Horizon period (600-1000 CE), centuries before the rise of the Incas. As one of the earliest expansionist states in the Americas, the Wari laid the foundations of statecraft later adopted by the Inca. Their imperial growth was shaped by environmental changes linked to the El Nino cycle, which brought drought to the Ayacucho heartland and drove the search for new farmland. Empire of the Ancestors shows that expansion also required honoring ancestors, who oversaw the life-sustaining flow of water from underground channels and glacial lakes.Presenting archaeological evidence from throughout the Wari territory, including Huari, the capital, this volume reveals changes in how ancestors were treated and revered over time. Contributors explore many expressions of ancestor veneration at Wari sites: tombs designed with space for offerings, mummy bundles and body modifications, burial architecture integrated into ritual landscapes, and depictions of ancestors in ceramics and other media. Together, the evidence shows that ancestor veneration was not an Inca development but a long-standing Andean tradition inherited from the Wari.

Hong, Xu / Jing, Yuan (eds.), Sixty Years of Archaeology in Erlitou. 408 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <766-818>
ISBN 978-981-9565-40-5 hard ¥31,808.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book integrates field archaeology with multidisciplinary research on the Erlitou site. Beyond its significant archaeological discoveries, Erlitou represents the site subjected to the most extensive analysis by the various scientific and technological sub-disciplines within Chinese archaeology community to date. The papers collected here reflect the latest outcomes of collaborative research in various disciplines, including chronology, natural environment reconstruction, human osteology, subsistence strategies and craft production.

Rong, Xinjiang, Early Dunhuang Ethnic Tribes and Chinese-Western Communication. 203 pp. 2026:3 (Springer, GW) <766-823>
ISBN 978-981-9566-93-8 hard ¥31,808.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book introduces readers to ancient Chinese communications with other ethnic communities that lived west of Dunhuang along the ancient Silk Road. These ethnic groups included the Yuezhi and the Xiongnu (Huns), the Sogdians, the Tubo (Tibetans), the Huihu (Uigurs), and the Khotanese. Offering detailed descriptions of Chinese interactions with these peoples, it offers readers a clearer picture of China's ancient and medieval history, particularly the spread of Buddhism and other religious faiths, military operations like the Tibetan occupation and those under the Guiyijun (Return-to-Allegiance) regime, socioeconomic activities, and artistic efforts to create the Buddhist Grottoes.

Allard, Amelie, Community Politics of the Fur Trade: Relationships, Mobility, and Landscapes of Possibility. 250 pp. 2026:3 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <766-275>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7956-1 hard ¥20,295.- (税込) US$ 90.00

Reinterpreting the Great Lakes fur trade as a dynamic interplay of ambition, alliances, and evolving identitiesThe North American fur trade was more than a system of economic exchange. In this book, Amelie Allard examines the Great Lakes region as a dynamic landscape where European traders and Indigenous peoples negotiated clashing perspectives with the common purpose of trade and establishing relationships. Allard portrays the interactions between these groups as community politics and community building, highlighting both cooperation and contentious power imbalances during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Drawing on archaeological evidence including trading posts and wrecked canoes and historical documents such as traders' journals and memoirs, Allard unravels the social complexities of this world. She demonstrates how processes of place-making-through foodways, the built environment, and place-naming-as well as both waterborne and overland mobility shaped the identities and relationships of Euro-Canadian, metis, and Indigenous peoples. Community Politics of the Fur Trade challenges traditional narratives of colonialism by suggesting that for many Indigenous peoples such as the Anishinaabeg and Dakota, the fur trade era represented a moment of possibility rather than an inevitable path to subjugation.

Hughes, Jessica, Our Lady of Pompeii: Ruins, Religion, and Memory. (Classical Presences) 224 pp. 2026:8 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <766-102>
ISBN 978-0-19-890591-2 hard ¥9,273.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

One of the last things that Pope Francis did before his death in April 2025 was to approve the canonization of Bartolo Longo, an Italian lawyer who had spent his life building an enormous shrine to Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii, next to the famous archaeological excavations. Our Lady of Pompeii: Ruins, Religion, and Memory tells the story of the shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, and the new city that developed around it from the 1870s onwards. Jessica Hughes focuses on the shrine's relationship to the neighbouring archaeological site, and what this can tell us about the Catholic church's view of classical antiquity more broadly. In six chapters, and with the help of more than fifty photographs and maps, it shows how the ruined city of Pompeii gradually became part of the shrine's identity, providing inspiration for the artists, writers, and pilgrims who were drawn to the shrine and the miracle-working image of Our Lady that was housed there. It reveals the ambivalent attitude of Bartolo Longo and his collaborators to the classical past, which was seen in both positive and negative terms-that is, as an object of fascination and antiquarian curiosity, and as the dead and dusty 'land of idols and demons'. By telling the little-known story of this shrine and the people who lived, worked, and worshipped there, the book also gives a valuable new perspective on ancient Pompeii, showing how this famous archaeological site continues to hold meaning for people around the world.

Dong, Xiaoping, Folklore Fieldwork. 624 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <766-1040>
ISBN 978-981-9566-89-1 hard ¥39,761.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Folklore Fieldwork the first book to present systematic research based on the author's more than 20 years of fieldwork in urban and rural areas throughout China. It addresses the theory and methodology of Chinese folkloristics, highlighting the unique characteristics of Chinese culture and society in the process, and explores the core process of modern Chinese folkloristics, making the field accessible to an international audience.

教育人類学研究ハンドブック
Eisenhart, Margaret (ed.), Research Handbook on the Anthropology of Education: Practices and Methods. (Elgar Handbooks in Education) 432 pp. 2026:7 (E. Elgar, UK) <766-1041>
ISBN 978-1-0353-3290-8 hard ¥66,456.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00

This innovative Research Handbook explores how anthropological perspectives can help us to understand education in diverse contexts, providing an overview of recent research, current challenges and future directions in the field. Expert contributors examine how cultural practices, knowledge, meaning systems and historical traditions shape learning and teaching experiences around the world.Bringing together emerging and established scholars, this Handbook illustrates anthropologically-oriented practices and methods for researching the complexity, heterogeneity and diversity of contexts for learning and education. It explores the ongoing modification of traditional practices in response to emerging theoretical and ethical concerns such as critical race theory and feminist theory, as well as the impact of new AI technologies. The Handbook encompasses key topics of educational justice, inequality and policy, examining challenges to conventional practices and methods and offering new directions and innovative forms of representation.The Research Handbook on the Anthropology of Education is an essential resource for educational scholars, particularly those with an interest in educational anthropology and comparative education more broadly. It will also be useful for students and academics in the sociology of education, qualitative research methods and interdisciplinary research.

人類における戦争と平和の起源
Meijer, Hugo, The Origins of War and Peace in the Human Species. 766 pp. 2026:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <766-1043>
ISBN 978-1-009-71449-5 hard ¥10,818.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00

When, why, and how did we, humans, develop our distinctive and paradoxical inclination for both war and peace? This groundbreaking book investigates that central question by drawing on cutting-edge research and an unprecedented range of evidence from thirteen disciplines - including biology, primatology, comparative ethology, behavioural ecology, anthropology, archaeology, criminology, social psychology, linguistics, demography, genetics, neurosciences, and climatology. The book shows how the capacities for both war and peace co-evolved gradually over millions of years through a mosaic-like pattern, with distinct but interacting components emerging at different moments and becoming integrated over evolutionary time. This deep-rooted trajectory has been shaped by feedback loops between biological, cultural, and environmental forces. With its expansive temporal horizon, cross-species comparisons, and empirical richness, this book offers a sweeping new account - and an indispensable resource - for anyone interested in the origins of the Janus-faced inclination for both war and peace in the human species.

Wagner, Wolfgang / Moya, Cristina (eds.), Culture, Identity, and Essentialism: Anthropological and Psychological Approaches. (Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences) 369 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <766-1045>
ISBN 978-3-032-11917-9 hard ¥13,251.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This Open Access book examines how people often treat social group membership as inherent, immutable, informative and even intergenerationally inherited. Such essentialism remains one of the more puzzling folk intuitions, at odds with social science maintaining that people become culturally competent group members through enculturation, and that norms can change how group boundaries are defined quite substantially. Essentialism also features prominently in much rhetoric that justifies intergroup hostility and in researchers' attempts to explain it. Nonetheless, social scientists have not reached a consensus about essentialism's causal role in intergroup relations. In this Open Access book, contributors from a range of perspectives tackle fundamental questions in this field: Do humans share a tendency to essentialise groups?If so, where does this tendency come from?How is essentialism expressed in cognition, behavior, and institutions?What are its consequences for cooperation and social conflict? Psychologists, cultural anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists weigh in on these questions in this volume, often using specific cultural contexts as case studies to elucidate both the particularities and common patterns in the ways essentialism does, or does not, work in the real world.

Baron, Justyna, Craftwork in Small-Scale Societies of the Central European Bronze Age. (Elements in the Archaeology of Europe) 75 pp. 2026:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <766-1048>
ISBN 978-1-009-61127-5 hard ¥17,000.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-61129-9 paper ¥5,563.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

The Element examines various facets of craftwork in small-scale societies that thrived in much of Central Europe during the Bronze Age (2300-800 BCE). These societies exhibited distinct structures and types of social bonds that formed the social and spatial backdrop for craft practices. Since most Bronze Age villages were inhabited by small groups, all forms of crafting were at least partially communal, fostering the exchange of experiences, skills, and knowledge both within and across different production areas. The public nature of crafting practices also encouraged discussions about applied tools, methods, skills, and the quality of the final products. The author explores overarching questions about communication and knowledge transfer within and beyond small groups, drawing on archaeological and ethnographic data. This includes considerations of standardization, personalization, imitation, seasonality, and cross-crafting. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elena Castiello, Maria / Tobalina-Pulido, Leticia (eds.), Working with Imperfection in Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Data Management. (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) 157 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <766-1049>
ISBN 978-3-032-15436-1 hard ¥13,251.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book delves into the management of data imperfection, a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of archaeological research. By bringing together diverse voices and expertise, the book offers a pioneering examination of how researchers across Europe deal with the challenges posed by incomplete, fragmented or ambiguous data in archaeology. One of the most problematic issues when working with humanistic data, and specifically with archaeological data, is their imperfection. The data is ambiguous, partial, imprecise, uncertain. This imperfection, which can be intrinsic to the data themselves or be generated later with its processing, makes it difficult to produce reliable results. In recent years, some researchers have become increasingly interested in the need to address in their research, especially those using databases, the problem of data imperfection and all the implications that this entails. This volume bring together researchers who are or have worked on the imperfection of archaeological data in its broadest sense, from theoretical reflections to proposals for managing the imperfection or part of it (uncertainty, inaccuracy, incompleteness, etc.) in any chronological period and application, both during the collection of data in the field or its processing in the laboratory. The book comprises 12 chapters, in addition to an introduction and a conclusion. It brings together contributions from European researchers from various academic levels, providing a rich tapestry of insights into the topic. The chapters span a broad historical range, featuring case studies that cover periods from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages.

McNiven, Ian J., Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals. (Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology) 504 pp. 2026:3 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <766-1053>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7961-5 hard ¥24,805.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-8130-8154-0 paper ¥7,892.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A novel cross-cultural exploration of how maritime peoples have engaged with the sea through cosmology, spirituality, and ritualSentient Seas offers a global perspective on maritime cultures, examining how societies across time and space have understood and interacted with the sea. Synthesizing archaeological evidence, historical documents, and ethnographic accounts, Ian McNiven explores maritime traditions from ancient civilizations in the Middle East and Mediterranean to medieval Europe and Scandinavia to contemporary Indigenous communities in the South Pacific.McNiven investigates diverse cultural practices including shipbuilding, the treatment of shipwrecks and shipwreck victims, and maritime resource use, interpreting the evidence through the perspectives of mariners who understood the seas to be sentient and capable of acting with intentionality. He introduces the concepts of "terrestrial seascapes" and "ontological switching" to illustrate how land-based shrines and votive offerings extend maritime cosmologies and maintain a liminal transition from land to sea. By bridging anthropological and archaeological research with transdisciplinary blue humanities scholarship, Sentient Seas approaches seas as spiritscapes, recontextualizing folkloric beliefs about maritime superstitions.

Scott-Ireton, Della A. / McKinnon, Jennifer F., The Archaeology of American Shipwrecks. (The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective) 190 pp. 2026:7 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <766-1055>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7967-7 hard ¥20,295.- (税込) US$ 90.00

Uncovering America's past through the archaeology of its shipwrecksThe Archaeology of American Shipwrecks highlights the essential role of watercraft in United States history and demonstrates how the study of submerged sites contributes to a deeper understanding of the nation's past. Combining evidence from shipwreck excavations with historical documentation, this volume reveals how maritime archaeologists locate, document, and preserve these important sites.This book examines a variety of vessels through time, including Indigenous-built dugout canoes, colonial ships that brought Europeans to the Americas, ships created for the whaling industry, and modern ships built for coastal defense. By tracing the role of watercraft in exploration, commerce, warfare, and expansion, it underscores the pivotal influence of maritime transport well into the twentieth century. Providing an overview of major discoveries along with little-known and previously unpublished research and discussing technological advances, new and evolving methodologies, and ethical issues relevant to the field, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the dynamic story of America's waterways.

Wilkie, Laurie A. / Kinkopf, Katherine M., An Introduction to Crip Archaeology. (The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective) 280 pp. 2026:4 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <766-1056>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7955-4 hard ¥20,295.- (税込) US$ 90.00

A groundbreaking overview of how disability studies can enrich interpretations of the past and make the profession of archaeology more inclusive and accessible An Introduction to Crip Archaeology is a groundbreaking exploration of how disability studies and critical disability studies can transform the way archaeologists interpret the past. Through case studies and intersectional analysis, Laurie Wilkie and Katherine Kinkopf reveal how people with disabilities have been treated and viewed in American history, and how these processes have shaped the material worlds archaeologists study. This book is an essential starting point for students and scholars seeking to move beyond stereotypes that define disability as a limitation or deficit. The authors demonstrate how these interpretive lenses can offer fresh insights on topics including how eugenic policies and racial science have influenced public health, medical training, and family planning. From the Dozier School for Boys to Japanese internment camps, the book examines how built environments have excluded certain bodies-while also uncovering communities of care and resistance. In addition to its value for research taking place today, An Introduction to Crip Archaeology is a call to action for a more inclusive and accessible discipline. It equips readers with strategies for recognizing disabling structures in access to sites, collections, and universities, and for creating space for disabled archaeologists in the field. This book enriches understandings of the past while shaping the future of archaeology.

人類学とAIハンドブック
Udupa, Sahana / Hervik, Peter (eds.), Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence. 512 pp. 2026:7 (E. Elgar, UK) <766-1005>
ISBN 978-1-0353-4219-8 hard ¥74,184.- (税込) GB￡ 240.00

This timely Handbook provides a groundbreaking collection of anthropological research on Artificial Intelligence (AI), examining how anthropology can help to comprehend and critique its development. Evaluating the limits, hopes and fears of AI, leading experts explore its influence as a sociocultural phenomenon rather than a discrete technological system.

Lloyd, Dana (ed.), Native American Religions: Teaching and Learning on Stolen Land. 308 pp. 2026:5 (Routledge, UK) <765-96>
ISBN 978-1-032-93172-2 hard ¥44,819.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-93171-5 paper ¥12,360.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Native American Religions: Teaching and Learning on Stolen Land is an introduction to the religious life of Native American people in North America. Weaving together historical, ethnographic, theoretical, and legal materials, the book focuses on how religion is politicized in North America in the Native American context. Noting that no Native language actually has a word translatable to "religion," as the sacred and the secular are not separate spheres in Native traditions, and that religion is a colonial construct, the book adopts theories and methods from Native American and Indigenous studies to understand Native American and Indigenous religious traditions.Written with the student in mind, this cutting-edge volume brings together 17 Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars of various career stages to offer a theoretical framework through which to think about the role of religion in US-Native relations alongside real world case studies. This book introduces students to the histories of Native American peoples, including discussion of Indigenous intellectual traditions, Indigenous sovereignty movements, and practices such as cultural appropriation and land acknowledgement, to make the case that Native American religions are a political phenomenon. With student-friendly pedagogy throughout, including discussion questions and "further resources" lists, it is a must-read for all students and teachers of Native American Religions, Religion in America, or Indigenous Studies.

Palmer, Carol, Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills. (The Palestine Exploration Fund Annual) 472 pp. 2026:7 (Routledge, UK) <765-983>
ISBN 978-1-041-32098-2 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

Lucjan Turkowski's first-hand account of peasant life in 1940s British Mandate Palestine explores farming, food, language and craft production. He examines cultivated crops, the role of animals and the division of labour, highlighting its material culture in a vivid portrait of rural life.While preserving Turkowski's original ethnographic and agricultural research, this book offers a rare historical, botanical and anthropological resource. Rich with first-hand observations, it provides scholars and general readers with valuable insights into Palestinian peasant life near Jerusalem in the 1940s. His meticulous fieldwork records farming, food, language, agricultural tools and household utensils, exploring the long-term effects of Ottoman land reforms and the introduction of new crops. Original drawings and period photographs collected in Jerusalem illustrate the volume. The book opens with two introductory chapters by editor Carol Palmer, who situates Turkowski within his historical and intellectual context and highlights his ambition to document peasant material culture and its integration into Palestinian life. The main text comprises eight translated chapters of Turkowski's writing, followed by bibliographical annexes. The volume deepens understanding of rural life amid shifting political and economic forces, contributing to studies of resilience, agriculture and cultural continuity.This book is a fundamental resource for scholars in Levantine and Palestine studies, linguistics, anthropology, ethnography, archaeology and agricultural history. It also contributes to understanding the region's historiography and changing academic approaches to Palestine. For those connected to the communities described, it offers a tangible link to the past and shows how carefully gathered knowledge can preserve cultural memory and bring lived experience into view.

牧畜ハンドブック
Moritz, Mark / Samuels, I. / Schareika, N. et al. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Pastoralism. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 588 pp. 2026:6 (Routledge, UK) <765-260>
ISBN 978-1-032-78435-9 hard ¥71,093.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of pastoralism, combining major theoretical debates with an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on pastoral systems across the world.Approaching pastoralism as a social-ecological system, the volume synthesizes current knowledge about how pastoralists make a living and organize social life while managing herds in diverse and often highly variable environments. Understanding pastoralism in this holistic way requires an approach that bridges disciplines: not only anthropology, but also rangeland ecology, animal science, agricultural economics, veterinary epidemiology, and related fields. The handbook's chapters are organized into eight parts that examine: the emergence of pastoralism; its biophysical foundations; the economics of pastoral production; adaptive strategies; social and political organization; new methodological and analytical approaches; development and policy perspectives; and possible futures for pastoral systems. Together, these contributions advance the field by offering both a state-of-the-art guide and a source of inspiration for future research. The volume is designed to serve as a reference for scholars seeking to launch innovative, impactful studies, as well as for policymakers and practitioners working to design effective interventions that support pastoral livelihoods.This handbook is an indispensable resource on pastoralism for students, researchers, and professionals.

Troilo, Simona (ed.), Excavating Power: Archaeological Labour, Imperial Narratives, and Identities in Eastern Mediterranean (19th-20th c.). 143 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <765-1000>
ISBN 978-1-041-23785-3 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book analyses archaeological excavations and the use of antiquities in the eastern Mediterranean from a unique and original perspective, that of power relations built on the vestiges of the past. Starting with Egypt, Crete, Palestine, Greece and Ottoman Empire, the authors of the essays reconstruct the history of some European excavations in Ottoman and post-Ottoman times, bringing to light the marginalised actors and the different narratives shaped on antiquities. Men, women and children recruited locally to dig, guides and interpreters in the service of archaeologists are some of the protagonists of these stories, which allow us to go beyond European stereotypes and shed light on how local communities perceived and experienced the excavations. The narratives and interpretations applied to unearthed or restored antiquities also help us understand how traces of the past were used to legitimise imperialism and reinforce identities based on ideas of cultural superiority and inferiority.This interdisciplinary volume spans archaeology, colonial studies, Ottoman history, Mediterranean studies, and cultural anthropology, making it essential reading for students and researchers in Middle Eastern studies, museum studies, and heritage management and scholars examining the intersection of power, identity, and heritage.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Review of History.

Bedoya, Maria Elena / Perry, Jimena (eds.), Public History, Gender, and Power in Latin American Museums: Women Curators and Cultural Leaders. (Global Perspectives on Public History) 196 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <765-1036>
ISBN 978-1-041-01019-7 hard ¥44,819.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-01018-0 paper ¥12,360.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Public History, Gender, and Power in Latin American Museums brings together pioneering voices of women curators, museum professionals, and community leaders who are transforming the cultural landscape of Latin America.Through first-hand testimonies and critical essays, this book examines how feminist approaches and public history practices are reshaping the politics of heritage, memory, and representation from the 1980s to the present. From Bolivia's Museo Nacional de Etnografia y Folklore to Colombia's Museo Itinerante de la Memoria and Guatemala's Museo Ixkik,' this book promotes reflections that highlight collective efforts and diverse ways of narrating stories in public spaces. The book analyzes the local contexts where curatorial practices and cultural policies emerge, giving prominence to the women who lead museological projects and their transnational impact. It examines the role of these museum projects in the field of public history and in relation to the decolonization processes undertaken by various museums globally.Public History, Gender, and Power in Latin American Museums: Women Curators and Cultural Leaders is an essential volume for students, activists, and researchers interested in museums, decolonial thought, feminism, and activism in Latin America.

古代コロンビアの考古学
Bocanegra, Francisco Javier Aceituno, The Archaeology of Ancient Colombia: The Earliest South Americans. 480 pp. 2026:6 (Routledge, UK) <765-1038>
ISBN 978-1-041-16134-9 hard ¥47,910.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-041-16132-5 paper ¥12,978.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

The Archaeology of Ancient Colombia reveals the hidden archaeological history of Colombia's first inhabitants from the Ice Age through the middle Holocene, documenting their remarkable achievements in in colonizing and adapting to diverse environments, forest management, plant domestication, developing mortuary and social rituals;, innovating pottery and navigation; and creating enduring rock art traditions that continue to influence Indigenous communities today.This book provides the first comprehensive synthesis of Colombia's earliest human history, previously available only in fragmented publications. It delivers this through three interconnected perspectives: spatio-temporal analysis of migration routes and chronology; examination of human adaptability through subsistence strategies and landscape modification; and exploration of symbolic worldviews through archaeological evidence and ethnographic analogies. Archaeological data is balanced with interpretation, allowing readers to understand both the evidence and its significance in this pivotal region for understanding continental human expansion and cultural developmentThis book is for students and researchers of archaeology, anthropology, and history seeking an accessible synthesis of pre-Columbian Colombia. It is also well-suited for courses on early human migration in South America, archaeological methods, environmental adaptation, and the emergence of complex societies in the Americas.

Rots, Aike P. / Durney, Florence et al. (eds.), Water Powers: Sacred Aquatic Animals of the Asia-Pacific. 344 pp. 2026:4 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <765-106>
ISBN 979-88-8070-208-4 hard ¥18,040.- (税込) US$ 80.00
ISBN 979-88-8070-313-5 paper ¥6,765.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Water Powers is an interdisciplinary collection that presents timely, original research on sacred aquatic animals-from dragons and nagas to crocodiles, eels, dugongs, and whales-and environmental change. Contributors examine the past and present significance of these creatures in Nepal, India, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Japan, Okinawa, Indonesia, and Aotearoa-New Zealand to explore the diverse relationships between animals, deities, humans, and bodies of water. In so doing, they challenge narratives about disenchantment as a core aspect of modernization, seeking to give the sacred creatures and the rituals associated with them a more central place in debates about environmental degradation and conservation initiatives. Their work converges around three core themes: (1) divine embodiment and materiality (how sacred beings manifest themselves and act in the world); (2) making and crossing boundaries (how aquatic animals are constrained by but also challenge physical, ontological, and conceptual boundaries); and (3) crises and relationality (how more-than-human relationships change in response to environmental and other crises). Water Powers will appeal to scholars and students across multiple fields, including anthropology, religious studies, environmental humanities, geography, development studies, history, and archaeology. The book will also interest development experts, conservationists, museum curators, and readers engaged with culture, religion, and environmental change in the Asia-Pacific region.

都市人類学の基礎
Brash, Julian, Urban Anthropology: The Basics. (The Basics) 248 pp. 2026:6 (Routledge, UK) <765-1084>
ISBN 978-1-032-95685-5 hard ¥41,728.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-032-95678-7 paper ¥6,178.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

This book is a clearly and accessibly written short guide to the contemporary state of urban anthropology. It outlines what urban anthropologists study, how they do so, and what they have learned about urbanization and urbanism in the past and present in a way that makes sense to readers new to the field. Topics covered include:Urban community and identityUrban politics and economicsThe relationship between culture and the built environmentUrban nature, climate change, and green urbanismThe development of urban anthropologyAccompanying the main text are shaded boxes describing key works and key concepts related to the central points of each chapter. Each chapter ends with a bibliography. This text is essential reading for students interested in cities, urban life, the built environment, and social and political dynamics.

Hoeppe, Goetz, How Data Need People: The Social and Epistemic Practice of a Data-Rich Science. 304 pp. 2026:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <765-1154>
ISBN 978-1-009-68672-3 hard ¥27,819.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

From genome sequencing to large sky surveys, digital technologies produce massive datasets that promise unprecedented scientific insights. But data, for being good to use and reuse, need people - scientists, technicians, and administrators - as embodied, evaluative, social humans. In this book, anthropologist Goetz Hoeppe draws on an ethnography of astronomical research to examine the media and practices that scientists and technicians use to instruct graduate students, make diagrams for data calibration and discovery, organize collaborative work, negotiate the ethics of open access, encode their knowledge in datasets - and do social inquiries along the way. This book offers a reflection on the sociality of data-rich research that will benefit attempts to integrate human and machine learning. It is essential reading for anyone interested in data science, science and technology studies, as well as the anthropology, sociology, history, and philosophy of science. This book is also available Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Brom, Jan (ed.), Practices and Mediations of Sami Culture: Indigeneity, Ethno-history and Art. (Arctic Humanities 3) 190 pp. 2026:4 (Brill, NE) <765-1166>
ISBN 978-90-04-75498-0 hard ¥29,161.- (税込) EUR 110.00

The present volume is dedicated to the culture of the Sami and their homeland, Sapmi (Lapland). The contributions focus on textual and visual representations of Sapmi and the Sami in the past and present, seen both from within and without, discussing the practice of Sami culture across time, as well as cultural mediations thereof. The volume offers a rare transdisciplinary approach in the field of Arctic Humanities, associating art history with anthropology, history, literature, cultural studies, comparative religion, film, education and creative writing. It includes an unpublished essay by the late John Burnside, one of Britian's foremost contemporary poets. With contributions from Joanna Kodzik, Konsta Kaikkonen, Jan Borm, Risto Pulkkinen, Francis Joy, Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja, Pigga Keskitalo, Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio, Liisa E. Holmberg, John Burnside, Katja Hyry

Corso, Alessandro, Hope Amid Despair: Encounters at the Existential Borderlands of the Mediterranean. (Contemporary Ethnography) 232 pp. 2026:6 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <765-1236>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2953-2 hard ¥27,060.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5128-2954-9 paper ¥7,880.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Fjell, Tove Ingebjorg, Death and Funeral Practices in Norway. (Routledge International Focus on Death and Funeral Practices) 122 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <765-1237>
ISBN 978-1-032-43125-3 hard ¥17,306.- (税込) GB￡ 55.99

This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on death and funeral practices in Norway as of the 2020s.The volume begins with a short introduction and historical overview, followed by a description of the demographics and legal framework, before featuring a range of chapters on governance and the funeral industry. Both religious and non-religious funeral practices are examined, and the three major funeral practices in Norway-funerals conducted by the Church of Norway, humanist funerals organised by The Norwegian Humanist Association, and open-faith funerals-are described. The chapters cover a broad range of topics including typical funerals and cost breakdowns, the cemetery, various grave types including coffins, urns, named memorial gardens and columbaria, and the practice of re-using graves. In addition, a chapter devoted to cremation, the rise in its use and current cremation technologies also examines the practice of ash scattering which has been legal in Norway since 1997. The masonry industry and public memorials are also discussed in a chapter on commemoration, and the last chapter, on funerary heritage, focuses on war cemeteries and epidemic cemeteries.This comprehensive volume will be valuable reading for scholars and reflective practitioners interested in death studies and the funeral industry, with particular interest in insights from Norway and their potential for informing wider research and practice.

Limeira-DaSilva, Victor Rafael, Wallace in the Field: Ethnographic Expeditions and the Rise of Anthropology. (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century) 300 pp. 2026:6 (U. Pittsburgh Pr., US) <765-1239>
ISBN 978-0-8229-4884-1 hard ¥27,060.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-0-8229-6794-1 paper ¥7,892.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A man of many talents-naturalist, geographer, anthropologist, and political commentator-Alfred Russel Wallace made seminal contributions to science in the nineteenth century. With Wallace in the Field, Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva unpacks the early life of one of the most beloved and famous Victorian scientific figures. Focusing on Wallace's significant contribution to the emergence of anthropology, Limeira-DaSilva traces the peripatetic trajectory of Wallace's field work, from his humble beginnings in the suburbs of London to his travels through the Brazilian Amazon and Asia. Challenging traditional portrayals that cast Wallace as Darwin's sidekick or a casual ethnographer, the book demonstrates how he built a deliberate and ambitious career as a field observer of human diversity. It offers a fresh perspective on the intersections between ethnographic encounters, racial science, and knowledge production, revealing how Wallace's pursuit of recognition helped redefine the standards of scientific authority in British anthropology.

Small, Meredith F., How We Think: The Hidden Life of Everyday Ideas. 277 pp. 2026:6 (American Philosophical Society Pr., US) <765-1244>
ISBN 978-1-60618-060-0 hard ¥6,527.- (税込) US$ 28.95

Sternfeld, Nora, The Radical Democratic Museum. 168 pp. 2026:5 (Routledge, UK) <765-1245>
ISBN 978-1-041-16907-9 hard ¥44,819.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-16906-2 paper ¥12,360.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

In this revised and updated translation of Das Radikaldemokratische Museum, Sternfeld offers a timely critique of museums as they exist today and instead calls for museums to be reconceptualised as contested spaces for debate and new forms of political activism.Drawing upon approaches from museum studies, education and critical theory, this volume challenges past and present exhibitions and reconsiders how museum spaces can be re-appropriated in order to produce critical knowledge, rethink education, and challenge collections. In doing so, Sternfeld envisages the radical democratic museum as a space that allows us to grapple with the past, negotiate what this means for the present, and to imagine a future that is more than simply an extension of the present.This provocative and timely book will be relevant to scholars, students and practitioners with interests in museums, critical heritage studies, social justice and political movements.

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Bellwood, Peter, First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective. Rev. ed. 336 pp. 2026:4 (Wiley, US) <765-1246>
ISBN 978-1-394-20241-6 paper ¥8,782.- (税込) US$ 38.95

How Our Restless Ancestors Shaped the Interconnected World We Live in Today First Migrants Revisited: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective reveals how human and hominin migrations over the past five million years shaped the world we inhabit today. Peter Bellwood synthesises insights from archaeology, palaeoanthropology, genetics, and linguistics to trace humanity's earliest movements - from the first African expansions to the global spread of agriculture. The book reveals how migration redistributed the results of biological and cultural evolution, transforming societies and environments in every corner of the globe. Bringing together decades of scholarship, Bellwood challenges simplistic narratives of ancient migration as random events without cause or consequence, instead positioning it as a powerful mechanism the behind the formation and spread of new patterns in human biology and culture. Through rich interdisciplinary analysis, he shows how the permanent movements of populations created enduring patterns of genetic, linguistic, and cultural diversity that continue to define us. Covering the migrations of early hominins, Homo sapiens dispersals across continents, and the global diffusion of agriculture, the book provides a richly interdisciplinary account of humanity's shared past, drawing clear connections between environmental change, demographic expansion, and the human impulse to explore. Deepening our understanding of migration as one of the most enduring forces in human history, First Migrants Revisited: Reinterprets migration as a dynamic process of redistribution of human biology, culture, and language Highlights the enduring consequences of prehistoric migration for contemporary human societiesProvides new insights into the large-scale population movements that shaped the genetic, cultural, and linguistic diversity that still characterizes humanity todayFeatures accessible summaries of the latest findings on early Homo sapiens dispersals and the global spread of agricultureIncludes comparative discussions of different hominin species and their adaptive strategies First Migrants Revisited: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective is ideally suited for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses in archaeology, anthropology, human evolution, and historical linguistics, as well as for modules in global history, evolutionary biology, and population genetics within BA, BSc, and MA degree programmes.

Claassen, Cheryl, Women, Fertility, and North American Archaeology. 438 pp. 2026:6 (U. Tennessee Pr., US) <765-1248>
ISBN 979-88-952709-6-7 paper ¥9,007.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Women, Fertility, and North American Archaeology brings together more than three decades of Cheryl Claassen's groundbreaking work on gender and archaeology. Featuring articles originally published between 1989 and 2023, the volume makes available the full scope of Claassen's work related to Archaic and Woodland-era women in the Southeastern United States, women working as archaeologists, and the development of a gendered archaeological inquiry. Organized in two parts, the collection begins with essays on the emergence of gender as an archaeological category and on the role of women in a field once dominated by masculine perspectives. The second half of the volume turns to archaeological explorations of women in prehistory, including women's labor, fertility, and ritual practices, and how these facets of life were linked to and influenced by the landscapes and resources of the time. With introductions to each section that discuss the genesis of ideas and provide additional context for each paper, Claassen situates her work within the broader history of the discipline. Illustrated with thirty images and maps and including previously difficult-to-find articles, this volume is an essential resource for archaeologists, students of anthropology, and scholars of gender and women's studies.

Evans, D. H. / Wastling, Lisa M., Excavations at the Austin Friary, Hull, Yorkshire, 1994 and 1999, Part 2: The Fabric and the Material Culture. (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs) 342 pp. 2026:6 (Routledge, UK) <765-1249>
ISBN 978-1-041-07579-0 hard ¥44,819.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-07577-6 paper ¥12,360.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Excavations at the Austin Friary, Hull, Yorkshire, 1994 and 1999, Part 2, details the excavations of the Austin Friary in Hull, a house founded in 1316/17 and surrendered to the Crown in 1539.This volume concentrates on the material culture recovered during the excavations. The site yielded a nationally significant group of medieval coffins, all but one of which were made of imported Baltic oak - the largest assemblage of such timber from the whole of Britain. There were also significant collections of well preserved textiles, leather, wood and dress-accessories. In addition, some of the burials were accompanied by carefully placed wooden rods, an under-reported burial tradition which can be found on either side of the North Sea. Many of the monastic buildings were reused after the Dissolution in 1539; partly in consequence, a large assemblage of masonry and ceramic building materials was recovered from this site. There were also significant collections of floor tiles (both plain and decorated), and window-glass, whilst other finds include rare finds of musical instrument components. Cumulatively, this volume sheds significant light upon a whole range of aspects of life and death within this northern religious house for a period of over two centuries, as well as offering yet more valuable evidence about Hull's extensive medieval trading-links, as one of England's leading ports.This book is for researchers and archaeologists interested in the archaeology of medieval Britain as well as the role of Christianity in the Middle Ages.

Lavan, Luke / Crawford, Peter (eds.), Imperial and Royal Archaeologies of Late Antiquity. (Late Antique Archaeology 14) 800 pp. 2026:7 (Brill, NE) <765-1250>
ISBN 978-90-04-74946-7 hard ¥78,204.- (税込) EUR 295.00

Imperial and Royal Archaeologies explores material evidence for the lifestyles and actions of emperors, empresses, kings, and queens, in the late antique world, A.D. 284-650. Coverage is firstly by region, from the Great Palace of Constantinople, through the 'Forum of Valens' of Antioch to the Tetrarchic capital of Thessalonica. It then turns to the royal courts of the West, notably of Britain and Spain. Those of Nubia, Axum, and Persia are also compared. The old capital of Rome furnishes studies of imperial insignia, triumphal monuments, and statues of ministers. Other aspects of imperial power are scrutinised: the policies of Diocletian, Constantine, or Julian, on temple construction, and Justinian or others, on military campaigns. Finally, Isauria is investigated as the imperial homeland of Zeno. Contributors are Kerim Altug, Javier Arce, Manuel Castro Priego, Peter Crawford, Ken Dark, Pilar Diarte Blasco, Lucia Dominici, Maria Duggan, Hugh Elton, Hossein Habibi, Nikos Karydis, Luke Lavan, Paolo Liveriani, Dominic Moreau, Lauro Olmo, Ioan Opris, Hatice Pamir, Clementina Panella, Martin Papworth, Jacke Phillips, Constantinos Raptis, Catherine Saliou, Alexander Sarantis, Andy Seaman, Ignazio Tantillo, David Walsh, Nigel Westbrook, and Dobrochna Zielinska.

Siwicki, Christopher, Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide. 3rd ed. 592 pp. 2027:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <765-1251>
ISBN 978-0-19-883776-3 paper ¥7,724.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99

Forssman, Tim, Archaeology in Africa: Why the Past Matters. (Archaeology of Africa) 280 pp. 2026:3 (Springer, GW) <764-922>
ISBN 978-3-032-13364-9 hard ¥34,459.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book presents a comprehensive account of how archaeology in Africa evolved, was challenged, and reimagined. Moving from nineteenth-century antiquarianism through independence to today, the book dismantles "dark continent" myths, foregrounds African ways of knowing, and argues for a praxis of archaeologies: multivocal, community-engaged, and methodologically rigorous. Case-led chapters demonstrate how trade, mobility, religion, and the environment have produced diverse African pasts, while contemporary sections address restitution, heritage policy, tourism, and climate risk. The book begins by clarifying what "Africa" signifies in scholarly and public discourse, then dismantles the enduring "dark continent" trope by setting colonial narratives against African intellectual traditions and evidence. Subsequent chapters track the emergence of archaeology, beginning with collections, amateurs, and missionaries, and progressing to professional excavations, surveys, and archaeological science, as well as the discipline's theoretical shifts, from culture history and processualism to post-processual and postcolonial critique, all examined through African case studies. The closing chapters set out why the past matters now: for identity, education, livelihoods, and environmental stewardship. Clear prose, focused case studies (spanning deep prehistory to the second-millennium trade horizons), and a continent-wide lens make this volume essential for students and researchers, while its emphasis on ethics and engagement resonates with heritage professionals and the broader public. The result is a clear, compelling account of what African archaeology is, how it differs from older traditions, and why it matters-for scholarship, for heritage stewardship, and for public life.

Boj Lopez, Floridalma, Indigenous Archives: The Maya Diaspora and Mobile Cultural Production. 200 pp. 2026:1 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-928>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2956-4 hard ¥23,439.- (税込) US$ 103.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3301-1 paper ¥5,850.- (税込) US$ 25.95 *

Indigenous Archives analyzes the modes through which young Guatemalan Mayas in Los Angeles and Guatemala make sense of and respond to transnational structures of settler colonialism. Drawing on in-depth analysis of cultural production and interviews with Guatemalan Maya youth and young adults, Floridalma Boj Lopez examines how Mayas in diaspora craft and circulate narratives about their experiences across borders. Citing a more active practice of "archives in formation," Boj Lopez depicts Indigenous archives as a cross-generational, collective conversation rooted in memory, survival, and cultural expression where Indigenous cultural practices and artifacts move, adapt, and assert their presence in the contemporary. Indigenous Archives invites readers to consider Indigeneity as a process, lived experience, and historical perspective, rather than as a static identity, and shows how extending analysis across borders is critical to understanding Latinidad and Indigeneity.

Coronado, Jorge / Herrera Wassilowsky, Alexander (eds.), Archaeology and Its Avatars: Science and Culture in Latin America. 256 pp. 2026:7 (Northwestern U. Pr., US) <764-932>
ISBN 979-88-994802-5-6 hard ¥14,657.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Rozental, Sandra, The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft. 306 pp. 2026:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-938>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2966-3 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3312-7 paper ¥6,527.- (税込) US$ 28.95

Where and to whom do ancient things belong? What happens when they are stolen-not by a colonial power, but by a national museum claiming them as state patrimony? What kinds of healing and restitution can follow? In The Absent Stone, Sandra Rozental tells the story of the Piedra de los Tecomates, the largest stone monument in the Americas, popularly identified as the pre-Hispanic rain deity Tlaloc. In 1964, the Mexican state called in the military to forcefully relocate this 167-ton carving from the town of Coatlinchan to Mexico City's National Anthropology Museum. Using in-depth historical and ethnographic research, Rozental traces how the stone's absence continues to affect and unsettle Coatlinchan and its residents decades later, revealing the tensions between patrimony, nationalism, territory, memory, and materiality in Mexico. Questioning the premise that historical artifacts belong in museums under state-sanctioned care, The Absent Stone pushes contemporary critical scholarship on monuments and museum collections beyond the language of law, heritage, and cultural property, demonstrating how ancient things remain bound to the people and places they come from even after they are removed and displayed elsewhere.

Angelo, Dante / Zarankin, Andres (eds.), Archaeologies of Contemporary and Political Global Settings: Approaches to Our Political Pasts. (One World Archaeology) 287 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <764-718>
ISBN 978-3-032-13900-9 hard ¥34,459.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book delves into the political aspects of an archaeology of the contemporary past and provides evidence and an understanding of structural violence, inequalities, and possible ways to contest them in current settings. Using case studies, this volume presents a revision of how different theoretical approaches and archaeological methods (combined or mixed with other disciplinary or undisciplined methods), become tools to inquire on the political in its many facets. The contributions to this volume present different scenarios through which the political is or can be reconstituted, re-defined and scrutinized. Whether it is called dissident archaeology or archaeology of repression and resistance or tackling a wide array of subject such as climate change or consumerism, modern conflict, homelessness, migration, and displacement or others, the volume discusses lines of scrutiny that bring together efforts from distant and yet proximate places in the global south and north. Thus, this book provides material connections that illuminate the political spectrum that frames social conditions of power and resistance, the abuse of the former and the efficiency of the latter. This volume is of interest to archaeologists, heritage specialists, and historians studying the contemporary past.

Abraham, Lillykutty, Eco-Folk Rhythms: A Puttinai Analysis of Mavilan Songs. (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) 258 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:8 <764-871>
ISBN 978-1-6669-8006-6 hard ¥24,728.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 979-82-16-39087-9 paper ¥5,560.- (税込) GB￡ 17.99

Eco-Folk Rhythms: A puttinai Analysis of Mavilan Songs explores the deep ecological wisdom embedded in the oral traditions of the Mavilan tribe. Dr. Abraham's pioneering work analyzes Mavilan agricultural, nuptial, and ritual songs through the unique lens of puttinai, an Indigenous theoretical framework derived from ancient Tamil tinai theory. This approach bridges traditional ecocriticism with Indigenous knowledge systems. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book reveals how these songs serve as repositories of sustainable practices and environmental ethics, reflecting deep interconnections among humans, nature, and supernature. Eco-Folk Rhythms advocates for an alternative, non-Western approach to addressing contemporary environmental crises. A vital resource for ecocritical scholarship, anthropology, folklore, and Indigenous studies.

Langwick, Stacey A., Medicines That Feed Us: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World. 328 pp. 2026:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-429>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2977-9 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3322-6 paper ¥7,203.- (税込) US$ 31.95 *

Medicines That Feed Us examines the relationship between toxicity and remedy in the face of the intertwined health and environmental crises that are shaping life in the twenty-first century. Through ethnographic work with organizations that use plant-based healing and sustainable farming practices in Tanzania, Stacey A. Langwick asks what it means to heal in a toxic world. Expanding on the Kiswahili phrase dawa lishe, or medicines that feed us, Langwick describes the potency of plant medicines in therapeutic projects that address bodies and environments together. These efforts challenge biomedicine's intense focus on the internal dynamics of biological bodies and its externalization of the modern agricultural, industrial, and land management practices that impact it. Dawa lishe is not a call to return to the traditional, but an invitation to join contemporary experiments in how we know, use, and govern therapeutic plants. Medicines That Feed Us offers alternative ways of living and dying, growing and decaying, composing and decomposing which acknowledge the interdependence of bodily and ecological health.

Middleton, Alexandra, The Connector: Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics. (Experimental Futures) 296 pp. 2026:5 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-432>
ISBN 978-1-4780-3374-5 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3867-2 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In The Connector, Alexandra Middleton examines how the frontiers of experimental medical science are always the everyday lived experiences for patients and their families and communities. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews conducted in Swedish labs and clinics that develop neuromusculoskeletal protheses, as well as in the homes of patients enrolled in clinical trials as they live with these new forms of prosthetics, Middleton shows how patients' sensory experiences and domestic worlds become key spaces of scientific knowledge production that extend well beyond their visits to the lab. Through storytelling that centers the patients' embodied knowledge and labor, along with the scientists who work closely with them, Middleton depicts how "connection" entails inhabiting the liminal space between ideation and materialization, a space punctuated not only by breakthroughs and breakdowns, but the slow work of the everyday. The Connector critically examines where biomedical innovation, scientific discovery, and the "cutting edge" come from in ways that foreground the importance of the domestic spaces in which experimental science take place.

Chu, Nellie, Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou. 280 pp. 2026:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-448>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2964-9 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3309-7 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In Precarious Accumulation, Nellie Chu tells the story of the migrant entrepreneurs at the heart of Guangzhou's fast fashion industry - one of the world's most dynamic hubs of transnational commodity production. Chu shows how rural Chinese migrants, West African traders, and South Korean jobbers navigate the high-speed, low-margin world of just-in-time garment production that fuels the constant accumulation of wealth via global supply chains. Drawing on fieldwork in Guangzhou's urban villages and household workshops, Chu outlines how these entrepreneurs' dreams of economic freedom clash with the reality of precarity and the exclusions of emigre status. Migrant bosses operate within a highly competitive, informal economy where they are both agents and target of exploitation, as they must evade rent collectors, endure racialized policing, and mitigate extortion from security officers and competitors. Chu crucially demonstrates how their efforts generate novel forms of migratory labor, commodity production, and cross-cultural exchange in postsocialist China.

Collu, Samuele, Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition. 232 pp. 2026:1 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-1180>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2951-9 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3294-6 paper ¥7,203.- (税込) US$ 31.95 *

Into the Loop asks how, and under what conditions, we can interrupt the repetitions that define us. Drawing from more than 200 hours of ethnographic observations of Systemic couples therapy in Buenos Aires, alongside auto-ethnographic recordings of Samuele Collu's own hypnotherapy sessions, this study traces the psychic forces that compel people to repeat, interrupt, or drift aside from relational loops. Grounding his analysis in affect theory, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology, Collu examines how identification, affective transmission, compulsive repetition, and hypnosis play out within therapeutic encounters observed by teams of psychotherapists through one-way mirrors and closed-circuit television systems. This focus on visual mediation reveals how screens and observational devices both capture and distort the therapeutic process itself-a dynamic that connects to broader questions about digital media and user-screen relations in contemporary society. Written in an experimental and literary style that moves fluidly between the academic, the personal, and their uncanny in-betweens, Into the Loop offers a unique window into the repetitive cycles that shape our most intimate relationships and the possibilities for transformation within them.

Mohan, Deepanshu / Saqib, Najam Us / Killemsetty, N. et al., The Practice of Visual Ethnography: Examining Identity and Lived Experiences of Marginalised Communities. 121 pp. 2026:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <764-1183>
ISBN 978-981-9546-47-3 hard ¥10,600.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book presents visual ethnography as a transformative approach to understanding, documenting, and representing the layered realities of marginalized communities and often-overlooked institutional contexts. It demonstrates how visual storytelling tools ranging from photography and video to infographics and spatial mapping can uncover the subtle social, cultural, and economic dynamics that traditional textual research tends to miss. Drawing on diverse case studies, the volume shows how visual narratives not only illuminate lived experiences but also foster collaboration and challenge dominant representations. By highlighting its multidisciplinary reach, the book situates visual ethnography within the intersecting domains of urban studies, development research, and policy engagement. It also delves into the ethical and methodological dimensions of visual storytelling, underscoring its potential to bridge academic inquiry with public understanding and policymaking. Ultimately, this work advocates for visual ethnography as a vital instrument of inclusive research and transformative communication, one that amplifies marginalized voices, strengthens social connections, and inspires meaningful change in contemporary urban and social landscapes. Readers will be drawn to its inventive methods, compelling findings, and thought-provoking themes, which together weave strong links between scholarship, advocacy, and on-ground practice.

Seetah, Krish / Leidwanger, Justin (eds.), Across the Shore: Integrating Perspectives on Maritime Heritage. (When the Land Meets the Sea) 254 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <764-1186>
ISBN 978-3-032-14229-0 hard ¥26,506.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book highlights critical developments in maritime research focusing on transformations brought about by the establishment of the 'Blue Economy' as well as the increasing recognition of the value of heritage for contemporary communities. It brings together a collection of chapters that seek to identify, and shape, how the field of maritime archaeology will mature in the coming decades as approaches, technologies, as well as expectations and uses, change and adapt. The book specifically sets out to tackle an interrelated suite of major new topics focused on maritime resources, UNESCO and the impacts of the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, with an express focus on how maritime heritage can benefit local communities. Intended for an international audience, the book is written in an accessible style, with contributions that provide an in-depth discussion of the trends outlined above for students and researchers working in maritime archaeology and heritage. Chapter 2 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Simpson, Nikita Kaur, Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas. (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography) 238 pp. 2026:3 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-1187>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2983-0 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3329-5 paper ¥7,203.- (税込) US$ 31.95 *

In Tension, Nikita Kaur Simpson examines the effects of rapid development in the Himalayas on the minds and bodies of the Gaddi people who inhabit them through attention to the multifaceted state of distress they call "tension." This "tension" takes many forms: Kamzori, or weakness, in the bodies of elderly women; "Future tension" accumulating in the minds of young girls; or Opara, or black magic, afflicting whole families. Through her long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Simpson follows the ways in which Gaddi people tie this distress to broader structural changes, such as land dispossession and caste, class, tribal and gender inequality, which are growing alongside modernity and prosperity. In doing so, she shows how "tension" acts as an everyday diagnostic of the problems of cultural, economic and environmental change as they shape intimate life. At once a lived historical account, a cartography of care relations, and a multi-sensory exploration of the intimate experiences of atmosphere and body, Tension puts forth a novel theory of distress, that inequality is often determined by who is made to feel, hold, and absorb distress.