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

Hakobyan, Arsen / Mollica, Marcello, Conflict, Space and Transnationalism: An Ethnography of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology) 404 pp. 2025:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <749-812>
ISBN 978-3-031-89206-6 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book looks at the way the 2020 Second Nagorno Karabakh War allowed urban spectacular transformation in war actors' attitudes towards space and transnationalism. It concentrates on some specific events, including pre- and wartime life in the Nagorno Karabakh political capital Stepanakert and compelling historical and cultural heritage issues in the cultural capital Shushi and its meaning for the Armenian population worldwide. Attention is placed both on wartime social and urban changes and to the destruction, or attempted destruction, of Armenians cultural heritage during the conflict and in post-war Azerbaijani occupation. The first part of the book reconstructs the historic and religious context of Nagorno Karabakh, linking it with the regional geo-political dimension; meanwhile, the case studies analysed in the second part of the book will help understand spatial meanings (e.g., towns, cultural centres, monasteries) and the symbolic value of urban heritage while also discussing some conflict markers in the context of theories of transnationalism and diaspora studies.

Wang, Po Hsun / Li, Jie, Interpreting the Evolution of Atayal Tribal Textile Patterns: Tracing the Anthropological Footprints of a Taiwanese Ethnic Minority Group. 218 pp. 2025:7 (Springer, GW) <749-933>
ISBN 978-981-9654-50-5 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book elucidates findings from an anthropological study that analyzes the patterns of Taiwan's Atayal tribe's fabric in their ethnic dress codes. By analyzing the changes and development of the patterns over time, the authors draw fascinating conclusions regarding the geographical migration and intermarriage practices between indigenous minority groups in Taiwan's history. The book brings new insights within East Asian linguistic anthropology in theorizing about the origins of legends and broader patterns of ethnic migration, integrating the characteristics and relationships among Atayal fabrics, and interpreting these relationships in connection with the flow of sub-ethnic groups. In doing so, the book provides rich empirical evidence for anthropologists and migration scholars to better understand the movement of ethnic groups in Taiwan, while also establishing a model for how studying textile design can be employed to establish such linkages. The book shows that the composition and changes of ethnic minority patterns have their own internal logic and causes. By studying this, the authors demonstrate how such work might translate intangible and tangible culture into explicit and shareable knowledge and provide a compass for other anthropologists and researchers in the fields of visual and linguistic anthropology, migration studies, and ethnic and indigenous cultures, in Asia and beyond.

Goodale, Mark, Extracting the Future: Lithium in an Era of Energy Transition. 302 pp. 2025:10 (U. California Pr., US) <749-240>
ISBN 978-0-520-40278-2 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40279-9 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Bolivia's troubled efforts to develop a commercial lithium industry. Bolivia's lithium accounts for a significant percentage of the world's known reserve. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Mark Goodale traces the development of Bolivia's closely guarded lithium project through the perspectives of a wide array of people and institutions, including workers at the Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat; the state lithium company in La Paz; Latin America's first electric vehicle company; and energy entrepreneurs in Bolivia, the United States, and Germany. He points to a fundamental contradiction: a so-called green energy transition dependent on the ever-greater extraction of yet another nonrenewable resource. But without access to Bolivia's lithium, and at megaindustrial scales that far outstrip current production, there won't be sufficient lithium supply to make the batteries needed for a truly global EV revolution. Extracting the Future shows how the lithium economy is deeply embedded in a global capitalist system that continues to rely on resource extraction, unsustainable economic growth, and geopolitical violence.

Coltofean, Laura / Arnold, B. / Bartosiewicz, L. (eds.), Connecting People and Ideas: Networks and Networking in the History of Archaeology. (Themes in Contemporary Archaeology) 232 pp. 2025:3 (Springer, GW) <749-1198>
ISBN 978-3-031-81005-3 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book presents new research into social networks and the various networking modes that formed during the history of archaeology in distinct geographical settings in Europe, North America, and South Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The diverse range of international experts in this edited collection demonstrate that networks can be found everywhere in archaeology, making it a highly interconnected research field. Using a wide array of examples from diverse geopolitical, cultural, and social contexts, the volume reveals how essential social networks and networking have been to the development of archaeology; to the production, transfer, exchange, and dissemination of archaeological and cross-disciplinary knowledge; and to the formation, upward mobility, barrier transcendence, research, and association of archaeological practitioners. The book is of interest to students and scholars of history of archaeology, history of science, museum studies and interdisciplinary studies.

Ferreyra, Carla, A Proposal for the Expanded Fruition of Cultural Heritage Sites: CAME, a Methodology for Their Digitization. 174 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <749-1199>
ISBN 978-3-031-88822-9 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book presents a comprehensive methodology, integrating analysis, digitization, and the preservation of cultural heritage. It investigates three potential UNESCO World Heritage Sites, in Italy, Germany and South Africa, and employs a blend of documentary research and advanced digital surveying and data processing techniques. The volume shows how these efforts yielded actionable strategies to meet society's evolving demands for surveying, recovery, and conservation. The book documents the work behind the overarching objective which was to digitize, analyze, categorize, and store all collected data within a BIM framework, with the aim of streamlining collaboration, enhancing management efficiency, and optimizing processes. It demonstrates the utilization of digital tools in not only amplifying traditional scientific-technological approaches to heritage protection, but also its role in reshaping the perception, comprehension, and communication of heritage. This fosters the development of more sustainable conservation strategies.

Shever, Elana, Making Our Beasts: Paleontology in the United States. (Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics) 278 pp. 2025:12 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1203>
ISBN 978-0-520-42566-8 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41672-7 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Making Our Beasts is an ethnography of science-in-action that uses a familiar topic-dinosaurs-to lead readers to understand science and its objects in new ways. Through fieldwork and interviews conducted at laboratories, dig sites, museums, and entertainment sites, Elana Shever explores vertebrate paleontology in the United States, showing how the practices of scientists and the materiality of fossils together shape the social world and also are shaped by it. The book foregrounds elements of scientific inquiry that have been sidelined: affect, touch, material agency, and the labor of volunteers, technicians, and other nonscientists. It also reveals how paleontology continues to be structured by race, gender, and colonialism.

Pelican, Michaela / Zafer, Karim / Bollig, Michael (eds.), Decolonising the Future Academy in Africa and Beyond: Institutional Development and Collaboration. (Postcolonial Studies 54) 240 S. 2025:2 (Transcript, GW) <749-1009>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7596-2 paper ¥10,593.- (税込) EUR 45.00

What does it mean to decolonise academia in Africa? Is this important project limited to the humanities? Is it a project for the future? Are there forerunners at African universities today? The contributors to this volume show different trajectories for anthropology as a discipline and for decolonising academia across the continent and beyond. They offer a variety of perspectives, especially regarding collaboration between African and German scholars in the areas of research, teaching and institutional development: While some are hopeful and take inspiration from earlier experiences of disciplinary and methodological developments in academic decolonisation and international collaborations, others remain critical and call for more radical attempts at decolonisation.

Abels, Birgit / Eisenlohr, Patrick, Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality. 186 pp. 2025:9 (U. California Pr., US) <749-1033>
ISBN 978-0-520-42319-0 hard ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-41732-8 paper ¥7,265.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do we know through atmospheres? How can being affected by an atmosphere give rise to knowledge? What role does somatic, nonverbal knowledge play in how we belong to places? Atmospheric Knowledge takes up these questions through detailed analyses of practices that generate atmospheres and in which knowledge emerges through visceral intermingling with atmospheres. From combined musicological and anthropological perspectives, Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr investigate atmospheres as a compelling alternative to better-known analytics of affect by way of performative and sonic practices across a range of ethnographic settings. With particular focus on oceanic relations and sonic affectedness, Atmospheric Knowledge centers the rich affordances of sonic connections for knowing our environments.

Coffee, Kevin, The End of the Museum: Culture, Colonialism and Liberation. 240 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-877>
ISBN 978-1-032-79278-1 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-79277-4 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This provocative book challenges frequently voiced assertions regarding museums as necessary and valued modern institutions. It raises fundamental, existential questions about contemporary museums as products of the modern colonial world order. Drawing on practical examples of collecting and exhibiting, theoretical research, and critique from diverse countries across the globe, including Chile, India, Korea, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Palestine, Portugal, Sri Lanka, and the United States, the book moves beyond the conventional Eurocentric museological framework. The book synthesises contemporary critiques of museums, while arguing that societies need the sociocultural examinations that museums are capable of facilitating, and that radical transformations of 'the museum' are fraught with difficulty, but also possible and necessary. Ultimately, Coffee argues that museums can only be future orientated if they are transformed into agents of social justice and inclusion; divestors of illicit collections; and proponents of a liberatory ethic, opposing neo-colonialism in all of its forms. During that transformative process, as the book demonstrates, museum practice and museum theory must also be transformed.The End of the Museum: Culture, Colonialism, and Liberation will appeal to students, researchers, and practitioners interested in a critical examination of museum work and theory.

Egeler, Matthias, Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld. 240 pp. 2025:10 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-881>
ISBN 978-0-300-28440-9 hard ¥5,405.- (税込) US$ 26.00

An enchanting history of the otherworld of elves and fairies, from the nature spirits of Iceland and Ireland to Avalon and Middle Earth Originating in Norse and Celtic mythologies, elves and fairies are a firmly established part of Western popular culture. Since the days of the Vikings and Arthurian legend, these sprites have undergone huge transformations. From J. R. R. Tolkien's warlike elves, based on medieval legend, to little flower fairies whose charms even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle succumbed to, they permeate European art and culture. In this engaging cultural history, Matthias Egeler explores these mythical creatures of Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, and England, and their continental European cousins. Egeler goes on a journey through enchanted landscapes and literary worlds. He describes both their friendly and their dangerous, even deadly, sides. We encounter them in the legends of King Arthur's round table and in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in the terrible era of the witch trials, in magic's peaceful conquest of Victorian bourgeois salons, in the child-friendly form of Peter Pan, and even as helpers in the contemporary fight against environmental destruction.

Martinovich, Victor, Belarus in Autoethnographic Narratives: The Art of Mercy Against Oblivion. 256 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-903>
ISBN 978-1-041-07233-1 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book offers an autoethnographic exploration of the interplay of art, memory, and resilience in Eastern Europe, weaving together the personal and collective histories of Belarusians - those who survived two world wars and their contemporaries, who are now looking for a way out of a political crisis in the region.Set against the history of Belarus, it recounts the story of the author's great-grandfather Amyalyan, a Belarusian peasant executed by the Nazis after saving a Jewish man during World War I, along with reflections on artists like Chaim Soutine and Marc Chagall, whose journeys reflect the region's cultural endurance. Combining autoethnography and art history, this book presents art as a medium of empathy, challenging readers to engage with paintings emotionally rather than through a purely analytical lens. Each chapter functions as both a historical reflection and an invitation to see art as a means of reclaiming personal narratives, making historical traumas accessible and relatable. Themes of compassion, forgiveness, and the humanizing power of art emerge as essential elements, guiding readers through the complex intersections of personal and collective memory.This book is a valuable addition for researchers and students interested in ethnography and autoethnography, Eastern European studies, art history, cultural studies and memory studies.

Antieau, Lamont, Designing Questionnaires for Language Studies and Linguistic Anthropology. 288 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-935>
ISBN 978-1-032-44663-9 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-44662-2 paper ¥12,435.- (税込) GB￡ 43.99

Designing Questionnaires for Language Studies is a guide to the design and use of questionnaires for empirical linguistic research, particularly in the areas of dialectology, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology. Whether completed via written correspondence or through interviewing, questionnaires play an essential role in linguistic research. Yet, the design of questionnaires is rarely taught formally, leaving researchers to learn effective design in practice. This practical and accessible text offers structured, step-by-step guidance to provide researchers with the skills they need to make the most of questionnaire-based research. It also provides a history of the use of this tool in linguistic research and critically examines the assumptions and motivations inherent in the creation and administration of questionnaires and the questions that populate them, and how biases can negatively affect the outcome of the research itself. Experience in this area has led to refinements in these instruments over time. Armed with this knowledge, readers can make informed decisions about how to structure their questionnaires as they embark on their own investigations, or they can simply use this background information to better understand the results of previous work in these areas. This book will be valuable reading to language scholars who want to carry out their own research projects or critically evaluate the research of others.

Arikha, Noga, Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds. (Jewish Lives) 280 pp. 2025:7 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-936>
ISBN 978-0-300-24123-5 hard ¥5,821.- (税込) US$ 28.00

A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology Franz Boas (1858-1942) is widely acknowledged for his pioneering work in the field of cultural anthropology. His rigorous studies of variations across societies were aimed at demonstrating that cultures and peoples were not shaped by biological predispositions. This book traces Boas's life and intellectual passions from his roots in Germany and his move to the United States in 1884, partly in response to growing antisemitism in Germany, to his work with First Nations communities and his influential role as a teacher, mentor, and engaged activist who inspired an entire generation. Drawing from Boas's numerous but rarely read writings, Noga Arikha brings to life the man and the ideas he developed about the complex interplay of mind and culture, biology and history, language and myth. She provides a comprehensive picture of the cultural contexts in which he worked, of his personal and professional relationships, and of his revolutionary approach to fieldwork. He was celebrated in his lifetime for the cultural relativism he developed and the arguments he marshaled against entrenched racialism. But his was a constant battle, and Arikha shows how urgently relevant his voice and legacy have become again today.

Birkhofer, Melissa D. / Worley, Paul M. (eds.), Teresa Martin and Luisa Menendez: Indigenous Women from Appalachia in the Spanish Colonial Record. (Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices) 240 pp. 2025:11 (U. Pr. Kentucky, US) <748-937>
ISBN 978-1-9859-0324-1 hard ¥12,474.- (税込) US$ 60.00
ISBN 978-1-9859-0323-4 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Chazan, Michael, World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways Through Time. 6th ed. 800 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <748-938>
ISBN 978-1-032-61031-3 hard ¥52,299.- (税込) GB￡ 185.00
ISBN 978-1-032-56590-3 paper ¥25,439.- (税込) GB￡ 89.99

World Prehistory and Archaeology explains how the process of archaeological discovery develops our picture of humanity as it emerges from archaeological research, integrating discussion of world prehistory and archaeological methods.Presenting an up-to-date perspective on what we know about our human prehistory and how we come to know it, this book focuses on archaeology as an active journey of discovery and the ways in which archaeologists gain insight into the human past. Archaeological practice and methods are introduced and also problematized with discussions and examples around how we know the past. This new edition includes recent work on early humans, genetics, social complexity, agriculture, climate change, AI and more to ensure that the current state of archaeological research is reflected. This vibrant picture of archaeology highlights how archaeologists grasp at the traces of the past but are at the same time deeply embedded in the concerns and structure of current society. To reflect this dynamic, the context of archaeological research and the relevance of archaeology to the challenges we face today are woven through the entire text. The archaeology of the recent past is also foregrounded to engage students with this rapidly developing area with a new chapter in the first section of the volume.Providing students with the fundamentals of archaeology and engaging them with the work that goes into understanding world prehistory, World Prehistory and Archaeology locates this knowledge in the context of the modern world, recognizing the relevance of archaeology to contemporary issues.

Hollan, Douglas, Human Subjectivity, Selfhood and Selfscapes: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Anthropology. 200 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-942>
ISBN 978-1-032-86663-5 hard ¥39,578.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00
ISBN 978-1-032-86774-8 paper ¥9,325.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99

This book explores cross-cultural similarities and differences of human subjectivity and selfhood through the concept of selfscapes.Utilizing an ethnographic and person-centered approach to the study of human subjectivity, Selfscapes, Selfhoods, and Subjectivities demonstrates that autopoietic processes are informed by both the constraints of a social and material ecology acting on a particular person and by how that person is remembering and habitually responding to that history of engagement with the world. While the co-constitution of social and historical circumstance and individual reactivity and memory is universal, the way an autopoietic process unfolds within any given social ecology will vary, sometimes greatly, from person to person. Drawing on a broad theoretical base, this book is essential reading for anthropologists, psychoanalysts, social psychologists, and anyone seeking to understand the varieties and particularities of human subjectivity and selfhood.

Monsted, Asta, Re-activating Indigenous Knowledge from Oral History: Landscape and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Greenland. (Arctic Worlds) 228 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-944>
ISBN 978-1-032-77483-1 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book focuses on Greenlandic oral history and how to better understand people, their cultural remains, and their landscape through their own stories. It offers a way to consult Inuit oral history that opens up a perspective on houses and landscapes that may otherwise be invisible to the barren eye. Working with and re-activating Indigenous knowledge of Greenland, the study draws on more than two thousand stories collected between 1735 and 1981, preserved, and later enrolled in an online and searchable database. The author unearths the concepts woven into Greenlandic Inuit's homes, settlements, and landscapes. These re-discovered insights challenge the archaeological interpretation, transcending the tangible to illuminate the unseen. The narratives contribute to safeguarding invaluable Indigenous knowledge and perhaps also to the revival of cultural practices, customs, and traditions. The book demonstrates how oral history is more than merely fantastical 'myths' and 'legends'; it is valuable knowledge for scholars and communities. It will be of particular interest for scholars of Indigenous studies, anthropology, archaeology, and history.

R.W.ノラン著　人類学者になるための案内　第2版
Nolan, Riall W., Using Anthropology in the World: A Guide to Becoming an Anthropologist Practitioner. 2nd ed. 336 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-946>
ISBN 978-1-032-70628-3 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-70620-7 paper ¥10,456.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This updated second edition of Using Anthropology in the World: A Guide to Becoming an Anthropologist Practitioner is a comprehensive introduction to non-academic anthropological practice.The demand for anthropologist practitioners is strong and growing every day; practice is in many ways the leading edge of anthropology today, and one of the most exciting aspects of the discipline. How can anthropology students prepare themselves to become practitioners? Specifically designed to help students, including those in more traditional training programs, prepare for a career in putting anthropology to work in the world, this revised edition contains updates on a number of topics, including AI, and contains expanded sections on career preparation and job-hunting.Using Anthropology in the World: A Guide to Becoming an Anthropologist Practitioner will help both undergraduate and graduate anthropology students prepare themselves for careers outside the university, and to use their anthropological skills and abilities in the government, private and non-profit sectors.

O'Malley, Nancy, Kentucky Frontier to Commonwealth: Historical Archaeology at Daniel Boone's and Hugh McGary's Stations. 334 pp. 2025:10 (U. Pr. Kentucky, US) <748-947>
ISBN 978-1-9859-0228-2 hard ¥12,474.- (税込) US$ 60.00
ISBN 978-1-9859-0305-0 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Pierce, Joseph M., Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair. 288 pp. 2025:8 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-948>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2888-8 hard ¥25,987.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-1-4780-3215-1 paper ¥7,068.- (税込) US$ 34.00

Salazar, Carles, Human Alterity: A Brief History of Anthropological Thought. 222 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-950>
ISBN 978-1-032-86837-0 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-86633-8 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Human Alterity: A Brief History of Anthropological Thought offers an introduction to the history of anthropological thought, encompassing eleven concise chapters that revolve around the concept of human alterity.Ever since the birth of our species, humans have wanted to understand people other than themselves. But what is an 'alter' human? Alter humans do not exist irrespective of the very concept of alterity that defines them as such. Readers find a history of what has made humanity opaque to itself: a history of the theories about human alterity produced by some humans. Chapters delve into various topics, including the discovery of America and the initial systematic theories regarding human alterity, the influences of rationalism and the Enlightenment, the impact of Romanticism, the trajectory of Social Evolutionism, the realm of Historicism, the tenets of Functionalism, explorations into the Culture and Personality school, examinations of Structuralism, analyses of political ideologies (such as Marxism, feminism, postcolonial studies, and postmodernism), and an exploration of current trends in cross-cultural studies.Human Alterity: A Brief History of Anthropological Thought will be of value to both new and advanced students of anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, social history, post-colonial studies and to anyone concerned with the belief, fantasy and reality of human diversity.

現代沖縄の生きている人、死者、犠牲
Nelson, Christopher T., When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa. 304 pp. 2025:7 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-652>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2872-7 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3196-3 paper ¥6,018.- (税込) US$ 28.95

Desjarlais, Robert, The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar. (Theory in Forms) 344 pp. 2025:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-708>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2906-9 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3242-7 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Thomas, Deborah A., Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance. (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) 256 pp. 2025:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-776>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2923-6 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3259-5 paper ¥6,018.- (税込) US$ 28.95

Rosa-Salas, Marcel, Total Market American: Race, Data, and Advertising. 192 pp. 2025:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-369>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2915-1 hard ¥21,610.- (税込) US$ 103.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3254-0 paper ¥5,394.- (税込) US$ 25.95

Srinivas, Tulasi, The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty. 304 pp. 2025:11 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-147>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2930-4 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3277-9 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Taussig, Michael, Corpse Magic: Echoes Active in the Slayer-Slain Nexus. 320 pp. 2025:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-716>
ISBN 978-0-226-83739-0 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-83741-3 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Corpse Magic examines beliefs about vengeance the slain magically enact on their killers, focusing on lethal violence in Colombia and the United States.Corpse Magic is a response to the global ubiquity of violence. In this bracing new work, the influential anthropologist Michael Taussig puts killings in Colombia, by gangs and guerrillas, police and the military, and agents of agribusiness, in conversation with mass shootings and police killings, disproportionately of Black people, in the United States. In both contexts, he examines the effects of violent killing on its victims, its perpetrators, and those who witness and relive it through media footage. Drawing from literature, religion, philosophy, and anthropology, Taussig traces the idea that the act of killing "infects" the killer and spreads outward, then connects this concept of contagion to beliefs in Colombia and elsewhere that the souls of the slain possess those of their slayers and that magic can be used to empower or thwart corpses as agents of vengeance. In this powerful and imaginative work, Taussig asks what kind of power the dead continue to have; what kinds of magic can manage that power; and what, if anything, can stop seemingly endless cycles of violence.

Ticktin, Miriam, Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World. 272 pp. 2025:12 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-837>
ISBN 978-0-226-83873-1 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-83875-5 paper ¥4,989.- (税込) US$ 24.00

Pinto-Garcia, Lina, Marana: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia. 240 pp. 2025:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-413>
ISBN 978-0-226-83932-5 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-83934-9 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Delves into the relationship between war and disease, focusing on Colombian armed conflict and the skin disease known as cutaneous leishmaniasis. Cutaneous leishmaniasis, transmitted by female sandflies, produces skin lesions of varying size and shape. In Colombia, the insect vector of the disease is native to the same forested environments that have served as the main stage for one of the longest and most violent wars in Latin American history. As a result, the populations most affected by leishmaniasis in Colombia are members of the state army and nonstate armed groups. Lina Pinto-Garcia explores how leishmaniasis and the armed conflict are inextricably connected and mutually reinforcing. Marana means "tangle" in Spanish but is also commonly used in Colombia to name the entangled greenery, braided lianas, and dense foliage that characterize the tropical forests where leishmaniasis transmission typically occurs. Pinto-Garcia argues that leishmaniasis and the war are not merely linked but enmaranadas to each other through narratives, technologies, and practices produced by the state, medicine, biomedical research, and the armed conflict itself. All told, Marana is a passionate study of how war has shaped the production of scientific knowledge about leishmaniasis and access to its treatments in Colombia.

Mayor, Adrienne, Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore. (Pedia Books) 216 pp. 2025:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-206>
ISBN 978-0-691-24786-1 hard ¥3,731.- (税込) US$ 17.95

From acclaimed folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor, an enchanting collection of the ancient myths that emerged out of the wonders-and disasters-of the natural worldMythopedia is a fun, fact-filled A-Z treasury of myths inspired by natural events. Bringing together fifty legends from antiquity to the present, this delightfully entertaining book takes you around the world to explore sunken kingdoms and lost cities, accursed mountains and treacherous terrains, and lethal lakes and singing sand dunes, explaining the historical background and latest science underlying each tale.As soon as humans invented language, they told stories to explain mysterious things they observed around them-on land, in the seas, and in the skies. Even though these tales are expressed in poetic or supernatural language, they contain surprisingly accurate insights and even eyewitness descriptions of catastrophic events millennia ago. Drawing on her unique insights as a pioneer in the exciting new field of geomythology, Adrienne Mayor describes how cultural memories of tsunamis, volcanic disasters, and other massive geological events can reach back thousands of years as the stories were preserved, elaborated, told, and retold across generations. She shows how geomythology is expanding our understanding of our planet's history over eons, revealing the human desire to explain nature and weave imaginative stories intertwined with keen observation, rational speculation, and memory.With captivating drawings by Michele Angel, Mythopedia is a compendium of many marvels, from the Hindu monkey god Hanuman and his army of bridge-building primates to the terrifying sand demon Shensha shen of China, the gnawing glaciers of Austria, and the vengeful fish-headed snake god Nyami Nyami of Africa's Zambezi River.Features a cloth cover with an elaborate foil-stamped design

Bilstein, Johannes / Winzen, Matthias / Zirfas, J. (eds.), Pedagogical Anthropology of Technology: Practices, Objects and Ways of Life. 249 pp. 2025:6 (Springer, GW) <747-1273>
ISBN 978-3-658-47539-0 paper ¥20,005.- (税込) EUR 84.99 *

The volume examines the question of which specifically educational techniques are required in view of the increasing establishment and professionalization of pedagogical fields of work. In this context, an attempt is made to clarify what pedagogical and didactic preparation must take place for an increasingly technically oriented world. In addition, the everyday techniques of self-care are analyzed. And finally, pedagogical anthropology is also concerned with the question of who is the subject and object of technology.

Bobou, Olympia / Raja, Rubina / Stamatopoulou, Maria (eds.), Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Knowledge. (Archive Archaeology 6) 475 pp. 2025:5 (Brepols, BE) <747-1274>
ISBN 978-2-503-61685-8 paper ¥38,841.- (税込) EUR 165.00

我々の起源の考古学を理解する
Dominguez-Rodrigo, Manuel / Baquedano, Enrique (eds.), Traces of the Distant Human Past: Understanding the Archaeology of our Origins. 350 pp. 2025:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <747-1275>
ISBN 978-1-009-67059-3 hard ¥25,443.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Traces of the Distant Human Past offers a critical examination of early human behavior by challenging traditional narratives and pushing for a more scientific, theoretically informed approach to archaeology. Emphasizing the importance of understanding early humans within their environmental context, the contributors to this volume propose a shift towards theoretical frameworks and ecological perspectives in archaeological research. They highlight the scarcity of well-preserved archaeological sites, making a strong case for high-resolution analyses and the need for new methodologies, including the use of artificial intelligence in taphonomy. By questioning the scientific rigor of current practices and advocating for hypothesis-driven research, this volume not only informs but also inspires a reevaluation of the approaches that can be applied to an interpretation of the evidence for human evolution in the archaeological record. It will be an essential resource for those interested in advancing the field and gaining a deeper understanding of human origins.

Leach, Melissa / Fairhead, James, Naturekind: Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human. 272 pp. 2025:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-1276>
ISBN 978-0-691-27067-8 hard ¥20,779.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-0-691-27066-1 paper ¥5,186.- (税込) US$ 24.95

A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and cultureAre language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New discoveries in the biological sciences have challenged this assumption, finding syntax, symbolism and social learning beyond the human, and identifying culture as a second inheritance system across the phyla from whales to insects and plants. Biologists are constrained, however, by the mechanistic ways communication is understood. In Naturekind, Melissa Leach and James Fairhead address this impasse by extending insights from structural linguistics, social semiotics, anthropology and Indigenous theorization into wider life, integrating them with new biological findings to develop a new structural biosemiotics paradigm.Leach and Fairhead argue that such a paradigm can provide a unified theory of meaning-making across all of nature, or "naturekind," allowing new theorisation about human and nonhuman communication and culture. They examine people's communicative encounters with chickens, horses, bees, bats and plants, and with assemblages of living and nonliving entities-forests, seas, soils and cities. Marrying the new biology with the structural social sciences, they contend, provides powerful insights for living well with wider life on a shared planet and transforming political relations.

Shelach-Lavi, Gideon / Maran, J. / Davidovich, U. (eds.), Rituals, Memory, and Societal Dynamics: Contributions to Social Archaeology: A Collection of Essays in Memory of Sharon Zuckerman. (LEMA 5) 301 pp. 2025:7 (Brepols, BE) <747-1279>
ISBN 978-2-503-61292-8 paper ¥32,956.- (税込) EUR 140.00

Sherman, Daniel J., Sensations: French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940. 288 pp. 2025:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1280>
ISBN 978-0-226-83537-2 hard ¥9,874.- (税込) US$ 47.50 *

Delves into two controversies from the French archaeological world to illuminate the tension between the discipline's scientific ambitions and its hunger for media attention. For well over a century, from Heinrich Schliemann's sensational discoveries at Troy in the 1880s, through the Tutankhamun excavations of the 1920s, to the recent LIDAR-aided uncovering of lost Maya cities, archaeology has made headlines. In this new history of archaeology and its archival traces, Daniel J. Sherman treats the friction between science and spectacle as constitutive of the field. By exploring two long-running controversies that roiled the French archaeological world and its wider public in the first third of the twentieth century, he gives the science/media relationship a unique place in the history of archaeology-and its present. The first controversy involves a dispute over the conduct of excavations at Carthage in Tunisia, then under French colonial rule. In the second, accusations of forgery clouded what seemed to be a stunning Neolithic find at a hamlet called Glozel, in the Auvergne region in central France. The affair divided the scholarly community and attracted enormous media attention across Europe and North America. Both controversies occurred at a transitional moment between what has been called the heroic age of archaeology, dominated by explorers and adventurers with little specialized training, and the beginnings of its professionalization. As Sherman shows, the two affairs put the methods, procedures, and networks of archaeology in the spotlight and profoundly shaped its history.

Becker, Ralph M. / Costa, Antonio Luz et al. (eds.), Global Perspectives on Animism and Autonomous Technologies. (Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Society) 230 pp. 2025:6 (Springer, GW) <747-142>
ISBN 978-3-031-88208-1 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This volume provides a timely analysis of the emerging phenomenon of autonomous technology, a topic of intense contemporary importance given the transformative potential and risks posed by rapidly developing AI systems. It utilizes a unique approach by focusing on the ways that these technologies can be understood via the lens of animism and 'techno-animism,' a term that denotes how society and individual users are attributing life-like properties - agency, intention, and will - to technological systems. The volume further interrogates and critiques the ways that autonomous technologies are often intentionally designed to promote socioemotional connections with users. The volume investigates such technologies through a variety of global settings and interdisciplinary lenses. With contributions from scholars across anthropology, sociology, communication studies, law, and design theory, it offers a range of perspectives on how autonomous technologies are reshaping cultural and social institutions worldwide. Furthermore, this collection addresses the urgent need for concrete research on the readiness of legal and social frameworks to incorporate autonomous technologies. With the imminent widespread integration of autonomous technologies into our everyday lives, the volume provides a critical examination of human-technology interaction and its immediate implications, guiding readers through the intricate web of digital interconnectedness that is on course to define the future of humanity.

政治人類学百科事典
Szakolczai, Arpad / O'Connor, Paul (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology. (Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences) 960 pp. 2025:8 (E. Elgar, UK) <747-11>
ISBN 978-1-0353-1048-7 hard ¥97,531.- (税込) GB￡ 345.00

This Encylopedia explores the anthropological underpinnings of politics. Featuring biographical entries that reconstruct the life-works of key theorists from across the globe alongside topical entries on a range of issues in political anthropology, it poses the question: what does it mean to be human in contemporary times?Entries examine classic and modern perspectives in philosophical anthropology, and analyse themes such as the human capacity for meaning-making and how it is impacted by modernity, the dynamics of socio-political transformations and how varying perceptions of human nature have shaped political theory and practice. The Encyclopedia provides thought-provoking insight into the anthropological foundations of contemporary political and cultural phenomena, drawing from work in a wide range of connected fields including comparative historical sociology, classical philosophical anthropology, mythology, art history and beyond.Students and academics in political science and public policy, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and historiography will greatly benefit from this Encyclopedia's comprehensive overview of political anthropology. It is also a valuable reference tool for political practitioners.Key FeaturesOver 130 entries written by leading international scholarsDemonstrates how hypermodern society systematically disconnects humanity from many aspects of realityConsiders anthropology in a broad, multi-disciplinary sense, tracing the meaning back to the Enlightenment and classical timesIncorporates relevant perspectives from classical philosophical anthropology, archaeology, comparative historical sociology, mythology, and civilisational analysis

P.デスコラ著　世界化の政治学－コスモポリティクスへの人類学の貢献
Descola, Philippe, Politics of Worlding: An Anthropological Contribution to Cosmopolitics. Ed. by W. F. Hanks. (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) 232 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <746-903>
ISBN 978-0-19-780165-9 hard ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

変化とインターネット－リモートワークの民族誌的説明
Kjaerulff, Jens, Change and the Internet: An Ethnographic Exploration of Remote Working. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) 194 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-319>
ISBN 978-1-032-50912-9 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores the significance of new information technology for socio-cultural change and provides ethnographic insight into the early days of remote working. It draws on long-term anthropological fieldwork among people in rural Denmark working from home via the internet. Going back to the late 1990s and early 2000s, the study demonstrates how remote and flexible working was mostly practiced informally, fostering incremental changes to the cultural domain of 'work'. It captures the dilemmas arising from living with multiple arenas and the challenges of balancing work and family life - a predicament which motivates many to embrace remote working. The volume contains an updated introduction and conclusion where the author reflects on the historical moment of his fieldwork and on the impact of the recent Covid-19 pandemic on working practices. The book offers a valuable comment on how to empirically study the social and cultural significance of new information technologies, as well as how to think of and empirically research change anthropologically, situating information technology in a broader offline context of unfolding complex living. It will be of interest to scholars of social anthropology and digital ethnography, as well as others with a focus on social aspects of information technology and on work and organizational studies.

Avery, L. Creighton, Bioarchaeology of Infants and Children. (Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques) 75 pp. 2025:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <746-1302>
ISBN 978-1-009-54366-8 hard ¥14,131.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-54364-4 paper ¥4,805.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

The study of infant, child, and adolescent remains (nonadult remains) is a topic of growing interest within the fields of archaeology and bioarchaeology. Many published volumes and articles delve into the experiences of childhood and what these small remains may tell us about life, more broadly, in the past. For those interested in exploring infant and child remains, it is an exciting period as more methods and approaches are constantly being incorporated into the archaeological toolkit. This Element introduces the reader to the topic and to common methodological approaches used to consider nonadult remains from archaeological contexts. With this toolkit in hand, readers will be able to begin their own explorations and analyses of nonadult human remains within archaeological contexts.

人類の移動の250,000年
Liebow, Edward / Deutsch, James I. / Ginsberg, D. et al., World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration. 272 pp. 2025:7 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <746-1306>
ISBN 978-1-394-18330-2 paper ¥8,097.- (税込) US$ 38.95 *

Provides an encompassing overview of migration routes and dispersal of human populations around the world World on the Move brings together the current state of knowledge about migration and displacement in a single, easily accessible volume. Written as a companion to "World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration," a traveling exhibition developed by the American Anthropological Association and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, this thought-provoking book helps us reframe the ways we think and talk about migration. World on the Move opens by describing the basic patterns and processes of migration and discussing the evidence used to measure migration, displacement, and their impacts. Subsequent chapters trace major population movements through human history, review the different reasons that propel the movement of human populations, and illustrate the many ways that migration affects us all. The final section focuses on international and national policies on immigration and displacement, including perspectives on birthright citizenship, migrant mothers and their children, and migration driven by climate change. Drawing on a wealth of case studies of diverse cultures from across human history, World on the Move: Employs the "Crossroads" concept, an innovative narrative device that reveals connections between peoples, cultures, and moments when crucial decisions are madeDiscusses ways research on migration and displacement have been used to support public policyHighlights the roles of ever-evolving genetic, archaeological, and linguistic evidence in reshaping understanding of human population movementsExplains basic terms, patterns, and processes of migration and displacement, as well as various evaluation and interpretation methodsAddresses timely and complex issues such as enslavement and trafficking, border walls, immigration policy, and climate change Presenting the latest scholarship on the peopling of the continents, World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration is an excellent textbook for undergraduate courses in anthropology, sociology, political science, cultural geography, and immigration studies, particularly those exploring migration, displacement, diaspora, and immigration policy.

Petitt, Andrea, The Multispecies Triad of Cattle Ranching: A Horseback Ethnography. (Multispecies Anthropology) 304 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-1308>
ISBN 978-1-032-45046-9 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores the multispecies triad of cattle ranching, focusing on how humans, horses and cattle meet, interact and shape a common multispecies culture. Based on a year of horseback ethnography in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, it provides a detailed account of the everyday lives of cowboys, cowgirls and ranchers as well as of horses and cattle. It highlights the different ways that humans, horses and cattle come together on working ranches and in settings such as rodeos and tourist operations. By focusing, empirically and conceptually, on the multispecies triad the author moves beyond binary human-animal approaches and develops the idea of multispecies intersectionality. In particular they bring a gender perspective to the kinds of interactions that the various seasons in the Rockies require. The chapters also feature ethnographic poetry including rhyming field notes as well as field drawings and analytical drawings. With this, the book showcases use of sensory data collection and creative and artful methodologies that allow for the capture of what lies beyond human language in multispecies interactions. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of multispecies ethnography and human-animal relations.

なぜ世界は人類学者を必要としているか　第2版
Podjed, Dan / Guerron Montero, Carla (eds.), Why the World Needs Anthropologists. 2nd ed. 250 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-1309>
ISBN 978-1-032-67233-5 hard ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-67240-3 paper ¥11,304.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Why does the world need anthropology and anthropologists more than ever? The second edition of Why the World Needs Anthropologists brings together prominent academic, practicing, and applied anthropologists to answer this provocative question.This new edition advocates for a proactive and ethically engaged discipline that not only observes societal transformations but also contributes to solving the most pressing global issues. It proposes that anthropology must be at the front and center of the solving table. In an accessible and appealing style, each author explores the social value and practical application of the discipline of anthropology. Contributors share their career paths and how they use their anthropological skills and knowledge outside academia, and provide specific suggestions to anthropologists and the public at large on practical ways in which anthropology offers powerful insights and solutions in complex and unpredictable times. Each chapter includes a list of recommendations - DOs and DON'Ts - from the authors. With such practical resources, this book is a toolkit to harness anthropology's full potential.This one-of-a-kind volume is essential reading for both fledgling and established anthropologists, social scientists and the general public.

Osorio Sunnucks, Laura Ann et al. (eds.), Mesoamerican Narratives at the British Museum: Ancient Writing, Contemporary Voices. (Museums and Narrative 2) 240 pp. 2024:6 (de Gruyter, GW) <746-1136>
ISBN 978-3-11-079213-3 hard ¥21,173.- (税込) EUR 89.95

This bilingual book critically reviews a research project undertaken between SDCELAR, British Museum and a group of predominantly Indigenous archaeologists and heritage specialists from various regions in Mexico and Guatemala. This group re-interpret the written narratives embedded in historical items from the Mesoamerican collection using their contemporary Indigenous languages. Indigenous ways of understanding and making time put critical stress on the cumulative historical totalization that underpins global northern knowledge and museum chronotopes. The book discusses Indigenous epistemologies while focusing on the relevance of mobilising this work strategically outside of the museum, among descendant communities. The contributions reflect on the project’s first major output: a multilingual online event series designed to incorporate various voices and engage in contemporary political contexts. This event created a kaleidoscopic narrative synchronicity, eschewing a seemingly neutral, didactic narrative. The book argues for multi-narratival and multi-temporal museum work that shows how the space between narrative and audience can generate reflexivity. In this way, researchers and visitors might interrogate their political and emotional positions towards colonial material.

食品と文化遺産ハンドブック
Di Giovine, Michael A. / Matta, Raul (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Food and Cultural Heritage. (Routledge International Handbooks) 490 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <746-1243>
ISBN 978-1-032-02655-8 hard ¥65,021.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

The Routledge Handbook of Food and Cultural Heritage explores the many varied intersections of food and cultural heritage from a robust, transdisciplinary perspective.Innovative in its approach, this cutting-edge Handbook thinks beyond traditional boundaries to present unique perspectives on the myriad ways in which food and cultural heritage are entangled in theory and practice. Both are growing industries; both are deeply rooted in families, cultures, and societies; both generate controversy and are deployed for political and economic activism. They also both have intellectual lives of their own, and are centers of interdisciplinary fields themselves-yet they also intersect in interesting and, until this book, under-theorized ways. After a comprehensive introduction that presents and challenges the state-of-the-art in the disciplines of critical food and critical heritage studies, the Handbook's chapters are divided into six themes common to both fields: Ontologies and epistemologies of food and cultural heritage; material culture; identity, placemaking and belonging; politics and regulation; tourism development and heritage management; and contemporary issues and emerging approaches. To give representation of voices not usually heard in the scholarly tradition, special interviews with food-and-heritage practitioners complement the comprehensive chapters, adding further depth to the volume through their own lived experiences.With contributions from nearly 50 internationally recognized scholars, social scientists, dieticians, practitioners, and activists, this book is essential reading to scholars, students, researchers, industry professionals, and practitioners looking to understand the complex and compelling ways in which food, foodways, and cultural heritage overlap and impact each other, providing venues for collaborations.

岸上伸啓他編　生存捕鯨－過去の歴史と現代の諸問題
Savelle, James M. / Kishigami, Nobuhiro / Monks, G. (eds.), Subsistence Whaling: Past History and Contemporary Issues. 300 pp. 2025:6 (Springer, GW) <745-831>
ISBN 978-981-9632-79-4 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

Ma, Guoqing, The Global Awareness and Academic Consciousness of Anthropology. 200 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <745-927>
ISBN 978-981-9631-16-2 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book is based on the author's work concerning the academic mission of anthropology, the discipline's way of reasoning and how it reflects on the global system. The content is divided into four parts: "Disciplinary Construction and Academic Self-Consciousness," "Self-Portrait of Society and Culture," "Applied Anthropology and the Confusion of Development," and "Globalization and Local Society." Adopting a broad and far-reaching perspective, the book effectively identifies the academic tradition of anthropology and its development in the present time between text, context and field. In particular, the author emphasizes the academic idea of combining ethnographic and regional studies in anthropology and elevates it to the cross-border regional social system in order to consider the development of modern society, such as cross-border, globalization, Silk Road and other hot academic topics. As such, the book is a concrete expression of anthropological academic self-awareness and reflects the author's unique perspective on academic innovation. This book actively contributes to the further development of Chinese anthropology in the context of globalization.

Yi-Neumann, Friedemann, A Material Culture Ethnography of Home-Making in Asylum Reception: Crafting Refuge. (Global Diversities) 297 pp. 2025:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-930>
ISBN 978-3-031-84970-1 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book explores what it takes to create a sense of home while in exile, drawing on ethnographic research conducted in German asylum reception facilities from 2016-2020. From a material culture perspective, it examines how asylum seekers and migrants with precarious legal status 'translate' aspects of home into challenging environments. Through these translations-processual shifts of objects, habits, and ideas across borders-migrants work to reassemble a sense of belonging. The book delves into the material, social, and individual efforts involved in this homing process, while highlighting the ongoing impact of dispossession and loss. By focusing on personal attachments to objects and the broader context of migration, this work offers a unique perspective on forced migration, home cultures, and the quest for ontological security. The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students in disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, and human geography as well as other research interested in ethnographic perspectives on the respective topics.

人間の健康とプラネタリーヘルスの人類学
Singer, Merrill, The Anthropology of Human and Planetary Health: An Ecosyndemic Approach. (Springer Texts in Social Sciences) 209 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <745-249>
ISBN 978-3-031-83673-2 paper ¥16,474.- (税込) EUR 69.99 *

This text introduces undergraduate and graduate students in health or environment-related classes to the mounting crisis of syndemics through the lens of planetary health. The concept of syndemics, developed by the author and now in wide use across multiple health-related disciplines, focuses attention on the adverse synergistic interaction of two or more diseases or other health conditions promoted or facilitated by social and/or environmental conditions. The planetary health framework is an emerging holistic medical rethinking of our understanding of health. It seeks to identify the safe environmental limits within which humanity and other species can flourish on our increasingly imperiled planet. This book offers useful conceptual tools and frameworks for developing a comprehensive understanding of approaches needed to address the health risks of our changing world. The unique coverage of this book is its careful examination of ecosyndemics around the world in light of the growing recognition that on a heavily disrupted planet, a narrow focus on human health is inadequate. Under these circumstances, a comprehensive planetary health framework is needed. This approach seriously considers the interconnected nature of human health, animal and plant health, and the health of the world's ecosystems. Highly descriptive, with numerous cases of the planetary health crisis, the textbook is written in a student-friendly and accessible way and is an important resource for coursework across environment and health-related subjects.