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

Lucero, Lisa J., Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet. 240 pp. 2025:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <731-914>
ISBN 978-0-19-776570-8 hard ¥5,269.- (税込) US$ 24.95

Johnston, Jay, Amulets in Magical Practice. (Elements in Magic) 80 pp. 2024:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-93>
ISBN 978-1-00-951779-9 hard ¥13,856.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-108-94879-1 paper ¥4,712.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

This Element takes as its remit the production and use of amulets. The focus will be on amulets with no, or minimal, textual content like those comprising found stone, semi-precious gem and/or animal body parts. That is a material form that is unaccompanied by directive textual inscription. The analysis considers this materiality to understand its context of use including ritual and metaphysical operations. Through discussion of selected case studies from British, Celtic, and Scandinavian cultures, it demonstrates the associative range of meaning that enabled the attribution of power/agency to the amuletic object Uniquely, it will consider this material culture from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing together insights from the disciplines of cultural studies, religious studies, 'folk' studies, archaeology and Scandinavian studies. It develops the concept of 'trans-aniconism' to encapsulates an amulet's temporal relations and develops the proposition of 'landscape amulets.'

Sutton, Mark Q. / Anderson, E. N., Our Traumatized Planet: What We Can Learn from Ancient Societies and Contemporary Traditional Peoples. 240 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <731-949>
ISBN 978-1-03-290892-2 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-289899-5 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

Our Traumatized Planet explores the state of the environment and some the major issues faced today and asks what we can learn and apply from contemporary traditional peoples, ancient societies, and our own successes and failures.Providing straightforward information on some of the serious environmental issues we face so that non-scientists can understand them, this book explores what is at stake so that we can choose to make a difference. Combining the latest data from environmental and archaeological science allows for fresh perspectives and an empirical approach to describing these problems that eliminates hopeful denial, speculation, wishful thinking and downright lies. Using archaeological data the authors provide examples of success and failures in the past that could be used to make decisions about the future. They also highlight examples of how traditional peoples, past and present, have dealt with these same issues. Seeing the current crisis through the eyes of two experienced archaeologists broadens our understanding and allows us to set contemporary issues in the context of the past and traditional knowledge. However, this is not a book of easy solutions form the past to solve our future rather it is an impassioned plea to people today to read and understand what state the planet is in and encourage them to find the will to change.This book is for students of archaeology, anthropology and environmental science and all those wanting to, in a clear and readable way, understand the fate of our planet.

Saitta, Dean, First Cities: Planning Lessons for the 21st Century. (Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century) 94 pp. 2024:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-984>
ISBN 978-1-00-947591-4 hard ¥13,856.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-00-933874-5 paper ¥4,712.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

This Element describes and synthesizes archaeological knowledge of humankind's first cities for the purpose of strengthening a comparative understanding of urbanism across space and time. Case studies are drawn from ancient Mesopotamia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. They cover over 9000 years of city building. Cases exemplify the 'deep history' of urbanism in the classic heartlands of civilization, as well as lesser-known urban phenomena in other areas and time periods. The Element discusses the relevance of this knowledge to a number of contemporary urban challenges around food security, service provision, housing, ethnic co-existence, governance, and sustainability. This study seeks to enrich scholarly debates about the urban condition, and inspire new ideas for urban policy, planning, and placemaking in the twenty first century.

ブレグジットが意味するもの－イギリスにおける二極化と文化的変化の人類学
Horder, Max, What Brexit Means: An Anthropology of Polarization and Cultural Change in Britain. (Anthropology of Now) 232 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <731-741>
ISBN 978-1-03-260296-7 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-260293-6 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

What Brexit Means explores the rise of populism in Britain. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork amongst ideologically committed Brexit activists, it examines the discourse of populism across language, culture, politics, psychology, and cognition. It explains how populism is expressed in terms of ritually renewing social order and solidarity. Rejecting the notion that the territory of populism studies belongs to political science, this book shows how it is in the realm of anthropology - myth, ritual, alterity, consciousness, selfhood - that we witness the most compelling examples of how a phenomena as modern as populism depends upon the same symbolic logics that we find in the premodern world. What Brexit Means is a demonstration of the power of anthropology to explain momentous and poorly predicted transformations in the global order. It will become a benchmark text for those eager for anthropology's contribution to understanding the political turbulence that is rocking the stability of Western democracies.

スラヴ及び東欧のフォークロア・ハンドブック
Beissinger, Margaret H. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore. (Oxford Handbooks) 1144 pp. 2025:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <731-1060>
ISBN 978-0-19-008077-8 hard ¥55,334.- (税込) US$ 262.00

van der Grijp, Paul, Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums: An anthropology of donations. (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) 240 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <731-1105>
ISBN 978-1-03-281321-9 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be.Presenting case studies from Europe, North America, East Asia, and the South Pacific, the book is concerned with both elite and popular collections and examines the act of donating art from the collector's point of view. Demonstrating that art museums depend on donations from private collectors, Paul van der Grijp emphasises that it is crucial to understand the psychological, sociological, economic, and educational motivations for gifting works of art to institutions. Taken together, the chapters argue that collectors donate to museums because the latter represent an imagined community, to whom they would like to bestow a sacred gift. Private collectors are, Van der Grijp maintains, motivated to ensure the immortality of their collections and, ultimately, to preserve some memory of their own lives in the process.Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums will be of interest to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums, culture, art, anthropology, history and sociology.

Argote, Denisse L. / Lopez-Garcia, Pedro A. et al., Machine Learning for Archaeological Applications in R. (Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques) 75 pp. 2024:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-1125>
ISBN 978-1-00-950659-5 hard ¥13,856.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-00-950664-9 paper ¥4,712.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

This Element highlights the employment within archaeology of classification methods developed in the field of chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics. These run in both high- and low-dimensional environments and often have better results than traditional methods. Instead of a theoretical approach, it provides examples of how to apply these methods to real data using lithic and ceramic archaeological materials as case studies. A detailed explanation of how to process data in R (The R Project for Statistical Computing), as well as the respective code, are also provided.

Bi, Suriyah, Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim Masculinities as Colonial Legacy. 248 pp. 2024:12 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <731-1127>
ISBN 978-1-5261-8132-9 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

In this eye-opening ethnography, we learn about the experiences of Muslim migrant husbands from Pakistan and Kashmir, who marry their British counterparts in the hope of marital and global social mobility bliss. For many, the parallel and intertwined migration and marital journeys do not pan out in the way they had hoped. Many experience precarity and vulnerability within the household and/or in employment, with some even being subjected to harrowing forms of domestic violence. Migrant husbands navigate an increasingly hostile British immigration system not only in public but also in private, at the hands of their wives and in-laws. The ethnography demonstrates how citizenship can be deployed as a performance of white power within single group identity, differentiated through colonial legacies of 'Britishness'.

Blake, Emma, Identity Studies in Archaeology. (Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century) 2024:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-1128>
ISBN 978-1-00-945975-4 hard ¥13,856.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-00-945970-9 paper ¥4,712.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Cabatingan, Lee / Bibler Coutin, Susan et al. (eds.), Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork: Creating Supportive Research Experiences. 286 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <731-1129>
ISBN 978-1-03-251525-0 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-251531-1 paper ¥11,916.- (税込) GB￡ 42.99

Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork offers a new perspective on how ethnography might be learned in real-time through participation in a supportive community of practice.It draws on the experiences, knowledge, and training of an interdisciplinary group of scholars, who have studied legal topics ethnographically alongside and with the support of fellow ethnographers at varying stages of their careers. Contributors address topics that are of interest to those who teach ethnography as well as to those who are learning this approach. Such topics include ethics, positionality in the field, the combination of personal and professional circumstances, and the process and pain of changing research topics. Each chapter emphasizes the role of mentoring and collective problem-solving through a lab model of fieldwork practice, particularly when carrying out research with subjects and interlocutors who may have undergone trauma.Written by a diverse group of scholars, this volume will appeal especially to Black, Indigenous and People of Color, and female-identifying ethnographers in a range of fields. It provides a framework for how fieldwork can continue moving forward even in the most challenging of times and will be of particular interest to scholars in anthropology, sociology, law, urban planning/studies, geography, political science, ethnic studies, public policy, sociolegal studies, and education.

David, Bruno / Fletcher, Michael-Shawn / Connor, S. et al., Cultural Burning. (Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques) 72 pp. 2024:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-1130>
ISBN 978-1-00-948530-2 hard ¥13,856.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-00-948529-6 paper ¥4,712.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

This Element addresses a burning question - how can archaeologists best identify and interpret cultural burning, the controlled use of fire by people to shape and curate their physical and social landscapes? This Element describes what cultural burning is and presents current methods by which it can be identified in historical and archaeological records, applying internationally relevant methods to Australian landscapes. It clarifies how the transdisciplinary study of cultural burning by Quaternary scientists, historians, archaeologists and Indigenous community members is informing interpretations of cultural practices, ecological change, land use and the making of place. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Lopez Garcia, Pedro A. / Argote, Denisse L. et al., Knowledge Discovery from Archaeological Materials. (Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques) 75 pp. 2024:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-1134>
ISBN 978-1-00-950680-9 hard ¥13,856.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-00-918187-7 paper ¥4,712.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

This Element highlights the employment within archaeology of classification methods developed in the field of chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics. These operate in both high- and low-dimensional environments and often have better results than traditional methods. The basic principles and main methods are introduced with recommendations for when to use them.

ジェンダー考古学ハンドブック
Moen, Marianne / Pedersen, Unn (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Gender Archaeology. 504 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <731-1135>
ISBN 978-1-03-219064-8 hard ¥59,598.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of gender archaeology, both theory and practice, and contributes a substantial and definitive reference work by bringing together state of the art research, theoretical overviews and the latest debates in the field.Responding to the shifts in the theoretical landscape and the societal and political frameworks within which we produce our knowledge, chapters create both a solid theoretical baseline which help readers grasp the significance of gender in archaeology, as well as offering perspectives on how to engender produced knowledge about the past. In line with recent focus on the shortcomings of gender and archaeological representation, chapters also detangle academic discourse and popular representations in order to present novel ways of successfully negotiating the pitfalls of gendered ideas about past behaviours. By encouraging novel ways of integrating theoretical perspectives with scrutiny of gender stereotypes, original empirical examinations of identity markers and behaviours, and re-examinations of static representations of identities through new lenses such as intersectional perspectives, personhood and materiality debates, the volume is theoretically rich, and will simultaneously provide a necessary benchmark for future archaeological discourses. Finally, it will incorporate perspectives from researchers with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints to provide a truly comprehensive overview. It will not shy away from engaging with politically contentious issues surrounding knowledge production but will include perspectives from researchers whose focus is less on feminist critiques and more on gender and identities. Thus, the volume bridges the two most prominent directions currently discernible within the focus area; namely feminist re-examinations on the one hand and research focused more on bodily practice and gendered experiences on the other.The Routledge Handbook of Gender Archaeology is` an invaluable resource for students and researchers in gender archaeology as well as gender studies more widely.

考古学と言語ハンドブック
Robbeets, Martine / Hudson, Mark (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language. (Oxford Handbooks) 1008 pp. 2025:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <731-1136>
ISBN 978-0-19-286835-0 hard ¥52,668.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00

Vander Linden, Marc, The Bell Beaker Phenomenon in Europe: A Harmony of Difference. (Elements in the Archaeology of Europe) 96 pp. 2024:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-1140>
ISBN 978-1-00-949688-9 hard ¥13,856.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-00-949686-5 paper ¥4,712.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Covering vast swathes of Europe, the Bell Beaker Phenomenon has enjoyed a privileged status in the history of archaeology and is often referred to as a key period in the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age partly due to the emergence of social elites. After a brief presentation of the historiography of the Bell Beaker phenomenon, this Element offers a synthetic account of the available evidence structured on a regional basis. Following the renewed interest in human mobility generated by stable isotopes and ancient DNA studies, the central thesis developed here is that the Bell Beaker Phenomenon can adequately be described as a metapopulation, a concept borrowed from population ecology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Bews, Elizabeth A. / Marklein, Kathryn E. (eds.), Roman Bioarchaeology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life and Death in the Roman World. (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives) 330 pp. 2025:2 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <730-893>
ISBN 978-1-68340-477-4 hard ¥19,008.- (税込) US$ 90.00

How bioarchaeology can illuminate the lived experiences of people in the Roman Empire Research on the Roman Empire has long focused on Rome's legendary leaders, culture, and conquest. But at the empire's peak, tens of millions of ordinary people coexisted in its territories-people who built the structures, wrote the literature, and transformed the landscapes we study today. In Roman Bioarchaeology, researchers use human skeletal remains recovered from throughout the Roman world to portray how individuals lived and died, spanning the empire's vast geography and 1,000 years of ancient history. This volume brings together scholarship from archaeological sites in Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and Africa, featuring new and advanced scientific approaches including DNA studies, stable isotope analysis, paleoparasitology, paleopathology, biodistance, and more. Throughout, contributors prioritize the ethical treatment of the deceased by highlighting individual narratives and working with local descendants where possible. From rural homes in Britannia to bustling cities in Phoenicia, these essays showcase the diversity of Roman lives and illuminate the experiences of the most vulnerable in these societies. This book demonstrates how bioarchaeology can enrich our understanding of many facets of life in the Roman world. Contributors: Piers Mitchell Mario Caric Efthymia Nikita Gabriele Scorrano Mahmoud Mardini Serena Viva Tracy Prowse Kathryn E. Marklein Mario Novak Olga Rickards Marissa Ledger Anna Osterholtz Pier Francesco Fabbri Leslie Quade Sammuel Sammut Fabio Macciardi Rebecca Pitt Elizabeth A. Bews Mary Lewis Rebecca Redfern Rebecca Gowland ?A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen

Guan, Yanbo, Theoretical Study of Ethnogeography. 302 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <730-895>
ISBN 978-981-9737-93-2 hard ¥39,640.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This book conducts a systematic research on the basic theoretical system of ethnogeography, area differentiation and spatial changes of ethnic community, national ecological outlook on human-land relations, geographical distribution of various nationalities in the world, and historical geographical background of regional ethnic composition. From the perspective of the development of the discipline, through comprehensive review of the basic materials, development process, and research status of ethnogeography, the book reveals the basic theoretical issues of the basic concepts, subject attributes, research objects, contents and methods of ethnogeography and initially sets up the basic framework for the study of ethnogeography.

Jameson, John H. / Baugher, Sherene / Veit, Richard (eds.), Monuments and Memory: Archaeological Perspectives on Commemoration. (Cultural Heritage Studies) 350 pp. 2024:12 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <730-897>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7923-3 hard ¥20,064.- (税込) US$ 95.00

Examining the pasts, evolving meanings, and silenced histories surrounding public monuments This volume examines many different public monuments to increase understanding of the cultural factors that have shaped their creation, maintenance, and-in some cases-removal. The role of monuments in communities and society continues to be an important and controversial topic, and the case studies in this volume contribute to this conversation by assessing the ways such markers can be empowering or marginalizing from a wide range of perspectives. The monuments discussed here represent historical events from the Revolutionary War through the Korean War, including the "slave auction block" formerly located on the streets of Fredericksburg, Virginia; memorials to Confederate soldiers across the South and in northern POW cemeteries; and the Pullman National Monument in Chicago for workers who participated in the 1894 Pullman strike. This volume also highlights the dearth of statues memorializing the achievements of women and minorities, especially women of color, and contributors discuss whether recent movements advocating for more inclusive histories will lead to an increase in monuments honoring people whose narratives have been suppressed. Looking at the powerful role of monuments in conveying the memory of history to future generations, the contributors to Monuments and Memory show why it is important to address the messages of these sites and ask whose histories they may be silencing. This book demonstrates how conversations surrounding preservation and interpretation of monuments encourage community involvement.A volume in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Katherine Hayes Contributors: Mark Cassello Richard F. Veit Mark Cianciosi Joshua Butchko Diane Wallman Suzanne Spencer-Wood Sherene Baugher Lu Ann De Cunzo John H. Jameson Jeffrey Smith Hilary Green Brant Venables Timo Ylimaunu Paul R. Mullins Kerri Barile Harold Mytum Melissa Ziobro M. Jay Stottman Levi Fox Matthew Litteral

Kanungo, Alok Kumar / Singh, Prashant Kumar, Chronicles of Colonialism: Navigating the Naga Hills. (SpringerBriefs in Archaeology) 78 pp. 2024:7 (Springer, GW) <730-898>
ISBN 978-981-9723-05-8 paper ¥11,656.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book offers fresh perspectives on the legacy of colonialism in the North-east frontiers of India, especially the Naga Hills. The book interrogates the presence of British administrators and anthropologists in the Naga Hills as part of a popular discourse on (post) colonialism. It weaves a coherent chronological sequence of events and the prevailing attitudes of administrators-cum-anthropologists to understand the whole process of colonial intervention in the Naga Hills. It examines the conventional notions of 'tribes' and 'identity' within the context of the Naga Hills. It explores the transformation of Naga Hills through the lens of colonialism, providing a critical perspective on identity and the intricate web of historical narratives. It is a must-read for scholars, anthropologists, historians, and all those intrigued by the multifaceted legacy of colonialism in the Naga Hills.

Kanungo, Alok Kumar / Smith, Claire / Choksi, N. (eds.), Transformative Practices in Archaeology: Empowering Communities and Shaping Sustainable Futures. 356 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <730-899>
ISBN 978-981-9731-22-0 hard ¥27,980.- (税込) EUR 119.99

The volume introduces a diverse range of themes and practices relating to sustainable heritage management. Each paper delves into the challenges, successes, and failures of preserving precious cultural heritage. It discusses various strategies, such as the early inclusion of archaeology in UNESCO frameworks to leveraging archaeological findings and indigenous knowledge for sustainable development goals. The chapters explore the evolution of autoarchaeology as a tool for empowering Indigenous communities to assert their human rights and integrating oral histories and local ecological knowledge to interpret ancient remains. Additionally, it highlights the value of archaeologists working more closely with Indigenous peoples, local communities, and other disciplines in identifying, preserving, conserving and managing heritage sites. It appeals to archaeologists, anthropologists, cultural geographers, cultural heritage professionals and others seeking new ways to protect cultural heritage.

Kooiman, Susan M. / O'Gorman, J. A. / Painter, A. M. (eds.), Ancient Indigenous Cuisines: Archaeological Explorations of the Midcontinent. (Archaeology of Food) 312 pp. 2025:1 (U. Alabama Pr., US) <730-900>
ISBN 978-0-8173-2220-5 hard ¥23,232.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-8173-6182-2 paper ¥8,437.- (税込) US$ 39.95

The first collection to incorporate the current trends in foodways archaeology using the concept of cuisine.

Ramsak, Mojca, The Anthropology of Smell. 142 pp. 2024:9 (Springer, GW) <730-901>
ISBN 978-3-031-61758-4 hard ¥27,980.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book discusses the meaning of smell from a socio-cultural perspective and brings important considerations of smell and olfaction beyond anatomy and physiology in an erudite, reader-friendly style. It addresses ideas about smell and odor in culturally diverse contexts; pays attention to the subtle ways in which smell is expressed; treats smell as part of memory, prejudice, rumor, and sexuality; offers insights into the role of smell in religion, literature, film art, intangible cultural heritage, and museum practices, with particular attention to the challenges posed by historical smells; describes the legal regulation of smell and the background to scent marketing that seeks to influence consumer buying habits, adding a unique and practical dimension to the content. In addition to philosophical and medical historical aspects, the book offers insights into the evolution, diagnosis and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the human sense of smell and illustrates how our environment and societal influences shape our sensory perceptions and thus our attitudes and interpretation of the olfactory world around us. From an anthropological perspective, the book looks at olfactory heritage, cultural traditions, and the symbolism of the nose in different societies. Overall, it offers a comprehensive and thought-provoking cultural examination of the sense of smell - a sense that is often underestimated - while broadening our understanding of the world of smell and its role in our lives. "Ramsak's research provides valuable insights into the relationship between smell and culture, including its influence on identity, memory, social interactions, cultural practices, and beliefs. The book is a valuable resource for sensory anthropology, olfactory and intangible heritage." Prof. Dr. Katja Hrobat Virloget, University of Primorska, The Faculty of Humanities, Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Koper, Slovenia "The remarkable depth and breadth of the subtle connection between smell and culture is testament to Ramsak's deep engagement with the subject and her exceptional understanding of the global patterns of cultural connotations associated with smell." Prof. Dr. Sophie Elpers, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Meertens Institut, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Reifschneider, Meredith, The Archaeology of American Medicine and Healthcare. (American Experience in Archaeological Perspective) 230 pp. 2025:2 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <730-902>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7925-7 hard ¥19,008.- (税込) US$ 90.00

人類学の脱植民地化－入門
Venkatesan, Soumhya, Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction. (Decolonizing the Curriculum) 252 pp. 2024:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <730-903>
ISBN 978-1-5095-4059-4 hard ¥13,717.- (税込) US$ 64.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-4060-0 paper ¥4,846.- (税込) US$ 22.95

Decolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades. This groundbreaking volume offers not only an anthropology of decolonization, but new ways of thinking about the relationship between anthropology and colonialism, and how we might move beyond colonialism's troubling legacy, particularly in the metropole.Soumhya Venkatesan argues that the word 'decolonization' is simultaneously too broad and too narrow. In compelling prose, she describes the work already underway and the work still needed - in research, writing and teaching - to extend the horizons of the discipline. She explores a range of concepts including Achille Mbembe's disenclosure, Cheryl Mattingly's moral experiments, Miranda Fricker's epistemic justice, and Gurminder Bhambra's epistemological justice, and domestication. Throughout, she emphasises the potential of ethnography as a way of both knowing diverse worlds and of being with others in them.Rich with insights from a range of fields, Decolonizing Anthropology is a go-to book for students and scholars.

Waselkov, Gregory A. / Carr, Philip J. / Gaillard, Frye, Southern Footprints: Exploring Gulf Coast Archaeology. 400 pp. 2024:8 (U. Alabama Pr., US) <730-904>
ISBN 978-0-8173-2205-2 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8173-6153-2 paper ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Celebrates more than fifty years of archaeological research from the University of South Alabama.

Wilson, Douglas C., The Historical Archaeology of the Pacific Northwest. (The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective) 300 pp. 2024:12 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <730-905>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7917-2 hard ¥19,008.- (税込) US$ 90.00

How archaeology illuminates the confluence of people, places, and events that shaped the Pacific Northwest Bordered by the Rocky Mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Pacific Northwest-including Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia-is home to a diverse range of people and cultures whose history is closely tied to the natural environment. In this book, Douglas Wilson uses historical documents, Indigenous oral traditions, and the material record to provide a comprehensive overview of the region's historical archaeology from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. The book covers Lewis and Clark's Fort Clatsop; fur trade forts such as Fort Vancouver, Fort Langley, and Fort Nez Perces; Indigenous villages such as Middle Village and Yuquot; the Christian mission at Waiilatpu; the Oregon Trail; the settler town of Champoeg; and military locations including Fort Lane, San Juan Island, and Fork Hoskins. Wilson describes how extractive industries like fishing, mining, logging, and fur trapping transformed the environment and the human population. He also discusses transportation, urban development, racism, and government policies through the Great Depression and World War II. Central to the story of the American experience in the Pacific Northwest is the heritage and history of local Indigenous peoples, as well as descendant communities of European, African, Asian, and Pacific Islands ancestry. Wilson shows how material artifacts and landscapes can be compared with the documentary record to critically examine colonial and nationalistic narratives, illuminating the past and present of Indigenous peoples and immigrant groups in the region. A volume in the series the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Michael S. Nassaney and Krysta Ryzewski

Woodfill, Brent K. S. / Henderson, Lucia R. (eds.), Archaeology in a Living Landscape: Envisioning Nonhuman Persons in the Indigenous Americas. 410 pp. 2024:12 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <730-906>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7919-6 hard ¥21,120.- (税込) US$ 100.00

Recognizing and incorporating Indigenous knowledge systems in archaeological studies of the Americas This book explores the diverse range of other-than-human persons that inhabited and affected the landscape of the ancient Americas. These case studies acknowledge what is often dismissed by Western scholars: that Indigenous communities have long recognized degrees of personhood in mountains, volcanoes, caves, springs, rivers, rocks, plants, archaeological sites, trees, and animals and that this worldview should be taken seriously in archaeological investigations, community relations, and interpretations. In Archaeology in a Living Landscape, contributors examine the role of nonhuman agents in the ancient world, from land management and tenure to economics, politics, migration, pilgrimage, trade routes, conquest, ethics, and philosophy. Chapters describe Tlingit cosmology, lightning beings and magnetism in the Minnesota River Region, linguistic approaches to animacy in the United States Southeast, nonhuman persons in the ancient Maya economy, and Lacandon Maya ritual landscapes. They investigate the role of quarries in the building of Inka huacas (sacred spaces or objects), clay procurement and Andean apus (powerful mountains), Amazonian animism in polychrome ceramics, and the built and unbuilt landscape of the Mapuche. An epilogue by Dakota elder James Wa?bdi Ha?yetu Rock highlights how Western academic discourse often diverges from the viewpoints of Indigenous subjects. The contributors to this volume use language accessible to readers of diverse backgrounds. They focus on the centrality of nonhuman persons in the lives of Indigenous communities, working to move away from Western biases to embrace and integrate Indigenous belief frameworks in their studies. Archaeology in a Living Landscape highlights the value of Indigenous knowledge systems not just as archaeological evidence but as a body of theory.Contributors: Steve J. Langdon Lisa J. Lucero Alexei Vranich James Rock Eleanor Harrison-Buck Lucia R. Henderson Nicola Sharratt Patrick Ryan Williams Bill Sillar Brent K.S. Woodfill Jacob J. Sauer Margaret Spivey-Faulkner Sigrid Arnott Dianne Desrosiers Joshua Feinberg David Maki Carolyn Dean Alice Balsanelli Joel W. Palka A.C. Roosevelt Dennis Ogburn

Hsieh, Ellen, The Archaeology of Early Colonial Manila: A Hybrid City in Global History. 270 pp. 2025:1 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <730-669>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7921-9 hard ¥19,008.- (税込) US$ 90.00

A view into the diverse culture of the Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Although Manila, capital city of the Philippines, played a critical role in economic and cultural exchanges between the East and the West during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, little is known about what life was like for its residents during this time. In this book, Ellen Hsieh uses archaeological, historical, and ethnographic resources to document the ways Manila was transformed by the arrival of Spanish colonists in 1571 and how the city in turn shaped the modern world. Manila was uniquely positioned as a crossroads in the networks of Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Iberia, resulting in a hybridized culture where colonial Spanish, Indigenous Tagalog, and overseas Chinese groups exchanged goods and ideas. In The Archaeology of Early Colonial Manila, Hsieh analyzes material goods such as ceramics from Intramuros (the Spanish walled city) and Parian (the Chinese quarter) and illustrations from the Boxer Codex-a Spanish manuscript featuring images of people in the Philippines and surrounding areas-to illuminate the diversity of Manila society and to unravel the intricate power dynamics among these ethnic groups. Bridging the gap in research between pre-Spanish and late colonial periods and amplifying the voices of non-elite, diasporic, and colonized communities often overlooked in historical documents, Hsieh provides an important focus on Manila's contributions to world history during a period of intense globalization.

Curet, L. Antonio / Stringer, Lisa M. (eds.), The Archaeology of Tibes: Life, Death, and Memory at an Early Ceremonial Center in the Caribbean. (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory) 280 pp. 2024:12 (U. Alabama Pr., US) <730-739>
ISBN 978-0-8173-2216-8 hard ¥23,232.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-8173-6176-1 paper ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Brings Caribbean archaeology in line with current thinking about social stratification and repositions the role of archaeology to uncover smaller-scale daily lives of ancient peoples rather than focusing on the large-scale chiefdoms.

Hawkins, John P. / Adams, Walter Randolph (eds.), Making a Place for the Future in Maya Guatemala: Natural Disaster and Sociocultural Change in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan. 448 pp. 2024:10 (U. New Mexico Pr., US) <729-844>
ISBN 978-0-8263-6660-3 hard ¥15,840.- (税込) US$ 75.00

In 1998, Hurricane Mitch pounded the isolated village of Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan in mountainous western Guatemala, destroying many homes. The experience traumatized many Ixtahuaquenses. Much of the community relocated to be safer and closer to transportation that they hoped would help them to improve their lives, acquire more schooling, and find supportive jobs. This study followed the two resulting communities over the next quarter century as they reconceived and renegotiated their place in Guatemalan society and the world.Making a Place for the Future in Maya Guatemala shows how humans continuously evaluate and rework the efficacy of their cultural heritage. This process helps explain the inevitability and speed of culture change in the face of natural disasters and our ongoing climate crisis.

Andersson, Rani-Henrik / Veyrie, Thierry et al. (eds.), Great Plains Ethnohistory: New Interdisciplinary Approaches. (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians) 352 pp. 2024:12 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <729-1300>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4209-9 hard ¥20,908.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4962-4175-7 paper ¥8,448.- (税込) US$ 40.00

Great Plains Ethnohistory offers a collection of state-of-the-field work in Great Plains ethnohistory, both contemporary and historical, covering the traditional anthropological subfields of ethnography, cultural history, archaeology, and linguistics. As ethnohistory matured into an interdisciplinary endeavor in the 1950s with the formation of the American Society for Ethnohistory, historians and anthropologists developed scholarly methodology for the study of Native American societies from their own points of view. Within this developing framework, Native cultures of the Great Plains represented a foundational research area.Great Plains Ethnohistory pays intellectual debts to Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks, whose research from the 1970s onward brought ethnohistorical approaches to the study of Native cultures, histories, and languages into the international community of the humanities and social sciences, sciences, and arts. The work of the scholars assembled in this volume advocates for an ethnohistory that continues to decompartmentalize Indigenous knowledge and scholarly methodologies, including some of the constructs, biases, and prejudices perpetuated within traditional scholarly disciplines. Including essays by Gilles Havard, Joanna Scherer, Sebastian Braun, Brad KuuNUx TeeRIt Kroupa, and DeMallie and Parks themselves, among others, plus an afterword by Philip J. Deloria, this is an essential contribution to the scholarly field and a volume for undergraduate and graduate students and scholars who study Native American and Indigenous cultures.

J.フレイザーの『金枝篇』の1世紀
Budin, Stephanie Lynn / Tully, Caroline J. (eds.), A Century of James Frazer's The Golden Bough: Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough. 360 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <729-1304>
ISBN 978-1-03-269563-1 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough in modern Humanities and its wide-ranging influence across studies of ancient religions, literature, historiography and reception studies.It begins by exploring the life and times of Frazer himself and the writing of The Golden Bough in its cultural milieu. The volume then goes on to cover a wide range of topics, including: ancient Near Eastern religion and culture; Minoan religion and in particular the origins of notions of Minoan matriarchy; Frazer's influence on the study of Graeco-Roman religion and magic; Frazer's influence on modern Pagan religions; and the effects of Frazer's works in modern culture and scholarship generally. Chapters examine how modern academia - and beyond - continues to be influenced by the otherwise discredited theories in The Golden Bough, ideas such as Sacred Marriage and the incessant Fertility of Everything. The book demonstrates how scholarship within the Humanities as well as practitioners of alternative religions and the common public remain under the thrall of Frazer over one hundred years since the publication of the abridged edition of The Golden Bough, and what we must do to shake off that influence. A Century of James Frazer's The Golden Bough is of interest to scholars and students from a wide range of disciplines, including Ancient History, History of Religion, Comparative Religion, Classical Studies, Archaeology, Historiography, Anthropology, Folklore, and Reception Studies.

Delgado, James P., The Great Museum of the Sea: A Human History of Shipwrecks. 272 pp. 2025:7 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <729-1305>
ISBN 978-0-19-778075-6 hard ¥5,269.- (税込) US$ 24.95

考古学の歴史ハンドブック
Diaz-Andreu, Margarita / Coltofean, Laura (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology. (Oxford Handbooks) 968 pp. 2024:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <729-1306>
ISBN 978-0-19-009250-4 hard ¥47,731.- (税込) US$ 226.00

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of archaeology and the direction of future advances in the field. Written by thirty-six archaeologists, historians, and historians of science from all over the world, it covers a wide range of themes, including major debates, scientific techniques, and archaeological fieldwork practices. Chapters in this handbook also discuss the effect of institutional contexts on the development of archaeology, including legislative parameters and the nature of the work that takes place in museums, universities, and the management of archaeology. Other themes include the cultural and political backdrop that has affected archaeological research, from religion to nationalism and colonialism, and the social history of archaeology, with a focus on women, amateur archaeology, economics, and tourism.

Geib, Phil / Suttler, Goodloe, Barrier Canyon Style: Thousands of Years of Painting on Rock. 220 pp. 2024:11 (U. Utah Pr., US) <729-1308>
ISBN 978-1-64769-199-8 hard ¥23,232.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-64769-200-1 paper ¥10,549.- (税込) US$ 49.95

Barrier Canyon Style (BCS), primarily composed of Indigenous American pictographs that have survived for thousands of years in the canyon country of eastern Utah and far western Colorado, is among the most visually stunning pictograph traditions in the world. This excellent reference, featuring over one hundred photographs, is the first to focus solely on the art and its context.Barrier Canyon Style begins with a vicarious tour of twenty of the most important BCS sites. High-quality photographs by Goodloe Suttler accompany text by Phil R. Geib, an expert in rock imagery and archaic time-period archaeology. The volume provides explanations of motif classifications and their meanings, as well as details on the chronology of human occupation in the area, the array of techniques used by Native people to leave marks upon rock surfaces, and a consideration of styles and subject matter observable in these artworks.

Gorman, Lillian, Zones of Encuentro: Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico. (Global Latin/o Americas) 242 pp. 2024:10 (Ohio State U. Pr., US) <729-1309>
ISBN 978-0-8142-1573-9 hard ¥21,109.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-0-8142-5923-8 paper ¥7,381.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Hunt, David B., Landscape Learning in the Pleistocene Great Basin. (University of Utah Anthropological Paper) 208 pp. 2025:1 (U. Utah Pr., US) <729-1311>
ISBN 978-1-64769-208-7 paper ¥9,504.- (税込) US$ 45.00

As pioneering hunter-gatherer populations moved into unfamiliar regions, they faced the challenge of locating critical resources like food, water, and raw materials for tools, shelter, and clothing. While their descendants would eventually benefit from the accumulation of this knowledge over time, these first colonizers were forced to learn a new landscape from scratch. In Landscape Learning in the Pleistocene Great Basin, David B. Hunt proposes a quantitative model to explain the adaptive behaviors of the first groups of humans to settle in a particular area, a concept known as "landscape learning." Hunt seeks insight into the initial development of adaptive strategies related to the procurement of essential resources within a region. Incorporating data from archaeological investigation at the Old River Bed Delta in Utah and focusing specifically on the lithics recovered, Hunt develops what he terms the Discoverability Model. He proposes this model as a way for archaeologists to begin quantifying the qualitative aspects of colonization and landscape learning models.

Kehoe, Alice Beck, Truth and Power in American Archaeology. (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology) 300 pp. 2024:10 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <729-1312>
ISBN 978-1-4962-3665-4 hard ¥20,908.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4962-4108-5 paper ¥7,392.- (税込) US$ 35.00

In Truth and Power in American Archaeology, archaeologist and ethnohistorian Alice Beck Kehoe presents her key writings where archaeological fieldwork, ethnohistorical analysis, postcolonial anthropology, and feminist analysis intersect to provide students and scholars of anthropology an overview of the methodological and ethical issues in Americanist archaeology in the last thirty years.Truth and Power in American Archaeology brings together Kehoe's broad-ranging, influential articles and previously unpublished lectures to explore archaeology's history, methods, concepts, and larger imbrication in knowledge production in the West. With her contextualizing introductions, these articles argue for recognition of scientific method in the historical sciences of archaeology, paleontology, and geology; empirically grounded understandings of American First Nations' ways of life and scientific knowledge; discussion of archaeology as expanded histories; a view of American archaeology's social contexts of Manifest Destiny ideology, Cold War politics, and patriarchy; and a postcolonial historicist understanding of America's real deep-time history and of the imperialist racism entrenched in mainstream American archaeology.

R.H.ラヴェンダ、E.A.シュルツ著　文化人類学の中心概念　第8版
Lavenda, Robert H. / Schultz, Emily A., Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology. 8th ed. 256 pp. 2025:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <729-1313>
ISBN 978-0-19-775651-5 paper ¥14,781.- (税込) US$ 69.99

Mead, Margaret, Mountain Arapesh: Volume One. 372 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <729-1314>
ISBN 978-0-367-07511-8 hard ¥13,860.- (税込) GB￡ 50.00 *

For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. She found a culture based on simplicity, sensitivity, and cooperation. In contrast to the aggressive Arapesh who lived on the plains, both the men and the women of the mountain settlements were found to be, in Mead's word, maternal. The Mountain Arapesh exhibited qualities that many might consider feminine: they were, in general, passive, affectionate, and peaceloving. Though Mead partially explains the male's "femininity" as being due to the type of nourishment available to the Arapesh, she maintains social conditioning to be a factor in the type of lifestyle led by both sexes. Mead's study encapsulates all aspects of the Arapesh culture. She discusses betrothal and marriage customs, sexuality, gender roles, diet, religion, arts, agriculture, and rites of passage. In possibly a portent for the breakdown of traditional roles and beliefs in the latter part of the twentieth century, Mead discusses the purpose of rites of passage in maintaining societal values and social control. Mead also discovered that both male and female parents took an active role in raising their children. Furthermore, it was found that there were few conflicts over property: the Arapesh, having no concept of land ownership, maintained a peaceful existence with each other. In his new introduction to The Mountain Arapesh, Paul B. Roscoe assesses the importance of Mead's work in light of modern anthropological and ethnographic research, as well as how it fits into her own canon of writings. Roscoe discusses findings he culled from a trip to Papua New Guinea in 1991 to clarify some ambiguities in Mead's work. His travels also served to help reconstruct what had happened to the Arapesh since Mead's historic visit in the early 1930s.

Mead, Margaret, Mountain Arapesh: Volume Two. 372 pp. 2024:7 (Routledge, UK) <729-1315>
ISBN 978-0-367-07513-2 hard ¥13,860.- (税込) GB￡ 50.00 *

For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. She found a culture based on simplicity, sensitivity, and cooperation. In contrast to the aggressive Arapesh who lived on the plains, both the men and the women of the mountain settlements were found to be, in Mead's word, maternal. The Mountain Arapesh exhibited qualities that many might consider feminine: they were, in general, passive, affectionate, and peaceloving. Though Mead partially explains the male's "femininity" as being due to the type of nourishment available to the Arapesh, she maintains social conditioning to be a factor in the type of lifestyle led by both sexes. Mead's study encapsulates all aspects of the Arapesh culture. She discusses betrothal and marriage customs, sexuality, gender roles, diet, religion, arts, agriculture, and rites of passage. In possibly a portent for the breakdown of traditional roles and beliefs in the latter part of the twentieth century, Mead discusses the purpose of rites of passage in maintaining societal values and social control. Mead also discovered that both male and female parents took an active role in raising their children. Furthermore, it was found that there were few conflicts over property: the Arapesh, having no concept of land ownership, maintained a peaceful existence with each other. In his new introduction to The Mountain Arapesh, Paul B. Roscoe assesses the importance of Mead's work in light of modern anthropological and ethnographic research, as well as how it fits into her own canon of writings. Roscoe discusses findings he culled from a trip to Papua New Guinea in 1991 to clarify some ambiguities in Mead's work. His travels also served to help reconstruct what had happened to the Arapesh since Mead's historic visit in the early 1930s. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was associated with the American Museum of Natural History in New York for over fifty years, becoming Curator of Ethnology in 1964. She taught at Columbia University and the New School for Social Research as well as a number of other universities. Among her many books is Continuities in Cultural Evolution, available from Transaction Publishers. Paul B. Roscoe is professor of anthropology at the University of Maine. He is a frequent contributor to anthropology journals, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Current Anthropology, and is co-editor (with Nancy Lutkehaus) of Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia. The 1992 recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Curl Essay Prize, he has an archival specialization in ancient Polynesia.

Reyman, Jonathan E., Pueblo Bonito and Chaco Canyon Revisited: The Published versus the Unpublished Record. 168 pp. 2024:11 (U. New Mexico Pr., US) <729-1317>
ISBN 978-0-8263-6650-4 hard ¥17,952.- (税込) US$ 85.00
ISBN 978-0-8263-6651-1 paper ¥8,437.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde are arguably the two best-known archaeological areas in the American Southwest. Yet despite more than a century of archaeological research, many questions remain unanswered.From more than fifty years of research, archaeologist Jonathan E. Reyman has uncovered a wealth of materials from the work of George Pepper and Richard Wetherill, mostly from the 1896-1901 Hyde Exploring Expedition at Chaco Canyon but also from later field and collections research at more than twenty institutions in the United States. Previously unpublished Pepper-Wetherill field notes, photographs, and drawings combined with newly commissioned drawings offer a significant revision to what we know about the Chacoan world.Pueblo Bonito and Chaco Canyon Revisited offers a blueprint for future research among existing archaeological collections.

Romo, Rebecca / Daniel, G. R. / Sterphone, J., Between Black and Brown: Blaxicans and Multiraciality in Comparative Historical Perspective. (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies) 394 pp. 2024:10 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <729-1318>
ISBN 978-0-8032-9018-1 hard ¥20,908.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4962-4055-2 paper ¥6,336.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Between Black and Brown begins with a question: How do individuals with one African American parent and one Mexican American parent identify racially and ethnically? In answer, the authors explore the experiences of Blaxicans, individuals with African American and Mexican American heritage, as they navigate American culture, which often clings to monoracial categorizations. Part 1 analyzes racial formation and the Blaxican borderlands, comparing racial orders in Anglo-America and Latin America. The Anglo-Americanization of "Latin" North America, particularly in the Gulf Coast and Southwest regions, shapes Black and Mexican American identities. Part 2 delves into Blaxicans' lived experiences, examining their self-identification with pride and resilience. The book explores challenges and agency in navigating family, school, and community dynamics and discusses expectations regarding cultural authenticity. It also delves into Black and Brown relations and how situational contexts influence interactions. This work contributes to the discourse on multiracial identities and challenges prevailing monoracial norms in academia and society. Ultimately Between Black and Brown advocates for a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of identity, race, and culture.

Wierucka, Aleksandra, The Amazonian 'Other': Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Contemporary Cultural Texts. 112 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <729-1319>
ISBN 978-1-03-277672-9 hard ¥13,856.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

This book explores representations of Amazonian Indigenous peoples in contemporary cultural texts. It analyzes a variety of mediums from novels and films to games and exhibitions, uncovering a distorted image of Indigenous peoples of the Amazon in Euro-American common imagination. The author suggests that these texts rely on a stereotypical vision that was shaped in the first decades of colonization. The chapters consider the formation of the image of Amazonian Indigenous people throughout history and some of the contemporary issues they face, touching on daily life and themes such as shamanism and cannibalism. Together they highlight the misrepresented image of Indigenous groups in the Amazon, who are portrayed as different, even strange, in relation to Western culture. The argument put forward is that both "exotic" and "self-exoticization" rely on the notion of otherness, leading to romanticization, patronization, and caricature. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of Indigenous studies, Latin American studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and comparative literature.

Neff, Hector, Fire and Salt: Human Niche Construction and Holocene Landscape Evolution on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mesoamerica. (Archaeologies of Landscape in the Americas Series) 264 pp. 2024:11 (U. New Mexico Pr., US) <729-1090>
ISBN 978-0-8263-6677-1 hard ¥15,840.- (税込) US$ 75.00

Fire and Salt traces the history of how human activities have helped build the littoral landscape of Pacific coastal southern Mesoamerica over the past five thousand years. Evidence comes from airborne Lidar, surface reconnaissance and excavation within the mangrove-estuary zone, sediment coring, and a chronological framework encompassing nine ceramic complexes extending from Early Formative to Historic times.In presenting the landscape as it exists today, this volume also describes what may soon be lost. The mangrove forests harbor a record of the human past, a focus of the present volume, but they also shield the coast from storms and tsunamis, provide nurseries for commercially important marine species, and store large amounts of carbon.

Brugger, Julie, Public Land and Democracy in America: Understanding Conflict over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. (Anthropology of Contemporary North America) 400 pp. 2025:1 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <729-1099>
ISBN 978-1-4962-3301-1 hard ¥20,908.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4962-4105-4 paper ¥7,392.- (税込) US$ 35.00

In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the meaning and value of America's public lands. In 1996 President Bill Clinton used the Antiquities Act to create the monument, with the goal of protecting scientific and historical resources. His action incensed Utah elected officials and local residents who were neither informed nor consulted beforehand, and opposition to the monument has continued to make its day-to-day management problematic. In 2017 President Donald Trump reduced the monument's size, an action immediately challenged by multiple lawsuits; subsequently, President Joe Biden restored the monument in 2021. In Public Land and Democracy in America Julie Brugger brings into focus the perspectives of a variety of groups affected by conflict over the monument, including residents of adjacent communities, ranchers, federal land management agency employees, and environmentalists. In the process of following management disputes at the monument over the years, Brugger considers how conceptions of democracy have shaped and been shaped by the regional landscape and by these disputes. Through this ethnographic evidence, Brugger proposes a concept of democracy that encompasses disparate meanings and experiences, embraces conflict, and suggests a crucial role for public lands in transforming antagonism into agonism.

Forough, Mohammadbagher, Transnational Public Spheres: Asian and Western Perspectives on Civic Spaces and Infrastructures Beyond the Nation-State. (Routledge Studies on Think Asia) 208 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <729-1135>
ISBN 978-1-03-278835-7 hard ¥37,422.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book offers the first systematic theorisation of transnational public spheres from non-Western, spatial, and infrastructural perspectives. The current era is characterised by transnational challenges, such as climate change, pandemics, and financial crises, that cannot be adequately addressed by national public spheres. Public spheres, defined as arenas of collective communication and action, are the cornerstone of any people-centred system of governance. This book puts forward a transnational public sphere theory and focuses on spatial, infrastructural and non-Western perspectives, thus adding to public sphere theory and practice at both national and transnational levels. The author offers a new conceptual construct, 'the right to space', as a way of transnationalising the theory and addressing its efficacy issues. Providing conceptual clarity on the public-private distinction, this book examines the historical roots of the public sphere in both Asia and Europe, establishes the methodological and ontological foundations for a theory of transnational publics, and analyses contemporary empirical instances of transnational publics in both Asia and the West. This transnationalisation is crucial now that authoritarianism is on the rise and democracy is in decline worldwide. A timely addition to the literature, this book will be of interest to researchers in International Relations, Political Science, Political Theory, Sociology, Media and Communication, Cultural and Literary Studies, and Asian Studies.

Agrawal, Anuja (ed.), Family Studies. (Oxford Studies in Contemporary Indian Society) 384 pp. 2024:12 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <729-1183>
ISBN 978-0-19-893069-3 hard ¥32,986.- (税込) GB￡ 119.00

Within the social, political, and economic contexts existing in modern-day India, family is neither a simple remnant of tradition nor a domain merely representing insulated private lives. Rather, it is implicated in malleable yet overpowering structures, relationships, and practices. If the 'family' is a crucial site of ideological and imaginative investments playing a critical role in reproducing and defining contemporary selves and societies, 'families' are responsive to and constrained by the complex dynamics in which they are enmeshed. Family relationships remain fundamental to survival and security even as policy and legislative imperatives as well as reproductive and communication technologies play a crucial role in reshaping them. Critically interrogating the extant approaches to and concepts within the study of family, Family Studies brings together diverse contributions by scholars from varied backgrounds to focus upon issues central to the conceptualization of family and their implications for Indian society. The chapters in this volume make a strong case for why family as an ideological construct and families as a multitude of lived relationships should continue to be subjects of critical social scientific attention.

Bartra, Roger, Shamans and Robots: On Ritual, the Placebo Effect, and Artificial Consciousness. Tr. by G. Gould. (Univocal) 176 pp. 2024:11 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <729-1203>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1749-4 paper ¥5,280.- (税込) US$ 25.00

A profound exploration of the external influences that shape human consciousness, from healing rituals to digital devices In this voyage through thousands of years of psychosomatic healing, distinguished anthropologist and sociologist Roger Bartra examines the placebo effect as a key to our understanding of human consciousness. Shamans and Robots demonstrates how biology and technology become intertwined within human culture by using the various histories of ritual and symbolic healing to speculate about future developments in artificial intelligence. Charting the extensive history of the placebo effect through medieval healing, shamanism, and early psychoanalytic practices, Bartra posits that consciousness is not simply the province of the mind but something equally shaped by external systems and objects. He finds evidence of this "exocerebrum"-the extension of our brains outside the body-in the shamanistic concept of the placebo, in which external objects heal our bodies, and in modern technical devices like prostheses or robots, whose development of a mechanical consciousness would have to mimic, and in turn elucidate, the processes involved in the creation of consciousness in humans. Through this radical concept, he analyzes digital media's relationship to the functions of the human brain and probes the possibility of artificial consciousness. Both a look at the human body's potential to restore itself and a profound reflection on the curative power of symbolic structures, Shamans and Robots explores how our technologies increasingly serve as extensions of our cognitive selves.