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

Camargo, Alejandro / Cortesi, Luisa / Krause, Franz (eds.), Amphibious Anthropologies: Living in Wet Environments. (Culture, Place, and Nature / A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) 272 pp. 2025:4 (U. Washington Pr., US) <739-600>
ISBN 978-0-295-75388-1 hard ¥24,321.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-295-75389-8 paper ¥7,738.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Rau, Vanessa, Becoming Jewish in Berlin: Ethnography of an Urban Scene. (Culture and Social Practice) 250 S. 2025:4 (Transcript, GW) <739-634>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7415-6 paper ¥6,730.- (税込) EUR 29.00

Why do young Israelis choose to come to Berlin and how does this impact Jewish life? With this ethnography, Vanessa Rau provides a captivating portrait and analysis of a new Jewish-Hebrew urban scene. Depicting different initiatives and biographical trajectories, she shows diverse and complex ways of being and becoming Jewish in Berlin, and presents an analysis of a vibrant scene, its actors, stages and performances and how it is shaped by its historical and socio-political context and representations. She shows how actors struggle with fundamental questions of ≫being Jewish≪ and ≫being German≪ and illuminates contemporary Jewishness - offering new understandings of migration and its impact on social and religious life.

Apekaum, Charles E., Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian. Ed. by B. R. Kracht. (American Indian Lives) 250 pp. 2025:7 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-731>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4318-8 hard ¥14,371.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Born during the final years of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, Charles E. Apekaum, grandson of Kiowa Chief Stumbling Bear, served as the principal interpreter for the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field expedition in 1935. Educated, bilingual, and world traveled, Apekaum's services as a translator were sought by anyone who dealt with the Kiowa Indian Agency personnel, politicians, and scholars. The following year, Apekaum traveled throughout Oklahoma with anthropologist Weston La Barre and ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, serving as their liaison as they documented the peyote religion. During off days, Apekaum narrated his life story to La Barre, recounting the final days of the reservation, allotment, the early days of Anadarko, Oklahoma, his seventeen years attending boarding schools, service in the navy during World War I and then as a state game warden, his work translating for politicians, and his involvement in the Native American Church. La Barre never published the manuscript, which contains rich details about intertribal variants of the sacred peyote rite as well as about Apekaum's life experience. In Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian Benjamin R. Kracht presents Apekaum's autobiography for the first time. This eyewitness account is an important addition to Native American life narratives and the reconstruction of Kiowa cultural, social, and religious life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the southern Great Plains.

Chen, Chung-yu, The Pre-Austronesian 'Liangdao Man'. (The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation 7) 266 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <739-733>
ISBN 978-981-9789-26-9 hard ¥25,527.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book adopts a comprehensive approach, drawing from archaeology, physical anthropology, human genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, ethnology and ethnography, to explore the Austronesian link of 'Liangdao Man,' and the origins of Austronesian language groups. Due to their dating 2,300~1,500 years earlier than Austronesian-speaking peoples, these two individuals should be Pre-Austronesian or Proto-Austroasiatic. The Matsu archipelago is situated off Fuzhou City's estuary in Fujian Province. In 2011-2012, the author unearthed two human skeletons, 'Liangdao Man 1' and 'Liangdao Man 2,' aged 8,300 and 7,500 years, respectively, on Liangdao Island, one of these islands. DNA analysis revealed that haplogroups E and R9 were identified, linking them to Austronesians of Taiwan aborigines' maternal lineage.

Darnell, Regna / Gleach, Frederic W. (eds.), Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions. (Histories of Anthropology Annual 15) 372 pp. 2025:8 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-734>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4229-7 paper ¥9,949.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions, volume 15 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual, focuses on themes of individual scholars and national developments, with each specific case building toward an understanding of an international discipline. Similar to the cultures that anthropologists study, anthropology's four-field discipline contains myriad practices, theories, and methodologies that are often divergent, contradictory, and associated with nationally based schools of thought, contributing to a vital and diverse global discipline. This volume emphasizes the challenges international scholars face as they engage both local and global movements. Several European traditions are represented, including two chapters adding to the body of work on Portugal from previous volumes in the series. North American traditions are well represented, including a collection of works on Nancy Lurie. Also included is an important examination of the collection of human skeletal remains in Argentina, presented in English for the first time. Readers will find both new information and new ways of understanding this complex history.

S.O.Murray記念論集
Darnell, Regna / Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy (eds.), Invisible Contrarian: Essays in Honor of Stephen O. Murray. (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology) 330 pp. 2025:6 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-735>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4300-3 hard ¥15,477.- (税込) US$ 70.00

In Invisible Contrarian Regna Darnell and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz have assembled scholars to memorialize and celebrate the prescient vision and interdisciplinary contributions of the late Stephen O. Murray (1950-2019), who did pioneering research in ethnolinguistics and anthropology of gender and homosexuality. His socially relevant work continues to provide a cogent example of an emergent, forward-looking anthropology for the twenty-first century. Murray's wide-ranging work included linguistics, regional ethnography in Latin America and Asia, activism, history of anthropology in relation to social sciences, and migration studies. Along with a complete list of his publications, Invisible Contrarian highlights Murray's methodological innovations and includes key writings that remain little known, since he never pursued a tenured research position. ?Murray's significant, prolific contributions deserve not only to be reexamined but to be shared with contemporary and future audiences. Ideal both as a primer for those who have not yet read Murray's work and as an in-depth resource for those already familiar with him, this volume demonstrates the wide-ranging accomplishments of a man who modeled how to be an independent scholar outside an academic position.

Frey, Benjamin E., Rising Above: Language Revitalization in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. (Many Wests) 240 pp. 2025:7 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-736>
ISBN 978-1-4962-3570-1 hard ¥13,266.- (税込) US$ 60.00

Today there are roughly two hundred first-language Cherokee speakers among the seventeen thousand citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. In 2019 the United Keetoowah Band, the Cherokee Nation, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians declared a state of emergency for the Cherokee language. In Rising Above Eastern Band Cherokee citizen Benjamin E. Frey chronicles his odyssey of being introduced to the Cherokee language with trepidation as a young adult and to his eventual work revitalizing the Cherokee language in a Cherokee way. In the first book to examine the process of language shift and revitalization among this band, Frey explores the institutional, economic, and social factors that drove the language shift from Cherokee to English, interpreted through the lens of a member of the Eastern Band Cherokee community in conversation with other community members. Rising Above navigates Frey's upbringing, the intricacies of language and relationships, the impact of trauma, and the quest for joy and healing within the community. In addition to language documentation and preservation, Rising Above explores how to breathe new life into the language and community, using storytelling to discuss the Cherokee language, its grammatical components, and its embedded cultural ideologies alongside its interactions with broader American society.

Lowry, David Shane, Lumbee Pipelines: American Indian Movement in the Residue of Settler Colonialism. 310 pp. 2025:8 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-737>
ISBN 978-1-4962-3279-3 hard ¥14,371.- (税込) US$ 65.00

In Lumbee Pipelines David Shane Lowry (Lumbee) examines the historical and modern paths, or "pipelines," through which members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina maintain Lumbee national identity, community practices, and tribal sovereignty. Through extensive ethnographic research and contextualization, Lowry explores these pipelines: the programs and traditions through which the Lumbee people engineer the settler-colonial conditions that define life in North Carolina and the United States as a whole. Even as the Lumbee community depends on the economics, politics, and histories of settler colonialism, those realities at once threaten Lumbee life, freedom, and community. Despite that conflict, Lumbee people use these pipelines to protect their interests and to influence the world in the realms of public infrastructure and education, healthcare services, humanitarian networks, fossil fuel pipelines, environmental degradation, and artificial intelligence. Lowry paints an intimate portrait of how individual Lumbees define their identities and sense of being, revealing the disputes and affinities between Lumbee community members in various states of accepting and rejecting settler-colonial circumstances.Lumbee Pipelines engages conversations about how, even as American Indian identities and communities are often erased amid the business of contemporary American life, Lumbee people have devised ways to empower and enrich themselves and other peoples by repurposing and evading the genocidal pressures that define settler-colonial society.

Perley, Bernard C. (ed.), Remediating Cartographies of Erasure: Anthropology, Indigenous Epistemologies, and the Global Imaginary. 274 pp. 2025:8 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-739>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4340-9 hard ¥14,371.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Remediating Cartographies of Erasure brings together leading sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists to explore the moral imperatives of anthropology as a discipline to contribute to the self-determination and equality of Indigenous peoples around the globe. This engaged collaboration highlights the partnerships between Indigenous communities and anthropology as a mutually respectful and emancipatory practice of Indigenous and anthropological epistemologies. Indigenous scholars from New Zealand, the United States, and Canada and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia, the United States, and Canada each provide concrete examples of how researchers actualize the moral imperative to work with Indigenous peoples in ways that foster their human rights and self-determination. The contributors discuss anthropological work done in Canada, United States, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Australia, Sardinia, and New Zealand. In laying out a world anthropology, this volume demonstrates the rectification practices of Indigenous peoples and continues anthropology's long-standing advocacy for social justice and human rights around the globe.

Sowry, Nathan, Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures. (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology) 338 pp. 2025:4 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-741>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4192-4 hard ¥14,371.- (税込) US$ 65.00

In Turning the Power Nathan Sowry examines how some Native American students from the boarding school system, with its forced assimilationist education, became key cultural informants for anthropologists conducting fieldwork during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Salvage anthropologists of this era relied on Native informants to accomplish their mission of "saving" Native American cultures and ultimately turned many informants into anthropologists after years of fieldwork experience. Sowry investigates ten relatively unknown Native American anthropologists and collaborators who, from 1878 to 1930, attended a religiously affiliated mission school, a federal Indian boarding school, or both. He tells the stories of Native anthropologists Tichkematse, William Jones, and James R. Murie, who were alumni of the Hampton Institute in Virginia. Richard Davis and Cleaver Warden were among the first and second classes to attend the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Amos Oneroad graduated from the Haskell Indian Industrial Training School in Lawrence, Kansas, after attending mission and boarding schools in South Dakota. D. C. Duvall, John V. Satterlee, and Florence and Louis Shotridge attended smaller boarding and mission schools in Montana, Wisconsin, and Alaska Territory, respectively.Turning the Power follows the forced indoctrination of Native American students and then details how each of them "turned the power," using their English knowledge and work experience in the anthropological field to embrace, document, and preserve their Native cultures rather than abandoning their heritage.

Molapo, Sepetla (ed.), Collective Action in Post-colonial Societies: Beyond the Binary of Sovereignty and Solidarity. 161 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <739-486>
ISBN 978-3-031-77546-8 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers an exploration of collective action by bringing together the themes of sovereignty and solidarity in post-colonial societies in Africa and beyond. It does so against a common tradition of writing about collective action that assumes an opposition between the state as a legal framework of unity and social movements that express the aspirations of marginalized people. The book's examination of collective action resists this binary division. It states that sovereignty can be imagined beyond the confines of the law and consequently beyond the centrality of the state. Power therefore appears as a construct of forces and factors that signal or gesture to a complex but fascinating way of imagining collective action. These forces and factors open our eyes to the dynamics of life in post-colonial societies in ways that the understanding of sovereignty centred on law conceals. Brought into an intimacy with solidarity, sovereignty opens collective action to nuanced, complex and multiple configurations that surpass binary thinking. This is an innovative approach and of interest to students and scholars from across the social sciences.

Godoy, Ricardo, Researching Well-Being in an Indigenous Amazon Community: A Detailed Survey of the Tsimane' Over Time. 260 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <738-966>
ISBN 978-1-032-95131-7 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-95128-7 paper ¥11,348.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book aims to provide the first comprehensive, multi-year, systematic, empirical assessment in the behavioral sciences of how well-being changes over time in a rural society of Indigenous People in the Global South.Using data compiled by the Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study (2002-2010) which monitored change in Tsimane' communities, this book aims to analyse important social and economic outcomes in a farming and foraging society of native Amazonians in Bolivia. It uses multidisciplinary methods through real longitudinal research to bring together three themes: well-being, economic inequalities, and the fate of Indigenous People in small-scale rural societies of the Global South to ask the question 'Why is a society that faces material deprivations, considerable economic inequalities, and declining material standards of living so happy?'This book aims to provide a comprehensive approach to the measurement of well-being and how to track its changes, providing a platform for future generations to gauge long-term change. It will resonate with undergraduate and graduate students across the behavioural sciences, professional anthropologists who specialise in the Amazon and well-being, development economists, and senior researchers who are part of the wave of emerging interest of doing research in small-scale rural societies of the Global South.

Zaglul Ruiz, Layla, Fair Trade Enclaves: Labour and Livelihoods in Costa Rica's Banana Industry. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) 176 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <738-222>
ISBN 978-1-032-60010-9 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Fair Trade Enclaves tells the story of exploitation and inequality in the production of Fair Trade bananas. It draws on immersive fieldwork in Costa Rica, which was the original testing ground for US-owned plantations and is today the world's third-largest exporter of bananas. The book offers an ethnographic study of Fair Trade's impact on the 'Dollar' banana system and considers how the growth in Fair Trade affects workers' livelihoods at the source of production. It documents the labour conditions and daily struggles of Costa Rican banana workers, featuring a comparative anthropological assessment of Fair Trade and conventional estates. The chapters provide a window onto Fair Trade's ability to effect change within one of the world's most exploitative and enduring commodity chains, exposing how Fair Trade currently fails to challenge the structural exploitation of banana production within the dollar system. The author reveals how, in some respects, workers at the conventional farm enjoy better conditions compared with those employed on the Fair Trade farm. The book is valuable reading for scholars of Anthropology, Development and Latin American Studies.

Grant, Alec, Resisting Cultural Narrative Entrapment in Autoethnography. 162 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-16>
ISBN 978-1-032-85145-7 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-85540-0 paper ¥11,348.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Resisting Cultural Narrative Entrapment in Autoethnography delves into the nexus of cultural narratives and takes the reader on a journey through the intricate landscape of identity and cultural critique. Each chapter, enriched with dialogues with 'Ash,' our imaginary interlocutor, presents a profound exploration rooted in the philosophical fabric.This book amplifies the discourse on ontological and epistemological reflections often overlooked in narrative autoethnography. Central to its narrative is the concept of cultural narrative entrapment, meticulously dissected to unveil its philosophical underpinnings. It focuses on probing inquiries, from the essence of resistance to cultural narrative entrapment to its pivotal role in shaping autoethnographic scholarship. Through meticulous textual 'archaeology' chapters unfold, excavating layers of literature to redefine cultural identity and narrative constructs, offering a meta-autoethnographic lens. The discourse evolves, addressing critiques and paradoxes, while inviting readers to engage with the complexities of perception, representation, and the paradoxes of emplotment. Culminating with an illuminating appendix summarizing the author's extensive body of work, this book serves as a beacon for scholars and practitioners navigating the nuanced terrain of philosophical autoethnography.This book transcends the boundaries of traditional scholarship, offering a compelling narrative that challenges conventions and ignites intellectual curiosity. It is an indispensable companion for those seeking to unravel the profound intersections of culture, identity, and philosophical inquiry.

Higgins, Sabrina C. / Gardner, Chelsea A. M. (eds.), Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World. 344 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <738-1149>
ISBN 978-1-032-64793-7 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-64790-6 paper ¥11,348.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This volume brings together specialists from a broad demographic and professional range - academics, museum curators, students, and content creators - to discuss case studies, challenges, and potential future avenues for public scholarship on the history, archaeology, and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, North Africa, and Western Asia.Together, the contributions promote the creation of inclusive methods of knowledge mobilization and communication in public spheres across three main areas: cultural heritage, pedagogy, and public-facing scholarship. These areas have all been directly affected by Eurocentric structures that have claimed ownership of ancient Mediterranean cultural heritage and have dictated how it has been taught in schools and communicated to the broader public. The volume is divided into three sections - Museums, Teaching and Learning, and Global and Local Projects - each addressing pressing challenges faced within these interrelated fields and offering ways for us to overcome the exclusionary narratives that plague them.Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences provides an invaluable resource for those interested in public history, from academics to lay audiences, in the fields of Ancient Mediterranean, North African, and Western Asian Studies. The book also appeals to professionals and researchers whose interests lie in public-facing scholarship, pedagogy, digital humanities, decolonization studies, museum studies, and popular media.

McIntosh, Janet, Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics. (Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language) 328 pp. 2025:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <738-1150>
ISBN 978-0-19-780801-6 hard ¥21,888.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-780802-3 paper ¥4,418.- (税込) US$ 19.99

Sanchez, Rafael, Reconocimientos: A Memoir of Becoming. Ed. by R. C. Morris. 160 pp. 2025:5 (Fordham U. Pr., US) <738-1151>
ISBN 978-1-5315-1004-6 hard ¥21,004.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-5315-1005-3 paper ¥6,190.- (税込) US$ 28.00

What is the relationship between a writer's life, milieu, and thought? In this daring and intellectually expansive text, part memoir and part political philosophy, the anthropologist Rafael Sanchez explores the forces and events that shaped him and the nations through which he moved. Reconocimientos is a book of both personal and political reckoning, from the thrillingly emancipatory possibilities of Venezuela's plazas to the political promise and disappointments of revolution. Written in the final year of his life, Reconocimientos moves from scenes of Sanchez's youth in Cuba to fieldwork on the cult of Maria Lionza in Venezuela to confront the terrifying and alluring forces of patriarchal privilege at the base of monumentalist authoritarianism. Sanchez's intimate prose speaks with the urgency both of his own mortality and of the political crises of our moment. Amid the resurgence of patriarchy, hierarchy, and the valorization of inequality that have become pillars of populist movements in Latin America and beyond, Sanchez finds a residual radical possibility in 'horizontal' spaces, where the forces of mimesis permit manifold transformations.

Belford, Paul / Wait, Gerry, Ethics in Archaeological Practice. 224 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-120>
ISBN 978-0-367-48146-9 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-0-367-48144-5 paper ¥10,213.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Ethics in Archaeological Practice focuses on the ethics of archaeological work in a European context.This book covers all aspects of the archaeological profession, including archaeological advisors employed by state national or regional heritage agencies, commercial archaeologists (consultants and contractors) and academics. It considers all archaeologists as professionals and situates ethical practice at the heart of what it means to be a professional archaeologist. It works as a practical handbook organised around the main areas of activity that archaeologists undertake allowing the book to be used as a reference work when required.Ethics in Archaeological Practice will appeal to professional archaeologists, academics and students, as well as those involved in professional training.

Petty, Karis Jade, Sensing the Landscape: An Ethnography of Blindness. (Sensory Studies) 264 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-375>
ISBN 978-0-367-65022-3 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book examines how vision impaired walkers experience and engage with the English countryside through five sensory activities: walking, seeing, listening, seeing in the mind's eye, and touching. Journeying through woodland and fields, the chapters reveal a landscape alive with memory, the imagination, and suffused with shifting temporalities. Karis Jade Petty develops the concepts of inclusive sensoriality and sensorial emplacement, which enable us to revise our understandings of the sensory organisations of experience, animate conceptualisations of landscape, and rethink self-landscape relationality. Reimagining notions of vision and the boundedness of the sensory body, this book will be relevant to scholars from a number of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, geography, visual studies, disability studies, and sensory studies more broadly.

Bollard, Kate, The Power of Empty Places: From Megalithic Monuments to Social Media. (Contemporary Liminality) 180 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-1471>
ISBN 978-1-032-83563-1 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Social media has been established as a central feature of the modern world and a propagator of contemporary culture. Political anthropology is employed as a method to understand digital fascination in the modern world. The theory of the void is utilised to examine the destructive features of social media that induce an unreality and provoke users to unfold in alternate ways. Classifying the realm of social media as a void illustrates how the intangible non-place is a divisive feature of modernity.To gain comprehension of the pervasive void created by technology, a consideration of historical precursors can be useful. Features of stone circles, such as their material character, configuration and optical display on the solstice can be used to understand how social media operates to lure people into its domain and promotes entrapment. This book is aimed at individuals with an interest in social media, social theory and political anthropology. It will be of use to those working in the areas of identity, unreality, media and communication studies. It addresses fundamental issues of modernity such as social media, identity and unreality.

Brooks, James F. / Moss, Jeremy M. (eds.), Public Archaeology for the Twenty-First Century. 288 pp. 2025:6 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <737-1472>
ISBN 978-0-8203-7351-5 hard ¥26,519.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7352-2 paper ¥7,284.- (税込) US$ 32.95

In Public Archaeology for the Twenty-First Century, James F. Brooks and Jeremy M. Moss have collected essays from twenty-seven scholars and community members to illuminate archaeological sites like ancient "water courts" at Mound Key in Florida, the lost Black cemetery at Nashville Zoo, fur-trade-era Fort Michilimackinac, and Arizona's Gila Bend Internment Camp. Each case offers readers an experience that enlivens the past whilespeaking to the present.These essays wrestle with key tensions in the fields of public archaeology. What do we mean by "public"? Is this site public facing or public participating? Does "public" simply imply simplifications in scholarly rigor or does it require more creative attention to methods of analysis and interpretation to render stories sensible for those beyond the academy?In the broadest sense, these chapters explore the relationship between archaeological practice, the representation of archaeology and history, and our varied publics. This requires not only consultation with varied stakeholders but also collaborative partnerships with descendant communities who have direct connections to the heritage resources we wish to share.

Chibois, Jonathan / Shapiro, Samuel (eds.), Doing Fieldwork in Centres of Power: The Case of Deliberative Assemblies. (Routledge Studies in Fieldwork and Ethnographic Research) 280 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-1473>
ISBN 978-1-032-37240-2 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book considers the challenges posed by fieldwork in centres of power to researchers in the social sciences, with a focus on deliberative assemblies. It includes work by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars united around a common interest in producing complementary knowledge about today's political institutions based on qualitative approaches. The chapters feature various case studies on specific issues that arose from the authors' fieldwork, as well as broader theoretical syntheses. The contributors offer some practical tools and solutions for others who would like to engage in this type of research, given the difficulties and complexities of doing fieldwork in centres of power and the lack of methodological resources currently available. The volume is valuable reading for anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and others with an interest in the ethnography of politics.

Colligan, Sumi / Jaysane-Darr, Anna (eds.), The Disabled Anthropologist. 244 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-1474>
ISBN 978-1-032-76030-8 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-76027-8 paper ¥11,348.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book brings much needed attention to disabled anthropologists, making clear that "disabled" and "anthropologist" belong together. The disabled anthropologists who contribute to this volume and on which these chapters focus have refused erasure from a profession that would ignore their critiques and creativity. Applying autoethnographic, photographic, and poetic venues, the contributors assess the drawbacks of their anthropology training programs, the limitations of accessibility practices in the academy, and how their own embodiments and the contingencies of their research and research settings have facilitated the discovery of novel methodologies and insights. Collectively this volume's contributors demonstrate a shared concern for the wellbeing of disabled ethnographers and interlocutors, whether working with Colombian refugees in Ecuador or those living with chronic pain in Michigan.The Disabled Anthropologist is essential reading for students and scholars working in cultural and medical anthropology.

人類学における視覚調査方法国際ハンドブック
Cox, Rupert / Wright, Chris (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropology. 312 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-1475>
ISBN 978-1-138-30808-4 hard ¥65,274.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

Routledge International Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropology approaches the question of method through conceptualisations of the visual world as light, sight, images and technologies of imaging, that can be analysed and described through a range of visual practices, in the course of anthropological research.The aim of the book is to move beyond making a case for the importance of "the visual" via its notional arrangement as a subject and means of study in anthropology, by showing how it is applied as a way of doing anthropological research through the explication of a series of examples. Employing an innovative structure for a handbook, each contribution is orientated around a single distinguishing concept and addresses the following three issues: How to see through images, by treating the visual as a form of knowledge made visible. A second group of entries are concerned with how to see through time, by approaching the visual as a modality for representing duration and rendering legible what may no longer be available to vision. Finally, a third group of entries deal with the visual at a phenomenal level, as a medium that we see in.The Handbook is a timely and useful resource for both students and researchers of anthropology at this time because the disciplines long standing, theoretical, as well as empirically rich practical engagements with visual methods provide valuable insights for the social sciences into current transmutations of "the visual" into "the multimodal", the non-representational' and "the sensory". The importance of these areas as well as of digital research more generally makes visual methods ever more important for social scientists, hence the Handbook is also valuable for those on general Research Methods courses and in related fields such as Sociology, Health Studies and Social Work.

de Barros Viana Hissa, Sarah (ed.), Archaeologies of Smoking, Pipes and Transatlantic Connections. (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) 229 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <737-1476>
ISBN 978-3-031-71256-2 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This volume presents a global study of the economic and cultural global systems in which smoking materials, practices and ideas circulate, intertwine, and transform. This book compiles original work authored by researchers from the Americas, Africa, and Europe to elicit a comparative archaeology of smoking and pipes through histories and case studies from localities and regions on both sides of the Atlantic. Consequently, the book is divided into four sections divided by region. The first chapters focus on Amerindian pipes and smoking, and these are followed by research on smoking and clay pipe use in post-17th century Europe. Chapters on the production and use of clay smoking pipes in Brazil and a reflection on the influence of pipes and smoking in Senegambia comprise the final two sections respectively. Taken together, this volume explores a wide range of issues, such as economic and cultural relations between old and new worlds; the effects of colonization in different parts of the globe; circulation of ideas, practices, and objects in hegemonic and non-hegemonic transatlantic connections; techniques and styles of making and decorating pipes; materialization and expression of ethnicities and of their blurred frontiers; changes and continuities observed in smoking materials and their inferred meanings. The book compiles fresh insights on the complex and diverse history of smoking and transatlantic economic and cultural interactions associated with it. It is of interest to both historical and pre-historical archaeologists researching material culture in several regions of the world, but also historians and anthropologists interested in material culture and global cultural systems.

Gorbanenko, Jenia et al. (eds.), Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space: Methods and Perspectives. (Anthropology of Now) 248 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-1477>
ISBN 978-1-032-57129-4 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-57128-7 paper ¥11,348.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book explores new methods and perspectives in the anthropology of outer space. For the past ten years, scholarship of outer space has grown significantly in the social sciences. Now, an international community of anthropologists is starting to produce significant contributions to this work. This is pushing the conversations around the future of humanity, technology, and outer space beyond the realm of speculative theory into concrete challenges to established norms within anthropology. Each chapter in this volume introduces a unique take on what constitutes an ethnographic field in anthropology. They signal a reimagination of the central concept for the discipline and offer a timely meditation on the shift in anthropology's understanding of fieldwork from its inception until now. The volume consists of eleven ethnographic chapters, plus an introduction by the editors, and two invited responses. Each of the main body chapters presents a distinct approach to situating outer space empirically on Earth. By bringing together emerging and established scholars, this book ultimately posits that an anthropological approach to outer space requires creative approaches to ethnography that are no longer exclusively premised on a co-presence with the people under study. A primer of innovative ethnographies and an ideal companion to courses on methods, this volume will provide students with a body of accessible, contemporary work on futurisms and outer space. In addition, this book will serve as a snapshot of a moment in ethnographically innovative anthropology that will be relevant to a wider academic audience through its exegesis of new methods for the study of distributed communities.

Heywood, Paolo, Burying Mussolini: Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism. 204 pp. 2024:12 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-1478>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7827-8 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-7828-5 paper ¥6,620.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Burying Mussolini addresses the global resurgence in authoritarian and nationalist populism and its connection with valorizations of ordinary life. Predappio is the birthplace and burial site of Benito Mussolini and Italy's premier neo-fascist tourist site with hundreds of thousands of fascist sympathizers descending on the town annually. But, Paolo Heywood asks, what of the people who actually live there? What does 'ordinary life' look like in the shadow of Mussolini's grave? As politicians, commentators, and social scientists seek to understand what lies behind new forms of political authoritarianism, and whether and how they resemble movements once thought consigned to the past, Burying Mussolini narrates how people in Predappio cope with the dark heritage of their home by carefully crafting a sense of 'ordinariness' that is itself inflected by ghosts of their fascist past.

Johnston, Carolyn Ross / Baker, Terri McKinney, Living Indigenous Feminism: Stories of Contemporary Native American Women. 321 pp. 2025:6 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <737-1479>
ISBN 978-0-8203-7376-8 hard ¥26,519.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7377-5 paper ¥6,178.- (税込) US$ 27.95

Living Indigenous Feminism is a bricolage of historical research and historiography, poetry, interviews, biographies, memoirs, and stories--both traditional and contemporary. This book poses the question of what southern and western history would look like if viewed through the eyes of a diverse sample of indigenous women. The answer is that these indigenous women have been "living feminism" in ways that shed new light on these histories, while showing how their lives and visions can offer fresh guidance for turbulent present and the shared future we are making now.This book features Native women of many different nations, cultures, and regions, including Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Seminole, Seneca, Iroquois, Navajo, Salish and Kootenai, Kiowa, Muscogee, Creek, Yankton Dakota Sioux, Fort Sill Apache, Cheyenne, Red Lake Ojibwe, Ho-Chunk, Seneca, Tonawanda Band, Standing Rock Sioux, Lakota Sioux, Blackfeet, Laguna Pueblo, and San Ildefonso Pueblo. Indigenous women, the authors contend, have always lived a pattern of gender power and balance. Indigenous feminism is traditional, and at the same time, a source of fresh insights about how we can sustain balanced, inclusive, meaningful lives through times of challenge and change.Although traditional academic scholarship is an individualistic and solitary venture, this approach is relational and organic, with the living indigenous women who shared their stories with them and with the indigenous women who lived before them, whom the authors met on the pages of scattered historical records. Their stories suggest powerful new meanings to what "living feminism" can do when we do it together.

Jovanovic, Deana, Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town. 246 pp. 2025:1 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-1480>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7909-1 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-8013-4 paper ¥7,063.- (税込) US$ 31.95 *

Staging the Promises reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a post-socialist decline, were the audience theatrically performed promises of aspirational futures. Deana Jovanovic chronicles the efforts of the copper-processing company and the town's authorities to theatrically perform promises of better economic, urban, environmental, infrastructural and post-industrial futures. Her book asks: What impact did the staging of promises have on the residents? What temporal, material, and political effects did these performances generate? How did they shape the citizens' futures and their present? Jovanovic offers many ethnographic examples of ambivalence in people's orientation to their futures, while residents balanced hope with despair, disillusionment, and dismay. Staging the Promises highlights how the performances shaped the present, and how, in a Gramscian twist, they sustained hope alongside power dynamics that residents often criticized. Staging the Promises assesses the performative ways through which contemporary capitalist futures are remade. For Jovanovic, Bor represents a site that reflects a current global trend: staging the promises of enhanced futures today play a significant role in contemporary populist politics. Through them, she argues, distant futures become gradually withdrawn from people's horizons.

Knight, Daniel M., Energy Talk: Green Knowledge from Greece's Silicon Plains. 180 pp. 2025:5 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-1481>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8110-0 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-8111-7 paper ¥6,620.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Energy Talk disrupts the claims of institutionalized categories such as sustainability, green economy, climate change, and net zero that promote a shared consensus on energy transition. These concepts often conceal the intricate detail of how people engage with rapidly shifting sociotechnical environments. On the Plains of Thessaly, Greece, interactions with the emerging energy landscape, particularly the expanding photovoltaic (solar) program, lead people to critique long-standing assumptions about nationalism and belonging, their experience of time and modernity, the morality of entrepreneurial opportunism, and historically grounded notions of neo-colonialism and foreign occupation. Daniel M. Knight showcases how obscured 'adelo-knowledge' is exposed during epochs of intense upheaval. Since 2009 Greece has been a hot spot of interrelated crises around which new socio-techno-natural contracts have emerged. Energy is a pivot for comprehending a decade where conventional information has been upended, traditions challenged, and assumptions fractured. Energy Talk offers an ethnographically and theoretically rich rereading of established categories usually associated with the green transition, from their local particularity to the potential implications for planetary relations.

Laws, Ben, Asylum and Nonreligion: Emotions, Evidence-making and Credibility. 100 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <737-1482>
ISBN 978-3-031-71764-2 hard ¥9,280.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access Palgrave Pivot explores the experiences of nonreligious asylum seekers in Northern Europe. While religious persecution is often cited as a reason for seeking asylum, nonbelievers also face significant persecution in their home countries due to their lack of religious affiliation. Despite this, their experiences are frequently overlooked in academic discussions, and asylum assessment centers have been slow to develop frameworks that address their unique challenges. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research from Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the challenges nonbelievers face, as well as the opportunities they create as agents within the system. Emotions offer an analytical window into the world of nonbelievers, highlighting their desperation and innovative practices of evidence creation. Throughout the book, the logics of credibility assessment are critically explored, revealing the cultural chasm between assessors and nonreligious claimants.

Pandian, Anand, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down. 272 pp. 2025:5 (Redwood Pr., US) <737-1484>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3787-0 hard ¥6,190.- (税込) US$ 28.00

Reed, Adam, Animal People: Moral Subjects in the Work of Animal Protection. (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge) 324 pp. 2025:1 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-1487>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7963-3 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-7964-0 paper ¥8,831.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be "moderate" activists. Adam Reed explores the interrelationships between moral cause and organizational culture, including the ways in which expert roles such as investigator and lobbyist inform the practice and outlook of animal protection. This book examines not only connections between forms of professionalism and everyday advocacy but also how those working to improve the welfare of animals can come to possess an expertise in public or mainstream ethics. Reed explores these issues through the example of a Scottish-based animal protection organization. Animal People makes a distinctive contribution to anthropological debate and discussion relating to human and nonhuman animal interactions, activism, and the attributions and imperatives of moral action.

Shore, Bradd, At the Crossroads of Psychology and Anthropology: In Conversation with Jerome Bruner. 290 pp. 2025:2 (MIT Pr., US) <737-1488>
ISBN 978-0-262-55104-5 paper ¥11,055.- (税込) US$ 50.00

Sutton, Mark Q. / Bartelink, Eric J., Bioarchaeology: An Introduction to the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Dead. 2nd ed. 340 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-1489>
ISBN 978-1-032-75656-1 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-72495-9 paper ¥11,348.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Bioarchaeology provides an accessible introduction to the history and general theory of human remains in context from an archaeological and anthropological perspective, as well as their recovery and laboratory treatment.Since the first edition, there have been new developments in several areas and this volume provides readers with updated coverage of this fast moving field. Updates include information on new methodological approaches such as modelling approaches for reconstructing infant breastfeeding and weaning and childhood diet from serial samples of tooth dentin as well as new approaches to paleodemography, biological sex estimation, ancient DNA, new forensic anthropology methods, and new archaeological data from newly reported sites. Through numerous case studies the book explores how the ways a society deals with their dead can reveal a great deal about that society, including its religious, political, economic, and social organizations. It details recovery methods and how, once recovered, human remains can be analyzed to reveal details about the funerary system of the subject society and inform on a variety of other issues, such as health, demography, disease, workloads, mobility, sex and gender, and migration. The book concludes with contemporary applications, highlighting how bioarchaeological techniques can be used in contemporary forensic settings and in investigations of genocide and war crimes.Theories, principles, and scientific techniques are set out in a comprehensive and understandable fashion making this book an excellent introduction to bioarchaeology for students of archaeology at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Bilal, Muhammad, Beyond the Law: Living Blasphemy in Pakistan: Ethnography of Mundane Violence, Faith, and Lifeworlds. (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) 205 pp. 2024:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <737-1080>
ISBN 978-3-031-71028-5 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

The book embarks on a journey into the intricate landscape of blasphemy in Pakistan amid a rising tide of blasphemy accusations, public lynchings, and contentious blasphemy laws. Challenging conventional perspectives, this book delves beyond legal and religious confines, offering an ethnography of the mundane as a secular reading and a grand existential scheme to highlight how blasphemy laws and religious prisms often fail to capture the essence of the blasphemy dilemma in Pakistan. The author offers an insightful re-evaluation of the blasphemy issue, addressing its multifaceted definition, the motivations driving intentional blasphemous acts and frivolous accusations, the authority to punish alleged offenders, the paradox of religious violence, and the emergence of mediated expressions and virtual negotiation of blasphemy. Through meticulous grassroots analysis of ordinary Pakistanis' perspectives, the book offers pragmatic policy solutions for blasphemy issues, presenting unorthodox insights into Pakistan, its diverse populace, and the ever-evolving sensibilities of Islam and societal dynamics in both local and global contexts.

イエメンの政治人類学
Porter, Ross (ed.), A Political Anthropology of Yemen: Concept and Critique. (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) 268 pp. 2025:6 (Syracuse U. Pr., US) <737-1139>
ISBN 978-0-8156-3858-2 hard ¥19,899.- (税込) US$ 90.00
ISBN 978-0-8156-3859-9 paper ¥8,831.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Morales, Gabriela Elisa, Decolonizing Medicine: Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia. 280 pp. 2025:5 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <737-1195>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4085-6 hard ¥26,532.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4272-0 paper ¥6,633.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Decolonizing Medicine examines Bolivian state-led efforts to decolonize health services during the administration of Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president. Governing from 2006 to 2019, the Morales administration undertook sweeping reforms, vowing to reverse intertwined colonial and capitalist systems of oppression and restore Indigenous good living. Predating more recent calls from global health practitioners to "decolonize global health," Bolivian state projects included a range of initiatives, such as integrating Indigenous traditional medical practitioners into clinical care and encouraging cultural sensitivity among healthcare providers. And yet, despite layered institutional investments, many Indigenous patients continued to describe their local hospital as a place "donde no hay atencion" ("where there is no care"). Through fine-grained ethnography of health policymaking and implementation, Gabriela Elisa Morales tracks how Bolivian biomedical and public health institutions fell short of the far-reaching transformations proposed by decolonial activists and theorists. At the same time, she foregrounds how Indigenous patients and healers challenged the terms of caregiving and demanded that state and medical institutions fulfill their obligations to Indigenous flourishing. In tracing these dynamics, Morales articulates the multiplicity of ways that care practice becomes a locus of political foreclosure as well as radical transformation, with crucial insights for broader projects of decolonization and Indigenous rights.

Prouteau, Francois, Anthropology of the Anthropocene: Ideas for a Courageous Education. (Anthropocene - Humanities and Social Sciences) 209 pp. 2024:12 (Springer, GW) <736-97>
ISBN 978-3-031-75418-0 hard ¥25,527.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book questions the epistemological foundations of education in the Anthropocene. It reviews a body of evidence that strongly supports the view that the Earth's systems are emerging into an epoch known as the Anthropocene. This volume examines a number of concepts including the political ecology and the modes of veridiction in the Anthropocene as well as philosophy, anthropology and history of the concept of courage and the humanities. It champions forward-looking educational initiatives and presents a new philosophy on education for the Anthropocene. The concept of the Anthropocene extends to many fields of sciences. It is now anchored in a multidisciplinary scientific literature and recognized by both sides of the ideological and political battle of the 21st century, on which several controversies are grafted in a complex way. It also has a strong anthropological consistency: what kind of humans do we want to become? The author explores how the recognition of the crisis helps to see the history of humanity with unexpected freshness. This work contributes to an epistemological and paradigmatic reflection on the foundations of education in the Anthropocene epoch. The author has seized on the biogeophysical ruptures of the Anthropocene to develop a pedagogical and anthropological reflection in a stimulating and creative way. This volume is of interest to researchers of the Anthropocene, as well as to scholars in ecology, social sciences, pedagogy, and philosophy.

Othman, Norani / Nadarajah, Yaso / Mohd Isa, Rozana (eds.), Polygamous Marriages in Peninsular Malaysia: Family, Gender and Religion at the Crossroads. 411 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <736-942>
ISBN 978-981-9791-03-3 hard ¥34,811.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book presents the first national study of the practice of polygamy undertaken amongst Malay Muslims, contextualised within the broader social, legal, and political context of Malaysia. A collaboration between the Sisters in Islam NGO and three universities in Malaysia, it examines the perspectives of both men and women through quantitative and qualitative data analysis of over 1,200 surveys and more than 60 in-depth interviews charting the legal, financial, social, and emotional impacts of polygamy. It incorporates both progressive Islamic scholarly thought and the unique sociologically rich perspectives of the study respondents. In doing so, the data serves to strengthen advocacy for awareness and law reforms within Islamic jurisprudence frameworks and institutions. As one of the most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on polygamy in a Muslim society, this represents a major tour de force within a little explored field with tremendous potential for societal impact. This book is relevant to academics and graduate students seeking a deeper understanding of the issues related to Muslim polygamous marriage and to researchers within the broader fields of gender studies, family studies, Islamic studies, and Islamic legal studies. It is also a landmark resource for activists and policymakers seeking to advocate on behalf of marginalised groups-particularly women and children in polygamous families.

Goina, Calin, Parallel Lives: An Empirical Exploration of the Concept of Generation. 320 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-1215>
ISBN 978-3-031-75463-0 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores the articulation between macro-social historical transformations and the opportunities and constraints that the resultant political and property regimes presented for villagers. It builds on ethnographic analyses of rural Eastern Europe by adding an historical analysis of the configurations and reconfigurations of life trajectories across three successive generations. The villagers studied lived a succession of property and political configurations: democratic and authoritarian regimes grounded in free market and private property until 1947, a totalitarian regime of state-socialism until 1989, and a liberal democracy re-building a free market economy from 1990 until today. It also brings forward an empirical exploration of the concept of generation, grounded on a re-reading of Karl Mannheim. The book is distinctive in its historical breath, covering a century via a detailed, rich ethnographic study, that includes a diversity of social positions (from the richest members of the community to those of very poor means) and a diversity of three ethnicities and religions.

Hammer, Emily, The Archaeology of Pastoralism, Mobility, and Society: Beyond the Grass Paradigm. 454 pp. 2025:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <736-1216>
ISBN 978-1-009-56165-5 hard ¥34,056.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

Though mobile pastoralists were long a significant component of many societies in Eurasia and Africa, scholars have long considered them to be materially and documentarily 'invisible.' The archaeological study of pastoralism across these regions has relied on ethnographic analogies and environmentally deterministic models, often with little or no data on historically specific herding communities. This approach has yielded a static picture of pastoralism through time that has only recently been challenged. In this book, Emily Hammer articulates a new framework for investigating variability in past pastoral practices. She proposes ways to develop a more rigorous relationship with pastoralist ethnographies and illustrates new archaeological and scientific methodologies for collecting direct data on herding, mobility, and social complexity in the past. Hammer's approach to the archaeology of pastoralism promotes efforts to dismantle the legacy of evolutionary classifications of human societies, which have drawn sharp distinctions between farmers and herders, and to investigate how diverse non-agricultural and mobile groups have shaped complex society and environment.

Jonsdottir, Dagrun Osk, Ghosts, Trolls and the Hidden People: An Anthology of Icelandic Folk Legends. 248 pp. 2025:5 (Reaktion Books, UK) <736-1217>
ISBN 978-1-83639-025-1 hard ¥4,810.- (税込) GB￡ 16.95

This unique and enchanting book opens the door to a captivating world of Icelandic folk legends unfolding across six chapters, each based on a different setting: farm, wilderness, darkness, church, ocean and shore. The anthology provides translated tales from the 19th and 20th centuries, many in English for the first time as well as introductions by the author which place these often-supernatural happenings in the context of Icelandic society. The legends include tales of hidden people, trolls, ghosts, sea monsters and even polar bears, exploring themes of love, revenge and conflict. The book highlights the tension between Christianity and heathen beliefs, past and present, nature and humanity, and divides within society. Drawing from a wide variety of Icelandic sources, the book makes these colourful, entertaining, lively stories available to non-Icelandic speakers, some for the first time.

人類学の思想－進化論からポストモダニズム他まで
Sahay, Vijoy S., Anthropological Thought: From Evolutionism to Postmodernism and Beyond. 275 pp. 2024:12 (Springer, GW) <736-1220>
ISBN 978-981-9769-29-2 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

The volume explores how anthropological ideas emerged. First, in the writings of the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers; after that, by the Renaissance scholars during the 18th century in Europe; and finally, during the mid-19th century, especially after Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution. It covers the contributions of all the evolutionists of the 19th century. It explores the evolution of anthropological schools, from 'Evolutionism' to 'Diffusionism' and beyond. It also discusses diverse perspectives, such as 'Historical and Dialectical Materialism,' 'Functionalism,' 'Structural-Functionalism,' 'Cultural Ecology,' and 'Cognitive Anthropology. Concepts like Ethnocentrism and culture provide a rich tapestry of anthropological thought. It discusses the lives and contributions of renowned anthropologists, from E.B. Tylor to Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. This book is a valuable resource for students, researchers, and instructors in social sciences, offering a nuanced understanding of anthropology, sociology, and psychology.

Tan, Mely G., The Chinese of Sukabumi: A Study of Social and Cultural Accommodation. 2nd ed. (Engaging Indonesia) 292 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <736-1221>
ISBN 978-981-9794-98-0 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores the historical and contemporary experiences of the Chinese in Sukabumi, Indonesia, including their migration to the region, their economic activities, and their relationships with the local population. The book also examines the cultural practices of the Chinese in Sukabumi, including their religion, language, and traditions, and how they have adapted to the local culture. Through extensive research and analysis, the author provides a detailed account of the ways in which the Chinese of Sukabumi have navigated their place in Indonesian society, and the challenges they have faced in doing so. Presented as a co-published edition with Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia, and released in memoriam to the late Mely G. Tan, this edition of The Chinese of Sukabumi honours this original comprehensive study of the social and cultural adaptation of the Chinese community in Sukabumi with the aim of bringing it to a wider international audience. It is an essential resource for scholars and students of Southeast Asian studies, as well as anyone interested in the cultural and social dynamics of the Chinese diaspora.

Tian, Xiaojie, Maasai Childhood: The Rhythm of Learning in Daily Work and Play Routines. (Palgrave Studies on the Anthropology of Childhood and Youth) 279 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-1032>
ISBN 978-3-031-73779-4 hard ¥25,527.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book aims to provide comprehensive ethnographic documentation of pastoralist childhood and child learning, based on the author's long-term fieldwork in pastoralist Maasai society in southern Kenya. It conveys a timely account of the developmental niche in contemporary Maasai society, in children's lives, social roles, work, play, and learning in family routines. Pastoralism is an important livelihood system that has allowed humans to live in arid and semi-arid lands for centuries. Children in pastoralist societies are expected to, and indeed do, actively and independently participate in and contribute to local subsistence from an early age. Compared to studies of other forms of livelihood, anthropological investigations into pastoralist children remain limited, particularly in light of critical social changes pastoralists have undergone in the last three decades. Less is known about their local parenting ethnotheories, childhood play, and children's practices of self-reliance in making positive changes in their families and local communities. Having a better understanding of pastoral childhood in concurrent natural and social complexities is vital for further investigation of human development in general and the pastoralist culture in particular.

Antweiler, Christoph, Anthropology in the Anthropocene: An Earthed Theory for Our Extended Present. (Anthropocene - Humanities and Social Sciences) 501 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <736-1052>
ISBN 978-3-031-74590-4 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

In this book, anthropologist and geologist Christoph Antweiler shows that geology is a special, namely historical, natural science and is therefore relevant for a historically informed anthropology. He argues that we do not only need a geologically informed cultural anthropology, but conversely also an anthropologically oriented geology. A comprehensive geology must include material human culture as a fundamental geological phenomenon. In relation to cultural anthropology, the author discusses the challenge the Anthropocene poses for cultural anthropology as a traditionally micro-oriented social science. The book discusses where the blind spots lie in the highly interdisciplinary discussion. Common narratives are critically scrutinized. The author argues for the need for a new discipline: geoanthropology.

Morseau, Blaire, Mapping Neshnabe Futurity: Celestial Currents of Sovereignty in Potawatomi Skies, Lands, and Waters. (Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies) 232 pp. 2025:5 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <735-668>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5314-3 hard ¥22,110.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5313-6 paper ¥6,633.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Frey, John / Raja, Rubina (eds.), Trends in Archive Archaeology: Current Research on Archival Material from Fieldwork and its Implications for Archaeological Practice. (Archive Archaeology 5) 230 pp. 2024:12 (Brepols, BE) <735-770>
ISBN 978-2-503-61174-7 paper ¥23,210.- (税込) EUR 100.00

知覚を超えて－T.インゴルドの著作とのやり取り
Gatt, Caroline / Loovers, Jan Peter Laurens (eds.), Beyond Perception: Correspondences with Tim Ingold's Work. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) 360 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <735-771>
ISBN 978-1-032-31694-9 hard ¥41,151.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book showcases the way a range of scholars have engaged with Tim Ingold's opus since the publication of his ground-breaking The Perception of the Environment in 2000. Ingold's work has become key for a variety of disciplines ranging from anthropology, archaeology, and human geography to art, architecture, design and studies of material and visual culture. As set out in The Perception of the Environment and subsequent publications, Ingold proposed an understanding of the world that placed sentient, remembering and imagining organisms, or inhabitants, some of them human, at the heart of an extensive field of socio-ecological relations. In this work, Ingold develops broad-ranging analyses of personhood, knowledge and skills, among many other topics. This volume sets out to synthesize critical scholarship drawing on Ingold's work, to lay out its principles, methods and results, and to demonstrate its contribution to reshaping both contemporary anthropology and wider intellectual terrains. By bringing together chapters from a variety of scholars, all critically furthering Ingold's proposals, the book advances a paradigm change occurring in various academic disciplines from 'fixist' to 'emergence' onto/epistemologies.