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

van Beek, W. E. A. / Ongoiba, Oumarou S. / Saye, Atime D., Dogon Songs of Life and Death: A Performance of the Baja Ni Funeral Cycle in Tireli, Mali. (African Sources for African History 19) 280 pp. 2025:2 (Brill, NE) <744-976>
ISBN 978-90-04-71844-9 paper ¥18,075.- (税込) EUR 79.00

Though the Dogon are well-described, their culture still holds surprises. One of these is the cycle of songs called baja ni, which is at the heart of their funerary rites. Surprisingly, these songs have a historic author, a blind poet/prophet who roamed the area in the 19th century and left a huge heritage of songs and prophecies. This book gives the full text of one performance of this legacy. The lyrics cover a range of topics, from comments on historical events to philosophical musings about life and death, and from remembering the departed to celebrating the joys of being alive.

Wu, Mandy Jui-man / Linduff, Katheryn M., Archaeological Studies on Gender in Early East Asia. (Elements in Ancient East Asia) 86 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-843>
ISBN 978-1-009-53354-6 hard ¥13,911.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-108-98739-4 paper ¥4,731.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Gendered archaeology in Asia has been studied by archaeologists since the 1990s and scholars have posed questions such as the role and construction of gendered identities in ancient societies. In this Element, the authors review secondary literature, report on to what stage the research has evolved, evaluate methodologies, and use the concept of networking to examine the issues across East Asia, including China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Interestingly, those literatures are not entirely parallel with each other - the authors found, for example, that archaeological investigation was largely bound by national guidelines, by local intellectual traditions, and by changing historiographic interpretations of past events, as well as funding. The complexion of recent studies on gender and archaeology in Asia has often been focused on providing a framework for a grand narrative of each national 'civilization' as the emergence of institutional political structures, including traditional values placed on men and women.

Gauss, Valdis, The Formosan Primary Anthropogenic Myths, Genesis, and the Creation of Man. (Brill Series in Taiwan Studies 4) 224 pp. 2025:7 (Brill, NE) <744-868>
ISBN 978-90-04-73383-1 hard ¥27,456.- (税込) EUR 120.00

In this book, Valdis Gauss anthologizes the Formosan anthropogenic myths from all of Taiwan's Austronesian tribes. Over 250 origin texts, sourced from dozens of linguistic, anthropological, historical, and mythological corpora as well as other publications have been collated and analysed rendering the present literary survey far more comprehensive than any prior study on this subject. Over 100 Formosan myths, many of which were never previously available in English have been translated here for the first time. In the absence of longstanding traditional orthographical records, the Austronesian tribes that inhabit the island of Taiwan have relied on the transmission of oral literatures for the preservation of historical events since the dawn of time. The earliest historical events that are still recited by tribal elders relate to the origins of the gods and first ancestors of mankind. This anthology continues the tradition of collecting and transcribing these myths for everyone interested in the corpus of literature from Taiwan's aboriginal peoples.

Rokkum, Arne, Shamanic Crossovers in the Southern Philippines: Vocal Worlds. (Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time) 296 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-897>
ISBN 978-1-032-86898-1 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book offers a close-up study of annual cycle rituals among the southern Tagbanwa of Palawan Island in the Philippines, with a particular focus on shamanic oratory and vocalized performance. Drawing on rich ethnography and extensive fieldwork, it reflects on the interconnectedness of humans, nature, and the spirit world. The chapters shed light on the role of female (babalyan) and male (manlalambay) protagonists and how people, including the deceased, relate to each other through vibrant natural and crafted motifs. The study transports readers into a world of upland shifting cultivators and invites us to delve into animist dialogue in vivo. Offering a valuable contribution to debates on new animism and perspectivism, Shamanic Crossovers in the Southern Philippines will be of particular interest to scholars of anthropology, religion, Southeast Asia, and Indigenous studies.

博物館研究入門
Fyfe, Gordon, Introducing Museum Studies. 248 pp. 2025:4 (Polity Pr., UK) <744-1096>
ISBN 978-0-7456-4212-3 hard ¥15,312.- (税込) US$ 69.95
ISBN 978-0-7456-4213-0 paper ¥6,556.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Introducing Museum Studies is the first introductory textbook for museum studies. Providing a wide-ranging and original overview of museums from a historical and contemporary perspective, it covers key topics such as the history of the museum, the museum as a public space, visitors, and communities. The book shows how museums, far from being neutral collections, exhibit objects which convey powerful symbolic meanings. This "cultural turn" away from the object as a thing in itself has placed museums at the centre of debates about public culture, citizenship, inclusion and repatriation. Museums are becoming increasingly reflexive given the awareness of the social and political role they serve and their ability to reflect the problems of our time. Gordon Fyfe shows how and why this reflexivity creates a need for historical perspective on current practices: on the one hand museums are enmeshed in a changing world and on the other hand they exhibit change. At their best, museums help us to see that everything is on the move and that change is the natural order of things.Accessibly written, this is the go-to introduction for scholars and students of museum studies, arts and cultural management, and heritage studies.

Bortolotto, Chiara, Will Heritage Save Us?: Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Sustainable Development Turn. (Elements in Critical Heritage Studies) 75 pp. 2025:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-1140>
ISBN 978-1-009-50909-1 hard ¥13,911.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-50910-7 paper ¥4,731.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with the social world of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, this Element explores the mainstreaming of sustainable development principles in the heritage field. It illustrates how, while deeply entwined in the UN standardizing framework, sustainability narratives are expanding the frontiers of heritage and unsettling conventional understandings of its social and political functions. Ethnographic description of UNESCO administrative practices and case studies explain how the sustainabilization of intangible cultural heritage entails a fundamental shift in perspective: heritage is no longer nostalgically regarded as a fragile relic in need of preservation but as a resource for the future with new purposes and the potential to address broader concerns and anxieties of our times, ranging from water shortages to mental health. This might ultimately mean that the safeguarding endeavor is no longer about us protecting heritage but about heritage protecting us.

Pollard, A. M., Retrospective and Prospective for Scientific Provenance Studies in Archaeology. (Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques) 84 pp. 2025:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-1143>
ISBN 978-1-009-59219-2 hard ¥13,911.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-59222-2 paper ¥4,731.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Provenance has been one of the major scientific applications in archaeology for a hundred years. The 'Golden Age' began in the 1950s, when large programmes were initiated focussing on bronzes, ceramics, and lithics. However, these had varying impact, ranging from wide acceptance to outright rejection. This Element reviews some of these programmes, mainly in Eurasia and North America, focussing on how the complexity of the material, and the effects of human behaviour, can impact on such studies. The conclusion is that provenance studies of lithic materials and obsidian are likely to be reliable, but those on ceramics and metals are increasingly complicated, especially in the light of mixing and recycling. An alternative is suggested, which focusses more on using scientific studies to understand the relationship between human selectivity and processing and the wider resources available, rather than on the simple question of 'where does this object come from'.

Woodard, Jennie, Witchcraft: Gendered Perspectives. (Gendered Perspectives) 156 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <744-1147>
ISBN 978-1-032-71724-1 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-71205-5 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

From fairy tales and fiction to Tiktok, the spectre of the witch has cast a long shadow over women and popular culture. Witchcraft: Gendered Perspectives traces the history of and evolution of the term "witch" across six centuries.Tracing the history of witchcraft from the publication of the Malleus Maleficarum to its contemporary representation and reclamation, this volume takes a gendered and intersectional approach to the cultural and historical shifts which have both demonised and democratised the witch online and in public discourse. Amongst these are:- The witch trials in Scotland, England, and America;- Literary and screen re-imaginings of the witch;- The rise of Wicca as an alternative religion.Witchcraft: Gendered Perspectives is an invaluable resource for graduate and undergraduate students across gender studies, queer history, religious studies, media studies, and European and North American history.

Shibaike, Takumi / Zhao, Bi, Who Tells Your Story?: Women and Indigenous Peoples Advocacy at the UNFCCC. (Organizational Response to Climate Change: Businesses, Governments) 96 pp. 2025:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-1009>
ISBN 978-1-009-47293-7 hard ¥13,911.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-47289-0 paper ¥4,731.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Thousands of civil society organizations (CSOs) attend the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) every year. Through their advocacy work, CSOs define and redefine what "climate change" is really about. The Element focuses on climate advocacy for women and Indigenous peoples (IPs), two prominent climate justice frames at the UNFCCC. Which CSOs advocate for women and IPs? How and why do CSOs adopt gender and Indigenous framing? Bridging the literature on framing strategy and organizational ecology, it presents two mechanisms by which CSOs adopt climate justice frames: self-representation and surrogate-representation. The Element demonstrates that, while gender advocacy is developed primarily by women's CSOs, IPs advocacy is developed by a variety of CSOs beyond IPs organizations. It suggests that these different patterns of frame development may have long-term consequences for how we think about climate change in relation to gender and IPs.

Uehling, Greta Lynn, Decolonizing Ukraine: How the Indigenous People of Crimea Remade Themselves after Russian Occupation. 224 pp. 2025:2 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <743-860>
ISBN 979-88-8180-445-9 hard ¥20,795.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 979-88-8180-446-6 paper ¥8,756.- (税込) US$ 40.00

Chen, Chun, Theory and Perspective: Essays in Chinese Archaeology. 508 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-958>
ISBN 978-981-9613-59-5 hard ¥50,332.- (税込) EUR 219.99

This book draws attention to the importance of theoretical problems in archaeological research in China. At present, Chinese archaeology has adoped the traditional culture-historical paradigm, with research themes has mainly focused on chronology and cultural relationships. The lack of training at theoretical thinking and scientific methods, such as positivist methods and logical reasoning, it has become difficult to reconstruct the processes of human behavior and social change with rigorous steps of looking at people behind the artifacts. As a response to this situation, this book discusses various problems that bother Chinese archaeologists in terms of the advances of archaeological theories and methods. This book emphasizes the importance for theoretical guidance and problem awareness in archaeological research, while illustrates this scientific philosophy with diversified case studies. The purpose of this volume is trying to summarize the history and practice of Chinese archaeology in the global context. It will greatly broaden the perspective of researchers all over the world with an insight into this particular practice and can also serve as a comprehensive reference work in the field of Chinese archaeology.

Zaporowski, Andrzej, Crack and Culture: On Representations of Movement in Anthropology and Philosophy. (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy) 108 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <743-77>
ISBN 978-3-031-83421-9 paper ¥11,436.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book analyzes the representations of movement that reflect time. The author scrutinizes movement critically assuming that (1) movement is composed of change, (2) a change may be a crack, (3) the crack demonstrates a disturbance in the experienced movement, and (4) it is culture that is a remedy to the crisis caused by this disturbance. It is shown that artistic sensitivity allows for the detection of various cracks, and it is, among other examples, religious mythology and scientific narratives where one finds a multiplicity of representations to manage the consequences of this detection. Zaporowski sees these tools as purposefully constructed to respond to the human experience of discontinuity in the world and proposes to frame time cyclically while - critically - paying attention to the cracks as significant indicators that force one to amend one's conduct in an ordered fashion. He appeals to the notion of culture, which allows one to manage the cracked nature of movement. Culture conditions one's purposeful and ordered actions, and is subject to possible reconfigurations through a series of interactions. It allows for foreseeable conduct while at the same time being aware of possible and irreversible changes. This volume appeals to researchers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy and anthropology.

Leontiy, Halyna / Schulz, Miklas (eds.), Ethnography and Diversity: Knowledge Production at the Boundaries and the Boundaries of Knowledge Production. 344 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <743-1143>
ISBN 978-3-658-47167-5 paper ¥27,452.- (税込) EUR 119.99

The focus of the volume is on ethnographically oriented research practice. It is reflected in the mirror of the currently controversial concepts of diversity and intersectionality in the cultural and social sciences. Special attention is paid to the question of how researchers deal with the methodological problem of the production, reproduction and reflection of categories. Which categories are already brought to the 'field', later revised or solidified, and which categories finally accompany the interpretation process and which constitute the presentation of results? How and why do they emerge? And last but not least: How are specific worlds of experience of human diversity co-produced or transformed by (research) categories? The Content Conceptual foundations - Diversity and inclusion in educational contexts - Interculture in diversity - Diversity in the field of tension between body, gender and disability The Editors Dr. rer. soc. Halyna Leontiy is Substitute Professor (Verwaltungsprofessorin) of Foundations of Social Sciences, Institute of Methods and Methodological Principles in the Social Sciences (IMMS), University of Goettingen, Germany since October 2021. Prof. Dr. phil. Miklas Schulz is a visiting researcher focusing on Inclusive Education and School Development at the Institute of Educational Science, Department of Applied Educational Science, at the University of Hildesheim.

人類学の歴史　第2版
D'Agostino, Gabriella / Matera, Vincenzo (eds.), Histories of Anthropology: Interactions Between Centers and Peripheries in the Making of Anthropological Discourses. 2nd ed. 674 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <743-1244>
ISBN 978-3-031-75051-9 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This edited volume presents, for the first time, a history of anthropology regarding not only the well-known European and American traditions, but also lesser known traditions, extending its scope beyond the Western world. It focuses on the results of these traditions in the present. Taking into account the distinction between empire-building and nation-building anthropology, introduced by G. Stocking and taken up by U. Hannerz, the book investigates different histories of anthropology, especially in ex-colonial and marginal contexts. It highlights how the hegemonic anthropologies have been accepted and assimilated in local contexts, which approaches have been privileged by institutions and academies in different locations, how the anthropological approach has been modelled and adapted according to specific knowledge requirements related to the cultural features of different areas, and which schools emerge as the most consolidated today. Each chapter presents a "cultural history" of one of the historical-cultural and geo-political contexts that influenced and produced the specific disciplinary traditions. The chapters highlight the local contributions to the discipline, the influences that the world centres have on the peripheries, but also the ways in which the peripheries have "learned from the centres" in order to re-elaborate meaningful or otherwise recognisable disciplinary lines.

Papachristophorou, Marilena, Performing Self in Ethnographic Fieldwork. 146 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <743-1247>
ISBN 978-3-031-77305-1 hard ¥25,164.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This provocative book presents a methodological proposal for teaching ethnographic fieldwork, applying interdisciplinary tools inspired from performance theory, acting, experiential anthropology and existential psychotherapy. At the same time, it constitutes a theoretical and methodological trajectory mapping the history of ethnographic fieldwork through highly characteristic moments along with the author's own personal journey in the field in terms of a lifetime project. Starting from the assumption that ethnographic fieldwork constitutes a deeply human experience, the book proposes a step further towards the performative dimension of an ethnographic condition inspired by the Stanislavski method, which in practice complements performance theory issues: it is argued that participant observation offers an intermediate identity for the ethnographer through a conscious management of the social "role" dictated by their research participants; this ethnographic mediation of the Self may also have psychotherapeutic effects, mainly through conscious management of self-diversity and reflexivity in ethnographic writing. Ethnographic fieldwork is thus highlighted as a performative stage and a field of deep transformations for the ethnographer's identity.

人類学の哲学
Rapport, Nigel (ed.), Anthropology's Philosophy: How Anthropology Makes Concepts its Own. (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology) 376 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <743-1248>
ISBN 978-3-031-83818-7 hard ¥36,604.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book focuses on anthropology's ambition for comprehensiveness and its interdisciplinary nature. It consists of concise essays, each around 2,500 words, in which contributors examine how concepts traditionally linked to philosophy or other disciplines are interpreted and applied within anthropology. Each contributor selects a personally inspiring concept and illustrates its relevance to anthropology, showcasing how it takes on new meaning within an anthropological framework. These essays vary in style and content, allowing contributors to discuss the history of the concept's usage, provide an ethnographic illustration of the concept, or offer an analytical, comparative or theoretical exposition of the concept as deployed anthropologically. A common theme across all entries is the exploration of anthropological disciplinarity - or 'anti-disciplinarity' - highlighting its intellectual flexibility and genre-blurring practices, in an effort to approach that expansiveness necessary to do justice to the complexity of human existence.

Williamson, Christine / Crook, Penny (eds.), Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tim Murray. (Outstanding Contributions to Archaeology) 280 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-1250>
ISBN 978-3-031-77101-9 hard ¥32,028.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This festschrift volume celebrates Tim Murray's significant and wide-ranging contribution to archaeological thought and practice. It includes 27 papers by Tim Murray's colleagues, research collaborators and students-former and current. Together these comprise a substantive and reflective contribution to Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Cultural Heritage in Australia, Oceania, China, India, the United Kingdom, Northern Europe, and North America. The collected papers in this volume tie together Murray's research into the history (or historiography) of archaeological thought, and his commitment to understanding the material culture of the past to 'write history'. They provide a cross-section of philosophical enquiries and substantive research: from epistemological studies of shared lexicons and important debates in the history of archaeological thought, to the minutae of material culture studies. Several papers explcitly and implicitly explore one of Murray's great interests: the role of heritage preservation in our exploration of the past, including dedicated tertiary training programs for Indigenous Australians to manage, research and protect their own Country. The book is divided into four parts: History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Heritage, offering an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the past. This volume would of interest to archaeologists, historians, philosophers of archaeology, and heritage scholars.

Guenther, Mathias, Mythology of the San Bushmen of Southern Africa. (World Mythology in Theory and Everyday Life) 328 pp. 2025:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <743-136>
ISBN 978-0-19-763434-9 hard ¥28,894.- (税込) US$ 132.00
ISBN 978-0-19-763435-6 paper ¥6,127.- (税込) US$ 27.99

Amongst the oldest continuing cultures on Earth, San Bushmen are indigenous peoples that make up the first nations of Southern Africa. San culture is rich in myth and lore, actively and expansively transmitted by storytellers. Mythology of the San Bushmen of Southern Africa gives an in-depth account of this fascinating mythology and its connections to the religion, social organization, and ecological adaptations of this erstwhile hunting-gathering people. Drawing on a rich trove of archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, and oral traditions of the San, Mathias Guenther reveals the ongoing connections and interactions between actual, experienced reality and virtual, imagined myth time in the mythology and cosmology of San Bushmen. Their myth time was an age of inchoateness and of becoming inhabited by morally flawed human-animal hybrid beings, a state of ambiguity that finds its fullest embodiment in the trickster figure. In addition to this being's persona as prankster-protagonist, the San Bushman trickster is also a god. While not unique in mythologies around the world, the configuration of this secular-sacred trickster-god figure is distinctive among the San, along with other conflations--of human with animal and woman/wife with antelope/meat. San Bushmen of Southern Africa is a significant contribution to hunter-gatherer studies and places San mythology firmly in the context of world mythology.

Chazan, Michael / Macdonald, Danielle / Patton, K. (eds.), Learning Archaeology: A Problem-Based Approach. 384 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-751>
ISBN 978-1-032-39063-5 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-39062-8 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Learning Archaeology is designed for undergraduate archaeology students, helping them develop interpretive skills in the classroom through problem-oriented, active learning exercises.This book brings together case studies drawn from real archaeological research so students can understand (and wrestle with) how archaeology is practiced, the kinds of questions that can be addressed with archaeological data (and its limits), and the often contested place of the discipline in the modern world. Experts working across the globe and on a variety of topics have written chapters addressing critical archaeological issues or questions using data and examples from their own research projects. Several chapters are co-authored by experienced practitioners working outside of the academy in archaeology and heritage-related fields, including Tribal or First Nations members. Importantly, each author or group of authors situates their archaeological problem within the social and political context of their practice. With ethical and socio-political considerations woven through each chapter, the book is structured into three sections, Excavation, Analytical Methods, and Archaeology in the Contemporary World and provides both a comprehensive view of archaeological method as well as an understanding the role that archaeological knowledge has in contemporary society.Learning Archaeology is for undergraduate archaeology students and suitable for use in introductory courses in archaeology.

Doyle, Laura / Gikandi, Simon / wa Githinji, Mwangi (eds.), Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place: Decolonial Reconstellations. Volume One. (Worlding Beyond the West) 298 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <742-753>
ISBN 978-1-032-84875-4 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume Two (Dissolving Master Narratives) and Volume Three (Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy), it gathers thinkers from across world regions and disciplines who reconfigure critical global thought. Collaboratively conceived, the volumes are founded on the observation that we cannot fully uproot the epistemological-material violence of coercive systems, nor fully (re)imagine more ethical visions of planetary community, without shared attention to the deeper histories of place and peoples that shape the present. Accordingly, the volumes gather social scientists and humanists, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, and intersectional and materialist thinkers who reconceptualize longue-duree history and its afterlives. They engage in the dual project to dismantle eurocentric, colonial, androcentric frameworks and to make visible the legacies of care and creative world-making that have sustained human communities. Uncovering pasts that are as complex and dynamic as the present, the contributors brilliantly transform notions of temporality, polity, conjuncture, resistance, and experimentation within histories of struggle and alliance. They richly decolonize political imaginaries. The co-editors' introductions articulate fresh frameworks of "deep place" and "deep time" freed from eurocentric modernity paradigms, indicating pathways toward decolonial collaboration and institutional change.Decolonial Reconstellations offers invaluable resources for researchers and teachers in decolonial, postcolonial, anti-colonial, and Indigenous studies, and will also strongly appeal to feminist, anti-racist, Marxist, and critical theory scholars across disciplines.

Jennings, Justin (ed.), Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives: A Global Perspective. 512 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <742-759>
ISBN 978-1-032-86552-2 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-85692-6 paper ¥10,293.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This volume brings together perspectives from different parts of the world that showcase the wide variety of practices, institutions, and ideologies that allowed for shared identities and coordinated actions across broad collectives. It shows that there are many ways that people can work together.How did the world's first large-scale collectives come into being? For much of our discipline's history, the answer was the state. People learned how to be part of a larger community via political, economic, and social scaffolding that tended to build from earlier ways of living in a region. This scaffolding was often wobbly and always under construction-its flexibility often a design strength rather than a flaw. This book demonstrate that violence and rulers often played pivotal roles in large-scale collectives, but so did gender complementarity, markets, ritual centers, fictive kinship, and egalitarianism. Earlier evolutionary approaches tended to obscure both the variability and malleability of earlier political forms in a desire to find ideal types hidden beneath cross-cultural noise. This volume's authors argue that this noise was politics-in-action and that there was no state, or other kind of polity, that was above the fray and divorced from the daily practices that brought people, animals, and other things together.A better understanding of early collective action strategies provides a richer understanding of past politics, and, just as importantly, demonstrates governance alternatives for our contemporary society that struggles to address climate change, pandemics, and other pressing challenges. This book will interest archaeologists and historians, as well as anyone who is curious about other ways that we can work together to solve common problems.

Keck, Frederic, Solidarity Between Species: Living with Animals Exposed to Pandemic Viruses. 240 pp. 2025:3 (Polity Pr., UK) <742-760>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6687-7 hard ¥15,312.- (税込) US$ 69.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-6688-4 paper ¥5,461.- (税込) US$ 24.95

This book examines how the Covid-19 pandemic can be described as a biopolitical crisis, taking into account a fact often overlooked by commentators: Covid-19 is a zoonosis, a disease transmissible between animal species. The Sars-Cov2 virus causing this respiratory disease circulated in bats before passing to humans under as-yet mysterious conditions, and it was transmitted from humans to other species, notably mink and deer. Building on Michel Foucault's revival of the term "biopolitics" and related notions (disciplinary power, pastoral power, cynegetic power), this book traces a set of public health measures taken over the last two centuries to control epidemics. It underlines how the need to conserve virus strains in order to identify and anticipate their mutations has given rise to cryopolitics, a set of techniques aimed at suspending the living in order to defer death. The book then questions the emancipatory scope of this cryopolitics by examining interspecies solidarity built by the warning signals sent by animals to humans about coming threats, be they pandemics, natural disasters, or climate change. By blurring the boundaries between the wild and the domestic resulting from the process of domestication, the politics of zoonoses relies on sentinels who preserve the memory of signs from the past to prepare living beings for future threats by involving them in a common ideal.

博物館と遺産教育ハンドブック
McColl, Margaret / Brown, Pete / Delaney, M. et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education. (Routledge Handbooks on Museums, Galleries and Heritage) 696 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-763>
ISBN 978-1-032-48098-5 hard ¥64,009.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education is a practical reference guide that shows how museums, galleries and heritage sites can offer opportunities for successful visitor engagement.Defining museums as all cultural sites that interpret collections and spaces for public education, understanding and enjoyment, this volume argues that museum education has a central role in the development of policies, practices, and research for engagement. Including contributions from experts across the globe, the volume shows how these sites can continue to offer unique opportunities for social, physical, emotional, and academic engagement that are much needed to inform and empower museum visitors internationally. It also demonstrates how museums, galleries and heritage sites can be utilised for the betterment and sustainability of our world and the societies we live in. Combining rich theory with innovative practice, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of museum and heritage education today.The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education will be of interest to academics, students and professionals who are based in the fields of Museum Education, Heritage, Adult and Community Education, Cultural Studies, Social Studies, Psychology and Tourism.

歴史考古学
Praetzellis, Adrian, Historical Archaeology in a Nutshell. 140 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <742-765>
ISBN 978-1-032-54146-4 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-50753-8 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Historical Archaeology in a Nutshell is a textbook for students studying historical archaeology for the first time.The book presents historical archaeology's contribution to understanding the world in a series of bite-sized, topic-specific, and intellectually contextualized chapters that do not presuppose much prior knowledge of archaeology. Each chapter covers a theme commonly explored by historical archaeologists such as identity, race and racialization, colonization and Indigenous peoples, diasporas and transnationalism, religion, and war. Chapters can be read in any order in about 30 minutes and show why and how archaeologists explore the topic. Each starts with something about ontology (why would anyone care about this topic?), explains the range of approaches archaeologists apply to it, presents a relevant case study that synthesizes method and theory, and concludes with some thought-provoking discussion questions. Using examples from around the world, the book supports historical archaeology as a global discipline.As supplementary reading in an introductory archaeology course or as one of the main texts in a course dedicated to historical archaeology, this book will provide students with a focused and easily comprehensible introduction to the subject.

フォークロアと神話を通じた人類学研究
Thompson, Tok / Wojcik, Daniel, Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology. 252 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-766>
ISBN 978-1-032-94217-9 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-94218-6 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology is a comprehensive textbook which examines how people around the world express themselves culturally, and how these practices and performances provide a window into the diversity of human culture.Using a genre-based approach, this book takes a globalized perspective and promotes intercultural exchange and understanding. It presents students with in-depth examples of a wide range of fascinating traditions, as well as the understanding of how such traditions are studied. In explicating key concepts and applying these to specific practices and performances, students are introduced to the fundamentals in the study of human culture and creativity. Topics include mythology, folktales, legends, dance, music, trance states, magic, the spirit world, internet folklore, festivals, street art, subcultural style, rituals, celebrations, and body art and tattoo traditions.Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology offers a fascinating introduction towards understanding global cultural diversity, and is an essential textbook for students making their first steps into the fields of folklore, mythology, anthropology, and cultural studies.

デジタル・エスノグラフィ研究－原理から実践へ
Underberg-Goode, Natalie / Otanez, Marty (eds.), Exploring Digital Ethnography: From Principles to Practice. 188 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <742-767>
ISBN 978-1-032-43697-5 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-43698-2 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Exploring Digital Ethnography: From Principles to Practice places digital ethnography within the context of the production of multimedia, multisensory "research-creation" pieces using a variety of methods, tools, and techniques.This book provides new insights into how digital tools and concepts can facilitate the deliberation process, while they can also be used to materialize knowledge in new ways that engage with audiences in more dynamic formats. Drawing on a series of case studies on digital and interactive storytelling, digital photography and video, fictional worldbuilding, autoethnographic cartooning and more, it demonstrates the potential of digital tools and concepts to reach new audiences and to illustrate new approaches to solving problems. The case studies presented draw, in part, on multiple elements of participatory digital archive and museum work, itself part of the larger field of participatory visual and digital methods.Exploring Digital Ethnography: From Principles to Practice will equip readers with new ways of producing knowledge, solving problems, engaging student learning, and communicating with the public. It will be a valuable text for researchers, educators, and students in digital ethnography and anthropology, as well as related fields.

Jallo, Zainabu, Diasporic Consciousness in the Material Culture of Brazilian Candomble. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) 208 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-80>
ISBN 978-1-032-48330-6 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book examines Candomble's material culture and its relationship with the evolving cultural politics of Brazil. It employs artefacts as analytical tools to trace the emergence of a diasporic consciousness. By tracing the movements of artefacts historically, the study reveals how Candomble has transitioned from a secluded sacred tradition marked by discrimination and persecution to inclusion in the construction of a new cultural character in Brazil.While maintaining its esoteric traditions and contending with ongoing discrimination, the Candomble sphere has evolved into a confluence of socio-religious and political features expressed in sacred and spectacular contexts. This research highlights the crucial role of artefacts in the various stages of Candomble's transformation. It demonstrates how diasporic communities progressively exercise political and cultural significance within new societal contexts. The book will be of interest to a broad audience, including scholars from anthropology, material culture studies, art history, history, and religious studies.

Manzella, Joseph C., Seeking Transcendence: The Quest for Spirituality in an Age of Detachment. 244 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <742-86>
ISBN 978-1-032-89456-0 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-89273-3 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Seeking Transcendence examines the various paths taken by those who have detached themselves from their traditional, institutional religious roots but are seeking non-traditional paths to spiritual experiences. Called the "nones" or non-affiliated in poplar mass media these include a significant number of Western folks who maintain a belief in God or at least consider themselves "spiritual but not religious."Each chapter of the book explores these trends with a specific theme, as well as a case study based upon the author's ethnographic observation of alternative spiritual communities and practices in North America and Western Europe.Ultimately, this book shows how contemporary alternatives to traditional, institutional religion appeal to nones, presenting the relevance of new religious movements and more secular spiritual paths to transcendence.

Gill, Harmandeep Kaur, Waiting at the Mountain Pass: Coming to Terms with Solitude, Decline, and Death in Tibetan Exile. (Contemporary Ethnography) 320 pp. 2025:3 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <742-491>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2736-1 hard ¥26,268.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5128-2735-4 paper ¥9,839.- (税込) US$ 44.95

An intimate meditation on aging and dying in exile among elderly Tibetans in Dharamsala, India In a Tibetan saying, the journey of life is likened to a climb up to a mountain pass. Upon reaching it, the journey concludes and one must cross over into death and the next rebirth. The impermanence of life-described by the Buddha as the nature of reality-crystallizes at the mountain pass, manifesting itself through the painful and arduous descent ahead and a series of sufferings. In this book, Harmandeep Kaur Gill offers an intimate meditation on the last part of the journey at the mountain pass through closely drawn portraits of elderly, exiled Tibetans who aged in Dharamsala, India, far away from their beloved homeland of Tibet, and often alone, in the absence of family. In Gill's work, the mountain pass represents a "borderland," an in-between world, where the elderly found themselves living at the crossroad between life and death, belonging fully to neither of them. It was a time-space where everyday life traversed between past and present, in darkness and light, and in dream and reality, as the elderly attempted to come to terms with the realities of their old age. By placing relational entanglements and sensations at the heart of its theorization, Waiting at the Mountain Pass foregrounds an embodied knowing that is care-ful, hesitant, and unresolved in its claims. Aiming to bridge the gap between ethics and epistemology, Gill invites the reader to see and listen in a relational and imaginative way where the other reflects back upon the self, making the assumed separations between subject and object blurry and unsettling. Through meditations on the interrelations of body and mind, society and individual, and the real and the imagined, Waiting at the Mountain Pass provides a sensorial and compassionate understanding of the singularities of life and death in a Tibetan Buddhist world in exile.

Kelly, Steven, A First Nations Perspective: Stories of Nanda Resilience as Told by Elders. 170 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-513>
ISBN 978-1-032-88242-0 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-88245-1 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book is an extrapolation of the research Kelly conducted for the doctoral thesis about his people's struggle to come to terms with native title claim processes, in which we are required to prove our connection to land, culture and kin.This book offers a compelling and profound journey of Nanda people's existence over time. It gives a robust understanding of the kinship and culture of my family group. It differs from others in the same field as it has been produced from an insider's perspective; it is about my family, who are of the Murchison region of Western Australia. The book presents the ways in which my family continues to hold strong connection to kin and Country through traditional practices that have survived and flourished, regardless of colonialism. This has been achieved through the privileging of my family's lived experiences and perceptions as told by Elders. In addition, Kelly focuses on the small details of our everyday lives to capture aspects of Country and kin. Further, his insider positioning is incorporated in a critically reflexive way, based on auto-ethnographic accounts. Each chapter of the book focuses on particular ideas that were developed over the course of the study. The research provides examples of the historical and contemporary struggle of this Nanda family group's survival and recognition as traditional owners in a native title claim. Particular themes were recurrent features in many of my conversations with Elders. The theme of identity, pertaining to how members of this family group identify with each other and with others, was consistent throughout the process and is based on the love and respect between family members.Readers interested in Australian history, cultural studies and Indigenous studies will appreciate this book.

McManus, Ruth / Blake, Denise / Thompson, Jessica, Death and Funeral Practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. (Routledge International Focus on Death and Funeral Practices) 148 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <742-514>
ISBN 978-0-367-75292-7 hard ¥14,746.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on the landscape and features of Aotearoa New Zealand that underpin its familiar, though country specific, ways of caring for the dead. It provides an account of diverse funerary practices that have taken shape through the various cultures that have settled here.In the backdrop of the colonising history of Aotearoa New Zealand, the book examines the complex legislative framework that separates Maori and non-Maori funerary legislation, and practices. Examining the mixed model of provision spanning municipal, commercial, and private organizations, the book outlines various aspects of funerals, such as the care of the body, funeral arrangements, costs, and what state support is available. It also delves into the two legal ways to manage the dead: burial or cremation, with cremation now the majority option. The book explores the numbers, ownership and locations of crematoria and cemeteries before identifying the new trends influencing death care including sustainability. It then looks at how death is memorialised in Aotearoa New Zealand, including in cemeteries, for war memorialisation and other public commemoration and memorialisation. This book will be of interest to the growing body of local authority planners, researchers and funeral professionals who must be responsive to and provide their services in complex multi-cultural contexts. As the scope of the book is historical and contemporary death practices, it will also appeal to social historians.

Fifi, Daniela (ed.), Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums. 136 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <742-582>
ISBN 978-1-032-49312-1 hard ¥14,746.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums examines the challenges faced within the field of Caribbean Museology. Museums are sites of heritage management and, within Caribbean contexts, essential spaces for examination of post-colonial relationships to past disenfranchisement.This book helps to identify strategies within museology that can inspire meaningful collective engagement with these histories. In the process, it also identifies the hurdles museums in the Caribbean face when telling stories of ancestral oppression. Each chapter presents a new case study, written by five different museum professionals and scholars fundamentally shaping conversations on cultural heritage spaces within the Caribbean and the diaspora of Caribbean nations. Using their observations the book coalesces an understanding of the specific limitations Caribbean cultural heritage spaces face and deploys new strategies for maximizing their engagement potential. The book contains six thematic chapters, with chapter written by Caribbean museology experts and scholars.Critical Issues in Caribbean Museums is for Museum Studies researchers and museum practitioners, especially those actively engaged in the process of preserving Caribbean cultural heritage, advancing museum development in the Caribbean or in other developing nations for future generations.

Ciobanu, Monica / Serban, Mihaela (eds.), Between the Memory and Post-Memory of Communism in Romania: Fluid Memories. (Memory Studies: Global Constellations) 312 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-681>
ISBN 978-1-032-55963-6 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The first of its kind, this book traces the construction of postmemory in post-communist Romania.Focusing on the processes, gaps, agents, and contradictions of postmemory, it examines a range of topics across a variety of disciplines, addressing questions of museums and musealization, law and memory, political trials and retrospective justice, and postmemory in a digital context, while also considering marginalized and forgotten voices, such as those of Roma populations and abandoned children. Moving away from a focus on the institutional mechanisms of transitional justice or officially sanctioned historical narratives, Between the Memory and Post-Memory of Communism in Romania brings together some of the leading voices in the field of memory studies in Romania to adopt a more pluralistic and diverse approach to the communist past.It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, museum studies and history with interests in the communist period in Eastern Europe.

Eller, Jack David, Apisteology: The Study of Not-Believing. 238 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-72>
ISBN 978-1-041-04636-3 hard ¥37,570.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-041-04635-6 paper ¥10,293.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book unites the burgeoning scholarly literature on not-believing in various disciplines into a proposed new field of apisteology. It demonstrates that not-believing-like not-knowing-is a worthy and distinct subject and not merely a vacuum where belief (like knowledge) is lacking. Several contemporary issues appear repeatedly in the book, such as conspiracy theories, vaccine skepticism, climate change denial, and fake news. Each chapter begins with a vignette on one of these topics and ends with a section looking ahead to which certain disciplinary approaches to not-believing can tell us. Not only does this format allow us to consider how not-believing is pervasive and distinct, but also allows us to consider what apisteology as a distinct field of study brings to the table. Ultimately, the book's consistent appeals to the constructed quality of not-believing, to the trust and commitment dimensions of not-believing, and ultimately to the critique of "truth" as the central or only interest in "belief" make it key reading for scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities.

ヒトの骨格－基礎
Byers, Steven N., The Human Skeleton: The Basics. (The Basics) 196 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-30>
ISBN 978-1-032-78454-0 hard ¥37,570.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-032-77261-5 paper ¥5,284.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99

The Human Skeleton: The Basics provides an accessible overview of the basic characteristics of the human skeleton that can be used to understand the life and (sometimes) death of persons represented only by their skeletons. Topics covered include: Osteology (bones) and Odontology (teeth) Estimating Ancestry, Sex, and Age at Death Calculating Stature Skeletal Anomalies Cultural Modifications, e.g. cranial and dental Pathological conditions, e.g. disease, trauma, etc.The Human Skeleton: The Basics is an essential read for students, faculty, and professionals in anthropology, biology, forensics, and criminal justice.

Doyle, Laura / Gikandi, Simon / wa Githinji, Mwangi (eds.), Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy: Decolonial Reconstellations. Volume Three. (Worlding Beyond the West) 272 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <742-102>
ISBN 978-1-032-84884-6 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Reconceiving Identities in Political Economy comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations. Together with Volume One (Dynamics of Deep Time and Deep Place) and Volume Two (Dissolving Master Narratives), it gathers thinkers from across world regions and disciplines who reconfigure critical global thought. Collaboratively conceived, the volumes are founded on the observation that we cannot fully uproot the epistemological-material violence of coercive systems, nor fully (re)imagine more ethical visions of planetary community, without shared attention to the deeper histories of place and peoples that shape the present. Accordingly, the volumes gather social scientists and humanists, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, and intersectional and materialist thinkers who reconceptualize longue-duree history and its afterlives. They engage in the dual project to dismantle eurocentric, colonial, androcentric frameworks and to make visible the legacies of care and creative world-making that have sustained human communities. Uncovering pasts that are as complex and dynamic as the present, the contributors brilliantly transform notions of temporality, polity, conjuncture, resistance, and experimentation within histories of struggle and alliance. They richly decolonize political imaginaries. The co-editors' introductions articulate fresh frameworks of "deep place" and "deep time" freed from eurocentric modernity paradigms, indicating pathways toward decolonial collaboration and institutional change.Decolonial Reconstellations offers invaluable resources for researchers and teachers in decolonial, postcolonial, anti-colonial, and Indigenous studies, and will also strongly appeal to feminist, anti-racist, Marxist, and critical theory scholars across disciplines.

Dimitrova, Diana (ed.), Mythologizing in South Asian Traditions: Myth, Gender, Power, and Politics. 234 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <741-969>
ISBN 978-3-031-76829-3 hard ¥36,604.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book deals with the issue of mythologizing in South Asian traditions. It brings together a number of essays dealing with the interface between mythology, gender, politics, and nationalism. The common thread that links the chapters is the appropriation and reinterpretation of myth, and its weaponizing for the purpose of power or political gain. All chapters explore the various aspects of the ongoing process of re-mythologizing of the present, as revealed in South Asian traditions. The essays in this collection respond to the same question: how to interpret the present? What is the meaning of ancient and venerated myths today? What are the ideological implications of the interpretation of myths and how do they reflect and influence the power structures of contemporary societies in South Asia?

不平等の形態とガバナンスの正当性　第1巻
Pardo, Italo / Prato, Giuliana B. (eds.), Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance: Volume One. (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology) 260 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <741-1060>
ISBN 978-3-031-78606-8 hard ¥34,316.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This edited volume uses ethnographic cases to examine social, political, and economic inequality in diverse urban settings. This book is couched in the idea that ethnographically based analysis helps to bring out the nature and interconnections between different forms of inequality and sheds light on the major forces that combine to create inequalities. Ethnography also helps to identify the dynamics that undergird the principle of freedom of thought and of action-a key principle, that is, of associated life in a democracy-and recognize empirically that these dynamics not only protect difference but increase it, for they underpin the freedom of the individual to use their talents to manage their lives and achieve their goals. This first volume in a two-part series focuses on legitimacy, governance, labour and urban change, and stereotypes and individual choice. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in sociocultural anthropology, sociology, politics, socio-legal studies, urban change, and education.

不平等の形態とガバナンスの正当性　第2巻
Pardo, Italo / Prato, Giuliana B. (eds.), Forms of Inequality and the Legitimacy of Governance: Volume Two. (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology) 236 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <741-1061>
ISBN 978-3-031-78693-8 hard ¥34,316.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This edited volume uses ethnographic cases to examine social, political, and economic inequality in diverse urban settings. This book is couched in the idea that ethnographically-based analysis helps to bring out the nature and interconnections between different forms of inequality and sheds light on the major forces that combine to create inequalities. Ethnography also helps to identify the dynamics that undergird the principle of freedom of thought and of action - a key principle, that is, of associated life in a democracy - and recognize empirically that these dynamics not only protects difference but increase it, for they underpin the freedom of the individual to use their talents to manage their lives and achieve their goals. This second volume in a two-part series focuses on housing and residential patterns, development and urban regeneration, and education. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in sociocultural anthropology, sociology, politics, socio-legal studies, urban change, education.

Kacandes, Irene (ed.), Humanities for Humans: Clear Thinking on Challenging Issues. 240 S. 2025:2 (de Gruyter, GW) <741-1131>
ISBN 978-3-11-152852-6 paper ¥9,139.- (税込) EUR 39.95

Can the academic humanities serve the general public to address the critical challenges we all face today? This unusual volume builds on the conversation series "Humanities for Humans," curated by Irene Kacandes and funded by the De Gruyter Foundation and the New York nonprofit 1014: Space for Ideas to answer this question in the affirmative. By asking some of the smartest academics in North America to think aloud in clear language on topics like racism, migration, inequality, sustainability, building connection and working toward repair of our communities, this book demonstrates the ultimate value of the imagination in solving seemingly intractable problems. The authors define and distinguish. They offer historical context and concrete examples from North and South America, from Europe, from indigenous cultures, from artists and ordinary folk. By also sharing about their own personal trajectories, these authors demonstrate not only the value of training in the humanities fields, but also that top scholars are indeed human like the rest of us.

Stiefel, Barry, Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples. (Landscape and Heritage Studies) 332 pp. 2025:2 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <741-1174>
ISBN 978-90-485-6275-6 hard ¥34,230.- (税込) GB￡ 123.00

Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples explores a more inclusive history of the preservation of public historic sites. At a time when some Americans have embraced white nationalism in response to unfolding demographic changes and others celebrate individual identities over all else, an inclusive, tolerant, and unifying historical vision is sorely needed. While past preservation efforts often sought to provide exclusionary forms of historical inspiration, that need not be the case going forward. Bringing greater attention to the diverse heritage of the United States will not only help dismantle the lingering remnants of exclusionary and elitist narratives but also celebrate a pluralistic and diverse past and present. An inclusive, empowering history can provide social cohesion while also allowing room for individual groups to have authority over their pasts and their representation in public, side-by-side with one another.

Mahajan, Nidhi, Moorings: Voyages of Capital across the Indian Ocean. 262 pp. 2025:6 (U. California Pr., US) <740-846>
ISBN 978-0-520-41351-1 paper ¥7,650.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Moorings follows sailors from the Gulf of Kachchh in India as they voyage across the ocean on mechanized wooden sailing vessels known as vahans, or dhows. These voyages produce capital through moorings that are spatial, moral, material, and conceptual. With a view from the dhow, the book examines the social worlds of Muslim seafarers who have been rendered invisible even as they maneuver multiple regulatory regimes and the exigencies of life, navigating colonialism, neoliberalism, the rise of Hindutva, insurgency, climate change, and border regimes across the Indian Ocean. Based on historical and ethnographic research aboard ships, at ports and religious shrines, and in homes, Moorings shows how capitalism derives value from historically sedimented practices grounded in caste, gender, and transregional community-based forms of regulation.

Blazquez, Adele, Dawn Rose on a Dead Body: Armed Violence and Poppy Farming in Mexico. Tr. by H. W. Randolph. (California Series in Public Anthropology) 328 pp. 2025:3 (U. California Pr., US) <740-917>
ISBN 978-0-520-40525-7 hard ¥20,795.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-40526-4 paper ¥6,556.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Featured prominently in the Netflix series Narcos, Badiraguato is known as the birthplace of Mexico's most notorious criminals, from Caro Quintero to "El Chapo." But in this rural community in the Sinaloa sierra, what is the daily life of those invisible in the criminal fresco, who live in this jobless region, grow a tiny patch of poppies, run a grocery store, or hold a position in the local government? Who are the poppy farmers, caught between military repression and exploitation by those who buy their crops? What does it mean to be a woman in a place where men's violence looms? How can people make sense of the killings that punctuate daily life? This sensitive ethnography lifts the veil on a marginalized territory that is the downside of our globalized economy; an ethnography that confronts us with the uncertainty that reigns when, once again, "Dawn rose on a dead body."

Jacobs, Lara A. (ed.), Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge. 464 pp. 2025:3 (Oregon State U. Pr., US) <740-950>
ISBN 978-1-962645-32-4 paper ¥8,745.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Protevi, John, Regimes of Violence: Toward a Political Anthropology. 256 pp. 2025:3 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <740-724>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1874-3 hard ¥24,516.- (税込) US$ 112.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1875-0 paper ¥6,129.- (税込) US$ 28.00

A wide-ranging examination of the roots-and possible future-of violence in human societies Is aggression inevitable among humans? In Regimes of Violence, John Protevi explores how human violence originates and exists in our societies. Taking humans as biocultural (that is, our social practices shape our bodies and minds), he shows how aggression does not arrive from any purely biological predisposition but rather occurs only in social regimes of violence that, by manipulating the ways in which culture can shape our biological inheritance of rage and aggression, condition the forms of violence able to be expressed at any one time. Offering detailed insights into human aggression throughout history, Protevi's analysis ranges from evolutionary psychology to affective ideology and finally to an alternate politics of joy. He examines a wide range of seemingly disparate topics, such as cooperation between early nomadic foragers, organized sports, berserkers and blackout rages, the experiences of maroons escaping slavery, the January 6 invasion of the United States Capitol building, and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. As he entwines the philosophical with the anthropological, he asks readers to consider why humans' capacity for cooperation and sharing is so persistently overlooked by stories that focus on aggression and warfare. Regimes of Violence is an important contribution to studies of Deleuze and Guattari, uniquely combining cutting-edge investigations in psychology, history, evolutionary theory, cultural anthropology, and philosophy to examine the "political philosophy of the mind." Presenting to readers a refreshingly optimistic perspective, Protevi demonstrates that we are not doomed to war and argues that humans can build a world based on antifascism, joy, and mutual empowerment.

Jerne, Christina, Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism. 248 pp. 2025:7 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <740-208>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1605-3 hard ¥23,641.- (税込) US$ 108.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1606-0 paper ¥5,910.- (税込) US$ 27.00

Defying the mafia with everyday acts of resistance For more than 150 years, Italy has been home to a resilient and evolving resistance against the pervasive influence of mafias. While these criminal organizations are renowned for their vast international business enterprises, the collective actions taken to oppose them are less known. In Opposition by Imitation, Christina Jerne explores anti-mafia activism, revealing how ordinary people resist, counter, and prevent criminal economies from proliferating. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among anti-mafia alliances in Campania, Sicily, and elsewhere, Jerne details a particular aspect of mafia activities: providing cash relief and other forms of patronage to individuals and groups. Her research shows how activism has evolved to imitate this sustaining role. Activists are increasingly challenging mafia control both by creating alternative economies-from producing food that interrupts mafia labor practices to organizing tourism that supports anti-mafia hospitality-and by subversively adopting business tactics similar to the mafia's to compete with their social influence and legitimacy. Exposing the political implications of this mimetic opposition, Jerne points to its potential impact on crime prevention and criminalization, both in Italy and globally. Opposition by Imitation shows how these modern-day Robin Hoods are redefining collective action, taking what was controlled by the mafias and returning it to the collective. This contentious economic turn, against the backdrop of broader social movements, reveals significant political possibilities afforded by imitative opposition. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

Finnegan, Ruth, The Strange Tools of Human Communication: The Voice, the Pen, and the Lyre. 274 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <740-1016>
ISBN 978-1-032-80216-9 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-79904-9 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

The Strange Tools of Human Communication: The Voice, the Pen, and the Lyre is a thought-provoking exploration of the everyday tools of communication that weaves together history, art, and science to reveal how the voice, hand, and mind shape our shared experiences.Through a blend of scholarly research, personal insights, and field experiences-from the oral tales of Sierra Leone's Limba storytellers to ancient cave art and modern iconography-this book offers fresh perspectives on how we connect across time and cultures. Challenging the idea that spoken language alone defines humanity, it emphasises the crucial role of hands, gestures, and artistic forms as the foundation of human communication. Readers are invited to consider the possibility of an ancestral, shared consciousness and the mysterious similarities in ancient art worldwide. Through vivid examples and personal insights, the book redefines communication as a blend of conscious expression and subconscious influence, inviting readers to consider the hidden connections that unite us across cultures and time, and to contemplate the future of communication.The Strange Tools of Human Communication is an ideal supplement to upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural anthropology, sociocultural linguistics, and cultural studies.

Wood, Barbara, Heritage, Authority and Power: Understanding Theory Through Practice. (Routledge Studies in Heritage) 248 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-1098>
ISBN 978-1-032-69043-8 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Heritage, Authority and Power examines who holds power and authority in heritage, the connection with specialist knowledge, and what the shifting nature of these attributes means for concepts of authenticity.Drawing on interviews with practitioners working across the heritage sector, Wood explores why in some organisations staff feel disempowered, but in others they thrive. In exploring the worked experience of practitioners, a new model emerges for understanding the sector that recognises the differences between the activity of heritage and the work of professional practice. The model demonstrates that the sector is unknowingly operating with two different purposes: the activity of heritage, generated by and from, the collections of the past, is inventive, creative and entertaining, but operates for contemporary need and interest. The work of professional practice, meanwhile, although supporting and enabling the work of heritage, is fundamentally concerned with long-term collection development and conservation. In recognising and embracing these differences, the function of specialist practice in relation to curatorship can be appreciated, but so too can the contribution of supporting specialisms, such as education, outreach, community engagement and design. The model presented within the book subsequently offers a more efficient and effective, forward-looking way to think about funding, organising and managing these two areas separately - but also in active partnership.Heritage, Authority and Power is situated in the space between academia and practice and is useful for students, practitioners, and for anyone interested, managing or working in heritage. It will be particularly relevant to academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, museums, tourism and visitor experience, and public history.

Aveni, Anthony, Aliens Like Us?: An Anthropologist's Field Guide to Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life. 272 pp. 2025:3 (High Road Books, US) <740-1121>
ISBN 978-0-8263-6742-6 hard ¥6,118.- (税込) US$ 27.95

Hanks, Michele, Doubting Ghosts: Paranormal Investigation and the Paradoxes of Belief. 216 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-1124>
ISBN 978-1-032-73452-1 hard ¥40,353.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-65578-9 paper ¥11,128.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Based on Ethnographic research in England, Doubting Ghosts explores the paradoxes faced by paranormal investigators or 'ghost hunters': in spite of spending significant time observing and documenting what they suspect to be paranormal phenomena - in a scientific, secular and rational fashion - many paranormal investigators remain skeptical about the existence of the paranormal. What, then, does it mean to regularly see ghosts and yet to not believe ghosts are real?Examining the manner in which the scientific approach adopted by investigators produces profound doubts about the existence of the paranormal, the meaning of science, and the nature of modernity, the author demonstrates that doubt itself is central to experiences of secularity and that doubt can constitute a foundation for long-term engagements with the paranormal. Thus, paranormal investigators are able to sustain a relationship, albeit an uneasy one, with the paranormal while maintaining a commitment to a scientific, secular, and rational worldview.A contribution to understandings of doubt, science, religion, and disenchantment, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology.