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

Lynnette, Arnold / Guzman, J. R. / Avera, E. et al. (eds.), Language and Health in Action. 256 pp. 2025:12 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <753-506>
ISBN 978-0-19-893391-5 hard ¥28,640.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-893392-2 paper ¥10,125.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00

Health and wellbeing are profoundly shaped by communication processes. Language and Health in Action explores these interconnections by bringing together cutting-edge global scholarship from linguistic and medical anthropology. The book highlights the centrality of language practices and language ideologies in how professionals, individuals, families, and communities navigate illness and pursue health across the lifecourse, in clinical contexts, and beyond. Each chapter includes immersive examples from qualitative and ethnographic research, captured in clear and accessible prose. The volume includes a breadth of perspectives on public and global health that include topics such as infectious disease and chronic illness, mental health and addiction, disability, dying, and healing. Contributions shed light on urban and rural settings and the experiences of immigrants, indigenous communities, and other racialized populations. Chapters profile research conducted in Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, South Korea, Mexico, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United States. The book is organized into five thematic sections: clinical interaction, language access, community and communicability, language and environment, and healing practices. To support student readers and instructors, the book begins with an introduction to key terms in social scientific approaches to language and health, and each chapter includes a series of discussion and reflection questions. The volume demonstrates that linguistic and communicative practices, which are often taken for granted, nevertheless have far-reaching consequences for health outcomes.

Zhang, Liming, Ethnography of Religious Beliefs and Social Orders in Ethnic Areas. 199 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-234>
ISBN 978-981-9616-16-9 hard ¥29,696.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book presents a fascinating study of the religion of minority groups living in rural areas in Yunnan province in the early twenty-first century and how they use religious rituals to show their own nationality and spiritual culture. By exploring these minority groups, e.g., the Dai, Bulang, and De'ang, the book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship between religion and social functions and of the ways in which globalization and modernity are experienced at the most personal level. It provides valuable insights into how minority people negotiate sacred /secular demands and requirements, how they experience a sense of satisfaction and comfort in Buddhist temples, and how that experience shapes their sense of identity, worldview, values, and relations with others. In closing, the book gives a voice to the experiences of Buddhists, who are one of the most important-and yet least visible-signs of religion freedom in China's reform processes. It offers a unique guide for all readers, who are interesting in oriental studies, and an ideal reference book for Anthropology and Buddhism courses at colleges and universities.

Kaneff, Deema, Resources and Everyday Conflicts in Rural Ukraine: Theorizing Social Change. 300 pp. 2025:12 (U. Pittsburgh Pr., US) <753-1640>
ISBN 978-0-8229-4877-3 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-0-8229-6773-6 paper ¥7,392.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Social change is a topic of central interest in the social sciences. The upheavals and reforms that swept across former socialist states in Eurasia offer a rich array of case studies to deepen our understanding of this phenomenon. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in an ethnically Bulgarian community in rural Ukraine, Kaneff uniquely brings to light a range of hidden conflicts and everyday tensions, as well as new alliances and solidarities resulting from the redistribution of resources following Ukrainian independence. A focus on five key resources provides a means to explore the way in which relationships have been contested and renegotiated in this small community, with implications that go far beyond those boundaries.

de Cesari, Chiara / Modest, Wayne / Pagliuca Pelacani, M., Decolonizing the Museum: Art, Activism and the Question of Race in Curation. (Museums in Focus) 144 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <753-1684>
ISBN 978-1-032-41159-0 hard ¥15,329.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

This book asks what it means to decolonize museums in theory and practice. It explores recent calls by activists and artists for social change in and through museums, and how museums have responded to these calls and interventions.The point of departure for this volume are the burgeoning global debates around racism that have compelled many museums and public institutions to confront their complicity in colonialism, both past and present. Building on interviews with curators, cultural practitioners, artists and activists, as well as the authors' ongoing involvement with movements aimed at decolonising museums, this volume explores how anti-racist activism and artivism have transformed museums, as well as the broader social and political significance of these transformations. The book focuses on the practices, approaches, and strategies that are being adopted in efforts to decolonize museums and cultural institutions; where they succeed and fail; and the similarities and differences between these initiatives. It discusses specific exhibitions and whether they represent colonialism as past phenomenon or as enduring racial logics forcefully shaping the present. It analyzes both mainstream European museums as well as grassroots, museum-like initiatives that aim to reckon with colonialism and race in different contexts. Core to the argument is the issue of how memory, heritage and museum studies, the disciplines that explore, explain and staff museums, have engaged or not with race.Decolonizing the Museum will be valuable for those studying or researching in the fields of Museum Studies, Heritage, Memory and Art Studies, Decolonial theory, Postcolonialism, Race and Racism, and Cultural Politics. Providing an important window into the political role of curators, the politics of race in transforming museums, it will also be beneficial to museum practitioners as well as activists and artists with a stake in these institutions.

Bender, Margaret / Belt, Thomas N., The New Voice of God: Language, Worldview, and the Cherokee Bible. 190 pp. 2025:7 (U. Oklahoma Pr., US) <753-170>
ISBN 978-0-8061-9542-1 hard ¥9,504.- (税込) US$ 45.00

For Christian European missionaries among the Cherokees at the turn of the eighteenth century, translating the Bible meant wrestling with the extreme structural differences between Cherokee and English. The New Voice of God reveals how these linguistic differences encoded basic predispositions and orientations toward the physical, spiritual, and social worlds- and how their translation in turn encodes the profound linguistic and cultural exchange manifested in the making of the Cherokee Bible. While the introduction of Christianity shaped Cherokee communicative practices and culture, the Cherokee language also reshaped the Bible to reflect a definitive Native worldview. Focusing on three books of the Cherokee Bible - Genesis, John, and Matthew - Margaret Bender and Thomas N. Belt demonstrate how Christianity, written in and on Cherokee terms, can be uniquely and distinctly Cherokee, while remaining undeniably Christian. For example, Cherokee's rich and complex grammar work against English's noun-centeredness, yielding creative approximations of European objects as conditions and essences as events. Cherokee's radically different pronoun structure includes the reader in Biblical conversation in surprising ways. The authors also explain the relevance of the Cherokee Indigenous writing system - invented by Sequoyah, a non-Christian native speaker - to the complex spiritual landscape of the nineteenth century. Their analysis suggests that the Cherokee Bible records this cross-cultural encounter at a deep philosophical level, providing evidence that microlinguistic detail powerfully and intricately reflects macrosociological phenomena. In showing how Cherokee Christians ingeniously adapted Christian practices to create unique social and spiritual identities, The New Voice of God documents how this adaptation - manifest in the translation of Christian texts into Cherokee - not only bridged two vastly different languages but also exposed deep philosophical differences, challenging Western cultural norms and reshaping spiritual discourse.

Matias, Jo Zalea / Scheyhing, Nicola et al. (eds.), Diversity in Visual Representations of the Past: Representation Matters. (Themes in Contemporary Archaeology) 110 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-1712>
ISBN 978-3-031-98240-8 hard ¥27,221.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This volume presents an overview of the diversity - or lack thereof - in visual representations of the European past that are found in archaeology, museums, and media. While publications discussing gender stereotypes in European archaeological media exist, other identities remain underrepresented - namely, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), those with visible and invisible disabilities, and very young and very old. This volume offers insight into these gaps in European media and archaeology, while also providing alternative explanations for interpreting these often-stereotyped identities and methodologies for inclusion. The chapters within this volume are divided into four themes.Themes cover the development of images of the past and discusses how images are chosen in museums. The book identifies who is missing in images of the past, with topics on representing individuals with disabilities/children in museums, the Other in Roman art, and Scythians in museums and books and critiques approaches to representation and diversity in media, such as in textbooks, popular media, and children's books. Finally, the book challenges the lack of diversity and a proliferation of stereotypes in images of the past and asks, how do we improve on them and create new ones. Overall, this book addresses the need for diversity in images, both within academic archaeology and with the broader public.

デジタル・エスノグラフィの実践
Proctor, Devin (ed.), Practicing Digital Ethnography. 376 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <753-1724>
ISBN 978-1-032-67264-9 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-66042-4 paper ¥10,122.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

Practicing Digital Ethnography offers a comprehensive introduction to the essential methods, concepts, and practices of conducting ethnographic research in digital environments.Written by sixty global contributors across twelve chapters with accompanying case studies and concept explorations, this book provides both theoretical foundations and practical guidance for digital ethnographic work. It covers research approaches for diverse digital contexts including social media, virtual spaces, video games, and hybrid physical-technological settings, while addressing the deployment of tools like artificial intelligence, big data, mapping technologies, and multimodal methodologies. The book examines ethical challenges specific to digital research environments while maintaining a commitment to reflexive, co-present research that acknowledges how our interactions with digital technologies transcend boundaries of citizenship, race, gender identity, age, and ability.Practicing Digital Ethnography is ideal for students and researchers in anthropology, media studies, science and technology studies, and communications who seek to understand contemporary hyper-mediated environments, as well as professionals outside academia who need practical, accessible guidance for conducting rigorous digital research.

Augereau, Anne / Darmangeat, Christophe (eds.), The Archaeological Challenge of Gender. 176 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <753-1774>
ISBN 978-1-041-14636-0 hard ¥15,329.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

The Archaeological Challenge of Gender asks, what do we know about the relations between men and women in past societies, and on what basis is this knowledge built? Although sources of data are meagre and often indirect, this book plays particular attention to exploring gender relations in a way that acknowledges its complexity. Contributors show how difficult questions on gender relationships in past societies are, avoiding preconceived ideas and naive reasoning. The book starts with a grounding introduction that takes readers through questions such as: what is gender archaeology? What are its objectives and methods, but also its shortcomings and dead ends? How can social anthropology contribute to our knowledge of the gender relations of disappeared societies? In what way have these real or, more often, supposed gender relations been put at the service of a discourse on the present society? Chapters then tackle specific themes using case studies from around the globe that highlight common issues, controversy and methodological problems. Taking a critical approach and addressing the way knowledge is constructed in this field, this book is for students and researchers in Archaeology, Anthropology and Gender Studies.

Foxworth, Raymond / Boulding, Carew / Maddison, S. (eds.), Racism and Resentment in Indigenous-Settler Relations: Lessons from the Voice. (Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World) 148 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-1779>
ISBN 978-3-031-95271-5 hard ¥29,696.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book looks at deep-seated elements of racism in Indigenous-settler relations through detailed analyses of the October 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia and its outcome---and discusses what might come next. The Voice to Parliament referendum proposed a constitutional amendment to create an Indigenous advisory body in the Australian Parliament. The referendum met with a resounding defeat. Against this background, the book analyses survey results during the referendum that asked direct questions about attitudes towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as well as about policies and issues important to many Indigenous peoples. It situates Australia's experience in this election with other research on attitudes towards Indigenous peoples, rights, and policy issues. The book also interrogates another major survey in the lead-up to the referendum, questioning those findings in relation to racism. It looks at possible learnings for the social sciences about Indigenous politics and examines the ways in which Australian settler nationalism created obstacles to the referendum's success and considers the limits of deliberation for Indigenous political claims.

人類学とAI
Koycheva, Lora / VandenBroek, Angela K. / Artz, Matt (eds.), Anthropology and AI. (Anthropology of Now) 276 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <753-1781>
ISBN 978-1-032-87464-7 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-86619-2 paper ¥10,700.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

Anthropology and AI explores the complex intersection of artificial intelligence and human society through a diverse collection of anthropological and social scientific perspectives.Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating and permeating the everyday lives of people around the world in ways that are full of promise, perils, and potentials. How does anthropology respond to this? This timely volume brings together twelve carefully curated chapters examining AI's many manifestations-from machine listening and engineers' philosophies to large language models and conversational agents. Curated with a broad humanistic and social scientific audience in mind but firmly rooted within broader anthropological and STS conversations about humanity and technology, the contributions are situated on a broad spectrum of approaches to artificial intelligence, spanning theoretical, empirical, and applied social scientific research.Anthropology and AI will appeal to students and researchers across anthropology, science and technology studies, digital humanities, and computer science who are interested in critical perspectives on emerging technologies.

Modest, Wayne / Pels, Peter (eds.), Museum Temporalities: Time, History and the Future of the Ethnographic Museum. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums) 336 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <753-1784>
ISBN 978-1-350-10314-6 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Museum Temporalities analyzes how museums relate to time. It explores the hidden temporal assumptions and practices that define museums. How might these assumptions help us to better understand and address museums' often problematic and painful relationship to a colonial past? Since the nineteenth century, the globalization of the museum has spread specific understandings of permanence and temporariness that inform museum display, separated the modern from the traditional, and promoted preservation and development in ways that tacitly assume a North Atlantic cultural outlook as the end point of history and the standard that determines a hierarchy of science, art, technology, craft and natural history. Questioning linear and epochal genealogies that assume Enlightenment surveys of the classifiable universe as the origin of the museum, Modest and Pels present evidence that global exhibitionary complexes will fail to sufficiently address questions of decolonization and restitution if they do not make room for the ethnographic museum as a principal site where suggestions for the future of all museums can be generated. They show that any attempt to address the problematic and painful relationship that museums have to colonial pasts requires them to reorient their relationship to time. The volume assembles building blocks for a theory and practice of museums that no longer assumes the need for identities, objects and collections to be permanent, for the museum to be the end-point of knowledge, and for 'art' or 'science' to be the universal measure to which other forms of cultural production can only aspire. This path-breaking collection centralizes and develops current concerns in critical museology and is valuable reading for scholars and students of museum studies, anthropology, heritage studies, and material culture.

Nadel, Dani / Bar-Oz, Guy / Malkinson, Dan / Bement, Leland, Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America: The Silent Testimony of Communal Game Traps. 416 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <753-1785>
ISBN 978-1-032-77451-0 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America explores communal game traps for harvesting ungulate herds in two continents, utilizing a comparative approach addressing settings, species and the hunters' societies.The kites of Southwest Asia have been known to archaeologists for almost 100 years but with the advent of high-resolution satellite images thousands of sites have been found. Using the rich data from the Southwest and Central Asia and North America, this book addresses some of the important questions which arise concerning the social, economic and environmental implications of ancient and recent use of large game traps. The book has four major parts. The first introduces the book and reviews the evolution of human hunting. The second part presents examples of desert kites from various areas of Southwest and Central Asia. Detailed case studies are included that use a variety of evidence such as aerial surveys, field surveys, excavations, eye witnesses accounts and petroglyph depictions. Environmental and geographical settings of the isolated traps, the clusters of traps and the long chains are explored to provide conceptual models regarding past herd behavior and their seasonal migrations. The third part presents examples of communal game traps in various regions in North America, addressing the same issues discussed in the second part. The fourth part provides a comparative study of game traps in North America with the kites of Southwest Asia, focusing on the settings, species and social organization of the hunters.With the research on communal game traps increasing rapidly, this book provides the first inclusive synthesis on the subject and is for archaeologists, anthropologists, zoologists, ecologists and environmentalists who are interested in past interactions between humans and their environments, and the impact of past human communities on the landscape and on target game populations, as well as the consequences that are still relevant today.

Nag, Debanjana / Kusum (eds.), Tribal Knowledge Systems: Tracing the Roots. 250 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <753-1786>
ISBN 978-1-041-15067-1 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book delineates tribal knowledge systems and emphasizes their multidisciplinary nature. It describes their different components such as the science behind tribal art and architecture, medicinal and healing systems, agricultural and nutritional aspects, ways of human-nature coherence etc. It highlights the importance of preservation and promotion of these knowledge systems to create a sustainable world.The book explains the structure and functions of tribal knowledge systems that has the potential to create a balance between nature and development. It describes the various approaches to traditional lifestyles and the conversion of those approaches into modern science and technology-based theories. It also outlines the policy framework developed by the Government and the suite of legal instruments for preserving and promoting these knowledge systems in more scientific and applicable ways.This book will be useful to the students, researchers, and academicians working on tribal studies, indigenous knowledge systems, anthropology, sociology, tribal studies, development studies, cultural studies, and human/cultural and social geography.

Stuart, David E., Ancient Women Gardeners: Prelude to the Chacoan World. (New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest) 232 pp. 2025:10 (U. New Mexico Pr., US) <753-1789>
ISBN 978-0-8263-6846-1 hard ¥15,840.- (税込) US$ 75.00
ISBN 978-0-8263-6847-8 paper ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95

A wholly new perspective on the importance of gardens and agriculture on the Chacoan world, establishing the female dominated gardeners as the basis of Chacoan culture. Author David E. Stuart digs beyond the standard archaeological examination of structures, tools, and rituals of the age to provide a more rounded view of this remarkable culture. An original look at the gardens and gardeners of the Chacoan World, internationally acclaimed ethno-anthropologist David E. Stuart's Ancient Women Gardeners: Prelude to the Chacoan World explores the ecological, demographic, and human dynamics that led to Chaco's rise and fall from its early beginnings in the 500s AD to its decline during the 1100s AD. The Chacoan system represents North America's earliest form of an emergent urban ecology. From its outset, Chacoan farm nodes consisted of widely scattered clusters of gardens connected by roads, way stations, and district granaries. Chaco's women gardeners fueled powerful growth that was eventually aborted as unforeseen dynamics barred the path to long-term sustainability. Stuart considers the intersection of population growth, agricultural yields, crop and soil possibilities, the caloric cost of labor, the corrosive role of pellagra, iron-deficiency anemia, the power of dietary protein in population dynamics, and the limitations imposed by early growth in the San Juan Basin-a land of poor soils, unpredictable rainfall, and rapidly declining wild vegetal foods and game. Focusing on the Chacoan landscape, farming techniques, and a world in which clusters of individual gardening families played a key role in creating an incipient urbanism in the Southwest, Stuart argues that without these accomplished gardening families and their agricultural innovations, there never would have been a "Chaco Phenomenon."

Trbojevic, Danilo, Balkan Vampires: Society, Politics, Representation. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) 336 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <753-1790>
ISBN 978-1-032-86895-0 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Balkan Vampires examines how vampire motifs from Balkan folklore have permeated modern sociocultural and political realms, exploring their role in rural traditions and transformation under global influences. The book builds on extensive fieldwork conducted in village communities across Serbia, the cradle of vampire lore, where the author has been able to record numerous stories, memories, and testimonies of residents. The research reveals the vampire not merely as a mythical figure but as a potent symbol in cultural and political discourse. The chapters demonstrate that vampire narratives are not just remnants of traditional rural beliefs but are actively engaged in shaping contemporary cultural and social identities. The author analyses the persistence and adaptability of vampire motifs, demonstrating their relevance in expressing community fears, challenging societal norms, and navigating the tensions between local traditions and global influences. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic material, the book will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, folklore, demonology, history and beyond.

Ramon, Gabriel, Itinerant Potters in the Andes: The Swallow Model of Ceramic Production. 160 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <753-1487>
ISBN 978-1-032-01093-9 hard ¥15,329.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

Itinerant Potters in the Andes: The Swallow Model of Ceramic Production presents a new interpretative approach to pottery production and distribution. Based on extensive fieldwork data from the northern Peruvian Andes, it explores the swallow potters, itinerant artisans who seasonally leave their hometowns to produce ceramic pots in destination towns, both near and far.These itinerant artisans have been recorded ethnographically in the Peruvian territory since the late nineteenth century. However, archaeologists and art historians tend to ignore them in their explanations of Andean material culture, insisting on a static image of the past. Moreover, nearly all of the general interpretative concepts and models of the precolonial Andean world are based on decorated ceramics and on a model of a potter who stays put and works in their hometown. This book argues that comprehensive explanations of Andean history must incorporate undecorated pottery and must consider various types of potters. This novel perspective uses the swallows to propose a more dynamic reading of Andean ceramic evidence, in which these potters are understood as part of broader inter-communal Andean migration patterns that have persisted since precolonial times.This book will be of great interest to researchers in Andean Archaeology and Ethnography as well as pottery specialists from around the world.

Bennett, Bindi / Menzel, Kelly (eds.), Indigenous Research Knowledges and Their Place in the Academy. (Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australia and the World 7) 338 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-1609>
ISBN 978-3-031-92702-7 hard ¥27,221.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book privileges Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing in research and serves as a voice in taking on some of the more marginal topics within methodologies. It is significant in that it is written by indigenous scholars themselves. The contributors shed light, for example, on Queer BlaQ bodies and place Indigenous women as central in reimagining fair academic practice; others return to their foundational texts to reflect on the growth of Indigenous Standpoint Theory. This book sees Indigenous Peoples as holding greater significance within research objectives and institutional practices and reimagines a research world embracing storytelling as foundational to academia. It is intended for students and early researchers, particularly Indigenous researchers, whilst also serving as an invaluable textbook for non-Indigenous people as it aids in explaining and outlining Indigenous research and is a valuable tool in the classroom and with research students. It demonstrates that Indigenous research approaches can sit beside and be equal to Western research, especially when engaging with the ethics process and for PhD students. This book is invaluable for non-Indigenous allies and researchers globally to further explain and outline Aboriginal (Australian) Indigenous research.

Chen, Yanjiao, The Flowing "Qi": A Study on Local Chinese Practice and Rituals. (International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice) 137 pp. 2025:9 (Springer, GW) <753-1293>
ISBN 978-3-031-97288-1 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book is an ethnography of the important cultural characteristics, local myths, and legends in Shawo Town, a subordinate to Dongming County in Shandong Province. Based on the author's fieldwork in this unique region of the Yellow River area, this book examines the local people's daily practice and religious beliefs in the dominant symbol "Qi." In local society, Qi has three levels of structural characteristics and significance. First, it is a material entity which exists in people's living world as three different forms of existence: Qi of Heaven, Qi of Earth, and Qi of Humans. Second, in a material sense, Qi has individual cultural significance and collective action social significance: QiXing, YunQi, QiShu, and so on, can concisely express this meaning. Thirdly, Qi has the most important symbolic meaning in its special form of Shen (god or goddess) and ancestors. This meaning can represent local society's basic clan organization and can also include the traditional construction of local identity and local political power, as well as the performance of fairness and justice, and good and evil. The concept of Qi plays a crucial role in the construction of local people's universe view, and through the holism of Qi, much can be understood about the daily lives, religious beliefs, and societal connections of the local people.

Borrows, John / Hoogeveen, Dawn / Ritts, Max et al. (eds.), The RAVEN Essays: Indigenous Environmental Justice, Education, and Self-Determination. 277 pp. 2025:5 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <752-856>
ISBN 978-1-4875-6237-3 hard ¥20,064.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-6238-0 paper ¥7,381.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Named after the Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs (RAVEN) nonprofit organization, The RAVEN Essays is an anthology that celebrates a decade of prize-winning student essays. Since 2012, RAVEN has awarded an annual essay prize to honour students who champion the vital importance of Indigenous rights and self-determination, both in Canada and globally. The essays featured in this collection highlight exceptional student work while reflecting on the evolving relationship between Indigenous politics and academia. From issues like fishing rights and the Trans Mountain Pipeline to challenges of sexism and conservation policy, these essays capture a transformative period in Indigenous struggles, offering insights that resonate far beyond the Canadian settler state. The anthology also includes contributions from prominent scholars such as Glen Coulthard, Dara Culhane, Michael Fabris, Sarah Hunt, and Heather Dorries. Five complementary essays explore various aspects of structural change, institutional constraints, and broader commitments to Indigenous knowledge within university settings. Aimed at readers in Indigenous law, environmental studies, anthropology, and geography, The RAVEN Essays is a book created by students for students, and by academics for the academy. Together, the contributors reflect on the powerful formation and enactment of Indigenous law, environmental stewardship, place-based knowledge, pedagogy, and literacy - both within the academy and in the broader community, across land, water, and culture.

Mains, Daniel, Nourishing Growth and Suffocating Life: Water, Politics, and Infrastructure in Urban Oklahoma. (Bison Books) 232 pp. 2025:10 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <752-874>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4019-4 paper ¥5,691.- (税込) US$ 26.95

食文化－食料への人類学的案内　第3版
Crowther, Gillian, Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food. 3rd ed. 384 pp. 2025:8 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <752-975>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4373-0 paper ¥10,549.- (税込) US$ 49.95 *

Eating Culture chews over the continuities and changes in human food consumption, from hunter-gathering to ultra-processed foods, to digest the ramifications for people's identity-work, health, and long-term cultural distinction. The new edition uses the concept of cuisine to trace humanity's relationship with food, thematically explored through health, sociality, and identity. It evaluates dietary change, decent meals, and food commodification, alongside threats to security and health. Drawing on ethnographic examples, dietary transitions are situated in changing political, economic, and social circumstances, presenting a critical approach necessary to explore our current global food system. Chapters on cooking, recipes, and eating-in and out offer relatable examples, underlining the significance of everyday life and incorporating an ethnographic approach that extends into practical exercises aligned with each chapter's themes, to highlight the relevancy of our own experiences. Vividly illustrated, the book explores dishes from various global cuisines, offering insights into people's culinary traditions and enriching our understanding and appreciation of food as a fundamental aspect of culture in our daily lives. Ultimately, Eating Culture presents a critical examination of how deeply food is entwined with our identity.

Grant, Catherine, Sounding Good: Advancing Cultural Sustainability and Social Justice through Music. 240 pp. 2025:11 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <752-988>
ISBN 978-0-19-769843-3 hard ¥26,400.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-19-769844-0 paper ¥6,333.- (税込) US$ 29.99

Johnson, Lisa / Campiani, Arianna, The Urban Questions: Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Approaches to Investigating the Ancient Mesoamerican City. 348 pp. 2025:9 (U. Utah Pr., US) <752-845>
ISBN 978-1-64769-228-5 hard ¥16,896.- (税込) US$ 80.00

Connecting community, infrastructure, and expansion in ancient Mesoamerica This groundbreaking volume presents a fresh and comprehensive look at the urban development of Mesoamerican cities. Moving beyond traditional methods, The Urban Questions adopts a dynamic, multidisciplinary approach to understanding the complexity and diversity of ancient settlements. By examining urbanism at multiple scales-from individual events to households, neighborhoods, and entire regions-it offers a nuanced view of how these cities evolved over time. Contributors explore key themes such as community identity, infrastructure management, and the intersection of social, political, and economic processes. Rich in both spatial and material analysis, the chapters provide insights into the lived experience of ancient Mesoamerican inhabitants and the gradual expansion of their cities. With innovative archaeological methodologies and theoretical frameworks, this volume is an essential resource for scholars of Mesoamerican studies, archaeology, and urban history, shedding new light on the dynamic nature of ancient cities.

Bialostok, Steve, Playing to the End: Elder Black Men, Placemaking, and Dominoes in Denver. (Anthropology of Contemporary North America) 277 pp. 2026:1 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <752-1062>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4471-0 hard ¥20,908.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4962-4496-3 paper ¥7,392.- (税込) US$ 35.00

In Playing to the End, Steve Bialostok immerses readers in the vibrant world of the card room at Denver's Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center, where a group of older Black men gather to play dominoes, exchange playful banter known as "talking shit," and cultivate a space of belonging. More than just a game, their gatherings are acts of Black placemaking-resisting cultural erasure, gentrification, and societal marginalization while fostering joy, resilience, and community. Through five years of ethnographic study, Bialostok reveals how these men transform the card room into a sanctuary of identity and defiance, where humor and camaraderie become tools of self-determination. As they navigate the pressures of a changing neighborhood, their interactions affirm the power of play, talk, and collective memory in sustaining Black spaces. Playing to the End is a compelling testament to the significance of these gatherings and the ongoing struggle for autonomy, cultural affirmation, and social connection in an inequitable world.

Bly, Tina, Ghost Dances in Ivory Towers: From the Frontier of Indigenous Studies. (Developing Traditions in Qualitative Inquiry) 142 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-1063>
ISBN 978-1-041-03123-9 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-03120-8 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Ghost Dances in Ivory Towers reflects an ethnographic journey shaped by ancestral strength, resilience, and reverence. It is not merely academic-it is ceremonial: a remembering, a return, and a love song to generations yet to come.This is a project of Indigenous empowerment and ancestral reclamation, offering a constellation of guiding principles rooted in Choctaw ways of knowing. Ghost Dances in Ivory Towers moves beyond critique; it becomes ceremony-disrupting colonial frameworks of academia and reimagining higher education as a place of relational accountability, healing, and reciprocity. By centring Indigenous voices, it challenges the foundations of institutional knowledge production and invites a return to wisdom that lives in land, lineage, and spirit. The title itself is both metaphor and invocation-a tribute to the Ghost Dance, a sacred act of resistance and cultural resurgence. Through story, scholarship, and spiritual insight, this work becomes a pathway-guiding policy, pedagogy, epistemology, philosophy, and practice toward life-affirming futures.This book is for one and all--for Indigenous families and future ancestors, for students and scholars, policymakers and poets, and every seeker of truth. Showcasing autoethnographic and narrative methodologies, it invites a global audience into a transformative journey-where Indigenous wisdom reshapes the academy, society, and the stories we choose to honor.

Christenson, Andrew L. (ed.), Amateurs in North American Archaeology: Changing Perspectives. 304 pp. 2026:2 (U. Utah Pr., US) <752-1065>
ISBN 978-1-64769-258-2 paper ¥7,392.- (税込) US$ 35.00

An in-depth history of the evolving dynamics between professional and non-professional archaeologists in North America.

Cohen, Jeffrey H., Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them. 160 pp. 2025:9 (U. Texas Pr., US) <752-1066>
ISBN 978-1-4773-3228-3 paper ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

An approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, sold, and consumed in Oaxaca. Chapulines (toasted grasshoppers) are not a delicacy in Oaxaca. They are just food-good food-and a protein-rich seasonal snack that is the product of a long-standing industry based overwhelmingly on the labor of women. Jeffrey Cohen has interviewed dozens of these chapulineras, who harvest insects from corn and alfalfa fields, prepare them, and sell them in urban and rural marketplaces. An accessible ethnography, Eating Grasshoppers tells their story alongside the broader history of chapulines. For tourists, chapulines are an experience-a gateway to the "real" Oaxaca. For locals, they are ordinary fare, but also a reminder of Indigenous stability and rural survival. In a sense, eating chapulines is a declaration of independence from a government that has condemned eating insects as backward. Yet, while chapulines are a generations-old favorite, eating them is not an act of preservation. Cohen shows that the business of this allegedly traditional food is thoroughly modern and ever evolving, with entrepreneurial chapulineras responding nimbly to complex and dynamic markets. From alfalfa fields to online markets, Eating Grasshoppers takes readers inside one of the world's most fascinating food cultures.

Cordis, Shanya / Berry, Maya J. et al. (eds.), Fugitive Anthropology: Embodying Activist Research. 344 pp. 2026:1 (U. Texas Pr., US) <752-1067>
ISBN 978-1-4773-3274-0 paper ¥7,381.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A personal, provocative, and boundary-breaking volume on the power relations that racialized, gendered, and sexualized researchers grapple with while conducting activist research.Fugitive Anthropology is a transnational, intergenerational engagement that extends feminist theory, activist research methodologies, and the discipline of anthropology in new directions. Contributors examine the tensions that arise from conducting politically engaged, collaborative research alongside communities in struggle, in particular theorizing from the experiences of racialized women, queer, trans, and gender nonconforming researchers across distinct geographies. Essays contend with the matrices of colonial, imperial, and patriarchal violence that afflict the researchers and communities with which they seek political alignment. Articulating an ethnographic practice grounded in Black and Indigenous political struggles and committed to collective liberation, the volume reflects on what it means to navigate violent relations of power, systemic inequities, and current onslaughts shaping field research and US academia. Ultimately, Fugitive Anthropology argues that a feminist ethos-one that embraces embodied knowledges and fugitive sensibilities-forges liberatory spaces that break from dominant masculinist frames of the "political" and challenge colonial regimes within and beyond the neoliberal university.

R.D.フォゲルソン論文集
Fogelson, Raymond D., The Raymond D. Fogelson Papers: Essays on Ethnohistory, Ethnology, and Native American Studies. Ed. by S. A. Kan et al. (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology) 277 pp. 2026:2 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <752-1069>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4545-8 hard ¥14,784.- (税込) US$ 70.00

Raymond D. Fogelson was a luminary theoretician in the interdisciplinary field of ethnohistory who advocated for Indigenous-centered theory and ethnographic writing in the field of Cherokee studies and ethnohistory. Fogelson's unique methodology was to look for institutions that Cherokees and Native peoples themselves considered traditional and to carefully study them. Fogelson taught in the anthropology department at the University of Chicago and trained leading ethnohistorians of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Dedicated to his graduate students, the corpus of his influential scholarship resides in journal articles, academic presentations, and public lectures. In this essential collection, Sergei Kan and Michael E. Harkin have assembled Fogelson's pioneering articles as a resource for ethnohistorians in the twenty-first century.

Ruuska, Alex K., When the Earth Was New: Memory, Materiality, and Numic Ritual. 240 pp. 2025:9 (U. Utah Pr., US) <752-1073>
ISBN 978-1-64769-234-6 hard ¥19,008.- (税込) US$ 90.00
ISBN 978-1-64769-236-0 paper ¥7,381.- (税込) US$ 34.95

Explores the value of oral traditions and challenges entrenched beliefs about ethnogenesis in the Great Basin In When the Earth Was New, Alex K. Ruuska explores riveting multigenerational memories of Numic-speaking communities that extend back, potentially, to the late Pleistocene. These diverse oral traditions describe geological, climatic, and ecological events that occurred over thousands of years and were passed down across many generations. Through the examination of place-based memories and the architecture of Numic knowledge, Ruuska demonstrates convergences of oral traditions, ethnography, ethnohistory, archaeology, and geology.When the Earth Was New critically compares and considers multiple forms of knowledge that contribute to overlapping as well as disparate understandings of both recent and distant pasts in the regions of California, the Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau. It works at balancing key themes in these regions' histories within a more holistic framework, exploring ancient and modern strands of knowledge with the assistance of twenty-four Tribes and Consolidated Organizations.

技術の発明－A.ルロワ＝グーランとの思想史
Schlanger, Nathan, The Invention of Technology: An Intellectual History with Andre Leroi-Gourhan. 325 pp. 2026:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <752-1074>
ISBN 978-1-009-56222-5 hard ¥26,037.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

What is technology? How and why did techniques - including materials, tools, processes and products - become central subjects of study in anthropology and archaeology? In this book, Nathan Schlanger explores the invention of technology through the work of the eminent ethnologist and prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986), author of groundbreaking works such as Gesture and Speech. While employed at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, Leroi-Gourhan initially specialized in ethnographic studies of 'material civilizations'. By the 1950s, however, his approach broadened to encompass evolutionary and behavioral perspectives from history, biology, psychology and philosophy. Focused on the material dimensions of techniques, Leroi-Gourhan's influential investigations ranged from traditional craft activities to automated production. They also anticipated both the information age and the environmental crisis of today. Schlanger's study offers new insights into the complexity of Leroi-Gourhan's interdisciplinary research, methods, and results, spanning across the 20th century social sciences and humanities.

建築と人類学ハンドブック
Stender, Marie / Bech-Danielsen, Claus et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Architecture and Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to a Cross-Disciplinary Field. (Routledge International Handbooks) 422 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <752-1075>
ISBN 978-1-032-80015-8 hard ¥66,539.- (税込) GB￡ 230.00

This Handbook provides fresh insights into the debates and challenges that unfold in the cross-disciplinary field of architecture and anthropology. Based on studies of empirical contexts across the globe, the authors launch and test a broad variety of methods and advance various theoretical concepts.Architecture and anthropology have always had overlapping interests, but a range of developments in both areas make it more relevant than ever to intersect, overlap, combine or even merge the two disciplines. In anthropology, the spatial, material, and non-human turns have paved the way for an increasing interest in, and need, of changing the world, rather than just studying it. On the other hand, architecture, beyond designing structures, has become interested in the uses and processes that unfold in, during, and after construction. The contemporary research and practices in both disciplines are testimonies that a cross-disciplinary exchange is inspiring for engaging with, and responding to, the challenges of a world in ecological, societal, and political turmoil.This Handbook addresses established scholars, students and practitioners alike by outlining contemporary developments and tensions at the intersection of architecture and anthropology.

The Indigenous Archives Collective (ed.), The Indigenous Right of Reply to Archives: Working towards Indigenous Sovereignty, Healing, and Justice in Archival Practice. 192 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-1076>
ISBN 978-1-032-77100-7 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-77098-7 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book brings together leading Indigenous and allied thinkers, practitioners, and advocates to address the critical issue of the Right of Reply in archives-foregrounding truth-telling, cultural safety, and Indigenous sovereignty across GLAM institutions. Collecting institutions have shaped and maintained records produced by colonial systems of administration and continue to play a role in perpetuating colonial paradigms that are inherently resistant to the needs and priorities of Indigenous peoples. Against this backdrop, this book embarks on a scholarly investigation into the concept known as the 'Right of Reply.' This concept speaks to Indigenous peoples' right to update, correct, critique, or enhance Indigenous knowledge that is held in collecting institutions. Spanning creative responses, case studies, policy critiques, and international perspectives, the volume explores how the Right of Reply operates as a political and ethical imperative in the work of archives. Contributors examine Indigenous-led protocols, the impact of colonial recordkeeping, digital repatriation, metadata annotation, and structural transformation in Australia, Aotearoa, and the United States. The volume offers a blueprint for decolonising archives and centring Indigenous agency, illuminating the innovative strategies being implemented across institutional and community settings. It is essential reading for archivists, curators, scholars, and anyone committed to transforming GLAM practice.

Vivian, R. Gwinn / Fladd, Samantha G., Capturing Water: Puebloan Resilience and Agricultural Sustainability in Chaco Canyon. 408 pp. 2025:12 (U. Utah Pr., US) <752-1077>
ISBN 978-1-64769-221-6 hard ¥17,952.- (税込) US$ 85.00

An esteemed archaeologist's lifetime of work on water use in Chaco Canyon The ability of the inhabitants of Chaco Canyon to sustain themselves through farming in an arid environment has long been a topic of debate among scholars. Building upon the work of his father, Gordon, R. Gwinn Vivian dedicated his lifetime of archaeological work to investigating water management and practices at Chaco. These efforts provide compelling evidence of the extensive use of canal irrigation systems and other water management techniques employed by the Ancestral Puebloan people by the ninth century and continuing through recent periods by Navajo farmers. Rich with archaeological data, ethnographic evidence, maps, and photographs, this volume challenges long-standing assumptions about Chaco Canyon's agricultural potential. By highlighting the adaptability and ingenuity of the canyon's early inhabitants, the book offers a fresh perspective on the role of water management in the development of Chaco Canyon as a sociopolitical center in the northern Southwest.

Young, Donna, A Bridge to Nowhere: Temporalities to Abandonment in Rural Canada. (Anthropological Horizons) 277 pp. 2025:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <752-1078>
ISBN 978-1-4875-6446-9 hard ¥17,952.- (税込) US$ 85.00
ISBN 978-1-4875-6447-6 paper ¥5,691.- (税込) US$ 26.95

Artfully written and meticulously crafted, A Bridge to Nowhere explores the lives of men and women in isolated settlements across Canada, examining how their experiences are shaped by memory, precarity, and poverty. Following men abandoned at remote rail sidings in western Canada and women left in rural settlements in northern New Brunswick, Donna Young presents a powerful and unflinching Canadian story that critically analyses how poverty is represented in anthropological studies. Based on research conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, this innovative ethnography centres each chapter on a specific place or individual, developing an analysis anchored in memory and relationality. Young deftly connects the precariousness of these communities to the extraction of primary resources in the twentieth century, while also addressing the gendered spaces and labour conditions that define their lives. In navigating the complex and often contradictory forces at play, the book engages with a storied loneliness set against rural landscapes and regional sensibilities. Weaving together social history, memory studies, and the anthropology of performance, A Bridge to Nowhere honours the emotional and social structures embedded in the landscape, capturing the intensity of precarious living.

Holbraad, Martin, Shapes in Revolution: The Political Morphology of Cuban Life. 250 pp. 2026:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <751-912>
ISBN 978-1-009-61308-8 hard ¥26,037.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Revolutions are cosmogonic. More than any other modern political form, their deliberate goal is to precipitate change as a total, all-embracing project: not just a radically new political order, but one that reaches deep into the fabric of social relationships, seeking to transform people at their very core, recasting the horizons that give their lives shape and meaning. Combining ethnographic and historiographic research, Shapes in Revolution tells the story of this radical process of life-formation, with all of its rugged contradictions and ambiguities, as it has unfolded in Cuba. As well as a novel anthropological perspective on revolutions, the upshot is a fresh approach to the study of political forms and their power to format people and their relationships into particular shapes. Articulating politics through the shapes it gives to people and their lives, the work proposes relational morphology as a new departure for political anthropology.

Derderian, Beth, Art Capital: Museum Politics and the Making of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. (Culture and Economic Life) 277 pp. 2026:1 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <751-989>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4418-2 hard ¥27,456.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4476-2 paper ¥6,758.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Museums often served nationalist and imperialist interests in the past, but the primary force in the 21st century is the market. Museum franchising-exemplified by the Louvre Abu Dhabi-is one of the most visible cases of the increasing entanglement of art and museums with capital interests. Such projects are often touted as global enterprises diversifying the art world. Frequently, critics of these controversial projects question these claims and market influence. The intersection of these two forces-increasing capitalization and moving toward inclusivity-creates a fundamental tension, and that is the subject of Beth Derderian's Art Capital. Focusing on the decade between the Louvre Abu Dhabi's announcement and its eventual opening, the book analyzes how major shifts away from the 19th- and 20th-century paradigm of culture-state representation play out in museums' and artists' everyday practices. Derderian traces the emergence of a new logic, wherein the ways that artists represent the state shift, as does the notion of what constitutes 'good art.' In addition, these intersecting forces spur preemptive erasures that neutralize and depoliticize difference for museum publics. Drawing on ethnographic research with artists, curators, museum staff, gallerists, art teachers, and other arts professionals, this book analyzes the UAE art world as a microcosm of these massive, epistemic changes.

Oulehla, Patricia, COVID-19 Responses in Yucatan: A Critical Medical Anthropology Perspective on Risk Communication, Pandemic Obedience, and Rumors. (BestMasters) 63 pp. 2025:5 (Springer VS, GW) <751-318>
ISBN 978-3-658-47861-2 paper ¥17,321.- (税込) EUR 69.99

This book offers a critical medical anthropological approach on health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. As decision-making about risk communication and policies can be especially challenging during times of crisis, this research contributes to a better understanding of the dynamics of risk communication and its effects on the public, while paying attention to issues around communicability and health inequity. To examine the perception of public health messages around the COVID-19 pandemic in Yucatan, Mexico Patricia Oulehla conducted 21 semi-structured interviews. Findings demonstrate that local perceptions of COVID-19 were influenced by both media and government information campaigns, as well as by rumors, which emerge in times of uncertainty, often stemming from social and political tensions. As inequality has been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, already marginalized groups, such as the Mayan population of rural villages have been at greater risk during the pandemic. Therefore, this research explores how colonial continuities manifest themselves in health policies, access to health-related information as well as the spread of rumors.

Douglas-Jones, Rachel, Committee Worlds: Governing Medical Research Through Ethics in the Asia-Pacific. (Anthropology of Policy) 277 pp. 2026:1 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <751-126>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4427-4 hard ¥13,728.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Medical research is a global endeavor; a complex network of international drugs trials and data collection in the pursuit of novel treatments. And the Asia-Pacific region is considered an ideal "market" for such trials, with large populations and good hospitals. However, to become hosts to global trials, and to export valid trial data, researchers are required to engage local research ethics committees. Supported through grants from the World Health Organization, the Forum of Ethics Review Committees of Asia and the Pacific (FERCAP) was established in 2000, and has spent the last twenty years building capacity for ethics assessment in hospitals and universities across the region. They are the translators of global ethics standards and principles for regional audiences. Through a decade of ethnographic engagement with FERCAP, following members from their base in Thailand to workshops across Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Taiwan, and mainland China, Rachel Douglas-Jones demonstrates that research ethics committees, their material and social form, are spaces of contestation where the futures of global medical research are decided. With this book, Douglas-Jones contributes a key reference for studies of "the committee" upon which future work in the anthropology of policy can build. Understanding how ethics review committees do their work allows anthropologists of policy, global health, and bureaucracy to consider the values embedded in ethics as a bureaucratic practice.

Hearne, Joanna / Crey, Karrmen (eds.), By Their Work: Indigenous Women's Digital Media in North America. 344 pp. 2025:11 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <751-1022>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1905-4 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1906-1 paper ¥6,336.- (税込) US$ 30.00

A first-of-its-kind collection to transform our understanding of digital media from Indigenous women creators Indigenous women form a vital force in digital media production now and have over the past several decades-in fact, nearly three quarters of the projects at the 2017 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival were created by women. By Their Work highlights the prismatic nature of Indigenous women's digital media, connecting the digital arts with their creative labor and adaptive activism. Joanna Hearne and Karrmen Crey bring together a collection of essays and interviews to highlight the voices of powerful and important media makers, from Indigenous video game creators to animators to social media influencers and from theorists of early Indigenous digital media to current practitioners, including trans and nonbinary creators often left out of public narratives about the digital. Creating a space to hear critical voices on Indigenous media history, theory, and production, the contributors share stories, genealogies, and practices behind Indigenous women's power and presence in the digital world. Focusing on the history of digital media as a whole, this collection presents a compelling case for Indigenous women's crucial roles across the history of digital forms and platforms. In doing so, By Their Work transforms digital Indigenous studies in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Nanobah Becker; Reilley Bishop-Stall, McGill U; Meagan Byrne; Tawny Trottier Cale; Dana Claxton; Crystal Harrison Collin; Elizabeth Day; Kristin L. Dowell, Florida State U; Miranda Due; Heid E. Erdrich; Marcella Ernest, U of New Mexico; Marisa Erven; Skawennati Tricia Fragnito; David Gaertner, U of British Columbia; Carol Geddes; Faye Ginsburg, New York U; Patuk N. Glenn; Lisa Jackson; Jacqueline Land, William Jewell College; Jason Edward Lewis, Concordia University, Montreal; Joshua D. Miner, U of Kansas; Salma Monani, Gettysburg College; Jas M. Morgan, Simon Fraser U; Archer Pechawis, York U; Mikhel Proulx, Queen's U Canada; Jolene Rickard, Cornell U; Channette Romero, U of Georgia; Wendi Sierra, Texas Christian U.

Calvao, Filipe / Bolay, Matthieu / Ferry, Elizabeth (eds.), How Transparency Works: Ethnographies of a Global Value. 250 pp. 2025:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <751-1035>
ISBN 978-1-009-60520-5 hard ¥26,037.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Transparency has become a ubiquitous presence in seemingly every sphere of social, economic, and political life. Yet, for all the claims that transparency works, little attention has been paid to how it works - even when it fails to achieve its goals. Instead of assuming that transparency is itself transparent, this book questions the technological practices, material qualities, and institutional standards producing transparency in extractive, commodity trading, and agricultural sites. Furthermore, it asks: how is transparency certified and standardized? How is it regimented by 'ethical' and 'responsible' businesses, or valued by traders and investors, from auction rooms to sustainability reports? The contributions bring nuanced answers to these questions, approaching transparency through four key organizing concepts, namely disclosure, immediacy, trust, and truth. These are concepts that anchor the making of transparency across the lifespan of global commodities. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Casumbal-Salazar, Iokepa, First Light: Kanaka 'Oiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wakea. 336 pp. 2025:11 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <751-1036>
ISBN 978-1-5179-0245-2 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-0246-9 paper ¥6,336.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Understanding the Hawai'i Island summit of Mauna a Wakea as a place of ancestral connection, cultural resurgence, and political resistance for Native Hawaiians? First Light is a site-specific study of Native Hawaiian resistance to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the summit of Mauna a Wakea, the sacred volcano on the island of Hawai'i. Drawing on personal interviews, oral histories, archival research, participant observation, and popular, legal, scientific, and Indigenous discourses, Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar explores both the campaign to build the observatory and the movement against it. He asks how astronomers have become stewards of Mauna a Wakea while Kanaka 'Oiwi (Aboriginal Hawaiians), in protest, are recast as obstructing progress and clinging to ancient superstitions. Contextualizing contemporary resistance to telescope expansion within the past 125 years of struggle against U.S. empire in Hawai'i, Casumbal-Salazar argues the Kanaka-led efforts to protect their ancestral lands did not begin with the TMT and only become legible when understood in the broader history of resistance to U.S. settler hegemony as told through the voices and actions of kia?i ?aina (land defenders). First Light explores how settler science, capital, and law have been mobilized in ways that rationalize industrial development projects like the TMT and promote a vision of "coexistence" that enables the dehumanization of Kanaka 'Oiwi and their alienation from ?aina. Challenging the assumptions and aggressions of neoliberal environmental policy, settler multiculturalism, and U.S. military occupation, First Light reinforces calls for a moratorium on new telescope development and a literacy in Kanaka 'Oiwi movements for life, land, and Ea (independence, sovereignty). Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

Davis, Christopher S., Before Sunset: Ice-Age Amazonian Rock Art and Archaeoastronomy at the Younger Dryas. (Conflict, Environment, and Social Complexity) 287 pp. 2025:6 (Springer, GW) <751-1037>
ISBN 978-3-031-93372-1 hard ¥32,171.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Through a presentation of the oldest rock art dated in the Americas, located in Monte Alegre, Brazil, this book analyzes an ancient ecological-astronomy strategy that theoretically made the rapid human migration in the Americas successful. It helps answer two vital questions long held by scholars and the general public alike: How did humans survive the rapid and massive climate changes at the end of the ice age? And how did founding populations (especially in the Americas) manage successful settlement, relatively rapidly, in ecosystems entirely foreign to them? It further initiates questions about the universal role that astronomy (and even astrology) might have played in cognitive human evolution and the success of burgeoning sedentism and eventual "civilization" throughout the world. The book makes a substantial contribution because of the wealth of cultural information it provides from Monte Alegre. It explains the author's analysis of pictographs, lithics, and landscape modifications that were excavated there and provides novel findings on the chronology and archaeoastronomy of the art. This book is indispensable for courses about Paleoindians, peopling of the Americas, environmental anthropology, cosmology, rock art studies, archeoastronomy, paleoecology, paleoethnobotany, and Amazonia. The pan-American indications of this work will appeal to archaeologists, historians, art historians, folklorists, Native American and Indigenous scholars, evolutionists, cognitive scientists, geographers, and the general public.

〔英訳〕P.デスコラ著　見えるものの形態－外形の人類学
Descola, Philippe, Forms of the Visible: An Anthropology of Figuration. Tr. by C. Porter. 637 pp. 2025:9 (Polity Pr., UK) <751-1039>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6196-4 hard ¥9,504.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Imagery and figuration are not just figments of an artist's imagination. Perception and imagination are always shaped by what habit has taught us to discern. The visual path we spontaneously trace through the world depends on where we are situated in the four regions of the ontological archipelago: animism, naturalism, totemism or analogism. Each of these four regions corresponds to a way of conceiving the objects that make up the world, of perceiving the continuities and discontinuities in the folds of the world and of drawing the dividing lines between humans and nonhumans. From Alaskan Yup'ik masks and Aboriginal bark paintings to miniature landscapes from the Song dynasty and Dutch Golden Age interior scenes: each image reveals, through what it shows or fails to show, a certain figurative regime, identifiable by the formal means it uses and by the device through which it can unleash its power to act. The figurative regime enables us to grasp - sometimes better than words can - the contrasting ways of living that characterize the human condition and its relation to the nonhuman. By comparing a great diversity of visual images and artworks, Descola masterfully lays the theoretical foundations for an anthropology of figuration. One of the world's leading anthropologists, Philippe Descola has developed a comparative anthropology of relations between humans and nonhumans that has revolutionized both the human sciences and our ways of thinking about the great ecological issues of our time. His new book will be of great value to students and scholars of anthropology, visual art and art history and to anyone interested in art, culture and the relations between the human and nonhuman worlds.

Minch-de Leon, Mark, Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Studies After the Apocalypse. 352 pp. 2025:11 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <751-1043>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1829-3 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1830-9 paper ¥6,336.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Reclaiming power and prophecy through California Indian intellectual resurgence and anticolonial resistance Mark Minch-de Leon explores the anticolonial dimensions of California Indian intellectual and cultural resurgence in the aftermath of apocalypse in this compelling reexamination of Indigenous art, literature, and theory. Centering on a reinterpretation of the Ghost Dance, a ceremony first practiced in the nineteenth century, as a collective demonstration of prophecy and resilience, Indigenous Inhumanities envisions an expanded poetics of resistance through a reconfigured relationship to death and the dead. By dismantling the colonial frameworks of inclusion, recognition, and representation that reinforce settler-state power, Minch-de Leon shows how storytelling can be reclaimed as both research and as a tool for decolonization. Taking up critical issues that the state has used to discipline California Indian relations to ancestors, such as the politics of human remains repatriation and the discourse around California Indian genocide, Minch-de Leon centers Indigenous knowledge and social systems while challenging legal and political definitions of violence, power, and the human. Rich case studies showcase the evocative art of Frank Day, the poetry of Tommy Pico, and the writings of Deborah Miranda, highlighting how these creators advance Indigenous theory and disrupt settler categories. By refusing reconciliation and embracing Indigenous frameworks of radical relationality and the "inhuman" (what lies outside of human control), Minch-de Leon presents a bold vision of Indigenous antihumanist survival and resurgence. Indigenous Inhumanities illuminates the path toward decolonial futures by following the radical turn the ancestors made toward the powers of the dead to bring an end to the colonial world. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

Raycraft, Justin, Conservation in Common: Managing Wildlife and Sustaining Community on the Maasai Steppe. (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation) 232 pp. 2025:12 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <750-959>
ISBN 978-0-8203-7478-9 hard ¥25,333.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7479-6 paper ¥6,325.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Wildlife conservation in Tanzania is fraught with conflicts between the state, international organizations, private investors, and local communities over the rights to rangeland resources and the benefit streams associated with safari tourism. This book takes up the question of how a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania's Tarangire ecosystem is viewed from the bottom up, by the people who are directly affected by its implementation. Based on historically grounded ethnographic research, Justin Raycraft documents a shift in local attitudes toward Randilen WMA-from fear and protest to widespread support. He analyzes this process of transformation in the context of empathetic management practices that have fostered feelings of trust and uncovered common ground between conservation stakeholders. Raycraft shows that although WMAs are not fully devolved to the local level, pastoral communities can use them to defend the things they value most: their land and livelihoods. Conservation in Common makes a much-needed intervention in critical political ecology literature by providing the first account of a conservation area in Tanzania that serves the interests of its local community, thereby making the case that protecting wildlife habitat and safeguarding human well-being are not mutually exclusive activities.

Tantalean, Henry, An Introduction to Peruvian Archaeology: The Excavated Past. 248 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-983>
ISBN 978-1-032-82720-9 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-82650-9 paper ¥11,568.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

The Excavated Past: An Introduction to Peruvian Archaeology offers an accessible and up-to-date guide to Peru's rich archaeological heritage.Through a broad vision of archaeology as a discipline and historical reality, Henry Tantalean offers a fascinating immersion into the past of Peru. The book is structured in three parts: an introduction to the key concepts of global and local archaeology, a brief history of Peruvian archaeology and a tour of the societies of ancient Peru, from the first settlers to the fall of the Inca Empire. Furthermore, the author highlights the role of archaeology in daily life, education and popular culture.This book is an invaluable resource not only for students and professionals of Peruvian archaeology, but also for anyone interested in understanding the cultural legacy that these findings contribute to our understanding of human history.

Di Giminiani, Piergiorgio, Alterhumanism: Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier. (Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and Its Alternatives) 304 pp. 2025:11 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <750-995>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5571-0 hard ¥21,120.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5570-3 paper ¥7,392.- (税込) US$ 35.00

What does it mean to be human in the Anthropocene? Set against the backdrop of southern Chile's conservation frontier, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani's Alterhumanism invites us to recognize the centrality of the human condition in the face of an increasingly uncertain world and imagine future forms of coexistence. Reflecting on more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with smallholding settlers, Indigenous Mapuche farmers, environmental activists, entrepreneurs, and conservation scientists, Di Giminiani brings to light how these diverse groups navigate the enduring impacts of settler-caused environmental depletion and their aspirations for new ethics of care. Di Giminiani challenges traditional Western humanism, proposing a more relational and open-ended understanding of humanity shaped by interactions with nonhuman others. Rather than seeking fixed answers, the book explores the fluid and multifaceted nature of becoming human through the lens of conservation politics. By highlighting the entangled, multispecies worlds of southern Chile, Di Giminiani offers a novel approach to understanding the political project of becoming human in the Anthropocene. Alterhumanism is a rich, ethnographically grounded perspective on humanity's evolving relationship with the natural world.

アイヌの過去、現在、未来
Watkins, Joe E., Indigenizing Japan: Ainu Past, Present, and Future. 264 pp. 2025:11 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <750-857>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5598-7 hard ¥21,120.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5597-0 paper ¥7,392.- (税込) US$ 35.00

In Indigenizing Japan, archaeologist Joe E. Watkins provides a comprehensive look at the rich history and cultural resilience of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Hokkaido, Japan, tracing their journey from ancient times to their contemporary struggles for recognition. Relaying the deep history of the islands of Japan, Watkins tells the archaeological story from the earliest arrivals some 40,000 years ago to 16,000 years ago when local cultures began utilizing pottery and stone tools. About 2,300 years ago, another group of people immigrated from the Korean peninsula into the Japanese archipelago, bringing wet rice agriculture with them. They intermarried with the people who were there, forming the basis of the contemporary Japanese majority culture. As the Japanese state developed on the central Islands of Honshu, Ryukyu, and Shikoku, the people of Hokkaido continued developing along a different trajectory with minimal interaction with the mainland until colonization in the mid-nineteenth century, when the people known as the Ainu came under Japanese governmental policy. Watkins's insightful analysis highlights the Ainu's enduring spirit and their resurgence as part of the global Indigenous movement. Key events such as the 1997 Nibutani Dam case and the 2007 recognition of the Ainu as Japan's Indigenous people are explored in depth, showcasing the Ainu's ongoing fight for cultural preservation and self-determination. By situating the Ainu's experiences within broader global colonial histories, Indigenizing Japan underscores the shared struggles and resilience of Indigenous communities worldwide.

Mussell, Linda, Handing Over the Keys: Indigenous Peoples and Carceral Injustice. 304 pp. 2025:10 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <750-558>
ISBN 978-0-7748-7126-6 hard ¥23,232.- (税込) US$ 110.00

Generations of Indigenous people have experienced the injustices wrought by institutional confinement. Widespread criticism calls Canadian prisons the new residential schools and Australian ones a national tragedy. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the government itself has suggested Maori may be the most incarcerated people in the world. Handing over the Keys compares three countries with enduring records of confining Indigenous people.Intergenerational imprisonment - the legacies of institutional confinement in an array of settings - leaves a long shadow. Linda Mussell seeks the keys to transformative change through a rigorous policy analysis and interviews with frontline practitioners, policy professionals, and people who have lived experience of imprisonment. Her goal is policy transformation to address both Indigenous hyper-imprisonment and intergenerational impacts. What do people closest to this issue think? What should the state do? This urgently needed study proposes ways to hand over the keys that unlock the doors of confinement for future generations.