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

Coffee, Kevin, The End of the Museum: Culture, Colonialism and Liberation. 240 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-877>
ISBN 978-1-032-79278-1 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-79277-4 paper ¥11,656.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

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

Egeler, Matthias, Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld. 240 pp. 2025:10 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-881>
ISBN 978-0-300-28440-9 hard ¥5,548.- (税込) US$ 26.00 *

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

Martinovich, Victor, Belarus in Autoethnographic Narratives: The Art of Mercy Against Oblivion. 256 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-903>
ISBN 978-1-041-07233-1 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

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

Antieau, Lamont, Designing Questionnaires for Language Studies and Linguistic Anthropology. 288 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-935>
ISBN 978-1-032-44663-9 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-44662-2 paper ¥12,822.- (税込) GB￡ 43.99 *

Designing Questionnaires for Language Studies is a guide to the design and use of questionnaires for empirical linguistic research, particularly in the areas of dialectology, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology. Whether completed via written correspondence or through interviewing, questionnaires play an essential role in linguistic research. Yet, the design of questionnaires is rarely taught formally, leaving researchers to learn effective design in practice. This practical and accessible text offers structured, step-by-step guidance to provide researchers with the skills they need to make the most of questionnaire-based research. It also provides a history of the use of questionnaires in linguistic research and critically examines the assumptions and motivations inherent in their creation and administration, as well as that of the questions that populate them, and discusses how biases can negatively affect the outcome of the research itself. Experience using these tools in the field has led to their refinement over time. Armed with this knowledge, readers can make informed decisions about how to structure their own questionnaires as they embark on linguistic investigations or use it to better understand the results of previous research that has relied on questionnaires for data collection.

Arikha, Noga, Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds. (Jewish Lives) 280 pp. 2025:7 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-936>
ISBN 978-0-300-24123-5 hard ¥5,975.- (税込) US$ 28.00

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

Birkhofer, Melissa D. / Worley, Paul M. (eds.), Teresa Martin and Luisa Menendez: Indigenous Women from Appalachia in the Spanish Colonial Record. (Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices) 240 pp. 2025:11 (U. Pr. Kentucky, US) <748-937>
ISBN 978-1-9859-0324-1 hard ¥12,804.- (税込) US$ 60.00
ISBN 978-1-9859-0323-4 paper ¥6,402.- (税込) US$ 30.00

In 1600, Teresa Martin and Luisa Menendez were among the witnesses called before the expansionist governor of La Florida after the Spanish crown demanded official testimonies regarding the land, resources, and potential wealth in the colonial interior of North America. Martin and Menendez were considered ideal informants. As Indigenous women who had married Spaniards, both were closely associated with the first inland European settlement, a Spanish fort at the Catawba town of Joara. In these firsthand accounts, their descriptions of La Tama-a Native American paramount chiefdom in the Piedmont region of present-day Georgia-have long merited closer study as essential primary documents._x000D_ Teresa Martin & Luisa Menendez: Indigenous Women from Appalachia in the Spanish Colonial Record translates and publishes two important transcripts of the governor's investigation in their entirety: the Relacion de la Tama y su tierra, y de la poblacion ingles (Account of La Tama and its lands, and the English settlement) and the paylist in which Martin claims her deceased husband's salary from the Spanish crown. Read through the lens of Latin American testimonio, these documents extend the timeline of Indigenous literatures of America written in Latin script to the sixteenth century and underscore the indelible ties between the contemporary nations of Turtle Island (North America) and Abya Yala (Latin America). They also suggest a more nuanced history of Latinx peoples in the southeastern United States._x000D_ With contributions from leading scholars, editors Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley critically examine these accounts in essays that reframe readers' current understanding of US history, literature, and culture.

Chazan, Michael, World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways Through Time. 6th ed. 800 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <748-938>
ISBN 978-1-032-61031-3 hard ¥53,927.- (税込) GB￡ 185.00
ISBN 978-1-032-56590-3 paper ¥26,231.- (税込) GB￡ 89.99

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

Hollan, Douglas, Human Subjectivity, Selfhood and Selfscapes: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Anthropology. 200 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-942>
ISBN 978-1-032-86663-5 hard ¥40,810.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00
ISBN 978-1-032-86774-8 paper ¥9,616.- (税込) GB￡ 32.99

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

Monsted, Asta, Re-activating Indigenous Knowledge from Oral History: Landscape and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Greenland. (Arctic Worlds) 228 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-944>
ISBN 978-1-032-77483-1 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

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

R.W.ノラン著　人類学者になるための案内　第2版
Nolan, Riall W., Using Anthropology in the World: A Guide to Becoming an Anthropologist Practitioner. 2nd ed. 336 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-946>
ISBN 978-1-032-70628-3 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-70620-7 paper ¥10,782.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

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

O'Malley, Nancy, Kentucky Frontier to Commonwealth: Historical Archaeology at Daniel Boone's and Hugh McGary's Stations. 334 pp. 2025:10 (U. Pr. Kentucky, US) <748-947>
ISBN 978-1-9859-0228-2 hard ¥12,804.- (税込) US$ 60.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9859-0305-0 paper ¥6,402.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Daniel Boone is considered one of the United States' first folk heroes for his exploration beyond the thirteen colonies into Kentucky. Hugh McGary, the Irish-born American pioneer who joined Boone on his 1775 expedition, is lesser known, but he played a prominent part in establishing early posts such as Harrodsburg._x000D_ In Kentucky Frontier to Commonwealth: Historical Archaeology at Daniel Boone's and Hugh McGary's Stations, author Nancy O'Malley provides insight into Kentucky colonial life through research into station site remnants. Boone's Station is well preserved and shows what a lasting occupation looked like, whereas McGary's Station-abandoned soon after the end of the Revolutionary War-bears the markers of settlers who endured more primitive conditions._x000D_ Kentucky Frontier to Commonwealth considers written records of Boone's and McGary's journeys along with the physical evidence they left behind to create a compelling picture of what the sites' occupants were like, how they survived, how the stations functioned, and ultimately, how this newfound knowledge fits into the state's storied history.

Pierce, Joseph M., Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair. 288 pp. 2025:8 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-948>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2888-8 hard ¥26,675.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3215-1 paper ¥7,255.- (税込) US$ 34.00 *

Indigenous relations are often described in anthropological terms, or as expressions of timeless, unchanging kinship ties. In Speculative Relations, Joseph M. Pierce challenges this view, considering the potential of these relations as a means of repairing the damages of history. Pierce approaches Indigenous art and culture not as objects of study, but through relations committed to reciprocity and care for human and more-than-human beings. Drawing on Cherokee thinking, Indigenous queer theory, literary and cultural studies, and art criticism, he illuminates pathways for understanding and resisting the ongoing damages of colonialism while pointing to future worlds and imaginaries that breathe life into Indigenous thought and practice. Analyzing a range of materials-from photography, literature, and sculpture to film and ethnography - Pierce reveals how speculation, as a form of situated knowledge production, can repair and reimagine the worlds that colonialism sought to destroy. In doing so, Pierce highlights how gestures, poetics, and embodiment can uphold tradition and harness the imaginative power of speculation to create pathways for living in good relations.

Salazar, Carles, Human Alterity: A Brief History of Anthropological Thought. 222 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <748-950>
ISBN 978-1-032-86837-0 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-86633-8 paper ¥11,656.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

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

現代沖縄の生きている人、死者、犠牲
Nelson, Christopher T., When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa. 304 pp. 2025:7 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-652>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2872-7 hard ¥25,597.- (税込) US$ 119.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3196-3 paper ¥6,177.- (税込) US$ 28.95 *

Haunted by the past, ordinary Okinawans struggle to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. They are caught up in a web of people and practices - living and dead, visible and immaterial - that exert powerful forces often beyond their control. In When the Bones Speak, Christopher T. Nelson examines the myriad ways contemporary Okinawans experience, remember, and contest sacrifice. He attends to the voices of those who find their vocation in service to others, from shamans, fortune-tellers, laborers, and artists to dead soldiers, war survivors, antiwar activists, and Christian missionaries. Nelson shows how the memories of past sacrifices, atrocities, and exploitation as well as residual trauma shape modern life in Okinawa and the possibility and hope for creative action grounded in the everyday. Offering new understandings of colonial transformation, wartime violence, and military occupation, Nelson writes from the intersection of temporalities and possibilities, where the hard finality of the past may be broken open to reveal a "not yet" that has always remained just beyond reach.

Desjarlais, Robert, The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar. (Theory in Forms) 344 pp. 2025:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-708>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2906-9 hard ¥25,597.- (税込) US$ 119.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3242-7 paper ¥6,391.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

On the night of October 17, 1961, thousands of Algerians peacefully demonstrated in the streets of Paris, protesting an illegal curfew imposed upon them by the French colonial government. The Paris police responded with deadly violence, by some accounts killing over two hundred people and wounding countless others. One of their victims was Abdelkader Bennahar, who was seriously beaten in Nanterre, a commune just west of Paris. Jewish-French photographer Elie Kagan took a number of photographs of Bennahar as he lay bleeding in the street. Bennahar was brought to a Nanterre hospital and reportedly died the next night. In The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar, Robert Desjarlais analyzes Kagan's photographs and their affective force and political significance from the moment they first circulated through the decades that followed. By drawing on Kagan's photographs and archival records to consider the trace remnants of Bennahar's life and the fate of his body in death, Desjarlais offers a compelling account of one person's "life death" through complicated strands of time and memory.

Thomas, Deborah A., Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance. (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) 256 pp. 2025:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-776>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2923-6 hard ¥25,597.- (税込) US$ 119.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3259-5 paper ¥6,177.- (税込) US$ 28.95 *

In Exorbitance, Deborah A. Thomas calls for new approaches to political sovereignty grounded in the embodied forms of autonomy and relation created in daily life. Rather than rooting sovereignty in the violence of the state and its institutions, Thomas conceives of sovereignty as the embodied refusal of law and dominion. Drawing on the insights of Caribbeanist thought and studies of Jamaican social, political, and spiritual life, Thomas proposes an exorbitant sovereignty enacted through a phenomenological notion of inheritance. Such a sovereignty emerges from alternative genealogies of governance, community, and ceremony that exceed Enlightenment expectations of political life. Thomas contends that the articulations of exorbitant sovereignty are emergent, ephemeral, and ultimately, relational. By outlining the perils and promises of our inheritance of colonial logics and the tools to refuse them, Thomas models a collaborative and collective anthropology oriented toward improvisational experimentation rather than ethnographic extraction.

Rosa-Salas, Marcel, Total Market American: Race, Data, and Advertising. 192 pp. 2025:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-369>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2915-1 hard ¥22,182.- (税込) US$ 103.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3254-0 paper ¥5,537.- (税込) US$ 25.95 *

In Total Market American, Marcel Rosa-Salas explores how US advertising reinforces racial categories for profit. Through ethnographic research at advertising agencies and key industry events, Rosa-Salas highlights advertising strategy as an influential commercial arena for racial theorizing closely linked to the forms of racial knowledge prevalent in government, academia, and business. Central to her analysis is what she calls the industry's "racial information system"-a network of practices, personnel, and technologies that institutionalize racial classification as both a predictive and persuasive tool with the aim of influencing consumer behaviors among Hispanic, Asian, and Black Americans. Within this information system, the "general market" is implicitly defined as both white and the average American while other racialized groups are classified as a "multicultural market" that sustains white normativity and monetizes racial difference. Amid demographic shifts, some brands claim to champion racial inclusivity through the rise of "total market" strategies, but Rosa-Salas shows that these techniques actually perpetuate a legacy of racial distinctions in US advertising, including within the classification algorithms that drive digital advertising and surveillance.

Srinivas, Tulasi, The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty. 304 pp. 2025:11 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-147>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2930-4 hard ¥25,597.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3277-9 paper ¥6,391.- (税込) US$ 29.95