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

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 ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7479-6 paper ¥6,226.- (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 ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-82650-9 paper ¥11,436.- (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 ¥20,790.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5570-3 paper ¥7,276.- (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 ¥20,790.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5597-0 paper ¥7,276.- (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 ¥22,869.- (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.

Connaughton, Sean P., Unearthing Forgotten Values: Toward a Meaningful Archaeological Practice. 222 pp. 2025:4 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <750-1181>
ISBN 978-0-7748-8104-3 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-7748-8105-0 paper ¥7,889.- (税込) US$ 37.95

About 90 percent of archaeological activity in North America is driven by private-sector development. In the process, archaeology is often used to undermine the interests of those whose material culture it allegedly seeks to preserve and interpret. Unearthing Forgotten Values explores the often disrespectful and ultimately unethical nature of commercial archaeology - or cultural resource management - and proposes a praxis that puts Indigenous communities and their heritage first.Based on lengthy experience working with and within Indigenous communities in British Columbia and around the world, Sean P. Connaughton discusses such thorny issues as the meaning of decolonization, Indigenous land rights and sovereignty, the commodification of heritage, and state support for projects that will exacerbate climate change. Weaving together real-life stories, fieldwork, scholarship, data, introspection, and Indigenous values, Unearthing Forgotten Values charts a practical course for change. Professional archaeology will be the better for it.

Crabtree, Stefani A., Thinking through Archaeological Complexity. 200 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1182>
ISBN 978-1-032-95511-7 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through time. It offers a roadmap for integrating theory, method, and data through a complexity science lens.This volume bridges archaeology and complexity science, offering a transdisciplinary framework for understanding long-term socio-ecological dynamics. This book provides a substantive overview of how complex adaptive systems science is used in archaeology. Drawing from case studies in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest, it demonstrates how tools like agent-based modeling, ecological and social network analysis, and settlement scaling reveal emergent patterns in the archaeological record. The book critically examines concepts such as resilience, adaptation, innovation, and transformation, offering alternatives to overly linear narratives. Emphasizing methodological transparency, it provides practical guidance for scholars interested in modeling, data integration, and working across disciplinary boundaries while grounding in theoretical pluralism. By situating archaeological knowledge within broader scientific conversations, the book encourages readers to reimagine the past not as static or collapsed, but as complex, entangled, and instructive for contemporary challenges.This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners in archaeology as well as complexity science. It will also appeal to scholars in anthropology, environmental studies, geography, and network science interested in long-term human-environmental dynamics and the application of complex systems approaches in historical contexts.

Diamond, Joseph E., The Archaeology of Kingston, New York. 384 pp. 2025:11 (Excelsior Editions / State U. New York Pr, US) <750-1184>
ISBN 979-88-558-0396-9 hard ¥27,027.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 979-88-558-0398-3 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

A comprehensive analysis of eighty-eight archaeological sites in and around the City of Kingston, New York.The Archaeology of Kingston, New York covers Kingston (and New York State and the Hudson Valley to a lesser extent) from Paleo-Indian times circa twelve thousand years ago through twelve thousand years of Native American occupations. The book covers the archaeology of the Dutch colonial period and the British colonial period, as well as a number of sites around the city from the nineteenth century. The book brings together new information on eighty-two archaeological sites and six related sites that are slightly outside of the corporate boundary of the city of Kingston. These include precontact and Native American sites, such as Sailor's Cove and Cantine's Island; the founding of Wiltwyck in the early colonial period; key sites in the Stockade District; the Matthew Persen House; maritime archaeological sites; key cemeteries; and noteworthy sites related to African Americans in the region. Along with the archaeological discussion, the book includes information about local lithic geology, glacial geology, and flora and fauna that were important dietary components of precontact Native Americans. The Archaeology of Kingston, New York offers a complete introduction to the region for anyone interested in New York history and its study and recovery.

Kiewitt, Karsten / Lutz, Ronald / Cajete, G. et al. (eds.), Decolonizing Western-Indigenous Dialogues: Interwoven Epistemologies for Multiple Modernities. 288 pp. 2025:10 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1185>
ISBN 978-1-350-42520-0 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

This groundbreaking book offers a unique collection of Indigenous and non-Indigenous approaches to decolonizing international development.The world is facing enormous challenges, from ever-growing global inequality to climate change to the continuing fallout from the Covid pandemic. It is becoming increasingly clear that the origin of these challenges lies in the economic models and imperial lifestyles perpetuated by the Global North. In order to find new answers to the world's biggest challenges, then, it is necessary for the Global North to acknowledge Indigenous knowledge systems as unique and legitimate epistemologies and to engage in dialogues with them. This collection brings together contributions from Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors to promote that dialogue. It provides a unique, rare forum for discourse between the expressive potentials of differing world views, and ultimately, for developing cooperation in the terms of Eisenstein's notion of interbeing, which counteracts the "History of Separation" between nature and culture and between Global South and Global North. What emerges is a path forward towards a new, interwoven modernity characterized by an embrace of separate, but mutually constitutive, ways of knowing.For its wide topical and geographic breadth, and for its bringing together of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars around the world, this book is a must-read for researchers and students interested in indigenous studies and decolonial approaches to international development.

Luthra Sinha, Bobby / Devi Gopal, Nirmala et al. (eds.), Dark Anthropology, Migrants and Others: Of Vulnerable Communities, Solidarities and Challenges to Nation-States. 270 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1186>
ISBN 978-1-041-05889-2 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-041-06156-4 paper ¥11,436.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights. Dwelling on ethnographic case studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the USA, and Europe, the volume illuminates the experiences of vulnerable communities, showcasing their solidarities, networks, and supportive dynamics that emerge from the harsh realities of social life. Analysing the world from the lens of fraternal relations and spaces that arise and abound in the lifeworld of the marginalised and vulnerable communities, this edited volume illustrates how without these burgeoning solidarities, migrants and other at-risk populations may have a harder struggle to navigate the socio-economic and political challenges they face. Furthermore, the book emphasises that nation-states would encounter even more profound and complex difficulties without such intricate coping mechanisms. The essays within the volume demonstrate that these mechanisms are vital to addressing dilemmas, stalemates, and the stakeholder politics surrounding people living in precarious, hidden and dark contexts. The case studies which enrich theoretical debates, also indicate how these dark contexts would be significantly more difficult to traverse without the robust and nuanced messages coded in actor solidarities and resilience.The volume is poised to attract significant attention from scholars and researchers committed to anthropology, ethnography, history, migration, international politics and refugee studies.

Searcy, Michael T., Archaeological Structuration: A Critical Engagement for the Twenty-First Century. 208 pp. 2025:11 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <750-1189>
ISBN 978-0-8165-3872-0 hard ¥14,553.- (税込) US$ 70.00

Archaeological Structuration is a critical analysis of the theory of structuration and its utility in the study of societal development over deep time. Structuration theory was originally developed by Anthony Giddens in sociology and adopted piecemeal into archaeology. This book takes a closer look at its contributions to new materialism and develops novel ways to operationalize the theory in archaeological research in the twenty-first century. To illustrate the usefulness of structuration theory, archaeologist Michael T. Searcy deploys it to uncover new understandings of ancient societies, particularly focusing on the Casas Grandes civilization in precolonial northern Mexico. Spanning more than seven hundred years, this society exemplifies the rise of social complexity in the Western Hemisphere. Searcy reexamines previous hypotheses about major structural shifts during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries CE, providing fresh insights and updated perspectives. This book not only revisits the foundational influence of structuration theory but also introduces new methodologies to study the longue duree, the long-term historical trajectories of ancient societies. Searcy deftly bridges the gap between theoretical frameworks and practical archaeological applications, providing a thorough analysis of how structuration can address real-world problems through the lens of ancient societal transformations.

Tamez, Margo / Bejarano, Cynthia / Shepherd, J. P. (eds.), Gathering Together, We Decide: Archives of Dispossession, Resistance, and Memory in Nde Homelands. (Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies) 480 pp. 2025:10 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <750-1190>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5593-2 hard ¥20,790.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-0-8165-5592-5 paper ¥7,276.- (税込) US$ 35.00

In 2007, the Department of Homeland Security began condemnation proceedings on the property of Dr. Eloisa Tamez, a Lipan Apache (NdE) professor, veteran, and title holder to land in South Texas deeded to her ancestors under the colonial occupation and rule of King Charles III of Spain in 1761, during a time when Indigenous lands were largely taken and exploited by Spanish colonizers. Crown grants of lands to Indigenous peoples afforded them the opportunity to reclaim Indigenous title and control. The federal government wanted Tamez's land to build a portion of the "border wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border. She refused. In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security sued her, but she countersued based on Aboriginal land rights, Indigenous inherent rights, the land grant from Spain, and human rights. This standoff continued for years, until the U.S. government forced Tamez to forfeit land for the wall. In response, Dr. Eloisa Tamez and her daughter, Dr. Margo Tamez, organized a gathering of Lipan tribal members, activists, lawyers, and allies to meet in El Calaboz, South Texas. This gathering was a response to the appropriation of the Tamez family land, but it also provided an international platform to dispute the militarization of Indigenous territory throughout the U.S.-Mexico bordered-lands. The gathering and years of ensuing resistance and activism produced an archive of scholarly analyses, testimonios, artwork, legal briefs, poetry, and other cultural productions. This unique collection spotlights powerful voices and perspectives from NdE leaders, Indigenous elders, settler-allies, Native youth, and others associated with the Tamez family, the NdE defiance, and the larger Indigenous rights movement to document their resistance; expose, confront, and end racism and militarization; and to foreground Indigenous women-led struggles for justice.