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

Koga, Yukiko, Unrepayable Debt: Law, Redress, Reconciliation, and the Unmaking of Empire. 240 pp. 2026:6 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <759-799>
ISBN 978-0-226-84596-8 hard ¥25,679.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84598-2 paper ¥6,699.- (税込) US$ 30.00

What does it mean, and take, to repay the unrepayable? In the 1990s, a series of lawsuits was raised on behalf of Chinese survivors of violence and enslavement by the Japanese empire. Both inside and outside the courtroom, a movement emerged as Chinese victims, their descendants, and Japanese lawyers and activists forged transnational and intergenerational collaborations, seeking redress and reconciliation, and leading to a sea change in the legal sphere and settlements with implicated corporations. Asking what happens when moral and financial debts both demand and defy repayment, Unrepayable Debt explores what it takes to reckon with the nature and the scale of imperial violence, set against the entangled processes of decolonization and deimperialization.

D'Alpoim Guedes, Jade / Aldenderfer, Mark, The Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau. (Cambridge World Archaeology) 350 pp. 2026:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-811>
ISBN 978-1-108-48187-8 hard ¥28,215.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

The Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau offers a comprehensive survey of past and recent research on the prehistory of the plateau, from its early peopling to the eve of the foundation of the Tibetan Empire in the 7th C. The first English language book-length study of the Tibetan past, it is organized around eight chapters that describe modern and ancient environments, historical speculations about ancient Tibet by mystics, fascists, and contemporary scholars, evidence of the first peoples to live and thrive on the plateau, the arrival of the domesticated plants and animals that transformed the subsistence economy, and the emergence of early forms of status and prestige. The book concludes with a discussion of how the past informs environmental conservation and heritage preservation and explores how archaeological data are used by the Chinese state to create an alternative vision of the Tibetan past at odds with indigenous Tibetan perspectives.

Yu, Shuenn-der / Lee, Anru (eds.), Why Taiwan: Anthropological Perspectives. (Routledge Research on Taiwan Series) 244 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-829>
ISBN 978-1-041-06361-2 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book considers why Taiwan matters independent of the China-centric paradigm by both examining anthropological research on Taiwan as well as how to study Taiwan anthropologically, re-asserting the ontological status of Taiwan as a legitimate object of scholarly inquiry.

Chatterji, Roma / Shreyas, Amaan, Superheroes in Indian Comics: Deliberations from Anthropology. 236 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-858>
ISBN 978-1-041-00280-2 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-041-00369-4 paper ¥12,470.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

There is a prevailing sense that commercial Superhero Comics cannot be serious objects of academic enquiry. It is the hallowed graphic novel, with its auteur/author, for which serious work is reserved. This volume presents the work of three publishing houses who publish Superhero Comics in Delhi and Mumbai. It analyses their techniques of narration associated with the serial publication of commercial comics such as open-ended plots, frequent re-boots of the storyline, extended story arcs, and a complex narrative universe to throw into sharper relief the value of superhero comic books as distinct from the graphic novel. Through an exploration of commercial Superhero Comics, the authors wish to draw attention to a fluidity embedded in Superhero Comics, which is influenced by external pressures of distribution and production that are generally ignored in the desire to view a comic text as a discrete and disembodied whole. Superhero Comics then emerge as a post-modern vehicle to test serious socio-political issues in the mode of fantasy. This ethnographic attempt to understand the contexts of production, circulation, and consumption of Superhero Comics will be of interest to comics scholars, students of popular culture, sociology, social anthropology, literature, and the arts.

Khatchadourian, Lori / Smith, Adam T. / Lindsay, Ian et al., Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict. 204 pp. 2026:7 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <759-706>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8737-9 hard ¥32,378.- (税込) US$ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-8738-6 paper ¥5,570.- (税込) US$ 24.95

Heritage Forensics introduces a new framework for investigating cultural heritage caught up in war, ethnic cleansing, and secrecy. The volume combines satellite-based spatial analysis with humanistic research and humanitarian concern to document the impact of the protracted conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijan on the medieval and modern heritagescape of the South Caucasus. Drawing on the findings of Caucasus Heritage Watch, the authors demonstrate how cultural erasure, looting, and violence have inflicted harm on historical sites and the descendant communities for whom they hold enduring significance. Out of the forensic materials provided by the Nagorno-Karabakh Wars, Lori Khatchadourian, Adam T. Smith, Ian Lindsay, and Husik Ghulyan offer a reflexive approach for bearing witness to abuses of cultural heritage that emphasizes historical and political context and the careful use of powerful technologies in an era of post-truths. Heritage Forensics establishes a model for investigating cultural heritage threatened by political violence and is an invaluable resource for scholars, journalists, activists, and policy makers alike.

Backman, Aina, Anthropology and Immigration Detention Work in Sweden: Being an Outsider Inside the Fence. 304 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-1168>
ISBN 978-1-032-93490-7 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book offers an anthropological inquiry into the labor underpinning immigration detention in Sweden, examining the daily practices, institutional efforts, and forms of knowledge production that sustain the detention regime.Drawing upon fieldwork involving time spent with detention workers while wearing a uniform, the author offers a rare, immersive perspective, providing insights from detention departments, offices, meetings, training sessions, isolation cells, and control rooms. By situating these practices in relation to the European and international deportation industry, the book analyses how detention is not only executed but also increasingly optimized and made the subject of social scientific understanding. Through this lens, the study sheds light on the operational procedures that shape contemporary immigration control. By bringing Martin Heidegger's critique of modern technology into dialogue with this anthropological study of detention work, the book offers an analytical lens on how technology shapes not only practice but perception. Rather than treating technological systems within detention as tools to be studied, this book foregrounds the idea that technological thinking preconditions how detention is conceived, analyzed, and understood.Anthropology and Immigration Detention Work in Sweden is suitable for scholars of incarceration, immigration, and deportation, particularly in Nordic and European contexts.

Barrett, Christopher K., Data Analysis Basics for Anthropology: A Primer on the Collection, Configuration, and Interpretation of Quantitative Data. 206 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <759-1169>
ISBN 978-1-032-99767-4 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-032-99766-7 paper ¥12,470.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

This accessible guide introduces readers to the essential process of collecting, organizing, testing, and interpreting quantitative data in biological Anthropology and Archaeology. Written in straightforward language, it avoids complex mathematical theory and programming jargon in favor of practical application, making statistical concepts approachable for students and researchers at all levels.Through relevant anthropological and archaeological examples, readers learn critical data analysis skills including determining sample sizes, identifying outliers, handling missing data, testing normality, evaluating hypotheses, and estimating effect size and statistical power. All techniques are demonstrated using R Statistics and other free, open-source software, providing hands-on experience with industry-standard tools without additional cost.This concise volume bridges the gap between theoretical statistics and real-world application, equipping readers with the fundamental skills needed to conduct and interpret their own research in biological anthropology and archaeology. This book will be perfect for undergraduate and graduate students new to quantitative methods, researchers returning to the field, and instructors seeking a practical supplement for statistics and research methods courses.

Durrani, Nadia / Fagan, Brian M., Ancient Lives: An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory. 8th ed. 650 pp. 2026:2 (Routledge, UK) <759-1172>
ISBN 978-1-032-97222-0 hard ¥57,915.- (税込) GB￡ 195.00
ISBN 978-1-032-97220-6 paper ¥32,670.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00

Ancient Lives is an engaging and accessible textbook that introduces complete beginners to the fascinating worlds of archaeology and prehistory through sites of key significance and the world's first civilizations. Opening with an introduction to the basic principles, methods, and theoretical approaches of archaeology, the book then provides a summary of world prehistory from a global perspective, exploring human origins and the reality of life in the prehistoric world. Later chapters explore the development of agriculture and animal domestication, and the emergence of cities and state-level societies across the globe. The new edition updates and reflects the latest thinking through numerous updates of case studies, discoveries, and advances in methods and theory. As well as comprehensive revisions throughout the book, new sections on the relevance of archaeology to contemporary society and issues are included.Ancient Lives continues to be a comprehensive and essential introduction to archaeology and is an ideal textbook for students studying archaeology and prehistory for the first time

Franz, Marisa Karyl, Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums. 210 pp. 2026:7 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <759-1173>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8795-9 hard ¥32,378.- (税込) US$ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-8796-6 paper ¥7,133.- (税込) US$ 31.95

Near and Desired Things reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge-making and centers of scientific research, regional identity, and colonial authority. Rather than collecting from distant colonies, these institutions concentrated on surrounding communities, their tools, beliefs, and everyday lives, to configure ideas about what counted as legitimate knowledge. Marisa Karyl Franz traces how Siberian museums helped construct shamanism as an ethnographic category. Shamans, while familiar and embedded in local space, were recast as icons of cultural otherness or representatives of an imagined primitive past. Through the evolving languages of science, anthropology, and empire, the local was abstracted and exported, feeding global museum networks and shaping modern anthropology. Yet, the museums held onto the intimacy of place, preserving tensions between familiarity and spectacle, documentation and desire. By placing Siberia at the center of a broader intellectual and political history, Near and Desired Things challenges assumptions about where modern knowledge is made and redefines provincial spaces as sites of innovation and as forces that reshape the terms of empire.

Gillman, Derek, The Idea of Cultural Heritage: A Liberal Perspective. 3rd ed. 262 pp. 2026:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-1174>
ISBN 978-1-009-47494-8 hard ¥23,760.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-009-47493-1 paper ¥7,425.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00

The concept of cultural heritage evolved to preserve important objects and practices, in peacetime and during conflict. It now justifies export controls and government regulation and provides the background to moral claims to valuable works of art and architecture. In this new edition of The Idea of Cultural Heritage, Derek Gillman provides an updated overview of both long-standing and more recent controversies over cultural things. In the last decade, these have been further charged not only by accelerating calls for the repatriation of materials from Western museums to countries of origin, but also by institutional acknowledgement of European colonisation, and the reimagination of displays at museums and historic sites. Using cases from Asia, Africa, Europe and North America, Gillman provides a critical analysis of whether cosmopolitan or nationalist concerns should take priority in adjudicating cultural disputes, mapping the heritage debate onto positions in contemporary political philosophy and reframing it within a discussion of basic values.

Gosline, Sheldon Lee, Altered Minds: The Interface of Substances, Virtual Simulations and AI Consciousness. 250 pp. 2026:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-1175>
ISBN 978-1-009-74909-1 hard ¥26,730.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of humanity's quest for altered states, from ancient psychoactive rituals to immersive AI and virtual reality, and examines their continued impact on cognition, culture, governance, and identity. Drawing on decades of global fieldwork and interdisciplinary research, Dr Sheldon Lee Gosline traces compelling connections between the regulation of controlled substances and the addictive dynamics of emerging technologies. Readers are challenged to move beyond binaries of legality and pathology and discover how symbols, rituals, and imagination have long mediated our understanding of self and reality. Bridging anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy, and the history of medicine, chapters introduce innovative concepts such as symbolic entropy and recursive regulation to interpret present crises and anticipate future transformations. A must-read for scholars, policymakers, and curious readers alike, the volume offers a powerful lens through which to understand the evolving future of consciousness in the digital age.

Hales, Molly, Vital Ties: Digitally Mediated Intimacies with the Dead. 198 pp. 2026:5 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <759-1176>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8665-5 hard ¥32,378.- (税込) US$ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-8666-2 paper ¥6,686.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Vital Ties depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies. In southern Australia, a game developer crafts a virtual reality experience, reuniting his best friend with an avatar of his late father. In northern California, a woman creates a smartphone app to log moments in which her deceased mother appears. In Chicago, a high school teacher visits her late brother's Facebook page, hypnotized by the shifting content that animates and re-animates him. As digital media offer ways to bring the dead to presence, the living and the dead are haunted in new ways, affecting relationships to both media and death. Molly Hales argues that the confluence of digital technology and death reveals a process of ongoing mutual animation between the living and the dead. Lyrical and moving, Vital Ties offers a powerful rethinking of death, memory, and mediation in the digital age.

Lopez-Garcia, Pedro A. / Argote, Denisse L., Determining Provenance from Compositional Data. (Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques) 75 pp. 2027:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-1181>
ISBN 978-1-009-63416-8 hard ¥16,335.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-63417-5 paper ¥5,346.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

Traditionally, classical multivariate statistical methods have been applied to relate cultural materials recovered at archaeological sites to their respective raw material sources. However, when reviewing published research, which usually claims to have reached a high degree of confidence in the assignment of materials, the authors have detected that those applying these methods can make serious errors that compromise the inferences made. This Element reconsiders the use of statistical methods to address the problem of provenance analysis of archaeological materials using a step-by-step procedure that allows the recognition of natural groups in the data, thus obtaining better quality classifications while avoiding the problems of total or partial overlaps in the chemical groups (common in biplots). To evaluate the methods proposed here, the challenge of group search in ceramic materials is addressed using algorithms derived from model-based clustering. For cases with partial data labeling, a semi-supervised algorithm is applied to obsidian samples.

人種とエスニシティの人類学ハンドブック
Pierre, Jemima / Rahier, Jean Muteba (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity. (Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology) 410 pp. 2026:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-1183>
ISBN 978-1-316-51503-7 hard ¥37,125.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00

What is race and how does it structure our contemporary world? This Handbook offers a groundbreaking exploration of these urgent questions, providing a critical, global perspective on the anthropology of race and ethnicity. Drawing together cutting-edge research across subdisciplines such as physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology and linguistics, it emphasizes the key roles of colonialism and the discipline of anthropology in shaping our understanding of race, and demonstrates the instrumentality of race/ethnicity in the reproduction of local and global inequality. The chapters show how a variety of issues are deeply rooted in global structures of race and power - from the rising popularity of genomics to police brutality and the rise of the far right in the West. Providing new theoretical frameworks and innovative methodologies reshaping the discipline of anthropology, this Handbook is a vital resource for anyone interested in the complexities of race in the 21st century.

死の人類学ハンドブック
Richardson, Sarah L. / Wagner, Sarah E. et al. (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Death. (Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology) 590 pp. 2026:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-1184>
ISBN 978-1-316-51056-8 hard ¥37,125.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00

Shaped by important shifts in the field and a global pandemic, this Handbook provides a fresh look at the anthropology of death. It is split into five parts, with chapters examining how deathcare happens and the kinds of relationships that arise between the living, the dying, and the dead; how rituals change and also endure; and how societies make sense of and live with death - both everyday and catastrophic. It draws on theories of social death and necropolitics, as well as death's materiality and more-than-human experiences of death and grief, inviting a broader understanding of the subject itself. With contributors from within and beyond the fields of anthropology and death studies, it bridges gaps in scholarly dialogues around life from death and death's afterlife of mourning and memory. The ethnographically grounded individual studies combine to underscore why death matters in new and urgent ways beyond concerns of just human life.

Jonutyte, Kristina, Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia. 210 pp. 2026:3 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <759-134>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8605-1 hard ¥32,378.- (税込) US$ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-8606-8 paper ¥7,133.- (税込) US$ 31.95

Pentaris, Panagiotis / Pitsillides, Stacey et al. (eds.), Decolonising Death Studies. 320 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-1037>
ISBN 978-1-032-89683-0 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00
ISBN 978-1-032-87855-3 paper ¥12,470.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99

Social and cultural factors can strongly influence how we approach death and dying, including attitudes towards death, rituals and practices surrounding death, and end-of-life care.Current knowledge in death studies tends to be influenced by Western views, which can limit its application to policy and practice. The increasing diversity and plurality of populations around the world requires further attention to be paid to diversifying evidence and knowledge to ensure that it effectively serves its beneficiaries. This book provides cutting-edge discourses and debates on death studies as a global and international field of research and practice. By hosting the space for interdisciplinary, international contributions, especially from under-represented groups, it advances our exploration of both knowledge outside of the colonised and the degree of the current knowledge's applicability in the field. Offering a truly innovative contribution to the field through its clear emphasis on decolonising methodologies and perspectives, it highlights decolonisation as a central framework, and pushes boundaries and challenges established norms, paving the way for new and transformative conversations within death studies.Through its collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, the proposal breaks new ground by bringing together a diverse range of perspectives and voices, fostering rich dialogue and promoting inclusivity. This innovative approach promises to catalyse meaningful change and advance critical scholarship in death studies. It will be of interest to all undergraduate and postgraduate courses on death studies across both humanities and social sciences.

文化の盗用
Lenard, Patti Tamara, Cultural Appropriation. (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series) 240 pp. 2026:3 (MIT Pr., US) <759-1116>
ISBN 978-0-262-05158-3 paper ¥4,453.- (税込) US$ 19.95

What cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is harmful. What exactly is cultural appropriation? At one extreme are those commentators who suggest that any borrowing of elements outside of one s own culture is cultural appropriation, and therefore, always wrong; at the other extreme, are those who argue that the history of human civilization just is cultural exchange, and therefore, never wrong. This book offers a clear and straightforward account of what cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is wrong. Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint define cultural appropriation as the non-consensual, knowing (or culpably ignorant) taking of something of cultural value, usually a symbol or a practice, to others. Alleged acts of cultural appropriation generate substantial contestation in public discourse. But the fact of contestation, over whether an act is in fact cultural appropriation, is not sufficient to mean that someone has done something wrong and thereby merits criticism. The authors show that there are particular conditions including power imbalances and potential profit at the expense of the cultural group under which cultural appropriation is inarguably wrong, and therefore, worthy of criticism.