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

Forssman, Tim, Archaeology in Africa: Why the Past Matters. (Archaeology of Africa) 280 pp. 2026:3 (Springer, GW) <764-922>
ISBN 978-3-032-13364-9 hard ¥34,459.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book presents a comprehensive account of how archaeology in Africa evolved, was challenged, and reimagined. Moving from nineteenth-century antiquarianism through independence to today, the book dismantles "dark continent" myths, foregrounds African ways of knowing, and argues for a praxis of archaeologies: multivocal, community-engaged, and methodologically rigorous. Case-led chapters demonstrate how trade, mobility, religion, and the environment have produced diverse African pasts, while contemporary sections address restitution, heritage policy, tourism, and climate risk. The book begins by clarifying what "Africa" signifies in scholarly and public discourse, then dismantles the enduring "dark continent" trope by setting colonial narratives against African intellectual traditions and evidence. Subsequent chapters track the emergence of archaeology, beginning with collections, amateurs, and missionaries, and progressing to professional excavations, surveys, and archaeological science, as well as the discipline's theoretical shifts, from culture history and processualism to post-processual and postcolonial critique, all examined through African case studies. The closing chapters set out why the past matters now: for identity, education, livelihoods, and environmental stewardship. Clear prose, focused case studies (spanning deep prehistory to the second-millennium trade horizons), and a continent-wide lens make this volume essential for students and researchers, while its emphasis on ethics and engagement resonates with heritage professionals and the broader public. The result is a clear, compelling account of what African archaeology is, how it differs from older traditions, and why it matters-for scholarship, for heritage stewardship, and for public life.

Boj Lopez, Floridalma, Indigenous Archives: The Maya Diaspora and Mobile Cultural Production. 200 pp. 2026:1 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-928>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2956-4 hard ¥23,439.- (税込) US$ 103.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3301-1 paper ¥5,850.- (税込) US$ 25.95 *

Indigenous Archives analyzes the modes through which young Guatemalan Mayas in Los Angeles and Guatemala make sense of and respond to transnational structures of settler colonialism. Drawing on in-depth analysis of cultural production and interviews with Guatemalan Maya youth and young adults, Floridalma Boj Lopez examines how Mayas in diaspora craft and circulate narratives about their experiences across borders. Citing a more active practice of "archives in formation," Boj Lopez depicts Indigenous archives as a cross-generational, collective conversation rooted in memory, survival, and cultural expression where Indigenous cultural practices and artifacts move, adapt, and assert their presence in the contemporary. Indigenous Archives invites readers to consider Indigeneity as a process, lived experience, and historical perspective, rather than as a static identity, and shows how extending analysis across borders is critical to understanding Latinidad and Indigeneity.

Coronado, Jorge / Herrera Wassilowsky, Alexander (eds.), Archaeology and Its Avatars: Science and Culture in Latin America. 256 pp. 2026:7 (Northwestern U. Pr., US) <764-932>
ISBN 979-88-994802-5-6 hard ¥14,657.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Rozental, Sandra, The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft. 306 pp. 2026:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-938>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2966-3 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3312-7 paper ¥6,527.- (税込) US$ 28.95

Where and to whom do ancient things belong? What happens when they are stolen-not by a colonial power, but by a national museum claiming them as state patrimony? What kinds of healing and restitution can follow? In The Absent Stone, Sandra Rozental tells the story of the Piedra de los Tecomates, the largest stone monument in the Americas, popularly identified as the pre-Hispanic rain deity Tlaloc. In 1964, the Mexican state called in the military to forcefully relocate this 167-ton carving from the town of Coatlinchan to Mexico City's National Anthropology Museum. Using in-depth historical and ethnographic research, Rozental traces how the stone's absence continues to affect and unsettle Coatlinchan and its residents decades later, revealing the tensions between patrimony, nationalism, territory, memory, and materiality in Mexico. Questioning the premise that historical artifacts belong in museums under state-sanctioned care, The Absent Stone pushes contemporary critical scholarship on monuments and museum collections beyond the language of law, heritage, and cultural property, demonstrating how ancient things remain bound to the people and places they come from even after they are removed and displayed elsewhere.

Angelo, Dante / Zarankin, Andres (eds.), Archaeologies of Contemporary and Political Global Settings: Approaches to Our Political Pasts. (One World Archaeology) 287 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <764-718>
ISBN 978-3-032-13900-9 hard ¥34,459.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book delves into the political aspects of an archaeology of the contemporary past and provides evidence and an understanding of structural violence, inequalities, and possible ways to contest them in current settings. Using case studies, this volume presents a revision of how different theoretical approaches and archaeological methods (combined or mixed with other disciplinary or undisciplined methods), become tools to inquire on the political in its many facets. The contributions to this volume present different scenarios through which the political is or can be reconstituted, re-defined and scrutinized. Whether it is called dissident archaeology or archaeology of repression and resistance or tackling a wide array of subject such as climate change or consumerism, modern conflict, homelessness, migration, and displacement or others, the volume discusses lines of scrutiny that bring together efforts from distant and yet proximate places in the global south and north. Thus, this book provides material connections that illuminate the political spectrum that frames social conditions of power and resistance, the abuse of the former and the efficiency of the latter. This volume is of interest to archaeologists, heritage specialists, and historians studying the contemporary past.

Abraham, Lillykutty, Eco-Folk Rhythms: A Puttinai Analysis of Mavilan Songs. (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) 258 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:8 <764-871>
ISBN 978-1-6669-8006-6 hard ¥24,728.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 979-82-16-39087-9 paper ¥5,560.- (税込) GB￡ 17.99

Eco-Folk Rhythms: A puttinai Analysis of Mavilan Songs explores the deep ecological wisdom embedded in the oral traditions of the Mavilan tribe. Dr. Abraham's pioneering work analyzes Mavilan agricultural, nuptial, and ritual songs through the unique lens of puttinai, an Indigenous theoretical framework derived from ancient Tamil tinai theory. This approach bridges traditional ecocriticism with Indigenous knowledge systems. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book reveals how these songs serve as repositories of sustainable practices and environmental ethics, reflecting deep interconnections among humans, nature, and supernature. Eco-Folk Rhythms advocates for an alternative, non-Western approach to addressing contemporary environmental crises. A vital resource for ecocritical scholarship, anthropology, folklore, and Indigenous studies.

Langwick, Stacey A., Medicines That Feed Us: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World. 328 pp. 2026:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-429>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2977-9 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3322-6 paper ¥7,203.- (税込) US$ 31.95 *

Medicines That Feed Us examines the relationship between toxicity and remedy in the face of the intertwined health and environmental crises that are shaping life in the twenty-first century. Through ethnographic work with organizations that use plant-based healing and sustainable farming practices in Tanzania, Stacey A. Langwick asks what it means to heal in a toxic world. Expanding on the Kiswahili phrase dawa lishe, or medicines that feed us, Langwick describes the potency of plant medicines in therapeutic projects that address bodies and environments together. These efforts challenge biomedicine's intense focus on the internal dynamics of biological bodies and its externalization of the modern agricultural, industrial, and land management practices that impact it. Dawa lishe is not a call to return to the traditional, but an invitation to join contemporary experiments in how we know, use, and govern therapeutic plants. Medicines That Feed Us offers alternative ways of living and dying, growing and decaying, composing and decomposing which acknowledge the interdependence of bodily and ecological health.

Middleton, Alexandra, The Connector: Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics. (Experimental Futures) 296 pp. 2026:5 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-432>
ISBN 978-1-4780-3374-5 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3867-2 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In The Connector, Alexandra Middleton examines how the frontiers of experimental medical science are always the everyday lived experiences for patients and their families and communities. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews conducted in Swedish labs and clinics that develop neuromusculoskeletal protheses, as well as in the homes of patients enrolled in clinical trials as they live with these new forms of prosthetics, Middleton shows how patients' sensory experiences and domestic worlds become key spaces of scientific knowledge production that extend well beyond their visits to the lab. Through storytelling that centers the patients' embodied knowledge and labor, along with the scientists who work closely with them, Middleton depicts how "connection" entails inhabiting the liminal space between ideation and materialization, a space punctuated not only by breakthroughs and breakdowns, but the slow work of the everyday. The Connector critically examines where biomedical innovation, scientific discovery, and the "cutting edge" come from in ways that foreground the importance of the domestic spaces in which experimental science take place.

Chu, Nellie, Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou. 280 pp. 2026:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-448>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2964-9 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3309-7 paper ¥6,752.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In Precarious Accumulation, Nellie Chu tells the story of the migrant entrepreneurs at the heart of Guangzhou's fast fashion industry - one of the world's most dynamic hubs of transnational commodity production. Chu shows how rural Chinese migrants, West African traders, and South Korean jobbers navigate the high-speed, low-margin world of just-in-time garment production that fuels the constant accumulation of wealth via global supply chains. Drawing on fieldwork in Guangzhou's urban villages and household workshops, Chu outlines how these entrepreneurs' dreams of economic freedom clash with the reality of precarity and the exclusions of emigre status. Migrant bosses operate within a highly competitive, informal economy where they are both agents and target of exploitation, as they must evade rent collectors, endure racialized policing, and mitigate extortion from security officers and competitors. Chu crucially demonstrates how their efforts generate novel forms of migratory labor, commodity production, and cross-cultural exchange in postsocialist China.

Collu, Samuele, Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition. 232 pp. 2026:1 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-1180>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2951-9 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3294-6 paper ¥7,203.- (税込) US$ 31.95 *

Into the Loop asks how, and under what conditions, we can interrupt the repetitions that define us. Drawing from more than 200 hours of ethnographic observations of Systemic couples therapy in Buenos Aires, alongside auto-ethnographic recordings of Samuele Collu's own hypnotherapy sessions, this study traces the psychic forces that compel people to repeat, interrupt, or drift aside from relational loops. Grounding his analysis in affect theory, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology, Collu examines how identification, affective transmission, compulsive repetition, and hypnosis play out within therapeutic encounters observed by teams of psychotherapists through one-way mirrors and closed-circuit television systems. This focus on visual mediation reveals how screens and observational devices both capture and distort the therapeutic process itself-a dynamic that connects to broader questions about digital media and user-screen relations in contemporary society. Written in an experimental and literary style that moves fluidly between the academic, the personal, and their uncanny in-betweens, Into the Loop offers a unique window into the repetitive cycles that shape our most intimate relationships and the possibilities for transformation within them.

Mohan, Deepanshu / Saqib, Najam Us / Killemsetty, N. et al., The Practice of Visual Ethnography: Examining Identity and Lived Experiences of Marginalised Communities. 121 pp. 2026:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <764-1183>
ISBN 978-981-9546-47-3 hard ¥10,600.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book presents visual ethnography as a transformative approach to understanding, documenting, and representing the layered realities of marginalized communities and often-overlooked institutional contexts. It demonstrates how visual storytelling tools ranging from photography and video to infographics and spatial mapping can uncover the subtle social, cultural, and economic dynamics that traditional textual research tends to miss. Drawing on diverse case studies, the volume shows how visual narratives not only illuminate lived experiences but also foster collaboration and challenge dominant representations. By highlighting its multidisciplinary reach, the book situates visual ethnography within the intersecting domains of urban studies, development research, and policy engagement. It also delves into the ethical and methodological dimensions of visual storytelling, underscoring its potential to bridge academic inquiry with public understanding and policymaking. Ultimately, this work advocates for visual ethnography as a vital instrument of inclusive research and transformative communication, one that amplifies marginalized voices, strengthens social connections, and inspires meaningful change in contemporary urban and social landscapes. Readers will be drawn to its inventive methods, compelling findings, and thought-provoking themes, which together weave strong links between scholarship, advocacy, and on-ground practice.

Seetah, Krish / Leidwanger, Justin (eds.), Across the Shore: Integrating Perspectives on Maritime Heritage. (When the Land Meets the Sea) 254 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <764-1186>
ISBN 978-3-032-14229-0 hard ¥26,506.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book highlights critical developments in maritime research focusing on transformations brought about by the establishment of the 'Blue Economy' as well as the increasing recognition of the value of heritage for contemporary communities. It brings together a collection of chapters that seek to identify, and shape, how the field of maritime archaeology will mature in the coming decades as approaches, technologies, as well as expectations and uses, change and adapt. The book specifically sets out to tackle an interrelated suite of major new topics focused on maritime resources, UNESCO and the impacts of the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, with an express focus on how maritime heritage can benefit local communities. Intended for an international audience, the book is written in an accessible style, with contributions that provide an in-depth discussion of the trends outlined above for students and researchers working in maritime archaeology and heritage. Chapter 2 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Simpson, Nikita Kaur, Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas. (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography) 238 pp. 2026:3 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-1187>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2983-0 hard ¥27,047.- (税込) US$ 119.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3329-5 paper ¥7,203.- (税込) US$ 31.95 *

In Tension, Nikita Kaur Simpson examines the effects of rapid development in the Himalayas on the minds and bodies of the Gaddi people who inhabit them through attention to the multifaceted state of distress they call "tension." This "tension" takes many forms: Kamzori, or weakness, in the bodies of elderly women; "Future tension" accumulating in the minds of young girls; or Opara, or black magic, afflicting whole families. Through her long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Simpson follows the ways in which Gaddi people tie this distress to broader structural changes, such as land dispossession and caste, class, tribal and gender inequality, which are growing alongside modernity and prosperity. In doing so, she shows how "tension" acts as an everyday diagnostic of the problems of cultural, economic and environmental change as they shape intimate life. At once a lived historical account, a cartography of care relations, and a multi-sensory exploration of the intimate experiences of atmosphere and body, Tension puts forth a novel theory of distress, that inequality is often determined by who is made to feel, hold, and absorb distress.

Zimmerman, Erica (ed.), Foundations in Cyber-Ethnography: A Cross-Cultural Approach. 256 pp. 2027:4 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:7 <764-1188>
ISBN 978-1-6669-7421-8 hard ¥27,819.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 979-82-16-39271-2 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

This book comes at a critical time, as students, professionals, and the general population realize the increasing interdependence of cultural interactions both on and offline. In order to fully understand societies with cyber connectivity, current and future research must also include the ethnographic study of online and digital communication, which can no longer be relegated to a separate cyber space. Contributors examine the extent to which the cyber is now intertwined with the lives of anyone with connectivity and the ways in which it can affect society on local, national, and global levels. Not only is increased understanding of digital forms of communication and the role of online identity arguably crucial on individual levels -- including professional, personal, and relational contexts -- but also on societal levels -- including economic, diplomatic, and political contexts. Chapters in this volume analyze a number of examples of this importance, from success and security in professional contexts, to the development of personal relationships, to organizing political action, and even impacts on current global conflicts and international relations. Ultimately, this book argues that anyone engaged in the study of human society is compelled to include the study and findings of both online and offline communication in their research in order to gain an accurate and more complete understanding of any given culture with cyber connectivity.

考古学的推論－過去を理解するための案内
Banning, Edward, Archaeological Reasoning: A Guide to Understanding the Past. 368 pp. 2026:4 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <764-1190>
ISBN 979-87-651-5748-0 hard ¥29,364.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00
ISBN 979-87-651-5749-7 paper ¥12,360.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Bridging the gap between introductory and advanced archaeology courses, this book builds confidence in working with the tools of archaeological research and how to make plausible inferences about the past. How do archaeologists learn what happened thousands of years ago when all they have to work with are clusters of broken artifacts or patterns of post holes? Are their explanations any better than theories about ancient civilizations that we see in social media or popular streaming services? This book answers those questions and more. This book explores the ways archaeologists draw conclusions from evidence, recognizing that those interpretations will change as new evidence comes into play. Readers will learn more about the methods and research strategies that archaeologists use to understand ancient economies, social and political systems, or help date or classify sites, artifacts, or whole societies. The first chapter discusses the nature of inference and explanation in archaeology, or "how archaeologists figure things out." Subsequent chapters cover how archaeologists use lithic technology, experiments, and classification, how styles of pottery decoration help us identify social groups, and the intricacies of dating events. The book then turns to social archaeology, from the household scale, through settlements, to landscapes and regions, and mobility and sedentism over such regions. The next two chapters consider research on trade, wealth, status, and mortuary practices. Chapter 11 focuses on food and cuisine, and the last one on the archaeology of labor. There are also 12 exercises, with fictitious case studies from around the world and different research traditions. These build students' confidence in how to interpret data, without any expectation of statistical background. Using realistic, messy data, these exercises allow readers to think critically about how to draw reasonable conclusions, and how to add archaeological reasoning to their toolkit.

考古学の基本概念－起源、歴史、定義
Lyman, R. Lee, Fundamental Archaeological Concepts: Origins, Histories, Definitions. 272 pp. 2026:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <764-1194>
ISBN 979-82-16-19622-8 hard ¥27,819.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

A much-needed deep dive into some of the main concepts of archaeology, offering a comprehensive explanation and definition of commonly used terms. Modern archaeology includes a number of fundamental concepts. This volume compiles in one place the origins, developmental histories, and definitions of more than two dozen of archaeology's most fundamental concepts. Concepts discussed include artifact, assemblage, association, context, ecofact, feature, industry, in situ, period, provenience, site, stage, tool kit, and type/index fossil. The volume is neither a dictionary nor an encyclopedia. Its goals are: 1) to document the origin and history of each of the terms/concepts, 2) to present many of the definitions of each of the terms/concepts, and 3) to document the variability in definitions of each term/concept. Two sources of 'formal' data are reviewed. All sources were searched for the 27 concepts, and data recorded regarding (1) whether or not a term/concept appeared in each piece of literature, (2) the appearance of a particular concept without its associated term in each piece of literature, (3) the appearance of a particular term without definition or discussion of its associated concept in each piece of literature, and (4) the appearance of a particular term with an included definition and presenting the definition from each piece of literature. These formal data are supplemented with information on concepts encountered while reading other literature not included in the 'formal' samples of early literature and introductory textbooks. This book is unique among the archaeological literature for its synopses of much of the literature, coverage of the history and meanings of archaeological concepts used in fieldwork and analysis is thorough, and the varied definitions of concepts are summarized and easily consulted.

グローバル、ローカル、グローバル－ローマの考古学における近年のアプローチ
Mazzilli, Francesca / Montoya Gonzalez, Ruben et al. (eds.), The Global, the Local and the Glocal: Recent Approaches in Roman Archaeology. 232 pp. 2026:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:6 <764-1195>
ISBN 978-1-350-39842-9 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-39843-6 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

This volume explores the impact of Rome's globalizing empire upon identity and visual culture in its western and eastern provinces. It focuses particularly on the realities of glocal identities, the interconnectivity between people, ideas and technology, and the diverse and uniting nature of the empire.The issue of how identities are shaped and remoulded by Roman conquest, and by the aftermath of empire, are central to contemporary debates across the disciplines of classical archaeology and ancient history. The theoretical framework of glocalization offers a starting point for nuanced discussion through its exploration of the adaptation of a global phenomenon to local realities. Informed by this innovative paradigm and drawing on a wide array of sources, the chapters in this volume range across iconography, religion, settlements, imperial power and identities. Together they investigate the ways in which local actors engaged with imperial structures, and how this phenomenon varied across the different provinces.

Unwin, Christina, Design and Archaeology: The Social Imaginary in Iron Age and Early Roman Europe. 296 pp. 2026:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2027:7 <764-1196>
ISBN 978-1-350-44384-6 hard ¥26,273.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-44388-4 paper ¥8,960.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99

The application of design practice and theory has received little attention in the field of archaeology, despite the close and interdisciplinary connection of both disciplines working with material culture. Christina Unwin provides an up-to-date study that addresses this lacuna, by using a series of case studies from the Iron Age and early Roman period (c. 600 BC - c. AD 200) in different European regions. Giving the reader a concise overview of the relevant terminology and approaches in design theory, Unwin then applies these treatments in different archaeological contexts to reveal new aspects of how we can understand material culture.Design theory reveals that a material object may be understood beyond its material, form, function and period of time in which it was made, and invites archaeologists to re-evaluate their approaches to material things from a completely new perspective. Designed and made objects are immaterial in their planning, associations and effects - as well as material in their physical presence. The conceptual and terminological boundaries set by archaeological studies may therefore be challenged through the idea of design. This, in turn, enables the archaeologist to reconnect objects in terms of the people who made them, how they used them and how they interacted with them to build their sociality. This book is a significant intervention in the exploration of design and archaeological intersections across material culture.

言語、文化、コミュニケーション－メッセージの意味　第9版
Bonvillain, Nancy, Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages. 9th ed. 464 pp. 2026:4 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <764-1019>
ISBN 979-82-16-20060-4 hard ¥43,274.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00
ISBN 979-82-16-20061-1 paper ¥16,997.- (税込) GB￡ 54.99

Language, Culture, and Communication introduces students to the topics and theories of the broad field of linguistic anthropology by examining the multifaceted meanings and uses of language. It emphasizes the ways in which language encapsulates speakers' meanings and intentions. Through language structure and language use, speakers convey messages about their own identities, their understandings of the world and their place in it. The book includes discussion of cultural and symbolic meanings conveyed by language and the social and political dimensions of language use.New to the Ninth Edition:- New Chapter 7, "Digital Communication," discusses technological change, social media, artificial intelligence, and the rapid development of various systems and platforms for communication- New Chapter 6, "Signed Languages," offers an expanded discussion of ASL vocabulary and grammar as well as language practices in Deaf communities with an emphasis on a global and international perspective- New discussion of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) stresses the intersection of language and lived experience- New case studies in every chapter highlight central concepts so that students can focus directly on understanding the many faceted goals of language in use - Expanded discussion of language and nation building in multilingual communities (including code switching and translanguaging) emphasizes how our speaking styles are "borderless"

Bentley, R. Alexander / O'Brien, Michael J., Collaborators through Time: How Humans Partnered with Nature, Technology, and Each Other. 160 pp. 2026:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <764-1050>
ISBN 978-1-5381-9770-7 hard ¥7,418.- (税込) GB￡ 24.00

Spanning 2 million years, this book examines how humans partnered with nature, technology, and each other to shape their world, from evolutionary origins and ancient innovations to the rise of artificial intelligence. This book examines how humans collaborated with other entities, expanding in scale from individuals to other species of Homo, and further to the formation of groups, interactions with organisms, connections with past generations, and the transformative role of technology. Through dozens of vivid examples -from the lives of Neanderthals to the origins of agriculture, the impact of ancient diseases, the practices of shamans, Bronze Age innovations, global trade routes, and the products of the world's first cities - this narrative illuminates the intricate web of partnerships that defined human history. The final chapter delves into artificial intelligence, illustrating how its evolution mirrors the co-evolution of humans with technologies. AI's rapid development of learning and collaborative abilities echoes humanity's own adaptive journey, albeit at an accelerated pace. Richly illustrated with over 50 full-color figures, this book offers a visually engaging and intellectually stimulating journey through the partnerships that have shaped our world, from the dawn of prehistory to the cutting edge of AI.

Reynders, Dirk / Van Even, Priscilla / Scott, J. (eds.), Museums of the Future: Crafting the Cultural Landscapes of Tomorrow. 333 pp. 2026:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <764-1094>
ISBN 978-3-032-08983-0 hard ¥39,761.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book presents a visionary and comprehensive exploration of how museums are adapting to the evolving demands of contemporary society. It highlights the multiple roles museums play, as cultural institutions, educational spaces, social actors, and agents of innovation, while addressing the multifaceted challenges and opportunities museums face. Providing readers with a thorough understanding of their transformative potential, the book adopts a forward-looking perspective on the role of museums in shaping the future. Underpinning this vision is a reflective and critical stance, exploring and emphasizing how such transformation can happen in meaningful and sustainable ways.

Ashikin Said, Noor, Cultural Translation in Technology Design: When Technology Travels. (SpringerBriefs in Anthropology) 82 pp. 2026:1 (Springer, GW) <764-1175>
ISBN 978-3-032-13750-0 paper ¥13,251.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book explores the challenges and opportunities that arise when high-tech innovation crosses cultural boundaries-and how it can be thoughtfully adapted before reaching the end user. Drawing on a real-world case of a European Virtual Reality (VR) training system prepared for deployment in Malaysia's aerospace sector, this book investigates the cultural and cognitive translations necessary to ensure any design tool's success in a new context. Rather than documenting failure, it offers a blueprint for preventing it-by listening, adapting, and designing with local realities in mind. Drawing from ethnographic research, interviews, and human-centered design principles, this book explores the concept of anthropotechnology, aligning technology with local learning habits, social dynamics, and cultural expectations. It introduces the concept of the Anthropotechnological Islet, a bridging structure that enables imported systems to fit meaningfully into different environments before they are operationalized. The Islet is not a compromise between systems but a generative space for innovation that fosters cross-cultural adaptation and learning. This book is both a research monograph and a design manifesto. It tells the story of how a VR tool was reshaped-not just through technical refinement, but through cultural insight, institutional collaboration, and cognitive empathy. It offers practical guidance for those working in training, design, and technology transfer, especially in transnational or cross-cultural settings. In an increasingly globalized world, this book invites readers to rethink how we design for difference-early, intentionally, and with respect for local ways of knowing and learning.