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

Jehom, Welyne Jeffrey, Enriching Iban Pua Kumbu: Weaving Tradition and Innovation in an Indigenous Society. 243 pp. 2026:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <766-829>
ISBN 978-981-9941-32-2 hard ¥31,676.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Alcantara, Keitlyn, An Archaeology of Milpa Cultures: Maize and Ecological Worldbuilding in Central Mexico. 340 pp. 2026:8 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <766-889>
ISBN 978-1-68340-660-0 hard ¥24,563.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-68340-627-3 paper ¥7,815.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Inside the farming traditions that have supported food sovereignty and community resistance in past and present TlaxcalaIn this book, Keitlyn Alcantara draws on research from the state of Tlaxcala in Mexico to describe how its people resisted imperial domination and survived centuries of upheaval. Threatened by embargoes from the Aztec Empire and later colonial pressures, the Tlaxcalteca relied on the milpa-a maize-based agricultural system-and on the many wild plants within it that supported change and survival. Alcantara reveals the milpa as a living foodweb and philosophy of interconnection that sustained communities through terrace farming, household gardens, use of wild and domesticated fruit and nut trees, and the stewardship of rivers and wetlands.An Archaeology of Milpa Cultures bridges past and present to show how ancient strategies of interdependence continue to nourish contemporary campesino food sovereignty movements in Tlaxcala, even amid industrial pollution and monocropped landscapes. Incorporating bioarchaeological dietary isotope studies, Indigenous worldviews, and ethnographic research, this book illuminates how food sovereignty became a cornerstone of community resistance. Alcantara demonstrates that the lessons of the milpa inspire new visions for climate resilience, inviting readers to imagine a future rooted in collaboration, diversity, and care for the land.

Glowacki, Mary / Cook, Anita G. (eds.), Empire of the Ancestors: The Wari of the Middle Horizon. (Archaeology of South America) 410 pp. 2026:8 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <766-891>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7965-3 hard ¥24,563.- (税込) US$ 110.00

Uncovering evidence that ancestor veneration was deeply rooted in Wari society, shaping Wari expansion, rituals, and statecraftThis volume examines the central role of ancestors in Andean society during the Wari Empire of the Middle Horizon period (600-1000 CE), centuries before the rise of the Incas. As one of the earliest expansionist states in the Americas, the Wari laid the foundations of statecraft later adopted by the Inca. Their imperial growth was shaped by environmental changes linked to the El Nino cycle, which brought drought to the Ayacucho heartland and drove the search for new farmland. Empire of the Ancestors shows that expansion also required honoring ancestors, who oversaw the life-sustaining flow of water from underground channels and glacial lakes.Presenting archaeological evidence from throughout the Wari territory, including Huari, the capital, this volume reveals changes in how ancestors were treated and revered over time. Contributors explore many expressions of ancestor veneration at Wari sites: tombs designed with space for offerings, mummy bundles and body modifications, burial architecture integrated into ritual landscapes, and depictions of ancestors in ceramics and other media. Together, the evidence shows that ancestor veneration was not an Inca development but a long-standing Andean tradition inherited from the Wari.

Hong, Xu / Jing, Yuan (eds.), Sixty Years of Archaeology in Erlitou. 408 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <766-818>
ISBN 978-981-9565-40-5 hard ¥31,676.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book integrates field archaeology with multidisciplinary research on the Erlitou site. Beyond its significant archaeological discoveries, Erlitou represents the site subjected to the most extensive analysis by the various scientific and technological sub-disciplines within Chinese archaeology community to date. The papers collected here reflect the latest outcomes of collaborative research in various disciplines, including chronology, natural environment reconstruction, human osteology, subsistence strategies and craft production.

Rong, Xinjiang, Early Dunhuang Ethnic Tribes and Chinese-Western Communication. 203 pp. 2026:3 (Springer, GW) <766-823>
ISBN 978-981-9566-93-8 hard ¥31,676.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book introduces readers to ancient Chinese communications with other ethnic communities that lived west of Dunhuang along the ancient Silk Road. These ethnic groups included the Yuezhi and the Xiongnu (Huns), the Sogdians, the Tubo (Tibetans), the Huihu (Uigurs), and the Khotanese. Offering detailed descriptions of Chinese interactions with these peoples, it offers readers a clearer picture of China's ancient and medieval history, particularly the spread of Buddhism and other religious faiths, military operations like the Tibetan occupation and those under the Guiyijun (Return-to-Allegiance) regime, socioeconomic activities, and artistic efforts to create the Buddhist Grottoes.

Allard, Amelie, Community Politics of the Fur Trade: Relationships, Mobility, and Landscapes of Possibility. 250 pp. 2026:3 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <766-275>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7956-1 hard ¥20,097.- (税込) US$ 90.00

Reinterpreting the Great Lakes fur trade as a dynamic interplay of ambition, alliances, and evolving identitiesThe North American fur trade was more than a system of economic exchange. In this book, Amelie Allard examines the Great Lakes region as a dynamic landscape where European traders and Indigenous peoples negotiated clashing perspectives with the common purpose of trade and establishing relationships. Allard portrays the interactions between these groups as community politics and community building, highlighting both cooperation and contentious power imbalances during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Drawing on archaeological evidence including trading posts and wrecked canoes and historical documents such as traders' journals and memoirs, Allard unravels the social complexities of this world. She demonstrates how processes of place-making-through foodways, the built environment, and place-naming-as well as both waterborne and overland mobility shaped the identities and relationships of Euro-Canadian, metis, and Indigenous peoples. Community Politics of the Fur Trade challenges traditional narratives of colonialism by suggesting that for many Indigenous peoples such as the Anishinaabeg and Dakota, the fur trade era represented a moment of possibility rather than an inevitable path to subjugation.

Hughes, Jessica, Our Lady of Pompeii: Ruins, Religion, and Memory. (Classical Presences) 224 pp. 2026:8 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <766-102>
ISBN 978-0-19-890591-2 hard ¥9,207.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

One of the last things that Pope Francis did before his death in April 2025 was to approve the canonization of Bartolo Longo, an Italian lawyer who had spent his life building an enormous shrine to Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii, next to the famous archaeological excavations. Our Lady of Pompeii: Ruins, Religion, and Memory tells the story of the shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, and the new city that developed around it from the 1870s onwards. Jessica Hughes focuses on the shrine's relationship to the neighbouring archaeological site, and what this can tell us about the Catholic church's view of classical antiquity more broadly. In six chapters, and with the help of more than fifty photographs and maps, it shows how the ruined city of Pompeii gradually became part of the shrine's identity, providing inspiration for the artists, writers, and pilgrims who were drawn to the shrine and the miracle-working image of Our Lady that was housed there. It reveals the ambivalent attitude of Bartolo Longo and his collaborators to the classical past, which was seen in both positive and negative terms-that is, as an object of fascination and antiquarian curiosity, and as the dead and dusty 'land of idols and demons'. By telling the little-known story of this shrine and the people who lived, worked, and worshipped there, the book also gives a valuable new perspective on ancient Pompeii, showing how this famous archaeological site continues to hold meaning for people around the world.

Dong, Xiaoping, Folklore Fieldwork. 624 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <766-1040>
ISBN 978-981-9566-89-1 hard ¥39,596.- (税込) EUR 149.99

Folklore Fieldwork the first book to present systematic research based on the author's more than 20 years of fieldwork in urban and rural areas throughout China. It addresses the theory and methodology of Chinese folkloristics, highlighting the unique characteristics of Chinese culture and society in the process, and explores the core process of modern Chinese folkloristics, making the field accessible to an international audience.

教育人類学研究ハンドブック
Eisenhart, Margaret (ed.), Research Handbook on the Anthropology of Education: Practices and Methods. (Elgar Handbooks in Education) 432 pp. 2026:7 (E. Elgar, UK) <766-1041>
ISBN 978-1-0353-3290-8 hard ¥65,983.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00

This innovative Research Handbook explores how anthropological perspectives can help us to understand education in diverse contexts, providing an overview of recent research, current challenges and future directions in the field. Expert contributors examine how cultural practices, knowledge, meaning systems and historical traditions shape learning and teaching experiences around the world.Bringing together emerging and established scholars, this Handbook illustrates anthropologically-oriented practices and methods for researching the complexity, heterogeneity and diversity of contexts for learning and education. It explores the ongoing modification of traditional practices in response to emerging theoretical and ethical concerns such as critical race theory and feminist theory, as well as the impact of new AI technologies. The Handbook encompasses key topics of educational justice, inequality and policy, examining challenges to conventional practices and methods and offering new directions and innovative forms of representation.The Research Handbook on the Anthropology of Education is an essential resource for educational scholars, particularly those with an interest in educational anthropology and comparative education more broadly. It will also be useful for students and academics in the sociology of education, qualitative research methods and interdisciplinary research.

人類における戦争と平和の起源
Meijer, Hugo, The Origins of War and Peace in the Human Species. 766 pp. 2026:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <766-1043>
ISBN 978-1-009-71449-5 hard ¥10,741.- (税込) GB￡ 35.00

When, why, and how did we, humans, develop our distinctive and paradoxical inclination for both war and peace? This groundbreaking book investigates that central question by drawing on cutting-edge research and an unprecedented range of evidence from thirteen disciplines - including biology, primatology, comparative ethology, behavioural ecology, anthropology, archaeology, criminology, social psychology, linguistics, demography, genetics, neurosciences, and climatology. The book shows how the capacities for both war and peace co-evolved gradually over millions of years through a mosaic-like pattern, with distinct but interacting components emerging at different moments and becoming integrated over evolutionary time. This deep-rooted trajectory has been shaped by feedback loops between biological, cultural, and environmental forces. With its expansive temporal horizon, cross-species comparisons, and empirical richness, this book offers a sweeping new account - and an indispensable resource - for anyone interested in the origins of the Janus-faced inclination for both war and peace in the human species.

Wagner, Wolfgang / Moya, Cristina (eds.), Culture, Identity, and Essentialism: Anthropological and Psychological Approaches. (Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences) 369 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <766-1045>
ISBN 978-3-032-11917-9 hard ¥13,196.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This Open Access book examines how people often treat social group membership as inherent, immutable, informative and even intergenerationally inherited. Such essentialism remains one of the more puzzling folk intuitions, at odds with social science maintaining that people become culturally competent group members through enculturation, and that norms can change how group boundaries are defined quite substantially. Essentialism also features prominently in much rhetoric that justifies intergroup hostility and in researchers' attempts to explain it. Nonetheless, social scientists have not reached a consensus about essentialism's causal role in intergroup relations. In this Open Access book, contributors from a range of perspectives tackle fundamental questions in this field: Do humans share a tendency to essentialise groups?If so, where does this tendency come from?How is essentialism expressed in cognition, behavior, and institutions?What are its consequences for cooperation and social conflict? Psychologists, cultural anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists weigh in on these questions in this volume, often using specific cultural contexts as case studies to elucidate both the particularities and common patterns in the ways essentialism does, or does not, work in the real world.

Baron, Justyna, Craftwork in Small-Scale Societies of the Central European Bronze Age. (Elements in the Archaeology of Europe) 75 pp. 2026:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <766-1048>
ISBN 978-1-009-61127-5 hard ¥16,879.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-61129-9 paper ¥5,524.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

The Element examines various facets of craftwork in small-scale societies that thrived in much of Central Europe during the Bronze Age (2300-800 BCE). These societies exhibited distinct structures and types of social bonds that formed the social and spatial backdrop for craft practices. Since most Bronze Age villages were inhabited by small groups, all forms of crafting were at least partially communal, fostering the exchange of experiences, skills, and knowledge both within and across different production areas. The public nature of crafting practices also encouraged discussions about applied tools, methods, skills, and the quality of the final products. The author explores overarching questions about communication and knowledge transfer within and beyond small groups, drawing on archaeological and ethnographic data. This includes considerations of standardization, personalization, imitation, seasonality, and cross-crafting. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elena Castiello, Maria / Tobalina-Pulido, Leticia (eds.), Working with Imperfection in Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Data Management. (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) 157 pp. 2026:4 (Springer, GW) <766-1049>
ISBN 978-3-032-15436-1 hard ¥13,196.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book delves into the management of data imperfection, a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of archaeological research. By bringing together diverse voices and expertise, the book offers a pioneering examination of how researchers across Europe deal with the challenges posed by incomplete, fragmented or ambiguous data in archaeology. One of the most problematic issues when working with humanistic data, and specifically with archaeological data, is their imperfection. The data is ambiguous, partial, imprecise, uncertain. This imperfection, which can be intrinsic to the data themselves or be generated later with its processing, makes it difficult to produce reliable results. In recent years, some researchers have become increasingly interested in the need to address in their research, especially those using databases, the problem of data imperfection and all the implications that this entails. This volume bring together researchers who are or have worked on the imperfection of archaeological data in its broadest sense, from theoretical reflections to proposals for managing the imperfection or part of it (uncertainty, inaccuracy, incompleteness, etc.) in any chronological period and application, both during the collection of data in the field or its processing in the laboratory. The book comprises 12 chapters, in addition to an introduction and a conclusion. It brings together contributions from European researchers from various academic levels, providing a rich tapestry of insights into the topic. The chapters span a broad historical range, featuring case studies that cover periods from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages.

McNiven, Ian J., Sentient Seas: Archaeologies of Seascapes and Maritime Rituals. (Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology) 504 pp. 2026:3 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <766-1053>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7961-5 hard ¥24,563.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-8130-8154-0 paper ¥7,815.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A novel cross-cultural exploration of how maritime peoples have engaged with the sea through cosmology, spirituality, and ritualSentient Seas offers a global perspective on maritime cultures, examining how societies across time and space have understood and interacted with the sea. Synthesizing archaeological evidence, historical documents, and ethnographic accounts, Ian McNiven explores maritime traditions from ancient civilizations in the Middle East and Mediterranean to medieval Europe and Scandinavia to contemporary Indigenous communities in the South Pacific.McNiven investigates diverse cultural practices including shipbuilding, the treatment of shipwrecks and shipwreck victims, and maritime resource use, interpreting the evidence through the perspectives of mariners who understood the seas to be sentient and capable of acting with intentionality. He introduces the concepts of "terrestrial seascapes" and "ontological switching" to illustrate how land-based shrines and votive offerings extend maritime cosmologies and maintain a liminal transition from land to sea. By bridging anthropological and archaeological research with transdisciplinary blue humanities scholarship, Sentient Seas approaches seas as spiritscapes, recontextualizing folkloric beliefs about maritime superstitions.

Scott-Ireton, Della A. / McKinnon, Jennifer F., The Archaeology of American Shipwrecks. (The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective) 190 pp. 2026:7 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <766-1055>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7967-7 hard ¥20,097.- (税込) US$ 90.00

Uncovering America's past through the archaeology of its shipwrecksThe Archaeology of American Shipwrecks highlights the essential role of watercraft in United States history and demonstrates how the study of submerged sites contributes to a deeper understanding of the nation's past. Combining evidence from shipwreck excavations with historical documentation, this volume reveals how maritime archaeologists locate, document, and preserve these important sites.This book examines a variety of vessels through time, including Indigenous-built dugout canoes, colonial ships that brought Europeans to the Americas, ships created for the whaling industry, and modern ships built for coastal defense. By tracing the role of watercraft in exploration, commerce, warfare, and expansion, it underscores the pivotal influence of maritime transport well into the twentieth century. Providing an overview of major discoveries along with little-known and previously unpublished research and discussing technological advances, new and evolving methodologies, and ethical issues relevant to the field, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the dynamic story of America's waterways.

Wilkie, Laurie A. / Kinkopf, Katherine M., An Introduction to Crip Archaeology. (The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective) 280 pp. 2026:4 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <766-1056>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7955-4 hard ¥20,097.- (税込) US$ 90.00

A groundbreaking overview of how disability studies can enrich interpretations of the past and make the profession of archaeology more inclusive and accessible An Introduction to Crip Archaeology is a groundbreaking exploration of how disability studies and critical disability studies can transform the way archaeologists interpret the past. Through case studies and intersectional analysis, Laurie Wilkie and Katherine Kinkopf reveal how people with disabilities have been treated and viewed in American history, and how these processes have shaped the material worlds archaeologists study. This book is an essential starting point for students and scholars seeking to move beyond stereotypes that define disability as a limitation or deficit. The authors demonstrate how these interpretive lenses can offer fresh insights on topics including how eugenic policies and racial science have influenced public health, medical training, and family planning. From the Dozier School for Boys to Japanese internment camps, the book examines how built environments have excluded certain bodies-while also uncovering communities of care and resistance. In addition to its value for research taking place today, An Introduction to Crip Archaeology is a call to action for a more inclusive and accessible discipline. It equips readers with strategies for recognizing disabling structures in access to sites, collections, and universities, and for creating space for disabled archaeologists in the field. This book enriches understandings of the past while shaping the future of archaeology.

人類学とAIハンドブック
Udupa, Sahana / Hervik, Peter (eds.), Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence. 512 pp. 2026:7 (E. Elgar, UK) <766-1005>
ISBN 978-1-0353-4219-8 hard ¥73,656.- (税込) GB￡ 240.00

This timely Handbook provides a groundbreaking collection of anthropological research on Artificial Intelligence (AI), examining how anthropology can help to comprehend and critique its development. Evaluating the limits, hopes and fears of AI, leading experts explore its influence as a sociocultural phenomenon rather than a discrete technological system.