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

Singh, Kundan / Maheshwari, Krishna, Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children: A Francophone Postcolonial Analysis. 259 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-941>
ISBN 978-3-031-57626-3 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-57629-4 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

Euro-American misrepresentations of the non-West in general, and in particular on Hinduism and ancient India, run deep and have far greater colonial connections than that have been exposed in academia. This book analyzes the psycho-social consequences that Indian American children face after they are exposed to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. The authors show that there is an intimate connection-an almost exact correspondence-between James Mill's colonial-racist discourse and the current school-textbook discourse. The very parameters and coordinates on which James Mill constructed the discourse are the ones that are being used to describe Hinduism, Hindus, and ancient India in the textbooks currently. Consequently, this archaic and racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces in the Indian American children a psychological impact quite similar to what racism is known to produce: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon similar to racelessness where the children dissociate from the tradition and culture of their ancestors. This book argues that the current school textbook discourse on Hinduism and India needs to change so that the Indian American children do not become victims of overt and covert racism. For the change to occur, the first step is to recognize the overarching and pervasive influence of the colonial-racist discourse of James Mill on the textbooks. For the reconstruction of the discourse to take place, the first step is to engage in a thorough deconstruction, which is what the book attempts.

Pillen, Alex, Endurance: Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World. (Brill Kurdish Studies 1) 220 pp. 2024:10 (Brill, NE) <726-965>
ISBN 978-90-04-70951-5 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) EUR 120.00

In Endurance , Alex Pillen portrays a sense of being unique within Kurdish cultural spheres. How to feel unique despite devastating violence, cultural oppression and assimilation is a question faced by many communities globally. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is a focal point for such uniqueness. When a culture is under siege and many have lost a former way of life it may not be clear how a society looks itself in the mirror, finds its reflection. Alex Pillen's portrayal of Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World locates such lines of reflection within everyday language. The fear of a random geopolitical pair of dice is global, a fear to be honed when reading this account of uniqueness in the face of totalising loss

Pintchman, Tracy, Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple. 200 pp. 2024:11 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <726-222>
ISBN 978-0-19-067301-7 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-067302-4 paper ¥4,924.- (税込) US$ 21.95

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen years of field work, Tracy Pintchman reveals how the Parashakthi Temple has become a site of theological and ritual innovation. A unique spiritual community, the temple does not simply reproduce Indian goddess traditions, but instead reimagines Hinduism and the Hindu Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape. The congregation's faith is grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Like her congregants, Pintchman suggests, the goddess is emblematic of the qualities of a new immigrant; she embraces the opportunities her new home affords her and refashions herself, but she does not forget her roots, keeping one foot planted in her Indian homeland and another planted firmly in her new land, the United States. Pintchman considers larger issues concerning the creativity of immigrant Hindu communities and the ways in which diaspora contexts facilitate the production of new forms of Hinduism that are made possible by globalization and modern technology.

Letiche, Hugo / De Loo, Ivo / Moriceau, Jean-Luc, How Do I Conduct Ethnographic Research? (Elgar Dissertation Companions) 176 pp. 2024:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-23>
ISBN 978-1-80392-652-0 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-80392-654-4 paper ¥7,766.- (税込) GB￡ 26.95

Providing indispensable guidance to how to engage in and carry out ethnographic research, this book highlights the potential advantages and possible pitfalls of this type of qualitative studies. Hugo Letiche, Ivo De Loo and Jean-Luc Moriceau paint a full picture of this fascinating research approach, focusing on its adaptability in the field, when researchers become actively involved with those who they are researching.How Do I Conduct Ethnographic Research? addresses three forms of ethnographic analysis: ethnography, autoethnography, and netnography. Each chapter begins with specific aims to be addressed, and is concluded with helpful exercises to strengthen both one's theoretical and practical academic skills. Stressing the role of researcher choice-making, this timely book aids the reader in devising a unique approach that best suits the context of their research.This book is crucial for postgraduate students of business and management, marketing, strategy and organization, as well as related subject areas such as finance and human resource management. Those who are new to ethnographic research will additionally find this guide to be invaluable.

Haddad, Fernando, The Excluded Third: Contribution to a Dialectical Anthropology. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 288) 171 pp. 2024:8 (Brill, NE) <726-1142>
ISBN 978-90-04-70089-5 hard ¥44,487.- (税込) EUR 183.00

In view of the new forays from biology into the Humanities, this book aims not only to demonstrate the inconsistencies of the theory of evolution in addressing cultural dynamics but also to offer an alternative that begins from a resumption of the dialogue between anthropology and historical materialism in which dialectics reintroduces itself to anthropology from different premises and the role of symbolic language within materialism is reevaluated.

Hofmann, Daniela / Frieman, C. J. / Furholt, M. et al., Negotiating Migrations: The Archaeology and Politics of Mobility. (Debates in Archaeology) 264 pp. 2024:8 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1143>
ISBN 978-1-350-42766-2 hard ¥21,615.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00

As a species, we have always been mobile and migration was a habitual feature of prehistoric life. This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies mainly from the European Neolithic, but also from the Pacific, the US Southwest, the medieval Migration Period and the historical Great Lakes, to discuss how a focus on small-scale inter-personal relations - on the power struggles, negotiations and choices that people make in everyday settings - can help us understand migration events in archaeology. While much archaeological scholarship, using isotopes and aDNA, focuses on migrations as large-scale phenomena and crisis responses, this book offers a new approach by exploring how moving on was embedded in social practice. This book offers a novel reinterpretation of how the political aspects of migration shaped past people's worlds in Europe and beyond, drawing on archaeological, historical, linguistic and aDNA evidence. Overall, the conclusion is that a bottom-up approach can help us to understand migration in the past at a variety of scales, in many different regions of the world The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre of Advanced Studies in Oslo.

van Roekel, Eva / Murphy, Fiona (eds.), A Collection of Creative Anthropologies: Drowning in Blue Light and Other Stories. (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology) 319 pp. 2024:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-1150>
ISBN 978-3-031-55104-8 hard ¥10,936.- (税込) EUR 44.99

A Collection of Creative Anthropologies brings together a series of creative work of anthropologists who share the art of writing that arises from 'ordinary' engagement and reveals its potential for the reimagining of anthropological futures and alternative worlds. This is a collection of creative anthropology anchored in experimentality and encouragement. A book that defies imaginaries of academic convention through the cultivation of a mundus imaginalis requiring moments of pause, of introspection, and of discomfort. This centring of creativity at the heart of anthropology subtly conveys how the complex ethical and moral issues around fieldwork and anthropological theorising can be reflected on through writing otherwise, in creative spaces such as this book. A Collection of Creative Anthropologies fits the current call for radical revisions of the academic canon in anthropology, and the social sciences and humanities more broadly.

Darmangeat, Christophe, Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be: At the Origin of Male Domination. (Historical Materialism Book Series 323) 316 pp. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <726-123>
ISBN 978-90-04-53523-7 hard ¥37,680.- (税込) EUR 155.00

When was male domination established in human societies, and why did it take hold? How does humanity's most remote past inform today's feminist struggle? This new, updated edition of Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be - available for the first time in English translation - represents a timely contribution to the debate, drawing on the accumulated knowledge of ethnology and archaeology. While noting the many outdated aspects of Morgan and Engels' seminal work, this vast synthesis, guided by a rigorous materialist approach, renews Marxist analysis on a theme that is at once remote and pressingly topical.

石田慎一郎著　羽と角と守護者たち－あるアフリカ農村の社会的変遷
Ishida, Shin-ichiro, Feathers, Horns and Guardians: A Study of Social Transition in an African Community. 244 pp. 2024:2 (Trans Pacific Pr., AT) <100-6445>
ISBN 978-1-920850-31-9 hard ¥14,798.- (税込) US$ 65.95
ISBN 978-1-920850-32-6 paper ¥10,310.- (税込) US$ 45.95

Pipatti, Otto, The Origins Of Human Social Nature: Westermarckian Sociology and Social Anthropology. 264 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-1063>
ISBN 978-3-031-55146-8 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book is the first comprehensive study of Westermarckian sociology and social anthropology, which flourished in Finland for half a century, until the Second World War. Edward Westermarck (1862-1939) was not only the founder of Finnish sociology but also Britain's first professor of sociology, influencing and contributing to teaching and research at LSE for nearly three decades. In Finland, a group of disciples shared his Darwinian interest in the human mind and the comparative study of the origins of social phenomena. Like Westermarck, they also conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork beyond Europe. Many of them became internationally renowned scholars who published their works through leading British publishers. The book traces his influence on British sociology and social anthropology more broadly also by considering his work and students at LSE, who emphasised their debt to Westermarck. Drawing on both published writings and unpublished archival material, the book offersa reinterpretation of 'origin' as the Westermarckian school's core concept.

Greenhalgh, Susan, Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. 352 pp. 2024:8 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-920>
ISBN 978-0-226-82914-2 hard ¥25,806.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-83473-3 paper ¥5,610.- (税込) US$ 25.00

Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet industry needs. The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. Public health critics pointed to sugary soda as a main culprit and advocated for soda taxes that might decrease the consumption of sweetened beverages-and threaten the revenues of the giant soda companies. Soda Science tells the story of how industry leader Coca-Cola mobilized allies in academia to create a soda-defense science that would protect profits by advocating exercise, not dietary restraint, as the priority solution to obesity, a view few experts accept. Anthropologist and science studies specialist Susan Greenhalgh discovers a hidden world of science-making-with distinctive organizations, social networks, knowledge-making practices, and ethical claims-dedicated to creating industry-friendly science and keeping it under wraps. By tracing the birth, maturation, death, and afterlife of the science they made, Greenhalgh shows how corporate science has managed to gain such a hold over our lives. Spanning twenty years, her investigation takes her from the US, where the science was made, to China, a key market for sugary soda. In the US, soda science was a critical force in the making of today's society of step-counting, fitness-tracking, weight-obsessed citizens. In China, this distorted science has left its mark not just on national obesity policies but on the apparatus for managing chronic disease generally. By following the scientists and their ambitious schemes to make the world safe for Coke, Greenhalgh offers an account that is more global-and yet more human-than the story that dominates public understanding today. Coke's research isn't fake science, Greenhalgh argues; it was real science, conducted by real and eminent scientists, but distorted by its aim. Her gripping book raises crucial questions about conflicts of interest in scientific research, the funding behind familiar messages about health, and the cunning ways giant corporations come to shape our diets, lifestyles, and health to their own needs.

R. Murillo, Luis Felipe, Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures. 232 pp. 2025:2 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-926>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4060-3 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4148-8 paper ¥5,834.- (税込) US$ 26.00

How hackers facilitate community technology projects that counter the monoculture of "big tech" and point us to brighter, innovative horizons. A digital world in relentless movement-from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing-has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by Silicon Valley "big tech" and venture capital firms. Yet very little is discussed in the public sphere about existing alternatives. Based on long-term field research across San Francisco, Tokyo, and Shenzhen, Common Circuits explores a transnational network of hacker spaces that stand as potent, but often invisible, alternatives to the dominant technology industry. In what ways have hackers challenged corporate projects of digital development? How do hacker collectives prefigure more just technological futures through community projects? Luis Felipe R. Murillo responds to these urgent questions with an analysis of the hard challenges of collaborative, autonomous community-making through technical objects conceived by hackers as convivial, shared technologies. Through rich explorations of hacker space histories and biographical sketches of hackers who participate in them, Murillo describes the social and technical conditions that allowed for the creation of community projects such as anonymity and privacy networks to counter mass surveillance; community-made monitoring devices to measure radioactive contamination; and small-scale open hardware fabrication for the purposes of technological autonomy. Murillo shows how hacker collectives point us toward brighter technological futures-a renewal of the "digital commons"-where computing projects are constantly being repurposed for the common good.

DeAngelo, Darcie, How to Love a Rat: Detecting Bombs in Postwar Cambodia. (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century 17) 198 pp. 2024:9 (U. California Pr., US) <725-657>
ISBN 978-0-520-39740-8 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-39742-2 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

How to Love a Rat takes place in a Cambodian minefield. Working amid hidden bombs, former war combatants use explosive-sniffing rats to clear mines from the land. In total, an estimated four to six million landmines in Cambodia have been left behind by wars that ended decades ago. This has created the conditions for a flourishing mine-clearance industry, where workers who were once enemy combatants may now be employed on the same clearance teams. Zeroing in on two distinct sets of feelings, Darcie DeAngelo paints a portrait of the love experienced between humans and rats and the suspicions felt between former adversaries turned coworkers. In doing so, she points to how human-animal relationships in the minefield produce models for relationality among people from opposing sides of war. The ways the deminers love for the rats mediate both the traumatic violence of the past and the uncertain dangers of the minefield. The book's stories depict an transformative postwar ecology emerging through human-nonhuman relationships, including those shared between humans and rats, landmines, and spirits.

Folch, Christine, The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History. 256 pp. 2024:9 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-769>
ISBN 978-0-691-24639-0 hard ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

The untold story of South America's most interesting beverageBrewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid effervescence many of us get from coffee or tea. In Argentina, southern "gaucho" Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, mate is the stimulating brew of choice, famously quaffed by the Argentine national football team en route to its 2022 FIFA World Cup victory. In The Book of Yerba Mate, Christine Folch offers a wide-ranging exploration of the world's third-most popular naturally stimulating beverage. Folch discusses who drinks mate, and why, and whether this earthier caffeinated drink with its promise of a different buzz and a more authentic, spiritual connection to place can find a market niche beyond South America.Folch traces yerba mate's odysseys across the globe, from South America to the Middle East and North America. She discovers that mate inspired the world's first written tango, powered early Jesuit and German nationalist utopias, ignited one of modern history's most devastating wars, and fueled Catholic conspiracies. And, Folch reports, mate is currently starring in puppet shows put on by Syrian dissidents.By tracing yerba mate production and consumption as they change over time and place, from precolonial Indigenous beginnings to the present, Folch unravels the processes of commodification and their countervailing forces to show how accidents of botany intersect with political economic systems and personal taste. The stories behind the caffeinated infusions we prefer, she finds, are nothing less than the story of how the modern world is put together.

High, Casey, Translating Worlds, Defending Land: Collaborations for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Politics in Amazonia. 224 pp. 2025:2 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-775>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4048-1 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4146-4 paper ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00

In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists, lawyers, and other Indigenous groups, they successfully sued the government for selling oil concessions without prior consent. Placing their struggle for territorial autonomy in the global spotlight, this unprecedented legal victory for environmental rights by an Indigenous people reflected the new forms of collaboration emerging in contemporary Amazonia. Translating Worlds, Defending Land explores how Waorani collaborations, whether with environmentalists or academic researchers, bring about new possibilities, challenges, and imaginative horizons. Based on fieldwork over a period of twenty-five years, Casey High interrogates what these engagements mean for Indigenous communities and how they offer critical reflection on collaboration as a concept, method, and practice. The alliances, misunderstandings, and conflicts that emerge in these contexts challenge the assumption that productive collaborations reflect-or require-shared purposes, generating important implications for an engaged anthropology open to reconsidering what constitutes ethnographic knowledge and who it is for. As some young Waorani adults become not just community leaders or environmental citizens, but also skilled researchers and ethnographers, translating between Indigenous understandings of land and the Western language conservation, they create a powerful new voice in international environmental politics.

Sanchez, Daina, The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the U.S.-Mexico Border. 192 pp. 2024:12 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-786>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4022-1 hard ¥22,440.- (税込) US$ 100.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4137-2 paper ¥5,610.- (税込) US$ 25.00

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland. Assumptions that Indigenous peoples have disappeared altogether, or that Indigenous identities are fixed, persist in the popular imagination. This is far from the truth. Sanchez demonstrates how Indigenous immigrants continually remake their identities and ties to their homelands while navigating racial and social institutions in the U.S. and Latin America, and, in doing so, transform notions of Indigeneity and push the boundaries of Latinidad. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork between Los Angeles, California and San Andres Solaga, a Zapotec town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, The Children of Solaga centers Indigenous ways of knowing and being in the world, and adds a much-needed transnational dimension to the study of Indigenous immigrant adaptation and assimilation. Sanchez, herself a diasporic Solaguena, argues that the lived experiences of Indigenous immigrants offer a unique vantage point from which to see how migration across settler-borders transforms processes of self-making among displaced Indigenous people. Rather than accept attempts by both Mexico and the U.S. to erase their Indigenous identity or give in to anti-Indigenous and anti-immigrant prejudice, Oaxacan immigrants and their children defiantly celebrate their Indigenous identity through practices of el goce comunal ("communal joy") in their new homes.

考古学とプラスチック・ハンドブック
Godin, Genevieve et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics. 720 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-805>
ISBN 978-1-03-222372-8 hard ¥59,081.- (税込) GB￡ 205.00

The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics investigates the archaeology of the contemporary world through the lens of its most distinguishing and problematic material.Plastics are ubiquitous and have been so for nearly three generations since they became widely used in the early 1950s. Plastics will persist for millennia, their legacies as toxic heritage being felt deep into the future. In this book - comprising 32 original, at times disturbing, and critically engaged contributions - scholars from archaeology and other cognate disciplines explore plastics from a number of different angles and perspectives. Together these contributions highlight the dilemma that plastics present: their usefulness on the one hand, and the threats they present to environmental health on the other. The volume also explores the lessons that archaeologists can learn from plastics, about episodes of mass production, consumption and toxicity in the past, and also - importantly - about the future.This important and timely collection will therefore be of interest to all archaeologists irrespective of their period of study, or their geographical focus, and to students of archaeology and cultural heritage. It will also be relevant for researchers and students in other fields of study that focus on plastics and their environmental and social impacts. Ultimately, this book concerns the contemporary world and the impact of people upon it, through the archaeological lens.

Balakian, Sophia, Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship. (Stanford Studies in Human Rights) 248 pp. 2025:2 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-428>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3965-2 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4119-8 paper ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00

How the family unit exists simultaneously as a focus of humanitarian compassion and of securitized suspicion. Against the backdrop of the global refugee crisis, Unsettled Families investigates the parameters that Global North governments and international humanitarian organizations use to classify most displaced families-more than 99% globally-as ineligible for resettlement, and often as fraudulent. But "fraud" as a category is not as self-evident as it may first appear. Nor is "the family." Based on long-term fieldwork between Nairobi, Kenya and Columbus, Ohio, Sophia Balakian tells stories of Somali and Congolese refugees navigating a complicated global assemblage of humanitarian organizations, immigration bureaucracies, and national security agencies as they seek permanent, new homes. Viewing the concepts of "fraud" and "family" from different vantage points in this context, Balakian shows how the categories begin to blur out of focus, sometimes to evaporate altogether; what seems to be contained within them scatter outside their received boundaries. Practices that resettlement organizations deem fraudulent are often understood by people living as refugees to be moral actions in an unequal world. Such practices allow them to fulfill obligations to kin-kin defined expansively, in ways that at times exceed the boundaries of normative, US frameworks. Bringing questions of kinship into current discussions on humanitarianism, Balakian locates "the family" as a crucial category in processes of producing, policing, and contesting the boundaries of nation-states, and of the nature of securitized humanitarianism in the 21st century.

現代欧州における極右青年活動家
Pasieka, Agnieszka, Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe. 312 pp. 2024:11 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-543>
ISBN 978-0-691-25842-3 hard ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A sobering look at the seductive power of fascist ideas for the youngRadical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world. Living Right provides an in-depth account of the ideas and practices that are driving the varied forms of far-right activism by young people from all walks of life, revealing how these social movements offer the promise of comradery, purpose, and a moral calling to self-sacrifice, and demonstrating how far-right ideas are understood and lived in ways that speak to a variety of experiences.In this eye-opening book, Agnieszka Pasieka draws on her own sometimes harrowing fieldwork among Italian, Polish, and Hungarian militant youths, painting unforgettable portraits of students, laborers, entrepreneurs, musicians, and activists from well-off middle class backgrounds who have all found a nurturing home in the far right. Providing an in-depth account of radical nationalist communities and networks that are taking root across Europe, she shows how the simultaneous orientation of these groups toward the local and the transnational is a key to their success. With a focus on far-right morality that challenges commonly held ideas about the right, Pasieka describes how far-right movements afford opportunities to the young to be active members of tightly bonded comradeships while sharing in a broader project with global ramifications.Required reading for anthropologists and anyone concerned about the resurgence of far-right militancy today, Living Right sheds necessary light on the forces that have made the growing appeal of fascist idealism for young people one of the most alarming trends of our time.

日本の妖怪　第2版
Foster, Michael Dylan, The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore. Expanded 2nd ed. 472 pp. 2024:10 (U. California Pr., US) <725-622>
ISBN 978-0-520-38955-7 hard ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40388-8 paper ¥7,393.- (税込) US$ 32.95

Significantly expanded and updated-a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture. Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatures haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, they appear in many forms, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water sprites, to shape-shifting kitsune foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Popular today in anime, manga, film, and video games, many yokai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. The Book of Yokai invites readers to examine how people create, transmit, and collect folklore, and how they make sense of the mysteries in the world around them. Revised and expanded, this second edition features fifty new illustrations, including an all-new yokai gallery of stunning color images tracing the visual history of yokai across centuries. In clear and accessible language, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the cultural and historical contexts of yokai, interpreting their varied meanings and introducing people who have pursued them through the ages.

宮澤安紀、山田慎也他著　日本における死と葬儀の実際
Gould, Hannah / Miyazawa, Aki / Yamada, Shinya, Death and Funeral Practices in Japan. (Routledge International Focus on Death and Funeral Practices) 152 pp. 2024:6 (Routledge, UK) <725-623>
ISBN 978-1-03-258874-2 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the past, present, and future direction of death rituals and deathcare systems within Japan.As Japan heads toward a precarious future shaped by its super-aging society, secularisation, and economic stagnation, the socioreligious structures that once organised death and funerary practice are becoming increasingly unstable. In their place, new technologies and rituals for the farewell of the dead, handling of cremains, and commemoration of the ancestors have begun to emerge. The work is informed by the authors' extensive research within Japan's funeral, cemetery, and memorialisation sectors and the latest Japanese data sources and academic publications, not currently available in English.Providing readily accessible and contextualising information, this book will be an essential reference for graduate students and academics, as well as international policymakers and deathcare practitioners.

Huambachano, Mariaelena, Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways: Indigenous Traditions as a Recipe for Living Well. 248 pp. 2024:8 (U. California Pr., US) <725-233>
ISBN 978-0-520-39615-9 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-39616-6 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Based on over ten years of fieldwork in Peru and Aotearoa New Zealand, Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways explores how Quechua and Maori peoples describe, define, and enact well-being through the lens of foodways. By analyzing how these two Indigenous communities operationalize knowledge to promote sustainable food systems, physical and spiritual well-being, and community health, Mariaelena Huambachano puts forth a powerful philosophy of food sovereignty called the Chakana/Mahutonga. She argues that this framework offers a foundation for understanding the practices and policies needed to transform the global food system to nourish the world and preserve the Earth. One of the key features of this book is the development of the author's original research methodology-the Khipu Model-which will serve as a vital resource for future research on Indigenous ways of knowing.

Bender, Shawn, Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care. 296 pp. 2024:11 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-256>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4019-1 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4115-0 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00

In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth services to artificial intelligence driven diagnostics. In this book, Shawn Bender delves into the world of Japanese robots engineered for care. Care robots (kaigo robotto) emerged early in the 21st century, when roboticists began converting assembly line technologies into responsive machines for older adults and people with disabilities. These robots are meant to be felt and programmed to feel. While some greet them with enthusiasm, others fear that they might replace a fundamentally human task. Based on fieldwork in Japan, Denmark, and Germany, Bender traces the emergence of care robots in Japan and examines their impact on therapeutic practice around the world. Social science scholarship on robotics tends to be either speculative-imagining life together with robots-or experimental-observing robot-human interaction in laboratories or through short-term field studies. Instead, Bender follows roboticists developing technologies in Japan, and travels with the robots themselves into everyday sites of care, tracking the integration of robots into institutional care and the connection of care practice to robotics development. By exploring the application of Japanese robotics across the globe, Feeling Machines highlights the entanglements of therapeutic practice and technological innovation in an age of more-than-human care.

Banaszkiewicz, Magdalena / Nikielska-Sekula, K. (eds.), Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective. (Routledge Studies in Heritage) 280 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-1013>
ISBN 978-1-03-271374-8 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective bridges the gap between cultural heritage and mobility studies through the employment of theoretical and methodological multisensory perspectives.An interdisciplinary volume covering a broad range of empirical cases, this book focuses on the engagement with cultural heritage in the context of mobility. The book presents a grassroots perspective of individual heritage performances by mobile and moving actors, analyzing them with close attention to their embodied aspects: bodily experiences, sensory impressions, and the affect and emotions they evoke. As a result, the collection of case studies presented covers empirical, theoretical, and methodological accounts of the embodiment of heritage in the context of mobility on macro, meso, and micro levels, exploring heritage change and mobility from a multisensory perspective. Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective is primarily targeted at scholars, students and practitioners working within and at the intersection of the fields of cultural heritage and mobility. It will also be of interest to those engaged in the study of tourism, migration and integration studies.

Chazin, Hannah, Live Stock and Dead Things: The Archaeology of Zoopolitics between Domestication and Modernity. (Animal Lives) 256 pp. 2024:12 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-1015>
ISBN 978-0-226-83748-2 hard ¥25,806.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-83750-5 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Reconceptualizes human-animal relationships and their political significance in ancient and modern societies. In Live Stock and Dead Things, Hannah Chazin combines zooarchaeology and anthropology to challenge familiar narratives about the role of non-human animals in the rise of modern societies. Conventional views of this process tend to see a mostly linear development from hunter-gatherer societies, to horticultural and pastoral ones, to large-scale agricultural ones, and then industrial ones. Along the way, traditional accounts argue that owning livestock as property, along with land and other valuable commodities, introduced social inequality and stratification. Against this, Chazin raises a provocative question: What if domestication wasn't the origin of instrumentalizing non-human animals after all? Chazin argues that these conventional narratives are inherited from conjectural histories and ignore the archaeological data. In her view, the category of "domestication" flattens the more complex dimensions of humans' relationship to herd animals. In the book's first half, Chazin offers a new understanding of the political possibilities of pastoralism, one that recognizes the powerful role herd animals have played in shaping human notions of power and authority. In the second half, she takes readers into her archaeological fieldwork in the South Caucasus, which sheds further light on herd animals' transformative effect on the economy, social life, and ritual. Appealing to anthropologists and archaeologists alike, this daring book offers a reconceptualization of human-animal relationships and their political significance.

Colwell, Chip, So Much Stuff: How Humans Discovered Tools, Invented Meaning, and Made More of Everything. 304 pp. 2024:10 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-1016>
ISBN 978-0-226-83663-8 paper ¥4,488.- (税込) US$ 20.00

How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control. Over three million years ago, our ancient ancestors realized that rocks could be broken into sharp-edged objects for slicing meat, making the first knives. This discovery resulted in a good meal and eventually changed the fate of our species and our planet. With So Much Stuff, archaeologist Chip Colwell sets out to investigate why humankind went from self-sufficient primates to nonstop shoppers, from needing nothing to needing everything. Along the way, he uncovers spectacular and strange points around the world-an Italian cave with the world's first known painted art, a Hong Kong skyscraper where a priestess channels the gods, and a mountain of trash that rivals the Statue of Liberty. Through these examples, Colwell shows how humanity took three leaps that led to stuff becoming inseparable from our lives, inspiring a love affair with things that may lead to our downfall. Now, as landfills brim and oceans drown in trash, Colwell issues a timely call to reevaluate our relationship with the things that both created and threaten to undo our overstuffed planet.

Ferrara, Silvia / Cartolano, Mattia / Ottaviano, L. (eds.), Talking Images: The Interface between Drawing and Writing. (Routledge Research in Language and Communication) 304 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-1019>
ISBN 978-1-03-271296-3 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This innovative collection offers a holistic portrait of the multimodal communication potential of images from the Upper Paleolithic times through to today, showcasing image-based creativity throughout the centuries. The volume seeks to extend the boundaries of our understanding of what language and writing can do to show how language can be understood as part of broader codes and how images and figural objects can contribution to meaning-making in communication. The book is divided into four parts, each exploring a different dimension of the interplay between representation, symbolic meaning, and perception in the study of images and drawing on case studies from around the world. The first section looks at cognitive approaches to the earliest symbol-making while the second considers the interaction between images and writing in early scripts. The third section addresses images outside their boxes, showcasing how ancient communication devices can be reinterpreted. A final section features chapters reflecting on embodied semiotic approaches to the representation of images. This book will be of interest to scholars in semiotics, archaeology, cognitive psychology, and linguistic and cultural anthropology.

Haymes, Stephen / Camacho, Vladimir / Cornelius, L. (eds.), Land, Cultural Dispossession, and Resistance: Afrodescendent and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas. 172 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-1025>
ISBN 978-1-03-277503-6 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This volume provides readers with accounts of the contemporary consequences of the Eurocentric Western model of racialized power and extractivist development: cultural, linguistic, and land dispossession, displacement and forced migration, climate and water injustice, and the environmental destruction of Afro-descendent and indigenous communities in the Americas.The past and present circumstances of Afro-descendent and Indigenous peoples in the Americas have been shaped by the "coloniality of power" of Western capitalist modernity. This Eurocentric Western model of racialized power, with its rhetoric of development, progress, salvation, and improvement and invented categories of nature, race, gender, nation, and knowledge, has resulted in the disposing of the worlds of Afro-descendent and Indigenous peoples. The chapters in this book provide critical theoretical and practical approaches to understanding land, territorial, and cultural dispossession and the forms of resistance practiced and engaged in by rural Afro-descendent communities and Indigenous peoples in the Americas.This book will be of particular interest to all scholars, students, and practitioners of education and development, global studies in education, peace studies, international studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies, as well as those working in sociology, development studies, and socio-environmental justice. The chapters in this book, except for chapter 4, were originally published in the Journal of Poverty.

Huhndorf, Shari M., Native Lands: Culture and Gender in Indigenous Territorial Claims. 218 pp. 2024:8 (U. California Pr., US) <725-1028>
ISBN 978-0-520-40017-7 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-40018-4 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Native Lands analyzes the role of visual and literary culture in contemporary Indigenous campaigns for territorial rights. In the post-1960s era, Indigenous artists and writers have created works that align with the goals and strategies of new Native land-based movements. These works represent Native histories and epistemologies in ways that complement activist endeavors, while also probing the limits of these political projects, especially with regard to gender. The social marginalization of Native women was integral to dispossession. And yet its enduring consequences have remained largely neglected, even in Native organizing, as a pressing concern associated with the status of Indigenous people in settler nation-states. The cultural works discussed in this book provide an urgent Indigenous feminist rethinking of Native politics that exposes the innate gendered dimensions of ongoing settler colonialism. They insist that Indigenous campaigns for territorial rights must entail gender justice for Native women.

白人優越主義の人類学－リーダー
Jesus, Aisha M. Beliso-De / Pierre, Jemima et al. (eds.), The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader. 336 pp. 2025:1 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-1029>
ISBN 978-0-691-25817-1 hard ¥22,427.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-0-691-25818-8 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy has shaped cultural anthropology from its inception, yet the discipline also offers powerful tools for understanding how this corrosive force structures societies around the world. The Anthropology of White Supremacy explores how this phenomenon works around the globe and within anthropology itself. Gathering original essays from a diverse, international group of anthropologists, this collection illustrates that white supremacy, far from being only a fringe belief of white nationalists and fascists, is a core mainstream ideology. The book includes essays about many countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Senegal, South Africa, and the United States, and takes up such topics as American advertising, the Belgian Congo, South Asian philosophies, police cadets, U.S. immigration courts, Guantanamo memoirs, Palestinian feminism, Hollywood paparazzi, and how Indigenous anthropologists can counter the damage of settler colonialism. The result reveals not only how anthropology can help us to better comprehend white supremacy, but also how the discipline can help us begin to dismantle it.With contributions by Omolade Adunbi, Samar Al-Bulushi, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus, Michael Blakey, Mitzi Uehara Carter, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Celina de Sa, Vanessa Diaz, Britt Halvorson, Faye Harrison, Sarah Ihmoud, Anthony R. Jerry, Darryl Li, Kristin Loftsdottir, Christopher Loperena, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Jemima Pierre, Jean Muteba Rahier, Laurence Ralph, Renya K. Ramirez, Junaid Rana, Joshua Reno, Jonathan Rosa, Shalini Shankar, and Maria Styve.

Lemke, Ashley, Anthropological Archaeology Underwater. (Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century) 75 pp. 2024:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <725-1030>
ISBN 978-1-00-949464-9 hard ¥14,406.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-00-932733-6 paper ¥4,899.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Anthropological archaeology underwater is a new field. What type of research is this and how do anthropologists go about it? When most people hear the phrase 'underwater archaeology', they think of shipwrecks and dramatic images of lost ships at sea, but the underwater archaeological record is vast. In addition to historic vessels, water preserves some of the oldest landscapes on the planet. While archaeologists are interested in the past, those working underwater apply the latest technologies to provide fresh understandings about ancient human behaviour. Underwater environments provide preservation that is unmatched on land and therefore the data collected is novel - providing information about human lifeways and creating a picture of the past we would otherwise never see. This Element will explore the world of anthropological archaeology underwater, focusing on submerged sites, and review the techniques, data, and theoretical perspectives which are offering new insights into the human story.

Lempert, Michael, From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale. 336 pp. 2024:12 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-1031>
ISBN 978-0-226-83248-7 hard ¥25,806.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-83250-0 paper ¥7,293.- (税込) US$ 32.50

A provocative and eye-opening history of how we have studied and theorized social interaction. In this ambitious, wide-ranging book, anthropologist Michael Lempert offers a conceptual history that explores how, why, and with what effects we have come to think of interactions as "scaled." Focusing on US-based sciences of interaction from 1930 to 1980, Lempert meticulously traces efforts to study conversation microscopically and shows how scale-making has defined pioneering work in sociology, anthropology, and linguistics. Exploring talk therapy and group dynamics studies, social psychology and management science, conversation analysis, "micropolitics," and more, Lempert shows how scale became a defining problem across the behavioral sciences and how new tools and technologies were developed to get to the heart of social life at its most granular. Ultimately, he argues, if we learn how our objects of study have been scaled in advance, we can better understand how we think and interact with them-and with each other-across disciplinary and ideological divides. Even as once-fierce debates over micro and macro have largely subsided, Lempert shows how scale lives on and continues to affect our treatment of language and communication today.

人類学理論に従事する－社会史と政治史　第3版
Moberg, Mark, Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History. 3rd ed. 480 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-1032>
ISBN 978-1-03-253365-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-253362-9 paper ¥12,965.- (税込) GB￡ 44.99

The updated third edition of this book scrutinizes anew the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists in a lively style, Engaging Anthropological Theory examines the historical context of anthropological ideas and the contested nature of anthropology itself. The book illustrates how anthropological ideas about human diversity are rooted in historical conditions, including the West's relationship with colonized societies and the politics of scholarly inquiry itself. Exploring anthropological ideas in context helps students understand how they evolved and how they relate to society and history. This new edition pays close attention to non-canonical figures and scholars of color whose contributions are too often bypassed in disciplinary histories. Students and instructors will also appreciate the open-ended review questions for each chapter that stimulate critical thought and discussion. Extensively Illustrated throughout, this engaging text moves away from the dry recitation of past viewpoints in anthropology and shows their continued relevance to modern life.

Mol, Annemarie, Eating Is an English Word. 208 pp. 2024:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <725-1033>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2662-4 hard ¥22,427.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3086-7 paper ¥5,822.- (税込) US$ 25.95

Eating is generally understood as a human need that people satisfy in diverse ways. Eating, however, is also an English word. Other languages, using other words, order reality differently: they may fuse eating with breathing, or distinguish chupar from comer. Anthropologists flag up such differences by leaving a few of their words untranslated, but what language do we think in? This isn't necessarily English. We may be linguistically closer to those whose practices we study: them. Against this background, Eating is an English Word argues that social scientists should let go of the dream of universal concepts. Our analytical terms had better vary. Annemarie Mol and her coauthors exemplify this in a series of material semiotic inquiries into eating practices. They employ terms like lekker, tasting with fingers, chupar, schmecka, gustar, and settling on an okay meal to explore appreciative modes of valuing. Welcome, then, to spirited stories about satisfied stomachs, love for a lamb, juicy fruit treats, and companionable lunches and dinners.

Nemec, Susan / Lythberg, Billie / Woods, Christine (eds.), Settler Responsibility for Decolonisation: Stories from the Field. (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity) 232 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-1034>
ISBN 978-1-03-273663-1 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This edited collection presents perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of dismantling coloniality in settler societies. Showcasing a variety of pedagogies and case studies, the book offers approaches to the praxis of decolonisation in diverse settings including tertiary education, activism, arts curatorial practice, the media, trans-Indigeneity and psychosocial therapy. Chapters centre on the personal, relational, and political work needed to support decolonisation in settler societies in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and Canada. Drawing from experiences in the field, contributors argue that to decolonise research and build authentic relationships with Indigenous communities, settler researchers must learn from Indigenous worldviews without appropriating them, disrupt colonial epistemologies, and reconcile their place in colonialism. Indigenising is discussed as a counterpart to the decolonisation process, involving restoring and centring the Indigenous voice within Indigenised socio-cultural, economic, legal, and political structures and institutions, including the return of land. The book is a rich resource for researchers seeking to understand and support decolonisation in settler societies, and will appeal to non-Indigenous scholars, students and those involved in decolonisation work in community and institutional settings.

NiaNia, Wiremu / Bush, Allister / Epston, David, Nga Kuaha: Voices and Visions in Maori Healing and Psychiatry. (Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives) 282 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <725-1035>
ISBN 978-1-03-203380-8 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-203384-6 paper ¥10,083.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

Nga Kuaha: Voices and Visions in Maori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of Maori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush. Wiremu explains Nga Kuaha as referring to doorways and offers entranceways into Maori knowledge about wairua (spirituality) handed down by his forebears and other Maori sources.The authors provide historical examples of Western mystical experiences and contrasting Western psychiatric and psychological explanations of voices and visions as hallucinations. Further chapters focus on narratives and perspectives from people who have experienced voices and visions, and have had interactions with mental health services, told from multiple viewpoints; individual, whanau (family), Maori healing and psychiatry. The benefits of joint Maori healing and psychiatry approaches on wellbeing are examined. Drawing on their 18-year partnership Wiremu and Allister highlight the harmful colonial impact of psychiatry in suppressing Maori views of voices and visions. They describe ways of working together in clinical practice to address this history of injustice and how to identify whether distressing perceptual experiences may represent Maori cultural experiences, psychiatric or psychological symptoms or all of these. This book advocates for practices that enable genuine partnerships between Maori healers, other wairua practitioners, and mental health clinicians in order to improve the mental health and spiritual care of Maori and perhaps other peoples.

Sansi, Roger / Tinius, Jonas (eds.), The Trouble With Art: An Anthropology Beyond Philistinism. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) 232 pp. 2024:9 (Routledge, UK) <725-1039>
ISBN 978-1-03-222391-9 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. But art, not only as a Western institution, generated its own philistine and iconoclastic revisions and undoings, its anti-art, that have engaged anthropology into its theory and practice. Anthropology is thus part of the trouble with art. But trouble doesn't necessarily obfuscate, it can also reveal and render visible fault lines and problems; troubles can be assemblages of disparate and even contradictory parts that paradoxically do work together. This volume proposes an anthropology that moves beyond philistinism and the contradictions between critical anthropologies of art and collaborative and experimental anthropologies with art.

Shirinian, Tamar, Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia. 280 pp. 2024:11 (Duke U. Pr., US) <725-1040>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2687-7 hard ¥23,549.- (税込) US$ 104.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3111-6 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95

In Survival of a Perverse Nation, Tamar Shirinian traces two widespread rhetorics of perversion-sexual and moral-in postsocialist Armenia, showing how they are tied to anxieties about the nation's survival. In her fieldwork with Armenians, Shirinian found that right-wing nationalists' focus on sexual perversion centers the figure of the homosexual, while questions of moral perversion surround oligarchs and other members of the political economic elite. While the homosexual is seen as non- or improperly reproductive, the oligarch's moral deviations from the caring and paternalistic expectations associated with national leadership also endanger Armenia's survival. Shirinian shows how both figures threaten the nation's proper social reproduction, a source of great anxiety for a nation whose primary point of identity is surviving genocide. In the existential threat posed by these forms of perversion Shirinian finds paths where non-survival might mean the creation of futures that are queerer and more just. Detailing how the language of perversion offers trenchant critiques of capitalism as a perversion of life, Shirinian presents a new queer theory of political economy.

継承－現代世界の進化的起源
Whitehouse, Harvey, Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World. 368 pp. 2024:8 (Belknap Pr., US) <725-1041>
ISBN 978-0-674-29162-1 hard ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

"An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity's evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species' greatest successes and failures." -Yuval Noah Harari, author of SapiensThe ancient inheritance that made us who we are-and is now driving us to ruin.Each of us is endowed with an inheritance-a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generations, this inheritance has taken us to ever greater heights: driving the rise of more sophisticated technologies, more organized religions, more expansive empires. But now, for the first time, it's failing us. We find ourselves hurtling toward a future of unprecedented political polarization, deadlier war, and irreparable environmental destruction.In Inheritance, renowned anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse offers a sweeping account of how our biases have shaped humanity's past and imperil its future. He argues that three biases-conformism, religiosity, and tribalism-drive human behavior everywhere. Forged by natural selection and harnessed by thousands of years of cultural evolution, these biases catalyzed the greatest transformations in human history, from the birth of agriculture and the arrival of the first kings to the rise and fall of human sacrifice and the creation of multiethnic empires. Taking us deep into modern-day tribes, including terrorist cells and predatory ad agencies, Whitehouse shows how, as we lose the cultural scaffolding that allowed us to manage our biases, the world we've built is spiraling out of control.By uncovering how human nature has shaped our collective history, Inheritance unveils a surprising new path to solving our most urgent modern problems. The result is a powerful reappraisal of the human journey, one that transforms our understanding of who we are, and who we could be.

Yates-Doerr, Emily, Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm. 267 pp. 2024:11 (U. California Pr., US) <725-1042>
ISBN 978-0-520-40442-7 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Mal-Nutrition documents how maternal health interventions in Guatemala are complicit in reproducing poverty. Policymakers speak about how a critical window of biological growth around the time of pregnancy-called the "first 1,000 days of life"-determines health and wealth across the life course. They argue that fetal development is the key to global development. In this thought-provoking and timely book, Emily Yates-Doerr shows that a focus on prenatal health is a paradigmatic technique of American violence through which the control of mothering serves to control the reproduction of privilege and power. Presenting the powerful stories of Guatemalan scientists, midwives, and mothers, she illustrates their efforts to counter the harms of mal-nutrition, offering a window into a form of nutrition science and policy that encourages collective nourishment and fosters reproductive cycles in which women, children, and their entire communities can flourish.

Coyle Rosen, Lauren, Law in Light: Priestesses, Priests, and the Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in the United States and Ghana. 262 pp. 2024:10 (U. California Pr., US) <725-111>
ISBN 978-0-520-39706-4 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-520-39708-8 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Law in Light is a groundbreaking book on the resurgence and transformation of Akan path spiritual communities in the United States and Ghana. Drawing on extensive collaborative ethnographic research, the book offers powerful portraits of priestesses, priests, and others on their spiritual journeys, in their ancestral reconnections, and in their everyday lives. The book spotlights a queen mother, shrine elders, priests, and priestesses of a prominent shrine house in Maryland, as well as leaders at a legendary Asuo Gyebi source shrine in Ghana. In exploring worlds of healing, empowerment, and justice, Lauren Coyle Rosen argues for the importance of two novel theoretical concepts, which she calls copresent jurisdictions and constellations of subjectivity. The book urges a broader retheorization of alternative spiritual orders within contemporary theopolitical, cosmopolitical, and postjuristocratic debates.

Arnold, Lynnette, Living Together Across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families. (Oxford Studies in Anthropology of Language) 2024:5 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <724-870>
ISBN 978-0-19-775573-0 hard ¥8,976.- (税込) US$ 40.00
ISBN 978-0-19-775574-7 paper ¥2,465.- (税込) US$ 10.99

In Living Together Across Borders, author Lynnette Arnold tells the stories of extended families living stretched between a rural Salvadoran village and the urban locations in the United States where their migrant relatives live. In this multi-sited ethnography, Arnold examines seemingly mundane conversational practices-such as sending greetings, negotiating remittances, and reminiscing together-that are central to family life across borders. Arnold underscores the consequentiality of these linguistic practices by tracing how they are shaped by and re-shape gendered and generational norms of family care, as well as how they are tied to Salvadoran histories of migration, violence, and poverty, which are powerfully influenced by U.S. economic and foreign policy. This book demonstrates that these communicative practices bring inequities between the global North and South into family life by continually reproducing distinctions between relatives in El Salvador and those living in the United States. Conversely, she examines seemingly mundane interactions including greetings, remittance negotiations, and reminiscing together. Although these relational moments of cross-border connection are fleeting, their impacts endure, laying the foundation for the ongoing material and economic provisioning necessary to family survival. Through cross-border conversations, families nurture intergenerational relations that sustain the family and convivencia (living-together) over the years despite ongoing separation.

Mithen, Steven, The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age. 544 pp. 2024:3 (Profile Books, UK) <724-871>
ISBN 978-1-80081-158-4 hard ¥7,205.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00 *

A tour de force' Alice Roberts 'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin Dunbar The relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human. The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words. Drawing on the latest discoveries in archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and genetics, Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved; he explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture, and how we talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and swiftly into today's Digital Age. While this radical new work is not shy to reject outdated ideas about language, it builds bridges between disciplines to forge a new synthesis for the evolution of language that will find widespread acceptance as a new standard account for how humanity began.

中石器時代欧州ハンドブック
Nilsson Stutz, Liv / Stjerna, R. P. / Torv, M. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe. (Oxford Handbooks) 1024 pp. 2024:10 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <724-872>
ISBN 978-0-19-885365-7 hard ¥54,758.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00

Research into the Mesolithic has recently undergone important transformations, making it one of the most dynamic fields of archaeological research today. These changes are the result of a combination of factors: new and exciting discoveries, the impact of innovative scientific methods, and the introduction of fresh interpretative approaches. Situated within a long period defined by significant environmental, demographic, and social change, the European Mesolithic period provides key insights to answer the "big questions" in archaeology, including the deep history of migration, diversity, and adaptation. It also provides resources for elucidating answers to complex questions about human relationships, diet, economy, and identity. New theoretical approaches to the Mesolithic in Europe have expanded research into new areas such as lived experience, ritual, cosmology, art, identity, the body, and human-animal relationships. These new research questions have added important nuance, and provided a more complete understanding of the period. With contributions from leading scholars in the field and from across the continent, The Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe provides the first comprehensive overview of the rich archaeology of Mesolithic Europe. Chapters on different European regions, as well as neighboring areas in North Africa and the Middle East, provide a synoptic view, with thematic chapters examining the lived experience of different kinds of landscapes and adaptations, different forms of technology, and aspects of Mesolithic life, death, ritual, cosmology, and art. The volume highlights both the significance of interdisciplinary research for the field, and the importance of combining perspectives and approaches when studying the deep past.

変容した住宅
Stolz, Rosalie / Alderman, Jonathan (eds.), Houses Transformed: Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building. 392 pp. 2024:1 (Berghahn, US) <723-805>
ISBN 978-1-80539-231-6 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

Over the decades, there has been a world-wide transformation of so-called 'vernacular houses'. Based on ethnographic accounts from different regions, Houses Transformed investigates the changing practices of building houses in a transnational context. It explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology as well as the rhetoric of the vernacular. The volume provides new anthropological pathways to understanding the dynamics of dwelling in the 21st century.

Feldman, Gregory, The Subject of Sovereignty: Relationality and the Pivot Past Liberalism. 226 pp. 2023:10 (Berghahn, US) <723-812>
ISBN 978-1-80539-096-1 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Seeking new forms of democracy, progressive politics raises a fundamental question: what is the alternative to the allegedly coherent, self-contained liberal subject that represents the project of modernity? Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the "relational subject": a subject that is inseparable from the global field of relations through which it emerges and yet distinct from that field because it lives a life that no one else ever has. Recognizing ourselves as such subjects allows us not only to rethink politics, but, more profoundly, to envision sovereignty as the means by which we each rejuvenate ourselves and the polities we constitute with others.

Rollason, Will / Hirsch, Eric (eds.), Compliance: Cultures and Networks of Accommodation. (Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories 3) 216 pp. 2023:12 (Berghahn, US) <723-820>
ISBN 978-1-80539-225-5 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance: instead, it appears as a valuable heuristic approach for understanding collective life, as a means by which actors strive to accommodate themselves to others. This perspective transcends conventional distinctions between power and resistance, and offers to open up new avenues of anthropological enquiry.

Artz, Matt / Koycheva, Lora (eds.), EmTech Anthropology: Careers at the Frontier. (Anthropology and Business) 216 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-932>
ISBN 978-1-03-260302-5 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-260299-8 paper ¥9,219.- (税込) GB￡ 31.99

EmTech Anthropology: Careers at the Frontier emphasizes anthropology's critical role at the frontier of emerging technologies (EmTech). The book delves into the possibilities and opportunities that arise from the convergence of anthropology and emerging technology, highlighting the potential benefits for both the discipline of anthropology and EmTech.The book examines fundamental questions about the value of anthropological perspectives in technology development, ethical considerations, and how anthropologists can ensure that their work has a lasting impact. To accomplish this, the book highlights the work of early to mid-career anthropologists at the frontier of near-term and still-distant technologies and explores the stories of these innovative anthropologists who explore, abandon, and realize possibilities for the future. By showcasing the work of early to mid-career anthropologists, the book provides a roadmap for future anthropologists who wish to design careers in emerging technologies.While the volume recognizes the importance of anthropological theory, it also presents an alternative perspective on how theory can be developed and advanced through tie-ins to multiple existing theoretical approaches, given the interdisciplinary nature of early adopter work that prioritizes practical impact and intervention.EmTech Anthropology: Careers at the Frontier is an essential and valuable guide for anyone interested in exploring the frontiers of anthropology and emerging technologies, offering profound insights into the future potential of these roles and the anthropologists working in the field.

Bowles, Ben, Boaters of London: Alternative Living on the Water. (Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories 5) 302 pp. 2024:5 (Berghahn, US) <723-934>
ISBN 978-1-80539-494-5 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

London and the Southeast of England is home to an alternative community of people called 'boaters': individuals and families who live on narrowboats, cruisers and barges, along a network of canals and rivers. Many of these people move from place to place every two weeks due to mooring rules and form itinerant communities in the heart of some of the UK's most built-up and expensive urban spaces. Boaters of London is an ethnography that delves into the process of becoming a boater, adopting an alternative lifestyle on the water and the political impact that this travelling population has on the state.

Caraher, William R., The Archaeology of Contemporary America. (The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective) 288 pp. 2024:3 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <723-935>
ISBN 978-0-8130-6996-8 hard ¥19,074.- (税込) US$ 85.00

This book provides a survey of contemporary archaeology in the United States, demonstrating the plurality of theoretical and methodological approaches that make this discipline in the US unique.