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

Forrest, Beth / Maurice, Greg de St (eds.), Food in Memory and Imagination: Space, Place and Taste. 416 pp. 2022:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <664-902>
ISBN 978-1-350-09616-5 hard ¥39,886.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00 *

How do we engage with food through memory and imagination? This expansive volume spans time and space to illustrate how, through food, people have engaged with the past, the future, and their alternative presents. Beth M. Forrest and Greg de St. Maurice have brought together first-class contributions, from both established and up-and-coming scholars, to consider how imagination and memory intertwine and sometimes diverge. Chapters draw on cases around the world-including Iran, Italy, Japan, Kenya, and the US-and include topics such as national identity, food insecurity, and the phenomenon of knowledge. Contributions represent a range of disciplines, including anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. This volume is a veritable feast for the contemporary food studies scholar.

Baer, Monika (ed.), Agency at Work: Ethnographies in/of Late Industrialism. (Modernity in Question. Studies in Philosophy and History of Ideas 17) 164 pp. 2021:7 (P. Lang, SZ) <664-952>
ISBN 978-3-631-84609-4 hard ¥12,084.- (税込) SFR 48.40

Rooted in anthropological and ethnological traditions, this volume offers analytical insights into workings of agency in late industrialism revealed in interactions between a coal power plant and a local community in Opole, Silesia, in southwestern Poland. In this context, the authors show by the use of the ethnographic method, how variables and forces of various scales shape political events centered around the power plant; grassroot economic dynamics and entrepreneurship; local semiosphere uniting the divided social group; affective dimensions of a social protest; (un)doing gender in the industrial workplace; and mobile livelihoods of migrant industrial workers. All of them, in one way or another, attempt to escape problems raised by analyses focused solely on human acting subjects.

Dawdy, Shannon Lee, American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century. 272 pp. 2021:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <664-3695>
ISBN 978-0-691-21064-3 hard ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary lifeDeath in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected, composted, dissolved, or tanned. Your family can incorporate your remains into jewelry, shotgun shells, paperweights, and artwork. Cremations have more than doubled, and DIY home funerals and green burials are on the rise. American Afterlives is Shannon Lee Dawdy's lyrical and compassionate account of changing death practices in America as people face their own mortality and search for a different kind of afterlife.As an anthropologist and archaeologist, Dawdy knows that how a society treats its dead yields powerful clues about its beliefs and values. As someone who has experienced loss herself, she knows there is no way to tell this story without also reexamining her own views about death and dying. In this meditative and gently humorous book, Dawdy embarks on a transformative journey across the United States, talking to funeral directors, death-care entrepreneurs, designers, cemetery owners, death doulas, and ordinary people from all walks of life. What she discovers is that, by reinventing death, Americans are reworking their ideas about personhood, ritual, and connection across generations. She also confronts the seeming contradiction that American death is becoming at the same time more materialistic and more spiritual.Written in conjunction with a documentary film project, American Afterlives features images by cinematographer Daniel Zox that provide their own testament to our rapidly changing attitudes toward death and the afterlife.

Estevez, Ariadna (ed.), Necropower in North America: The Legal Spatialization Of Disposability And Lucrative Death. 249 pp. 2021:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-3697>
ISBN 978-3-030-73658-3 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe's necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America. It works to characterize and analyze the particularities and relational differences of American and Canadian necropowers vis-a-vis their devices, subjectivities, necroempowered subjects, and production of spaces of death in their geographical and symbolic borderlands with the Third World: the US-Mexico border, indigenous lands, migrant and Black-American ?neighborhoods, and resource rich geographies. North American necropowers not only profit from death, but also conduct disposable populations to death throughout the region. The volume proposes a postcolonial perspective that characterizes the political power of North America as a necropower-or the sovereign power to make die. Each chapter therefore theorizes and analyzes the specificities of necropower, examining different necropolitics that range from asylum and migration restrictions to the economic exploitation and abandonment of deprived populations and policing of ethnic minorities, in particular Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples, and African Am?erican communities.

Gibson, Rebecca / Vanderveen, James M. (eds.), Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females. 236 pp. 2021:3 (Lexington Books, US) <664-3699>
ISBN 978-1-79364-135-9 hard ¥23,931.- (税込) US$ 111.00 *

Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines representations of the supernatural dead to demonstrate shifts in the manifestation of gender. Including readings of East Asian detectives/cyborgs, Iranian vampires, and African zombies, among others, This collection offers a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture representations of the gendered supernatural from a broad range of international contexts. The contributors show that, as creatures pass through the liminal space of death, their new supernatural forms challenge cultural conceptions of gender, masculinity, and femininity.

Gustavsson, Anne, Ethnographic Returns: Memory Processes and Archive Film. (Elements in Critical Heritage Studies) 75 pp. 2021:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <664-3700>
ISBN 978-1-108-82342-5 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

In the past decades cultural heritage stored at museums and archives has been returned to source communities in various forms and under diverse circumstances. This contribution to the Elements series explores and discusses specifically the return of digital 'ethnographic' images to indigenous and non indigenous people that share a common recent history of coexistence and dispute over the same territory that is to be understood in the light of the consolidation of a Nation State with a settler colonial logic. The author argues that the affective reception of what a given archive labels as tangible and intangible heritage varies according to each audience?s particular memory practices, historical experience and way of relating to shared hegemonic notions of 'whiteness' and 'indigeneity'.

Habit, Daniel / Schorch, Philipp (eds.), Curating (Post-)Socialist Environments. (Ethnografische Perspektiven auf das oestliche Europa) 344 S. 2021:10 (Transcript, GW) <664-3701>
ISBN 978-3-8376-5590-2 paper ¥9,416.- (税込) EUR 40.00

In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic dimensions of these (post-)socialist enactments or interventions? And how do such (post-)socialist interventions in environments become (re)curated? By addressing these questions, this volume releases "curation" from its usual museological framing and carries it into urban environments and private life-worlds, from predominantly state-sponsored institutional settings with often normative orientations into spheres of subjectification, social creativity, and material commemorative culture.

Haller, Dieter, Tangier/Gibraltar-A Tale of One City: An Ethnography. (Culture and Social Practice) 278 S. 2021:10 (Transcript, GW) <664-3702>
ISBN 978-3-8376-5649-7 paper ¥7,532.- (税込) EUR 32.00

Contemporary life is caught in prisons of identity. Public, academic, and political discourses do not seem to be possible without circling around the topos of identity, thereby creating an illusion of uniqueness, separation, difference, and conflict. By studying the relationship between the Moroccan city of Tangiers and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, Dieter Haller shows how cross-boundary experiences, practices, and identifications create a sense of neighborhood beyond official discourses. Across the Straits of Gibraltar, local and regional relationships in different fields such as kinship, economy, and culture provide resources for post-Brexit common action and a future beyond the prison of identity.

Ingold, Tim, Imagining for Real: Essays on Creation, Attention and Correspondence. 410 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) <664-3704>
ISBN 978-0-367-77510-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-77511-7 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

What does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off from our imagining of it? It was not always thus, and in these essays, Tim Ingold sets out to heal the break between reality and imagination at the heart of modern thought and science. Imagining for Real joins with a lifeworld ever in creation, attending to its formative processes, corresponding with the lives of its human and nonhuman inhabitants. Building on his two previous essay collections, The Perception of the Environment and Being Alive , this book rounds off the extraordinary intellectual project of one of the world's most renowned anthropologists.Offering hope in troubled times, these essays speak to coming generations in a language that surpasses disciplinary divisions. They will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for students in fi elds ranging from art, aesthetics, architecture and archaeology to philosophy, psychology, human geography, comparative literature and theology.

Kelly, Piers, The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines. (Oxford Studies in Anthropology of Language) 256 pp. 2022:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <664-3705>
ISBN 978-0-19-750991-3 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-750992-0 paper ¥10,131.- (税込) US$ 46.99 *

The Last Language on Earth is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated upland community living on the island of Bohol in the southern Philippines. After Eskaya people were first 'discovered' in 1980, visitors described the group as a lost tribe preserving a unique language and writing system. Others argued that the Eskaya were merely members of a utopian rural cult who had invented their own language and script. Rather than adjudicating outsider polemics, this book engages directly with the language itself as well as the direct perspectives of those who use it today. Through written and oral accounts, Eskaya people have represented their language as an ancestral creation derived from a human body. Reinforcing this traditional view, Piers Kelly's linguistic analysis shows how a complex new register was brought into being by fusing new vocabulary onto a modified local grammar. In a synthesis of linguistic, ethnographic, and historical evidence, a picture emerges of a coastal community that fled the ravages of the U.S. invasion of the island in 1901 in order to build a utopian society in the hills. Here they predicted that the world's languages would decline leaving Eskayan as the last language on earth. Marshalling anthropological theories of nationalism, authenticity, and language ideology, along with comparisons to similar events across highland Southeast Asia, Kelly offers a convincing account of this linguistic mystery and also shows its broader relevance to linguistic anthropology. Although the Eskayan situation is unusual, it has the power to illuminate the pivotal role that language plays in the pursuit of identity-building and political resistance.

Leggett, William H. / Leggett, Ida Fadzillah (eds.), Field Stories: Experiences, Affect, and the Lessons of Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century. 142 pp. 2021:3 (Lexington Books, US) <664-3707>
ISBN 978-1-79364-396-4 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

In Field Stories, William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett have drawn together a collection of fieldwork experiences from around the world. Using concepts like vulnerability, friendship, fear, and affect, the contributors in this collection draw on their ethnographic research and classroom experience to share instructive narratives related to their personal encounters and insights from working with local interlocuters. Drawing on moments both unfamiliar and all too familiar to those accustomed to fieldwork, the contributors demonstrate, in clear, relatable prose, how intimate engagements with others in the field can present moments of rich ethnographic value that can be used to understand and provide insight into global interconnections.

Lovern, Lavonna L., Global Indigenous Communities: Historical and Contemporary Issues in Indigeneity. 290 pp. 2021:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-3709>
ISBN 978-3-030-69936-9 paper ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99

Global Indigenous Communities is a wide-ranging examination of global Indigenous communities that continue to suffer from colonization and assimilation issues, including intergenerational trauma. The scholarship is interdisciplinary; it is not easily categorized as sociology, anthropology, ethnography, or philosophy, but cuts across all of these disciplines, as well as Indigenous methodologies. The book not only presents an academic study of Indigenous issues, covering Indigenous community life, religion, the environment, economic matters, education, and healthcare, but also incorporates contributions from Carol Locust, EdD, that reflect on her lifetime of experience in Indigenous education and healthcare. Each studied prism of Indigenous life is revealed to be impacted by the experience of intergenerational trauma that results from continued colonization. Ultimately, this book aims to bridge the communication gap between Western and Indigenous scholarship and readership, artfully combining Indigenous approaches with a traditional academic style.

Nergard, Jens-Ivar, The Sami Narrative Tradition: Cosmopolitans on the Arctic Tundra. 160 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-3714>
ISBN 978-1-03-205355-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-206300-3 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book sets out to document and analyse the Sami narrative tradition. It considers the worldviews inherent in the narratives and links them to traditional cosmology and other cultural expressions (such as joik and duodji). The chapters address a variety of issues, including care for children, the perception of nature, disputes over land and natural resources, local justice, the spiritual world of everyday life, and Laestadianism. Sketching Sami history and the cultural context of storytelling, Nergard also considers the modern challenge for the narrative tradition. Drawing on long-term fieldwork and research, the volume is valuable reading for Indigenous studies and disciplines such as anthropology.

Rinehart, Robert E. / Kidd, J. / Barbour, K. N. (eds.), Ethnographic Borders and Boundaries: Permeability, Plasticity, and Possibilities. XVI, 412 pp. 2021:7 (P. Lang, SZ) <664-3717>
ISBN 978-1-78997-549-9 hard ¥23,920.- (税込) SFR 95.80

Immigrants, migrants, displaced, and diasporic persons: all have been constrained or enabled by borders of some sort. This book explores international cases of how and why such boundaries come to be; who is affected by socially constructed borders; what it means to individuals and nation-states to recognise and deal with arbitrary divisions; and finally, what might be done to find ? and act on ? solutions to the inequity wrought by these borders and boundaries.

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Stewart, Pamela J. / Strathern, Andrew J. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies. (Palgrave Handbooks) 395 pp. 2021 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <664-3718>
ISBN 978-3-030-76824-9 hard ¥70,616.- (税込) EUR 299.99 *

Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when interest in ritual as an object of inquiry was established, bridging over a number of humanities and social science disciplines. Both connected with religious studies and independent of it; overlapping with social and cultural anthropology, but also with history; related to science and health practices and ranging across the life course to education, Ritual Studies has come to encompass studies of change and dynamism in social life. Rituals are determinate in form, but not static. They enunciate distinctive social values within specific contexts that frame them; and they relate to the wider concerns and issues of their practitioners.Due to this broad and wide-ranging scope, it is often difficult to find a single resource on Ritual Studies, and even more so to find one which moves beyond the beginnings of anthropological theorizing to grapple with the present-day contexts of ritual. Bringing together recent ethnographies of ritual practice and ritualization from across the globe, this Handbook provides case study of ritual in the light of Emotion and Cognition, Identity, Religious Power, Performance and Literature, Ecology and Ecological Disaster, Media, and other topics. While each chapter provides a deep ethnography of a specific society, ritual, or ritualized practice, each also engages with current theoretical and substantive approaches to the relevant topic. The scholars collected here provide original synoptic and indicative pieces as guideposts and pathways through the complex, varied and cross-disciplinary, and vast landscape of scholarship that constitutes Ritual Studies today and points to developments in the future.

Williams, Lewis, Indigenous Intergenerational Resilience: Confronting Cultural and Ecological Crisis. (Routledge Studies in Indigenous Peoples and Policy) 240 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-3719>
ISBN 978-0-367-44212-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-212815-3 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book argues that there is a need to develop greater indigenous-led intergenerational resilience in order to meet the challenges posed by contemporary crises of climate change, cultural clashes, and adversity.In today's media, the climate crisis is kept largely separate and distinct from the violent cultural clashes unfolding on the grounds of religion and migration, but each is similarly symptomatic of the erasure of the human connection to place and the accompanying tensions between generations and cultures. This book argues that both forms of crisis are intimately related, under-scored and driven by the structures of white supremacism which at their most immediate and visible, manifest as the discipline of black bodies, and at more fundamental and far-reaching proportions, are about the power, privilege and patterns of thinking associated with but no longer exclusive to white people. In the face of such crisis, it is essential to bring the experience and wisdom of Elders and traditional knowledge keepers together with the contemporary realities and vision of youth.This book's inclusive and critical perspective on Indigenous-led intergenerational resilience will be valuable to Indigenous and non-Indigenous interdisciplinary scholars working on human-ecological resilience.

Martin, Emily, Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter. 312 pp. 2021:11 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <664-3530>
ISBN 978-0-691-23071-9 hard ¥20,266.- (税込) US$ 94.00 *
ISBN 978-0-691-17731-1 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

An inside view of the experimental practices of cognitive psychology-and their influence on the addictive nature of social mediaExperimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever we download a health app, complete a Facebook quiz, or rate our latest purchase. How did experimental psychology come to play an outsized role in these developments? Experiments of the Mind considers this question through a look at cognitive psychology laboratories. Emily Martin traces how psychological research methods evolved, escaped the boundaries of the discipline, and infiltrated social media and our digital universe.Martin recounts her participation in psychology labs, and she conveys their activities through the voices of principal investigators, graduate students, and subjects. Despite claims of experimental psychology's focus on isolated individuals, Martin finds that the history of the field-from early German labs to Gestalt psychology-has led to research methods that are, in fact, highly social. She shows how these methods are deployed online: amplified by troves of data and powerful machine learning, an unprecedented model of human psychology is now widespread-one in which statistical measures are paired with algorithms to predict and influence users' behavior.Experiments of the Mind examines how psychology research has shaped us to be perfectly suited for our networked age.

del Molino, Sergio, Skin. Tr. by T. Bunstead. 220 pp. 2021:10 (Polity Pr., UK) <664-3561>
ISBN 978-1-5095-4785-2 hard ¥5,390.- (税込) US$ 25.00 *

Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them. Through skin, we speak: when we display it, when we tan it, when we tattoo it, or when we mute it by covering it with clothes. Skin exhibits social relationships, displays power and the effects of power, explains many things about who we are, how others perceive us and how we exist in the world. And when it gets sick, it turns us into monsters. In Skin, Sergio del Molino speaks of these monsters in history and literature, whose lives have been tormented by bad skin: Stalin secretly taking a bath in his dacha, Pablo Escobar getting up late and shutting himself in the shower, Cyndi Lauper performing a commercial for a medicine promising relief from skin disease, John Updike sunburned in the Caribbean, Nabokov writing to his wife from exile, 'Everything would be fine, if it weren't for the damned skin.' As a psoriasis sufferer, Sergio del Molino includes himself in this gallery of monsters through whose stories he delves into the mysteries of skin. What is for some a badge of pride and for others a source of anguish and shame, skin speaks of us and for us when we don't speak with words.

Mattern, Shannon, A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences. (Places Books) 200 pp. 2021:8 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <664-3364>
ISBN 978-0-691-20805-3 paper ¥4,301.- (税込) US$ 19.95 *

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism-smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration-promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities encompass myriad forms of local and indigenous intelligences and knowledge institutions, arguing that these resources are a vital supplement and corrective to increasingly prevalent algorithmic models.Shannon Mattern begins by examining the ethical and ontological implications of urban technologies and computational models, discussing how they shape and in many cases profoundly limit our engagement with cities. She looks at the methods and underlying assumptions of data-driven urbanism, and demonstrates how the "city-as-computer" metaphor, which undergirds much of today's urban policy and design, reduces place-based knowledge to information processing. Mattern then imagines how we might sustain institutions and infrastructures that constitute more diverse, open, inclusive urban forms. She shows how the public library functions as a steward of urban intelligence, and describes the scales of upkeep needed to sustain a city's many moving parts, from spinning hard drives to bridge repairs.Incorporating insights from urban studies, data science, and media and information studies, A City Is Not a Computer offers a visionary new approach to urban planning and design.

Achrati, Ahmed, An Anthropology of the Qur'an. (Routledge Studies in Religion) 232 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <664-346>
ISBN 978-1-03-205288-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-206018-7 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book presents an anthropological study of the Qur'an, offering an unprecedented challenge to some of the epistemological and metaphysical assumptions of the taw?idic discourses. Combining primary textual materials and anthropological analysis, this book examines transcendence as a core principle of the Qur'an, uniquely signified in the divine name al-Quddus (the Holy). It shows how the taw?idic representations of Allah constitute an inversion of this attribute; examines how this inversion has been conceived, authorized, and maintained; and demonstrates how it has affected Islamic thinking and practices, especially as relates to authority. This book also explores how a return to the Qur'anic primacy of God's otherness as al-Quddus can influence Islamic thinking and practices moving forward. Therefore, it will be highly useful to scholars of Islamic Studies, philosophical theology, Qur'anic studies, political science, ethics, anthropology, and religious studies.

Leaf, Murray J. / Read, Dwight, Introduction to the Science of Kinship. (Anthropology of Kinship and the Family) 336 pp. 2020:12 (Lexington Books, US) <664-3486>
ISBN 978-1-79363-237-1 hard ¥30,184.- (税込) US$ 140.00 *

In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read illustrate how humans organize systems of social ideas through structures of kinship and outline what this implies for the science of human social organization. Leaf and Read explain that every human society has a social organization that is associated with a distinct vocabulary, which correlates with a particular system of interrelated definitions of social roles and relations. These roles and relations have four specific logical properties: reciprocity, transitivity, boundedness, and imaginary spatial dimensionality. These properties allow individuals to use them in communication to create ongoing, agreed-upon, organizations. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and mathematics.

Cook, Scott, Exploring Commodities: An Anthropologist on the Trails of Malinowski and Traven in Mexico. 244 pp. 2021:6 (P. Lang, SZ) <664-3221>
ISBN 978-1-80079-401-6 paper ¥15,942.- (税込) SFR 63.85

Commodities of one type or other have been produced, transferred and consumed in the economic life of humanity through every epoch of its development and forms of sociocultural organization, but are pervasive in the varieties of capitalism dominating contemporary world economies. Even labor, a necessary element in all forms of commodity production, has itself been commoditized. Embodying three kinds of potentially realizable value ? use, exchange, and symbolic ? commodities reflect and affect various facets of humanity’s sociocultural life. They have been investigated by knowledge producers ranging from Aristotle and Ibn Khaldun through Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx down to a whole host of twentieth-century economists and others like the anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, and the storyteller, B. Traven. In this book noted economic anthropologist Scott Cook draws on many decades of fieldwork in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Tamaulipas to take on the challenge of crafting an academic memoir designed to provide insights into the role of commodities in his own life and times and especially in his anthropological career. He undertakes this project in conjunction with a running interpretation of the contrasting approaches of Malinowski and Traven to the topic of commodity production and exchange in Mexico.

Carter, Paul, Translations, an Autoethnography: Migration, Colonial Australia and the Creative Encounter. (Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography) 344 pp. 2021:12 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <664-3031>
ISBN 978-1-5261-5804-8 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Translations is a personal history written at the intersection of colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography. Renowned postcolonial scholar, public artist and radio maker, UK-born Paul Carter documents and discusses a prodigiously varied and original trajectory of writing, sound installation and public space dramaturgy produced in Australia to present the phenomenon of contemporary migration in an entirely new light.Migrant space-time, Carter argues, is not linear, but turbulent, vortical and opportunistic. Before-and-after narratives fail to capture the work of self-becoming and serve merely to perpetuate colonialist fantasies. The 'mirror state' relationship between England and Australia, its structurally symmetrical histories of land theft and internal colonisation, repress the appearance of new subjects and subject relations. Reflecting on collaborations with Aboriginal artists, Carter argues for a new definition of the stranger-host relationship predicated on recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty. Carter calls the creative practice that breaks the cycle of repeated invasion 'dirty art'.Translations is a passionately eloquent argument for reframing borders as crossing-places: framing less murderous exchange rates, symbolic literacy, creative courage and, above all, the emergence of a resilient migrant poetics will be essential.

Lindstrom, Lamont, Tanna Times: Islanders in the World. 200 pp. 2021:3 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <664-3037>
ISBN 978-0-8248-8666-0 hard ¥17,248.- (税込) US$ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8248-8667-7 paper ¥6,036.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

Anthropologists like to tell other people's stories but local experts tell them even better.This book introduces the vibrant living culture and fascinating history of Tanna, an island in Vanuatu, Melanesia, through the stories of a dozen interconnected Tanna Islanders. Tracing the past 250 years of island experiences that cross the globe, each of these distinctly extraordinary lives tells larger human narratives of cultural continuity and change. In following Tanna's times, we find that all of us, even those living on seemingly out-of-the-way Pacific Islands, are firmly linked into the world's networks. Each chapter opens with a telling life story then contextualizes that biography with pertinent ethnographic explanation and archival research. Since 1774, Tanna Islanders have participated in events that have captured global anthropological and popular attention. These include receiving British explorer James Cook; a 19th century voyage to London; troubled relations with early Christian missionaries; overseas emigration for plantation labor; the innovation of the John Frum Movement, a so-called Melanesian "cargo cult"; service in American military labor corps during the Pacific War; agitation in the 1970s for an independent Vanuatu; urban migration to seek work in Port Vila (Vanuatu's capital); the international kava business; juggling arranged versus love marriages; and modern dealings with social media and swelling numbers of tourists. Yet, partly as a consequence of their experience abroad, Islanders fiercely protect their cultural identity and continue to maintain resilient bonds with their Tanna homes. Drawing on forty years of fieldwork in Vanuatu, author Lamont Lindstrom offers rich insights into the culture of Tanna. His close relationship with the island's people is reflected in his choice to feature their voices; he celebrates and recounts their stories here in accessible, engaging prose. An ethnographic case study written for students of anthropology, the author has included a concise list of key sources and essential further readings suggestions at the end of each chapter. Tanna Times complements classroom and scholarly interests in kinship and marriage, economics, politics, religion, history, linguistics, gender and personhood, and social transformation in Melanesia and beyond.

Muecke, Stephen / Roe, Paddy, The Children's Country: Creation of a Goolarabooloo Future in North-West Australia. (Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures) 252 pp. 2020:11 (Rowman & Littlefield International, US) <664-3039>
ISBN 978-1-78661-548-0 hard ¥34,064.- (税込) US$ 158.00 *
ISBN 978-1-78661-648-7 paper ¥11,642.- (税込) US$ 54.00 *

In North-West Australia, between 2009 and 2013, a major Indigenous-environmentalist alliance waged a successful campaign to stop a huge industrial development, a $45 billion liquefied gas plant proposed by Woodside and its partners. The Western Australian government and key Indigenous institutions also pushed hard for this, making the custodians of the Country, the Goolarabooloo, an embattled minority. This experimental ethnography documents the Goolarabooloo's knowledge of Country, their long history of struggle for survival, and the alliances that formed to support them. Written in a fictocritical style, it introduces a new 'multirealist' kind of analysis that focuses on institutions (Indigenous or European), their spheres of influence, and how they organised to stay alive as alliances shifted and changed.

Behera, Maguni Charan (ed.), Tribe-British Relations in India: Revisiting Text, Perspective and Approach. 366 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <664-3045>
ISBN 978-981-16-3423-9 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book discusses the colonial history of Tribe-British relations in India. It analyses colonial literature, as well as cultural and relational issues of pre-literate communities. It interrogates disciplinary epistemology through multidisciplinary engagement. It presents the temporal and spatial dimensions of tribal studies. The chapters critically examine colonial ideology and administration and civilization of tribes of India. Each paper introduces a unique context of Tribe-British interactions and provides an innovative approach, theoretical foundation, analytical tool and methodological insights in the emerging discipline of tribal studies. The book is of interest to researchers and scholars engaged in topics related to tribes.

High, Holly, Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village. (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) 272 pp. 2021:5 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <664-3007>
ISBN 978-0-8248-8665-3 hard ¥17,248.- (税込) US$ 80.00 *

In Projectland, anthropologist Holly High combines an engaging first-person narrative of her fieldwork with a political ethnography of Laos, more than forty years after the establishment of the Lao PDR and more than seven decades since socialist ideologues first "liberated" parts of upland country. In a remote village of Kandon, High finds that although socialism has declined significantly as an economic model, it is ascendant and thriving in the culture of politics and the politics of culture.Kandon is remarkable by any account. The villagers are ethnic Kantu (Katu), an ethnicity associated by early ethnographers above all with human sacrifice. They had repelled French control, and as the war went on, the revolutionary forces of Sekong were headquartered in Kandon territories. In 1996, Kandon village moved and resettled in a plateau area. "New Kandon" has become Sekong Province's first certified "Culture Village," the nation's very first "Open Defecation Free and Model Health Village," and the president of Laos personally granted the village a Labor Flag and Medal. High provides a unique and timely assessment of the Lao Party-state's resettlement politics, and she recounts with skillful nuance the stories that are often cast into shadows by the usual focus on New Kandon as a success. Her book follows the lives of a small group of villagers who returned to the old village in the mountains, effectively defying policy but, in their words, obeying the presence that animates the land there. Revealing her sensibility with tremendous composure, High tells the experiences of women who, bound by steep bride-prices to often violent marriages, have tasted little of the socialist project of equality, unity, and independence. These women spoke to the author of "necessities" as a limit to their own lives. In a context where the state has defined the legitimate forms of success and agency, "necessity" emerged as a means of framing one's life as nonconforming but also nonagentive.

Alber, Erdmute / Thelen, Tatjana (eds.), Politics and Kinship: A Reader. 300 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) <664-2397>
ISBN 978-0-367-43484-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-40871-8 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Politics and Kinship: A Reader offers a unique overview of the entanglement of these two categories in both theoretical debates and everyday practices. The two, despite many challenges, are often thought to have become separated during the process of modernisation. Tracing how this notion of separation becomes idealised and translated into various contexts, this book sheds light on its epistemological limitations. Combining otherwise-distinct lines of discussion within political anthropology and kinship studies, the selection of texts covers a broad range of intersecting topics that range from military strategy, DNA testing, and child fostering, to practices of kinning the state. Beginning with the study of politics, the first part of this volume looks at how its separation from kinship came to be considered a 'modern' phenomenon, with significant consequences. The second part starts from kinship, showing how it was made into a separate and apolitical field - an idea that would soon travel and be translated globally into policies. The third part turns to reproductions through various transmissions and future-making projects. Overall, the volume offers a fundamental critique of the epistemological separation of politics and kinship, and its shortcomings for teaching and research. Featuring contributions from a broad range of regional, temporal and theoretical backgrounds, it allows for critical engagement with knowledge production about the entanglement of politics and kinship. The different traditions and contemporary approaches represented make this book an essential resource for researchers, instructors and students of anthropology.

McGonigle, Ian, Genomic Citizenship: The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East. 220 pp. 2021:8 (MIT Pr., US) <664-196>
ISBN 978-0-262-54294-4 paper ¥16,170.- (税込) US$ 75.00

Pfeilstetter, Richard, The Anthropology of Entrepreneurship: Cultural History, Global Ethnographies, Theorizing Agency. 128 pp. 2021:11 (Routledge, UK) <664-1225>
ISBN 978-0-367-42439-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-40748-3 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

The Anthropology of Entrepreneurship provides a comprehensive overview of the unique contribution from anthropology to the field of entrepreneurship studies. Insights from anthropology illuminate the wider socio-cultural implications of entrepreneurialism, a moral order and social practice that is profoundly shaping contemporary society. Revisiting classic works in anthropology from a new angle, this book provides an exciting introduction to diverse conceptual framings of economic agency. The author also examines a wide range of 21st century ethnographies from the Global South, alongside his own research from across Europe. Readers meet ordinary people struggling with new social landscapes, including neoliberal urbanism, informal credit, heritage marketing, social enterprising, gift competition, and silicon utopias. With sensitivity to different theoretical, temporal, and ethnographic perspectives, the author presents a thorough cultural history of the entrepreneur-this ubiquitous, yet ambivalent contemporary character. This important volume will be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, business studies and other related social sciences.