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

Chou, Cynthia / Kerner, Susanne (eds.), Food, Social Change and Identity. (Consumption and Public Life) 201 pp. 2021:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-618>
ISBN 978-3-030-84370-0 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area study specialists, linguists and food policy administrators to explore the following questions: What kinds of changes in food and foodways are happening? What triggers change and how are the changes impacting identity politics? In terms of scope and organization, this book offers a vast historical extent ranging from the 5th mill BCE to the present day. In addition, it presents case studies from across the world, including Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and America. Finally, this collection of essays presents diverse perspectives and differing methodologies. It is an accessible introduction to the study of food, social change and identity.

Bryan, Eric Shane, Icelandic Folklore and the Cultural Memory of Religious Change. (Borderlines) 172 pp. 2021:2 (Arc Humanities Pr., UK) <666-269>
ISBN 978-1-64189-375-6 hard ¥29,972.- (税込) GB￡ 104.00 *

青柳寛他編　異文化的視点における偶像学
Aoyagi, Hiroshi / Galbraith, P. W. / Kovacic, M. (eds.), Idology in Transcultural Perspective: Anthropological Investigations of Popular Idolatry. 314 pp. 2021:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2599>
ISBN 978-3-030-82676-5 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

This edited volume expands on what Aoyagi Hiroshi intended in the first decade of the new millennium to establish as a subfield of symbolic anthropology called “idology.” It brings together case studies of popular idolatry in Japan, but goes further to provide a transcultural perspective to guide anthropological investigations in different places and times. In proposing an integrated paradigm for the growing body of literature on idols, the volume redirects recurrent questions to more fundamental points of sociocultural inquiry. Contributions from scholars conducting ethnographic fieldwork, as well as those engaged in theoretical and historical analyses, facilitate comparative reading and critical thought. Exceeding a narrow focus on human idols, the chapters shed new light on virtual idols and YouTubers, cartoon characters and voices, robot idols and cybernetic systems. Science and technology studies thus comes together with theories of animation and anthropological work on life in more-than-human worlds.

Barker, K. Brandon / Povinelli, Daniel J. (eds.), The Aesop's Fable Paradigm: An Unlikely Intersection of Folklore and Science. (Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology) 258 pp. 2021:12 (Indiana U. Pr., US) <666-2600>
ISBN 978-0-253-05922-2 paper ¥8,976.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

The Aesop's Fable Paradigm is a collection of essays that explore the cutting-edge intersection of Folklore and Science. From moralizing fables to fantastic folktales, humans have been telling stories about animals-animals who can talk, feel, think, and make moral judgments just as we do-for a very long time. In contrast, scientific studies of the mental lives of animals have professed to be investigating the nature of animal minds slowly, cautiously, objectively, with no room for fanciful tales, fables, or myths. But recently, these folkloric and scientific traditions have merged in an unexpected and shocking way: scientists have attempted to prove that at least some animal fables are actually true. These interdisciplinary chapters examine how science has targeted the well-known Aesop's fable "The Crow and the Pitcher" as their starting point. They explore the ever-growing set of experimental studies which purport to prove that crows possess an understanding of higher-order concepts like weight, mass, and even Archimedes' insight about the physics of water displacement.The Aesop's Fable Paradigm explores how these scientific studies are doomed to accomplish little more than to mirror anthropomorphic representations of animals in human folklore and reveal that the problem of folkloric projection extends far beyond the "Aesop's Fable Paradigm" into every nook and cranny of research on animal cognition.

Cerasuolo, Orlando (ed.), The Archaeology of Inequality: Tracing the Archaeological Record. (SUNY series, The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series) 392 pp. 2021:9 (State U. New York Pr., US) <666-2605>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8513-3 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Feder, Lisa, Jeliya at the Crossroads: Learning African Wisdom through an Embodied Practice. (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology) 244 pp. 2021:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2607>
ISBN 978-3-030-83058-8 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book describes the remarkable culture of jeliya, a musical and verbal art from the Manding region of West Africa. Using an embodied practice as her methodology, the author reveals how she and her music teachers live “in between” local and global cultures. Her journey spans 20 years of fieldwork presented through personal and intimate stories, first as a student of the balafon instrument, then as a patron of the music. Tensions build in both the music and in social relations that require resolutions, underscoring the differences between two world views. Through balafon lessons, the author embodies values such as patience, courage, and generosity, resulting in a transformative practice that leads her to better understand her position vis-a-vis that of her jeli teachers. Meanwhile, jeliya itself, despite having been transmitted from teacher to student for 800 years, is currently in peril. Jelis cite modern globalized culture and people like the author herself as both a source of the problem as well as the potential solution.

Gordon-Lennox, Jeltje (ed.), Coping Rituals in Fearful Times: An Unexplored Resource for Healing Trauma. 207 pp. 2021:12 (Springer, GW) <666-2609>
ISBN 978-3-030-81533-2 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This collection of articles reveals ritual to be a unique and powerful asset in healing trauma and broken relationships. Each contribution offers insights on how, in the face of uncertainty, threat and dislocation, human beings feel compelled to 'do something', usually with or for others, to alleviate their anxiety, fears and sense of powerlessness. The editor and authors demonstrate how the imaginative processes at the heart of ritualmaking contribute to self- and group regulation by healing and mitigating the negative impact of trauma on individuals, collective groups, and even global systems. The authors are a group of remarkable scholars, researchers and practitioners who represent a diverse range of disciplines and subfields, including archaeology, Chinese studies, digital culture, ecological science, philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy, the politics of memory and the preservation of cultural heritage in wartime, ritual anthropology, social research, physics, research on traumatic stress, and peace studies. Students and researchers across the social and behavioural sciences will find this volume useful.

Gregoric Bon, Natasa / Musaraj, Smoki (eds.), Remitting, Restoring and Building Contemporary Albania. 240 pp. 2021:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2610>
ISBN 978-3-030-84090-7 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

The edited collection is a fresh contribution to the anthropological, sociological, and geographical explorations of time-space in Southeast Europe and Albania in particular. By delving into various levels of people’s daily lives, such as literature, relation to the environment, the urbanization process, art, photography, trauma and remembering, processes of modernity, the volume vividly portrays various realms that are lived and perceived. It largely builds on the premise that structural resemblances of the past continuously reappear in particular social and cultural moments and seek to restore and build the individual and collective lives in contemporary Albania.

Hage, Ghassan, The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World. 248 pp. 2021:11 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <666-2611>
ISBN 978-0-226-54690-2 hard ¥23,113.- (税込) US$ 103.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-54706-0 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory. In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage engages with the diasporic Lebanese community as a shared lifeworld, defining a common cultural milieu that transcends spatial and temporal distance-a collective mode of being here termed the "diasporic condition." Encompassing a complicated transnational terrain, Hage's long-term ethnography takes us from Mehj and Jalleh in Lebanon to Europe, Australia, South America, and North America, analyzing how Lebanese migrants and their families have established themselves in their new homes while remaining socially, economically, and politically related to Lebanon and to each other. At the heart of The Diasporic Condition lies a critical anthropological question: How does the study of a particular sociocultural phenomenon expand our knowledge of modes of existing in the world? As Hage establishes what he terms the "lenticular condition," he breaks down the boundaries between "us" and "them," "here" and "there," showing that this convergent mode of existence increasingly defines everyone's everyday life.

Kearney, Amanda, Keeping Company: An Anthropology of Being-in-Relation. 184 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-2614>
ISBN 978-0-367-40927-2 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-215563-0 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book offers up a study of relational modalities in a moment of increasingly vexed identity politics. It takes inspiration from the art of keeping company, a relational habit derived on a kincentric ontology and praxis of interconnected life among the Yanyuwa, Indigenous owners of lands and waters in northern Australia. Diving deep into this multidimensional art of relating, the book critically engages with the counter habit of reductive identity politics and the flattening qualities that come with exceptionalism, individuated rights, limited empathic reach and a lack of enchantment in the other. Moving between ethnographic insights, conceptual analysis and personal reflection, Keeping Company offers an accessible engagement with some of the tricky aspects of identity politics as navigated in the present moment across sites of cultural difference. It will interest scholars and students from anthropology, sociology, philosophy and Indigenous studies, and others who are driven to be in better relationship with the world, with their neighbours, with strangers and with themselves.

Lemelson, Robert / Tucker, Annie, Widening the Frame with Visual Psychological Anthropology: Perspectives on Trauma, Gendered Violence, and Stigma in Indonesia. (Culture, Mind, and Society) 439 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2616>
ISBN 978-3-030-79882-6 hard ¥26,737.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book uses visual psychological anthropology to explore trauma, gendered violence, and stigma through a discussion of three ethnographic films set in Indonesia: 40 Years of Silence (Lemelson 2009), Bitter Honey (Lemelson 2015), and Standing on the Edge of a Thorn (Lemelson 2012). This exploration "widens the frame" in two senses. First, it offers an integrative analysis that connects the discrete topics and theoretical concerns of each film to crosscutting themes in Indonesian history, society, and culture. Additionally, it sheds light on all that falls outside the literal frame of the screen, including the films' origins; psychocultural and interpersonal dynamics and constraints of deep, ongoing collaborations in the field; narrative and emotional orientations toward editing; participants' relationship to their screened image; the life of the films after release; and the ethics of each stage of filmmaking. In doing so, the authors widen the frame for psychological anthropology as well, advocating for film as a crucial point of engagement for academic audiences and for translational purposes.Rich with critical insights and reflections on ethnographic filmmaking, this book will appeal to both scholars and students of visual anthropology, psychological anthropology, and ethnographic methods. It also serves as an engrossing companion to three contemporary ethnographic films.

Lloyd, Timothy (ed.), What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies. 268 pp. 2021:10 (Indiana U. Pr., US) <666-2617>
ISBN 978-0-253-05843-0 hard ¥20,196.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-0-253-05842-3 paper ¥8,751.- (税込) US$ 39.00 *

What can you do with a folklore degree? Over six dozen folklorists, writing from their own experiences, show us. What Folklorists Do examines a wide range of professionals-both within and outside the academy, at the beginning of their careers or holding senior management positions-to demonstrate the many ways that folklore studies can shape and support the activities of those trained in it. As one of the oldest academic professions in the United States and grounded in ethnographic fieldwork, folklore has always been concerned with public service and engagement beyond the academy. Consequently, as this book demonstrates, the career applications of a training in folklore are many-advocating for local and national causes; shaping public policy; directing and serving in museums; working as journalists, publishers, textbook writers, or journal editors; directing national government programs or being involved in historic preservation; teaching undergraduate and graduate students; producing music festivals; pursuing a career in politics; or even becoming a stand-up comedian. A comprehensive guide to the range of good work carried out by today's folklorists, What Folklorists Do is essential reading for folklore students and professionals and those in positions to hire them.Audio book narrated by Walter Brown. Produced by Speechki in 2021.

Montejo, Victor, Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory of Indigenous Cultures. (SUNY series, Trans-Indigenous Decolonial Critiques) 258 pp. 2021:10 (State U. New York Pr., US) <666-2620>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8575-1 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Morphy, Howard / McKenzie, Robyn (eds.), Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value. (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) 330 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-2621>
ISBN 978-0-367-68848-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-64457-4 paper ¥11,524.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value focuses on the ways in which museums and the use of their collections have contributed to, and continue to be engaged with, value creation processes.Including chapters from many of the leading figures in museum anthropology, as well as from outstanding early-career researchers, this volume presents a diverse range of international case studies that bridge the gap between theory and practice. It demonstrates that ethnographic collections and the museums that hold and curate them have played a central role in the value creation processes that have changed attitudes to cultural differences. The essays engage richly with many of the important issues of contemporary museum discourse and practice. They show how collections exist at the ever-changing point of articulation between the source communities and the people and cultures of the museum and challenge presentist critiques of museums that position them as locked into the time that they emerged. Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value provides examples of the productive outcomes of collaborative work and relationships, showing how they can be mutually beneficial. The book will be of great interest to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums and heritage, anthropology, culture, Indigenous peoples, postcolonialism, history and sociology. It will also be of interest to museum professionals.

Morris, Alan G., Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied Race. 304 pp. 2022:2 (Wits U. Pr., SA) <666-2622>
ISBN 978-1-77614-724-3 hard ¥19,971.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-77614-723-6 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Navarro, Tami, Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands. 254 pp. 2021:11 (State U. New York Pr., US) <666-2623>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8603-1 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Smith, Diane / Wighton, Alice / Cornell, S. et al. (eds.), Developing Governance and Governing Development: International Case Studies of Indigenous Futures. (Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures) 508 pp. 2021:8 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <666-2625>
ISBN 978-1-5381-4363-6 hard ¥36,128.- (税込) US$ 161.00 *

Globally, far too many discussions about Indigenous governance and development are dominated by accounts of disadvantage, deficit and failure. This book paints a different international picture, testifying to Indigenous peoples as agents of governance innovation and successful developers in their own right, telling stories in their words, from their own experiences and countries. From Indigenous voices, we hear alternative concepts and measures of effectiveness, legitimacy, success and sustainability. Indigenous stories and voices are captured as 20 case study chapters, written in lively, clear language about what is happening that is promising and productive in Indigenous self-determined governance for self-determined development in Canada, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the USA; all English colonial-settler countries.

O'Connor, Paul / Benta, Marius Ion (eds.), The Technologisation of the Social: A Political Anthropology of the Digital Machine. (Contemporary Liminality) 224 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) <666-2478>
ISBN 978-0-367-51166-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

In an era of digital revolution, artificial intelligence, big data and augmented reality, technology has shifted from being a tool of communication to a primary medium of experience and sociality. Some of the most basic human capacities are increasingly being outsourced to machines and we increasingly experience and interpret the world through digital interfaces, with machines becoming ever more 'social' beings. Social interaction and human perception are being reshaped in unprecedented ways. This book explores this technologisation of the social and the attendant penetration of permanent liminality into those aspects of the lifeworld where individuals had previously sought some kind of stability and meaning. Through a historical and anthropological examination of this phenomenon, it problematises the underlying logic of limitless technological expansion and our increasing inability to imagine either ourselves or our world in other than technological terms. Drawing on a variety of concepts from political anthropology, including liminality, the trickster, imitation, schismogenesis, participation, and the void, it interrogates the contemporary technological revolution in a manner that will be of interest to sociologists, social and anthropological theorists and scholars of science and technology studies with interests in the digital transformation of social life.

Udupa, Sahana / Gagliardone, Iginio / Hervik, Peter (eds.), Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech. 276 pp. 2021:12 (Indiana U. Pr., US) <666-2485>
ISBN 978-0-253-05925-3 paper ¥4,039.- (税込) US$ 18.00 *

The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale.Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary perspective on hateful language online. Moving beyond Euro-American allegations of "fake news," contributors draw attention to local idioms and practices and explore the profound implications for how community is imagined, enacted, and brutally enforced around the world. With a cross-cultural framework nuanced by ethnography and field-based research, the volume investigates a wide range of cases-from anti-immigrant memes targeted at Bolivians in Chile to trolls serving the ruling AK Party in Turkey-to ask how the potential of extreme speech to talk back to authorities has come under attack by diverse forms of digital hate cultures.Offering a much-needed global perspective on the "dark side" of the internet, Digital Hate is a timely and critical look at the raging debates around online media's failed promises.

Campos, Ricardo / Nofre, Jordi (eds.), Exploring Ibero-American Youth Cultures in the 21st Century: Creativity, Resistance and Transgression in the City. 310 pp. 2021:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2493>
ISBN 978-3-030-83540-8 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

The authors collected here address youth street cultures in different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain, and beyond. This overseas approach bridging the European and American contexts is justified by the range of (complex) social, cultural and economic relationships that have shaped this transnational geographical space since the beginning of the colonial period. The chapters collected here focus on three key concepts?creativity, resistance and transgression?that form a threefold dispositive to locally and globally confront, contest and even fight against the hegemonic, punitive and oppressive powers (re)produced by (white, male) dominant classes of the city. The book ensures a high diversity of geographical and social/cultural research contexts by focusing on one, two or multiple spatial contexts (the public space, the street, the city) and, at the same time, by emphasizing the different economic, social, cultural, symbolic specificities of youth cultures (including gender, sexuality and race) in their particular urban contexts.

Weaver, Hilary N. (ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Indigenous Resilience. (Routledge International Handbooks) 440 pp. 2022:1 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <666-2430>
ISBN 978-0-367-49985-3 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-49972-3 paper ¥12,389.- (税込) GB￡ 42.99 *

This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge strengths-based resource on the subject of Indigenous resilience.Indigenous Peoples demonstrate considerable resilience despite the social, health, economic, and political disparities they experience within surrounding settler societies. This book considers Indigenous resilience in many forms: cultural, spiritual, and governance traditions remain in some communities and are being revitalized in others to reclaim aspects of their cultures that have been outlawed, suppressed, or undermined. It explores how Indigenous people advocate for social justice and work to shape settler societies in ways that create a more just, fair, and equitable world for all human and non-human beings. This book is divided into five sections: From the past to the futurePillars of Indigeneity The power in Indigenous identities The natural world Reframing the narrative: from problem to opportunityComprised of 25 newly commissioned chapters from Indigenous scholars, professionals, and community members from traditions around the world, this book will be a useful tool for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of manifestations of wellness and resilience.This handbook will be of particular interest to all scholars, students, and practitioners of social work, social care, and human services more broadly, as well as those working in sociology, development studies, and environmental sustainability.

Kuppinger, Petra (ed.), Emergent Spaces: Change and Innovation in Small Urban Spaces. (Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology) 255 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2347>
ISBN 978-3-030-84378-6 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, culture, and politics, or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of this book is on spaces and contexts where change is seeded, regardless of whether it was planned and whether it was or will be successful in the end. Contributors analyze the seeds of change at their very inception in diverse cultural contexts across four continents. How do small groups of ordinary and often also disenfranchised people design, suggest and implement ideas of change? How do they use and remake small urban spaces to better suit their purposes, voice claims to the city, create opportunities, and design better urban lives and futures? The emphasis of this volume is not on the nature of activities and change, but on the minute processes of initiating change.

Ferret, Jerome / Khosrokhavar, Farhad (eds.), Family and Jihadism: A Socio-Anthropological Approach to the French Experience. (Social Movements in the 21st Century: New Paradigms) 272 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) <666-2411>
ISBN 978-1-03-207346-0 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-207734-5 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This volume explores the paramount importance of family to jihadism in France, Spain and in Europe more generally. In France, special focus is given to the Mohammed Merah paradigmatic case study in the Toulouse region. In Spain, attention is given to the North and to Catalonia. With attention to both the concrete family - often in crisis - and the imaginary family invented by radicalized youth to substitute, this book shows the fundamental need among many jihadists to reconstitute the family, whether in the form of a clan or the imagined Caliphate (or neo-Ummah): a form of shared existence that offers escape from societies in which jihadists feel ill-at-ease. Demonstrating the failure of an emphasis on the individual actor to capture the meaning of jihadism, Family and Jihadism reveals the fundamental importance to our understanding of jihadist activity of the family (in an extended anthropological sense) - real or imagined - into which the individual is inserted. A study of the crisis of family and the re-creation of a new, enlarged family in the lives of young jihadists, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, politics and security studies with interests in radicalisation, political violence, social movements and religious violence.

Micots, Courtnay, Kakaamotobe: Fancy Dress Carnival in Ghana. 312 pp. 2021:6 (Lexington Books, US) <666-2220>
ISBN 978-1-79364-309-4 hard ¥29,845.- (税込) US$ 133.00 *

Kakaamotobe, meaning to scare, is known across southern Ghana, West Africa, as Fancy Dress performance. Masqueraders dress in colorful costumes and wear fancy and fierce masks; they dance energetically to drums or brass band music through the main streets of town during holidays, especially during Christmastime. Competitions held in two towns are intense annual events. This lively secular masquerade is a carnival form that has been practiced for well over a century primarily by coastal Fante people, and many additional ethnicities participate today. Kakaamotobe: Fancy Dress Carnival in Ghana explores the fascinating history, aesthetics, performance, and underlying messages of this masquerade with ties to other carnivalesque practices in the Black Atlantic. While Fancy Dress may engage with global cultures through some of its aesthetics, the practice is profoundly African. The utilization of elaborate costumes, masks, and brass bands expresses not a desire to imitate outside cultures, but rather the impulse of youth to adapt traditional culture to the contemporary environment. Courtnay Micots argues that the outward impression of folly belies the more serious refashioning of power, identity, and modernity in the community.

Heslop, Luke / Murton, Galen (eds.), Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean. (New Mobilities in Asia) 226 pp. 2021:9 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <666-2116>
ISBN 978-94-6372-304-6 hard ¥30,837.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet-Himalaya region, showing how new infrastructures simultaneously create fresh connections and reinforce existing inequalities. Bringing together ethnographic studies on the social politics of road development and new mobilities in twenty-first-century Asia, this edited collection demonstrates that while new roads generate new forms of hierarchy, older forms of hierarchy are remade and re-established in creative and surprising new ways. Focused on South Asia but speaking to more global phenomena, the chapters collectively reveal how road planning, construction and usage routinely yield a simultaneous reinforcement and disruption of social, political and economic relations.

Isidoros, Konstantina / Inhorn, Marcia C. (eds.), Arab Masculinities: Anthropological Reconceptions in Precarious Times. (Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa) 246 pp. 2022:1 (Indiana U. Pr., US) <666-2171>
ISBN 978-0-253-05892-8 hard ¥16,830.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-0-253-05891-1 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Arab Masculinities provides a groundbreaking analysis of Arab men's lives in the precarious aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings. It challenges received wisdoms and entrenched stereotypes about Arab men, offering new understandings of rujula, or masculinity, across the Middle East and North Africa.The 10 individual chapters of the book foreground the voices and stories of Arab men as they face economic precarity, forced displacement, and new challenges to marriage and family life. Rich in ethnographic details, they illuminate how men develop alternative strategies of affective labor, how they attempt to care for themselves and their families within their local moral worlds, and what it means to be a good son, husband, father, and community member. Arab Masculinities sheds light on the most private spaces of Arab men's lives-offering stories that rarely enter the public realm. It is a pioneering volume that reflects the urgent need for new anthropological scholarship on men and masculinities in a changing Middle East.

Bochmann, Annett, Public Camp Orders and the Power of Microstructures in the Thai-Burmese Borderland. 242 pp. 2021:6 (Lexington Books, US) <666-2068>
ISBN 978-1-79360-895-6 hard ¥24,908.- (税込) US$ 111.00 *

Based on participant observation between 2013 and 2016, this study makes a unique contribution to empirical and theoretical discourses on different forms of encampment, migration, and refuge. Focusing on microstructures that affect displaced peoples encamped on the Thai-Burmese border, the author analyzes structures of mobility, local governance, social interaction, and stability in the context of temporary environments.

Marchina, Charlotte, Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders: Multispecies and Spatial Ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia. (North East Asian Studies) 178 pp. 2021:7 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <666-2087>
ISBN 978-94-6372-142-4 hard ¥27,667.- (税込) GB￡ 96.00 *

Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders: Multispecies and Spatial Ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia is based on anthropological research carried out by the author between 2008 and 2016 and addresses the spatial features of nomadic pastoralism among the Mongol herders of Mongolia and Southern Siberia from a cross-comparative perspective. In addition to classical methods of survey, Charlotte Marchina innovatively used GPS recordings to analyze the ways in which pastoralists envision and concretely occupy the landscape, which they share with their animals and invisible entities. The data, represented in abundant and original cartography, provides a better understanding of the mutual adaptations of both herders and animals in the common use of unfenced pastures, not only between different herders but between different species. The author also highlights the herders' adaptive strategies at a time of rapid sociopolitical and environmental changes in this area of the world.

Bock, Jan-Jonathan, Citizens without a City: Destruction and Despair after the L'Aquila Earthquake. 274 pp. 2022:2 (Indiana U. Pr., US) <666-1709>
ISBN 978-0-253-05885-0 hard ¥15,708.- (税込) US$ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-0-253-05886-7 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

In 2009, after seismic tremors struck the Italian mountain town of L'Aquila, survivors were subjected to a "second earthquake"-invasive media attention and a relief effort that left them in a state of suspended citizenship as they were forcibly resettled and had to envision a new future.In Citizens without a City, Jan-Jonathan Bock reveals how a disproportionate government response exacerbated survivors' sense of crisis, divided the local population, and induced new types of political action. Italy's disenfranchising emergency reaction relocated citizens to camps and sites across a ruined townscape, without a plan for restoration or return. Through grassroots politics, arts and culture, commemoration rituals, architectural projects, and legal avenues, local people now sought to shape their hometown's recovery. Bock combines an analysis of the catastrophe's impact with insights into post-disaster civic life, urban heritage, the politics of mourning, and community fragmentation.A fascinating read for anyone interested in urban culture, disaster, and politics, Citizens without a City illustrates how survivors battled to retain a sense of purpose and community after the L'Aquila earthquake.

van Nes, Jermo / Nullens, P. / van den Heuvel, S. C. (eds.), Relational Anthropology for Contemporary Economics: A Multidisciplinary Approach. (Ethical Economy 61) 256 pp. 2021:12 (Springer, GW) <666-153>
ISBN 978-3-030-84689-3 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99 *
ISBN 978-3-030-84692-3 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book offers a multidisciplinary dialogue on relational anthropology in contemporary economics. A particular view of the human being is often assumed in economic models, but seldom acknowledged let alone explicated. Addressing this neglected area of research in economic studies, altogether the contributors touch upon the importance and potential of virtues, the notions of freedom and self-love, the potential of simulation models, the dialectics of love, and questions of methodology in constructing a relational anthropology for contemporary economics. The overall result is a highly informative and constructive dialogue, establishing inter alia a research agenda for future collaborative and multidisciplinary study.