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

Straube, Christian, After Corporate Paternalism: Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination. (Integration and Conflict Studies 24) 178 pp. 2021:7 (Berghahn, US) <672-975>
ISBN 978-1-80073-133-2 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of Luanshya, one of the oldest mining towns on the Zambian Copperbelt. Touching on topics including industrial history, colonial town planning, social control and materiality, gender relations and neoliberal structural change, After Corporate Paternalism offers unique insights into how people reappropriate former corporate spaces and transform them into personal projects of renovation, fundamentally changing the characteristics of their community.

Parkin, Robert, How Kinship Systems Change: On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification. 310 pp. 2021:7 (Berghahn, US) <672-979>
ISBN 978-1-80073-166-0 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them. The chapters also focus on a suggested trajectory, linking South Asia and Europe and the specific question of the status of Crow-Omaha systems. The collection culminates in the argument that, whereas marriage systems and practices seem infinitely varied when examined from a very close perspective, the terminologies that accompany them are much more restricted.

Santo, Diana Espirito / Hunter, Jack (eds.), Mattering the Invisible: Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral. 272 pp. 2021:5 (Berghahn, US) <672-993>
ISBN 978-1-80073-066-3 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Exploring how technological apparatuses "capture" invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. Technological and scientific discourse has always been central to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spiritualist quest for legitimacy, but as this book shows, machines, people, and invisible beings are much more ontologically entangled in their definitions and constitution than we would expect. The book shows this entanglement through a series of contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.

Abbink, Jon / LaTosky, Shauna (eds.), Rhetoric and Social Relations: Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation. (Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 8) 352 pp. 2021:2 (Berghahn, US) <672-823>
ISBN 978-1-78920-977-8 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

This volume explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinating examples of the ambiguities and effects of rhetoric used (un)consciously in social praxis. The elements of power, competition and political persuasion figure prominently. It is an accessible collection of studies, speaking to common issues and problems in social life, and shows the heuristic and often explanatory value of the rhetorical perspective.

Hannerz, Ulf, Afropolitan Horizons: Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria. 258 pp. 2022:2 (Berghahn, US) <672-835>
ISBN 978-1-80073-250-6 hard ¥33,435.- (税込) US$ 149.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80073-319-0 paper ¥4,475.- (税込) US$ 19.95 *

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators, as well as describing the ways in which Nigeria has appeared in foreign news reporting. It is all interwoven with the author's own anthropological field research in a town in Central Nigeria.

Badaro, Maximo (ed.), China in Argentina: Ethnographies of a Global Expansion. (Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia) 172 pp. 2022:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <672-854>
ISBN 978-3-030-92421-8 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This is the first book to shed light on the growing presence, influence and expansion of China in the daily life of Argentina. While most previous academic studies focus on the geopolitical and macroeconomics dimensions of the relations between Argentina and China, this book shows at a micro-social level the multiple facets of the economic, political and social influence of China in Argentina. The book presents ethnographic studies of encounters of actors and negotiation of identities from Argentina and China in companies, schools, restaurants, hospitals, districts, public and private institutions in Argentina. Themes discussed in the ethnographies include: identity struggle and strategic uses of culture in Buenos Aires' s Chinatown; teaching Chinese as the first foreign language or teaching it as a heritage language in a bilingual school; the contested production of images of Chinese authenticity in Chinese restaurants; the connections and contestations between so-called "Western medicine" and so-called "Chinese Traditional Medicine"; and the conflictive relations between Chinese expatriate bosses of Chinese state-owned enterprises and their Argentinean employees.

Enriquez, Falina, The Costs of the Gig Economy: Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil. 288 pp. 2022:9 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <672-864>
ISBN 978-0-252-04461-8 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08668-7 paper ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Institutions in Recife, Brazil, have restructured subsidies in favor of encouraging musicians to become more entrepreneurial. Falina Enriquez explores how contemporary and traditional musicians in the fabled musical city have negotiated these intensified neoliberal cultural policies and economic uncertainties. Drawing on years of fieldwork, Enriquez shows how forcing artists to adopt "neutral" market solutions reinforces, and generates, overlapping racial and class-based inequalities. Lacking the social and financial resources of their middle-class peers, working-class musicians find it difficult to uphold institutional goals of connecting the city's cultural roots to global markets and consumers. Enriquez also links the artists' situation to that of cultural and creative workers around the world. As she shows, musical sponsorship in Recife and the contemporary gig economy elsewhere employ processes that, far from being neutral, uphold governmental and corporate ideologies that produce social stratification.Rich and vibrant, The Costs of the Gig Economy offers a rare English-language portrait of the changing musical culture in Recife.

Fiskesjoe, Magnus, Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture. (Asian Anthropologies 12) 414 pp. 2021:8 (Berghahn, US) <672-739>
ISBN 978-1-78920-887-0 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own, and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. Their mythology suggests their land is the first place inhabited by humans, which they care for on behalf of the world. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world's troubles and the lessons others might learn from it. It also presents a new interpretation of Wa headhunting, questioning explanations that see it as a primitive custom, and instead placing it within the fraught history of the last few centuries.

Swancutt, Katherine (ed.), Crafting Chinese Memories: The Art and Materiality of Storytelling. (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement 11) 240 pp. 2021:10 (Berghahn, US) <672-757>
ISBN 978-1-80073-237-7 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is a novel book which addresses how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China.

Moeran, Brian, Ethnography in the Raw: Life in a Luzon Village. 298 pp. 2021:4 (Berghahn, US) <672-777>
ISBN 978-1-80073-074-8 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Ethnography in the Raw describes the author's encounters with the Philippine family into which he has married, his wife's friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles northeast of Manila. The book links detailed descriptions of his Philippine family with cultural practices such as circumcision, marriage and cockfights combined with theoretical musings on the concepts of sacrifice, social exchange, patron-client relations, food, and religious symbolism. It is both anthropological fieldwork 'in the raw,' and an incisive analysis of contemporary Philippine society and culture.

Mageo, Jeannette / Knauft, Bruce (eds.), Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters: New Lives of Old Imaginaries. (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 11) 246 pp. 2021:4 (Berghahn, US) <672-785>
ISBN 978-1-80073-054-0 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authenticity and authorship in the area, this book looks at how these ideas have manifested themselves in Pacific peoples and cultures. Through six rich complementary case studies, a theoretical introduction, and a critical afterword, this volume explores authenticity and authorship as "traveling concepts." The book reveals diverse and surprising outcomes which shed light on how Pacific identity has changed from the past to the present.

Hervouet, Ronan, A Taste for Oppression: A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus. (Anthropology of Europe 6) 270 pp. 2021:3 (Berghahn, US) <672-656>
ISBN 978-1-80073-025-0 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Belarus has emerged from communism in a unique manner as an authoritarian regime. The author, who has lived in Belarus for several years, highlights several mechanisms of tyranny, beyond the regime's ability to control and repress, which should not be underestimated. The book immerses the reader in the depths of the Belarusian countryside, among the kolkhozes and rural communities at the heart of this authoritarian regime under Alexander Lukashenko, and offers vivid descriptions of the everyday life of Belarusians. It sheds light on the reasons why part of the population supports Lukashenko and takes a fresh look at the functioning of what has been called 'the last dictatorship in Europe'.

Dreon, Roberta, Human Landscapes: Contributions to a Pragmatist Anthropology. (SUNY Series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought) 274 pp. 2022:4 (State U. New York Pr., US) <672-55>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8821-9 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Duranti, Alessandro, Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson. (Oxford Studies in Anthropology of Language) 192 pp. 2022:3 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <672-56>
ISBN 978-0-19-763785-2 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-763786-9 paper ¥8,748.- (税込) US$ 38.99 *

In 1885, Henri Bergson addressed a class of French high school students on the subject of politeness. Bergson would go on to become one of the most influential philosophers of his time, yet although this essay set forth a striking theory of politeness and foreshadowed aspects of his later work, it remains remarkably little-known. Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson offers the first English translation of Discours sur la Politesse, and brings together leading linguistic anthropologists to critically engage with and expand on Bergson's ideas. At the core of Bergson's essay is a tripartite classification of politeness acts into politesse des manieres ("politeness of manners"), politesse de l'esprit ("politeness of mind/spirit"), and politesse du coeur ("politeness of the heart"). Presented along a hierarchy of intersubjective attunement and ethical aspirations, Bergson's three types call for the progressive abandonment of habits when they get in the way of our ability to help others. They can also be read as an invitation to consider politeness as a dimension of human sociability that is relevant to social theory. Collectively, the essays in this volume untangle the ideological, socio-historical, and material conditions that shape notions of the ideal social agent, and propose a rethinking of politeness that serves as a bridge to larger issues of civility, citizenship, and democracy.

Casella, Eleanor / Nevell, Michael / Steyne, Hanna (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology. (Oxford Handbooks) 736 pp. 2022:6 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <672-354>
ISBN 978-0-19-969396-2 hard ¥31,702.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *

Representing the first substantial English-language text on Industrial Archaeology in a decade, this handbook comes at a time when the global impact of industrialization is being re-assessed in terms of its legacy of climate change, mechanization, urbanization, the forced migration of peoples, and labour relations. Critical debates around the beginning of a new geological era - The Anthropocene - have emerged over the last decade. This approach interrogates the widespread exploitation of natural resources that forged industrialization from its early emergence in 18th century northern Europe to its contemporary ubiquity, environmental impacts, and social legacy within our globalized world. Through a broad international and multi-period set of chapters, this volume explores the complex origins, processes, and development of industrialization through both its physical remains and human consequences - both the good and the bad. It provides a diverse material framework for understanding our modern world, from its industrial origins through its future paths in the 21st century.

Loloum, Tristan / Abram, Simone / Ortar, Nathalie (eds.), Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy. (EASA Series 42) 212 pp. 2021:4 (Berghahn, US) <672-288>
ISBN 978-1-78920-979-2 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power. Revisiting classic anthropological notions of power, it asks how changing energy related infrastructures are implicated in the consolidation, extension or subversion of contemporary political regimes and discovers what they tell us about politics today.

Hann, Chris (ed.), Work, Society, and the Ethical Self: Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era. (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 7) 304 pp. 2021:9 (Berghahn, US) <672-302>
ISBN 978-1-80073-225-4 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links investigations of work to questions of personal and professional identity and social relations. In the era of digitalized neoliberalism, particular attention is paid to notions of freedom, both collective (in social relations) and individual (in subjective experiences). These cannot be investigated separately. Rather than juxtapose economy with ethics (or the profitable with the good), the authors uncover complex entanglements between the drudgery experienced by most people in the course of making a living and ideals of emancipated personhood.

Hayre, Christopher / Muller, Dave / Hackett, Paul (eds.), Rehabilitation in Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives. 327 pp. 2022:3 (Springer, GW) <672-341>
ISBN 978-981-16-8316-9 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book focuses on developing the use of ethnographic research for rehabilitation practitioners by recognizing its value methodologically and empirically in the field of rehabilitation. The very nature of ethnographic research offers an array of opportunities for researchers to understand the social world around them. The book identifies the multifaceted use of ethnographic methods in the rehabilitation setting. It touches on how acute and chronic conditions can affect the nature of ethnographic work in attempts to offer originality in a range of rehabilitation settings. Readers will find this collection of examples useful for informing their own research, and it aims to enlighten new discussion and arguments regarding both methodological and empirical use of ethnographic work internationally.

Kaneff, Deema / Endres, Kirsten W. (eds.), Explorations in Economic Anthropology: Key Issues and Critical Reflections. 316 pp. 2021:7 (Berghahn, US) <672-235>
ISBN 978-1-80073-139-4 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily from the field of economic anthropology, but also featuring contributions from sociology and history. The chapters engage with debates at the cutting edge of research on the topics of Eurasia, the anthropology of postsocialism and the embeddedness of economic practices.

Sen, Atreyee / Lindquist, Johan / Kolling, Marie (eds.), Who's Cashing In?: Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness. (Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis 19) 158 pp. 2020:8 (Berghahn, US) <672-256>
ISBN 978-1-78920-915-0 paper ¥2,231.- (税込) US$ 9.95 *

Cashless infrastructures are rapidly increasing, as credit cards, cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, demonetization, and digitalization process replace coins and currencies around the world. Who's Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities. Drawing from a wide range of ethnographic studies, this volume offers a concise look at how social actors and intermediaries respond to this change in the materiality of money throughout multiple regional contexts.

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Jakobsen, Merete Demant, Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing. 2nd ed. 290 pp. 2020:12 (Berghahn, US) <672-166>
ISBN 978-1-80073-542-2 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-78920-049-2 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been "discovered" by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground byexamining pristine shamanism in Greenland, among people contacted late by Western missionaries and settlers. On the basis of material only available in Danish, and presented herein English for the first time, the author questions Mircea Eliade's well-known definition of the shaman as the master of ecstasy and suggests that his role has to be seen as that of a master of spirits. The ambivalent nature of the shaman and the spirit world in the tough Arctic environment is then contrasted with the more benign attitude to shamanism in the New Age movement. After presenting descriptions of their organizations and accounts by participants, the author critically analyses the role of neo-shamanic courses and concludes that it is doubtful to consider what isoffered as shamanism.

Adler, Jeremy / Fardon, Richard, Franz Baermann Steiner: A Stranger in the World. (Methodology & History in Anthropology 42) 290 pp. 2021:12 (Berghahn, US) <672-1085>
ISBN 978-1-80073-270-4 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years. This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to David Graeber, and how his remarkable poetry reflected profoundly on the slavery and murder of the Shoah, an event which he escaped from. Steiner's concerns including inter-disciplinarity, genre, refugees and exile, colonialism and violence, and the sources of European anthropology speak to contemporary concerns more directly now than at any time since his early death.

Ahmad, Irfan (ed.), Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future. (Methodology & History in Anthropology 41) 172 pp. 2021:1 (Berghahn, US) <672-1086>
ISBN 978-1-78920-988-4 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. These interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane. Six anthropologists with field experience in Egypt, Greece, India, Laos, Mauritius, Thailand and Switzerland critically discuss these propositions in order to renew anthropology for the future. The volume concludes with an Afterword from Tim Ingold.

Balkenhol, Markus, Tracing Slavery: The Politics of Atlantic Memory in The Netherlands. (EASA Series 43) 216 pp. 2021:8 (Berghahn, US) <672-1088>
ISBN 978-1-80073-160-8 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country's slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions), many interlocutors showed little interest in the topic. Developing the notion of "trace" as a seminal notion to explore this paradox, this book follows the issue of slavery in everyday realities and offers a fine-grained ethnography of how people refer to this past - often in almost unconscious ways - and weave it into their perceptions of present-day issues.

Collins, Samuel Gerald, All Tomorrow's Cultures: Anthropological Engagements with the Future. 2nd ed. 174 pp. 2021:6 (Berghahn, US) <672-1091>
ISBN 978-1-80073-076-2 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80073-078-6 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

The first edition of All Tomorrow's Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures. The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science and technology studies and in anthropological analyses of indigenous futures. In addition, Collins has updated the final chapter to expand the field of anthropological possibility in an age of both despair and hope.

Douglas-Jones, Rachel / Shaffner, Justin (eds.), Hope and Insufficiency: Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison. 180 pp. 2021:9 (Berghahn, US) <672-1092>
ISBN 978-1-80073-099-1 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80073-100-4 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

A process through which skills, knowledge, and resources are expanded, capacity building, remains a tantalizing and pervasive concept throughout the field of anthropology, though it has received little in the way of critical analysis. By exploring the concept's role in a variety of different settings including government lexicons, religious organizations, environmental campaigns, biomedical training, and fieldwork from around the globe, Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that have led to the ubiquity of capacity building, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.

Hart, Keith, Self in the World: Connecting Life's Extremes. 314 pp. 2022:3 (Berghahn, US) <672-1100>
ISBN 978-1-80073-420-3 hard ¥40,167.- (税込) US$ 179.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80073-422-7 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Eminent anthropologist Keith Hart draws on the humanities, popular culture and his own experiences to help readers explore their own place in history. We each embark on two life journeys - one out into the world, the other inward to the self. With these journeys in mind, anthropologist, amateur economist and globetrotter Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life's extremes - individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human. "This is a work of great originality. Keith Hart has had an unorthodox academic career and it has liberated him in many ways from academic pieties. His background in African ethnography gives him a fascinating angle on all sorts of things, not least the possibility of a more African-influenced global future. The book is full of surprises and mind-shifting observations. I actually couldn't put it down."-Sherry B. Ortner, UCLA From the introduction: People have many sides, but I will focus here on two. Each of us is a biological organism with a historical personality that together make us a unique individual. But we cannot live outside society which shapes us in unfathomable ways. Human beings must learn to be self-reliant (not self-interested) in small and large ways: no-one will brush your teeth for you or save you from being run over while crossing the street. We each must also learn to belong to others, merging personal identity in a plethora of social relations and categories. Modern ideology insists that being individual and mutual is problematic. The culture of capitalist societies anticipates a conflict between them. Yet they are inseparable aspects of human nature.

Houlbrook, Ceri, Unlocking the Love-Lock: The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom. 260 pp. 2021:1 (Berghahn, US) <672-1103>
ISBN 978-1-78920-922-8 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-78920-985-3 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Explores the worldwide popularity of the love-lock as a ritual token of love and commitment by considering its history, symbolism, and heritage. "[T]his is an eminently enjoyable and thorough investigation of a popular phenomenon through the lens of heritage and folk tradition."-Sara De Nardi, Western Sydney University A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific - and secular - purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance. This custom is 'love-locking', where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This custom became popular in the 2000s, and its dissemination was rapid, geographically unbound, and highly divisive, with love-locks emerging in locations as diverse as Paris and Taiwan; New York and Seoul; Melbourne and Moscow. From the introduction: I was distractedly perusing the photo frame aisle, my eyes skimming the generically sentimental stock pictures of happy families smiling at the camera, pretty landscapes, cute pets and couples walking hand-in-hand, when I came across one that jumped out at me.... I recognised the image instantly as a photograph of love-locks: the padlocks that had been appearing en masse on bridges and other public structures on a global scale since the early 2000s. And, having been researching the custom known as lovelocking for about five years at that point, it was with a peculiar sense of pride that I realised love-locks had accomplished the status of a stock image.

Jarrin, Alvaro / Pussetti, Chiara (eds.), Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement. (Politics of Repair 2) 290 pp. 2021:4 (Berghahn, US) <672-1105>
ISBN 978-1-80073-031-1 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions - is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surgery, cognitive and sexual enhancers, lifestyle drugs, prosthetics and hormone supplements. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive and provides ethnographic insights into people's motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.

Knight, Daniel M., Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen. (New Anthropologies of Europe 2) 178 pp. 2021:9 (Berghahn, US) <672-1107>
ISBN 978-1-80073-193-6 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday affects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive in the uncanny elsewhen.

Marchand, Trevor H. J., The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England. (New Anthropologies of Europe 4) 482 pp. 2021:11 (Berghahn, US) <672-1110>
ISBN 978-1-80073-274-2 hard ¥40,167.- (税込) US$ 179.00 *

Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London's East End during the present 'renaissance of craftsmanship'. The animated and scholarly accounts of learning, achievement and challenges reveal the deep human desire to create with our hands, the persistent longing to find meaningful work, and the struggle to realise dreams. In its penetrating explorations of the nature of embodied skill, the book champions greater appreciation for the dexterity, ingenuity and intelligence that lie at the heart of craftwork.

Matosevic, Andrea, Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula: An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia. Tr. by A. Hodges. (European Anthropology in Translation 10) 144 pp. 2021:7 (Berghahn, US) <672-1111>
ISBN 978-1-80073-135-6 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

Based on interviews and fieldwork conducted among residents of Pula, a coastal city in Northwestern Croatia, this study explores various aspects of a local feeling of boredom. This is mirrored in the term tapija, a word of Turkish origin describing a property deed, and in Pula's urban slang it has morphed from its original sense describing a set of affective states into one of lameness, loneliness, unwillingness, and irony. Combining lively conversations with a significant bibliography of the topic, the result is a compelling local anthropological study of boredom in a wider historical and global context.

Meyers, Todd, All That Was Not Her. (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography) 232 pp. 2022:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-1112>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1527-7 hard ¥23,101.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1789-9 paper ¥6,046.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

While studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Meyers met a woman named Beverly. In All That Was Not Her Meyers presents an intimate ethnographic portrait of Beverly, stitching together small moments they shared scattered over months and years and, following her death, into the present. He meditates on the possibilities of writing about someone who is gone-what should be represented, what experiences resist rendering, what ethical challenges exist when studying the lives of others. Meyers considers how chronic illness is bound up in the racialized and socioeconomic conditions of Beverly's life and explores the stakes of the anthropologist's engagement with one subject. Even as Meyers struggles to give Beverly the final word, he finds himself unmade alongside her. All That Was Not Her captures the complexity of personal relationships in the field and the difficulty of their ending.

Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard / Hansen, Birgitte Gorm (eds.), The Moral Work of Anthropology: Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work. (Anthropology at Work 2) 248 pp. 2021:6 (Berghahn, US) <672-1114>
ISBN 978-1-80073-112-7 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and what the impact of this morality is. The book includes ethnographic studies in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplinary research. The discussion is positioned at the intersection of 'applied or public anthropology' and 'the anthropology of ethics' and analyses the ways in which anthropologists can carry out 'moral work' both inside and outside of academia.

Payne, Carol / Greenhorn, Beth et al. (eds.), Atiqput: Inuit Oral History and Project Naming. (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies 103) 264 pp. 2022 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <672-1116>
ISBN 978-0-228-01105-7 hard ¥10,310.- (税込) US$ 45.95 *

"Our names - Atiqput - are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what's in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our body and mind. Yes, every name is alive. Every name has a meaning. Much of our names have been misspelled and many of them have lost their meanings forever. Our Project Naming has been about identifying Inuit, who became nameless over the years, just "unidentified eskimos ..." With Project Naming, we have put Inuit meanings back in the pictures, back to life." Piita IrniqFor over two decades, Inuit collaborators living across Inuit Nunangat and in the South have returned names to hundreds of previously anonymous Inuit seen in historical photographs held by Library and Archives Canada as part of Project Naming. This innovative photo-based history research initiative was established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut and the national archive.Atiqput celebrates Inuit naming practices and through them honours Inuit culture, history, and storytelling. Narratives by Inuit elders, including Sally Kate Webster, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, and David Serkoak, form the heart of the book, as they reflect on naming traditions and the intergenerational conversations spurred by the photographic archive. Other contributions present scholarly insights and research projects that extend Project Naming's methodology, interspersed with pictorial essays by the artist Barry Pottle and the filmmaker Asinnajaq.Through oral testimony and photography, Atiqput rewrites the historical record created by settler societies and challenges a legacy of colonial visualization.

Pocs, Eva / Zempleni, Andras (eds.), Spirit Possession: Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon. 420 pp. 2022:6 (Central European U. Pr., HU) <672-1117>
ISBN 978-963-386-413-5 hard ¥27,090.- (税込) GB￡ 94.00 *

Possession, a seemingly irrational phenomenon, has posed challenges to generations of scholars rooted in Western notions of body-soul dualism, self and personhood, and a whole set of presuppositions inherited from Christian models of possession that was "good" or "bad." The authors of the essays in this book present a new and more promising approach. They conceive spirit possession as a form of communication, of expressivity, of culturally defined behavior that should be understood in the context of local, vernacular theories and empiric reflections. With the aim of reformulating the comparative anthropology of spirit possession, the editors have opened corridors between previously separate areas of research. Together, anthropologists and historians working on several historical periods and in different European, African, South American, and Asian cultural areas attempt to redefine the very concept of possession, freeing it from the Western notion of the self and more clearly delineating it from related matters such as witchcraft, devotion, or mysticism. The book also provides an overview of new research directions, including novel methods of participant observation and approaches to spirit possession as indigenous historiography

Roth, Barbara / Adams, E. Charles (eds.), Agent of Change: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past. 256 pp. 2021:3 (Berghahn, US) <672-1118>
ISBN 978-1-80073-036-6 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Ash is an important and yet understudied aspect of ritual deposition in the archaeological record of North America. Ash has been found in a wide variety of contexts across many regions and often it is associated with rare or unusual objects or in contexts that suggest its use in the transition or transformation of houses and ritual features. Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation.

Schaeffer, Felicity Amaya, Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land. (Dissident Acts) 232 pp. 2022:5 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-1120>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1532-1 hard ¥23,101.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1794-3 paper ¥6,046.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

In Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O'odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized border surveillance across time and space from Spanish colonial lookout points in Arizona and Mexico to the Indian wars, when the US cavalry hired Native scouts to track Apache fleeing into Mexico, to the occupation of the Tohono O'odham reservation and the recent launch of robotic bee swarms. Labeled "Optics Valley," Arizona builds on a global history of violent dispossession and containment of Native peoples and migrants by branding itself as a profitable hub for surveillance. Schaeffer reverses the logic of borders by turning to Indigenous sacredsciences: ancestral land-based practices that are critical to reversing the ecological and social violence of surveillance, extraction, and occupation.

Schubert, Violeta, Modernity and the Unmaking of Men. (New Anthropologies of Europe 1) 230 pp. 2020:8 (Berghahn, US) <672-1121>
ISBN 978-1-78920-862-7 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender. It argues that as a critical consequence of demographic rupture, changing values and societal shifts, aging bachelorhood illuminates and challenges conceptualizations of performativity and social presence.

Sutton, David E., Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples. (New Anthropologies of Europe 3) 142 pp. 2021:9 (Berghahn, US) <672-1125>
ISBN 978-1-80073-224-7 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00

Van Deusen, Kira, Tigers and the Internet: Story, Shamans, History. 176 pp. 2022:6 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <672-1128>
ISBN 978-0-228-01114-9 hard ¥8,515.- (税込) US$ 37.95 *

The Udege, a small Indigenous group in the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai regions of Russia, have a rich oral storytelling tradition. They speak the Udege language, and their religious beliefs include animism and shamanism. Over two decades, Kira Van Deusen travelled across Russia interviewing Udege storytellers in order to record their folktales.Tigers and the Internet recounts individual storytellers' lives and the stories that they related to Van Deusen. Combining the translated stories with detailed commentary, background information on the storytellers, and historical context to the themes they explore, Van Deusen provides a rich and moving text that allows the reader to travel with her through time and space. She respectfully shares the stories with a wider audience and preserves them in English for future generations. Readers will learn about the folktales of the Udege, but also about their contemporary lives and connections with other Indigenous groups.The Udege are not widely known outside of Russia. Tigers and the Internet provides a valuable collection of first-hand stories that shows this fascinating culture to those interested in folklore, Indigenous histories, and cultural studies.

van Dooren, Thom / Chrulew, Matthew (eds.), Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose. 248 pp. 2022:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <672-1129>
ISBN 978-1-4780-1542-0 hard ¥23,101.- (税込) US$ 102.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-1805-6 paper ¥6,046.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern Australia, Rose's work explored possibilities for entangled forms of social and environmental justice. She sought to bring the insights of her Indigenous teachers into dialogue with the humanities and the natural sciences to describe and passionately advocate for a world of kin grounded in a profound sense of the connectivities and relationships that hold us together. Kin's contributors take up Rose's conceptual frameworks, often pushing academic fields beyond their traditional objects and methods of study. Together, the essays do more than pay tribute to Rose's scholarship; they extend her ideas and underscore her ongoing critical and ethical relevance for a world still enduring and resisting ecocide and genocide. Contributors. The Bawaka Collective, Matthew Chrulew, Colin Dayan, Linda Payi Ford, Donna Haraway, James Hatley, Owain Jones, Stephen Muecke, Kate Rigby, Catriona (Cate) Sandilands, Isabelle Stengers, Anna Tsing, Thom van Dooren, Kate Wright

von Oswald, Margareta, Working Through Colonial Collections: An Ethnography of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. 288 pp. 2022:5 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <672-1130>
ISBN 978-94-6270-310-0 paper ¥17,545.- (税込) EUR 55.00

Yalcin-Heckmann, Lale (ed.), Moral Economy at Work: Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia. (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 8) 208 pp. 2021:10 (Berghahn, US) <672-1131>
ISBN 978-1-80073-235-3 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities. From concepts of individual autonomy, kinship obligations, to ways of expressing mutuality or creativity, moral values exert an unrealized influence, and these often produce more consent than resistance or outrage.

Thamann, Aubrey / Christodoulaki, Kalliopi M (eds.), Beyond the Veil: Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying. 256 pp. 2021:5 (Berghahn, US) <672-1051>
ISBN 978-1-80073-064-9 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, anger, or even joy. Whereas most studies of death and dying treat the subject from an objective viewpoint, the scholars in this collection recognize their inherent connection with death which allows for a new and more personal form of study. More broadly, this collection suggests a new paradigm in the study of death and dying.

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Gaillard, Gerald, Francoise Heritier. Foreword by M. Perrot. (Anthropology's Ancestors 3) 208 pp. 2022:1 (Berghahn, UK) <100-5836>
ISBN 978-1-80073-332-9 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80073-334-3 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Follows the life of French anthropologist Francoise Heritier, who had a lasting impact on a generation of French anthropologists that continues to this day. A great intellectual figure, Francoise Heritier succeeded Claude Levi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the College de France in 1982. She was an Africanist, author of magnificent works on the Samo population, the scientific progenitor of kinship studies, the creator of a theoretical base to feminist thought and an activist for many causes. "I read this intellectual biography of Francoise Heritier with great pleasure. Though highly regarded in France, she is not yet well known in English-language academic circles, but she certainly should be. This book will be a revelation to many anthropologists and feminist scholars."-Adam Kuper, London School of Economics From the Forword by Michelle Perrot: I came to know her at the National Council for HIV, that she chaired from 1989 to 1994.... Her theoretical concerns were also crucial to the understanding of pandemics, but we did not then realise that HIV/AIDS was also a precursor and a warning of pandemics to come. She grasped the importance of conceptions of bodily 'humours'-blood, semen, milk-that seemed to play a role in the horrific spread of an epidemic of which we knew nothing, except that it resulted in an appalling mortality rate, particularly among young men.... she was a remarkable chair, concerned to share her insights into the illness and to anchor-necessary-interventions within a framework that would be respectful of human rights.

Shankman, Paul, Margaret Mead. (Anthropology's Ancestors 1) 196 pp. 2021 (Berghahn, US) <251-39762>
ISBN 978-1-80073-141-7 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80073-143-1 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

This short volume is an ideal starting point for anyone wanting to learn about, arguably, the most famous anthropologist of the twentieth century. "Since her death, a steady drip of books about Mead, one of the most significant women in twentieth century social science and American society, has appeared, some interesting, many quite a bit less so. While Shankman's biography makes use of them, it nevertheless stands out among the better ones, not only for its well-informed and balanced view of Mead, but also for its concision."-Times Literary Supplement Tracing Mead's career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. The book looks at Mead's early career through the end of World War II, when she produced her most important anthropological works, as well as her role as a public figure in the post-war period, through the 1960s until her death in 1978. The criticisms of Mead are also discussed and analyzed. From the introduction: After her death, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.... On the other side of the world, Mead's passing was remembered in a very different context. On the island of Manus off the coast of New Guinea, the people of Pere village also mourned her death. Mead first studied the people of Pere in the late 1920s, returning in the 1950s with further visits thereafter. Over a span of five decades, she touched their lives, and they touched hers. Such was Mead's stature that they commemorated her death with a ceremony befitting a great leader.

Boskovic, Aleksandar, William Robertson Smith. (Anthropology's Ancestors 2) 120 pp. 2021 (Berghahn, US) <251-39763>
ISBN 978-1-80073-157-8 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80073-158-5 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

The life and career of one of anthropology's most important ancestors, William Robertson Smith in the context of the history of anthropology. William Robertson Smith's influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about "Totem" and "Taboo" for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observations from his travels to Arabia, as well as on his influence on the representatives of the "Myth and Ritual School." With his discussion of myth and ritual, Smith influenced generations of scholars, and his insistence on the connection between the people, their God, and the land they inhabited inspired many of the concepts later developed by Emile Durkheim. "This is a clear, well-informed and interesting account of Robertson Smith's central ideas. The theories are set in the context of debates of the day, and their influence on anthropology and bible studies is discussed. An original and fascinating section reviews Robertson Smith's field work in the Middle East, which was much more extensive and intensive than is, I think, generally appreciated."-Adam Kuper, London School of Economics From the introduction: Although respected and studied, especially since the 1990s, Smith has a somewhat paradoxical position in the history of social and cultural anthropology. Anthropologists educated in the twentieth century admire him, but many contemporary scholars are not quite sure what to make of him.