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

Herriman, Nicholas, The Cocos Malays: Perspectives from Anthropology and History. 200 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-947>
ISBN 978-3-031-10746-7 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Looking at the past from an anthropological perspective, this book deploys and analyses a variety of anthropological concepts to understand the history of Cocos Malay society. Around 400 Cocos Malays reside on their remote Indian Ocean atoll, the Cocos Islands. Possessing a unique culture and dialect, they could be considered Australia's oldest Muslim and oldest Malay group. Yet their society only developed over the past two centuries. In the early 1800s, a European gathered about one hundred slaves from around Southeast Asia. After settling on Cocos, a dynasty of rulers tried to distinguish themselves as European kings. Under them, the Southeast Asians in the group toiled in the export of coconuts. But despite this, these Southeast Asians influenced and intermarried with the rulers. As a result, a Eurasian society developed. The Cocos Malays were initially implicated in Southeast Asian and wider Indian Ocean trade and communication networks. Later, this connectivity intensified through technologies such as telegraph cable and the Internet. This book uses the history of the Cocos Malays to explore questions of broader interest to anthropologists, such as how concepts from the overlap of history and anthropology 'unlock' the history of societies; how we can usefully combine the 'indigenous' concepts like "kerajaan" with internationally accepted concepts like class; and what is obscured when we use the concepts from the anthropology-history crossover to understand the past.

オーストラリア及びニューギニアの先住民の考古学ハンドブック
McNiven, Ian J. / David, Bruno (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea. (Oxford Handbooks) 1136 pp. 2023:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <686-954>
ISBN 978-0-19-009561-1 hard ¥49,368.- (税込) US$ 220.00 *

65,000 years ago, modern humans arrived in Australia, having navigated more than 100 km of sea crossing from southeast Asia. Since then, the large continental islands of Australia and New Guinea, together with smaller islands in between, have been connected by land bridges and severed again as sea levels fell and rose. Along with these fluctuations came changes in the terrestrial and marine environments of both land masses. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea reviews and assembles the latest findings and ideas on the archaeology of the Australia-New Guinea region, the world's largest island-continent. In 42 new chapters written by 77 contributors, it presents and explores the archaeological evidence to weave stories of colonisation; megafaunal extinctions; Indigenous architecture; long-distance interactions, sometimes across the seas; eel-based aquaculture and the development of techniques for the mass-trapping of fish; occupation of the High Country, deserts, tropical swamplands and other, diverse land and waterscapes; and rock art and symbolic behaviour. Together with established researchers, a new generation of archaeologists present in this Handbook one, authoritative text where Australia-New Guinea archaeology now lies and where it is heading, promising to shape future directions for years to come.

Capredon, Elise / Ceriani Cernadas, Cesar / Opas, M. (eds.), Indigenous Churches: Anthropology of Christianity in Lowland South America. (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) 242 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-153>
ISBN 978-3-031-14493-6 hard ¥38,892.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation. Establishing a pioneering dialogue between Amazonian and Gran Chaco studies on Indigenous Christianity, the contributions address historical processes, cosmological conceptions, ritual practices, leadership dynamics, and material formations involved in the creation and diversification of Indigenous churches. Instead of focusing on the study of missionary ideologies and praxis, the book explores Indigenous peoples' interpretations of Christianity and the institutional arrangements they make to create, expand, or dismantle their churches. In doing so, the volume offers a South American contribution to the theoretical project of the anthropology of Christianity, especially as it relates to the issue of denominationalism and inter-denominational relations.

一條都子他著　食品、国家アイデンティティ、ナショナリズム　第2版
Ranta, Ronald / Ichijo, Atsuko, Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics. 2nd ed. (Food and Identity in a Globalising World) 292 pp. 2022:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1181>
ISBN 978-3-031-07833-0 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99 *

Building and expanding on the first edition, the second edition of Food, National Identity and Nationalism continues to explore a much-neglected area study: the relationship between food and nationalism. With a preface written by Michaela DeSoucey and using a wide range of case studies, it demonstrates that food and nationalism is an important area to study, and that the food-nationalism axis provides a useful prism through which to explore and analyse the world around us, from the everyday to the global, and the ways in which it affects us. The second edition includes a number of new case studies, including the demise and resurrection of pie as a 'national dish' in post-Brexit Britain; the use of netnography; the role of diasporas in maintaining and reinventing national food; the gastrodiplomatic potential of the New Nordic Cuisine; the potential of veganism to transcend nationalism; and the relationship between gastronationalism and populism.

Stahl, Ann B., Archaeology: Why It Matters. (Why It Matters) 176 pp. 2022:12 (Polity Pr., UK) <686-1217>
ISBN 978-1-5095-4986-3 hard ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-4987-0 paper ¥2,905.- (税込) US$ 12.95 *

No matter where we live, history lies beneath our feet and in the landscapes around us. In contrast to the history that comes from studying texts, archaeology is the study of history through objects, monuments, and other traces of past lives. Archaeology is history that extends beyond the earliest writings into the deep past, revealing the varied pathways that led to the present, and the challenges - often similar to those we face today - that confronted our ancestors. Celebrated archaeologist Ann Stahl argues that archaeology is unique in its focus on the everyday lives of all peoples in all places and times. Whether studying ancient temples or humble homes, archaeologists piece together unknown worlds that would otherwise be lost. This knowledge matters because it shows us how everyday actions have shaped societies, how and why societies have changed in light of environment, politics and culture - and perhaps what the future holds for our societies too. Using compelling examples from a storied career conducting research in North America and Africa, Ann Stahl provides the perfect summary of why archaeology is both a vitally important and enjoyable subject to study.

Webster, Steven, Returning to Q'ero: Sustaining Indigeneity in an Andean Ecosystem 1969-2020. (Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability) 336 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1034>
ISBN 978-3-031-04971-2 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

In this book, social anthropologist Steven Webster provides an ethnohistory of sustainability among the indigenous Andean community of Hatun Q'ero since the 1960s. He first revisits his detailed ecological research among the remote Q'ero in the high Andes of Southern Peru in 1969-1970 and 1977. At that time, Q'ero was a community comprised of several hamlets in converging valleys based primarily on alpaca herding at about 4,300 meters, and composed of about 400 persons in about 80 families. He then relies on the few ethnographies by other anthropologists to document changes in Hatun Q'ero by 2020 , spanning 1980-90s when the nation was immersed in agrarian reform followed by virtual civil war between Maoist guerrillas, the government, and the highland peasantry. Through all of these ideological and political-economic developments the sustainability of Q'ero as an integral ecological and social community as well as a famously Incaic cultural tradition becomes a global as well as national issue. This book argues that while the commercial expansion of ceremonial and shamanist tourism can be seen as extractivist similar to industrial mining, the assertive form of independence characteristic of the Q'eros appears to remain sustainable in the face of both these extractive threats. While the Q'ero community is internally reinforced by their reciprocal relationship with the same non-human forces these forms of extraction seek to exploit, they are externally reinforced by the global as well as national rise of indigeneity movements. Ironically, given the moral force developed in some aspects of shamanist tourism, it can even be argued that it supports environmental sustainability against climate change, globally as well as in Q'ero. This book analyzes the increasing importance of indigeneity in the national politics of Peru as well as the other Andean nations in the last few decades, but it remains to set this form of identity politics in its wider "intersectional" context of social class and ethnic conflict in the Andes.

Chamel, Jean / Dansac, Yael (eds.), Relating with More-Than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality in a Living World. (Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability) 255 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1043>
ISBN 978-3-031-10293-6 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Within the social sciences, other-than-human being's agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed. However, many indigenous worldviews and Western contemporary spiritual practices are shaping a very different reality, with various attempts to share the world with non-human beings, animate or inanimate, creating forms of relationships to "the living".This edited volume documents how humans deal with non-human entities in a large variety of cultural contexts. It focuses on ritual processes and how ritual creativity is mobilised to invent new ways of relating with more-than-humans. Comprising nine case studies, the volume is divided into three main sections that address successively daily interactions, political implications, and spiritual engagements. Cooperative interactions, kinship relations, senses of belonging, traditional healing techniques, non-human beings' legal personality attribution, transformative experiences, and phenomenological relationalities are examined in various locations: West Africa, Buryatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Mexico, Nepalese Himalayas, Sweden and Wales.Chapters "Relating with More-than-Humans: Interbeing Rituality and Spiritual Practices in a Living World-An Introduction" and "Ritual Animism: Indigenous Performances, Interbeings Ceremonies and Alternative Spiritualities in the Global Rights of Nature Networks" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Langdon, John H., Human Evolution: Bones, Cultures, and Genes. (Springer Texts in Social Sciences) 656 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <686-105>
ISBN 978-3-031-14156-0 paper ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This is an introductory textbook for the study of human evolution, and covers all major topics of human origins taught under paleoanthropology, anthropology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology courses. This book differs from the existing selection of textbooks in the following ways:*It incorporates the most recent fossil discoveries and interpretations.*It balances the discussion between descriptions of fossils and interpretations of behavior of hominins in different time periods. *It includes current findings of genomics into understanding the more recent stages of human evolution. This important subdiscipline is badly underserved by current texts.*It consistently addresses the relationship of evidence to our current hypotheses and interpretations.The book has an engaging and lucid style suitable for those entering the field. Students will find ample case studies, illustrations and examples helpful in understanding difficult concepts. Tables, timelines, and maps in every chapter include data summaries and key points. The book highlights peripheral points and background concepts in side boxes for easy reference and lists key ideas at the end of each chapter. This up-to-date and easy to read text is suitable for both classroom study and self-learning.