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

都市人類学入門　第2版
Jaffe, Rivke / de Koning, Anouk, Introducing Urban Anthropology. 2nd ed. 240 pp. 2022:12 (Routledge, UK) <687-812>
ISBN 978-1-03-212559-6 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-212558-9 paper ¥9,795.- (税込) GB￡ 33.99 *

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology. This is a critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population now lives in cities and anthropological research is increasingly done in an urban context. Exploring contemporary anthropological approaches to the urban, the authors consider: How can we define urban anthropology? What are the main themes of twenty-first-century urban anthropological research? What are the possible future directions in the field?The chapters cover topics such as urban mobilities, place-making and public space, production and consumption, and politics and governance. These are illustrated by lively case studies drawn from urban settings across the world. Accessible yet theoretically incisive, Introducing Urban Anthropology will be a valuable resource for anthropology students and also for those working in urban studies and related disciplines such as sociology and geography. The revised second edition includes updated theoretical discussions and new ethnographic case studies. It features a new chapter on neoliberalism, austerity and solidarity, and engages more extensively with digital transformations of urban life.

Giglitto, Danilo / Ciolfi, Luigina et al. (eds.), Digital Approaches to Inclusion and Participation in Cultural Heritage: Insights from Research and Practice in Europe. 288 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <687-873>
ISBN 978-1-03-223438-0 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This edited book brings together best examples and practices of digital and interactive approaches and platforms from a number of projects based in European countries to foster social inclusion and participation in heritage and culture. It engages with ongoing debates on the role of culture and heritage in contemporary society relating to inclusion and exclusion, openness, access, and bottom-up participation. The contributions address key themes such as the engagement of marginalised communities, the opening of debates and new interpretations around socially and historically contested heritages, and the way in which digital technologies may foster more inclusive cultural heritage practices. They will also showcase examples of work that can inspire reflection, further research, and also practice for readers such as practice-focused researchers in both HCI and design. Indeed, as well as consolidating the achievements of researchers, the contributions also represent concrete approaches to digital heritage innovation for social inclusion purposes.The book's primary audience is academics, researchers, and students in the fields of cultural heritage, digital heritage, human-computer interaction, digital humanities, and digital media, as well as practitioners in the cultural sector.

McCaffree, Kevin, Cultural Evolution: The Empirical and Theoretical Landscape. (Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences) 266 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <687-878>
ISBN 978-1-03-211736-2 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Since the dawn of social science, theorists have debated how and why societies appear to change, develop and evolve. Today, this question is pursued by scholars across many different disciplines and our understanding of these dynamics has grown markedly. Yet, there remain important areas of disagreement and debate: what is the difference between societal change, development and evolution? What specific aspects of cultures change, develop or evolve and why? Do societies change, develop or evolve in particular ways, perhaps according to cycles, or stages or in response to survival necessities? How do different disciplines-from sociology to anthropology to psychology and economics-approach these questions? This book provides complex and nuanced answers to these, and many other, questions. First, the book invites readers to consider the broad landscape of societal dynamics across human history, beginning with humanity's origins in small nomadic bands of hunter gatherers through to the emergence of post-industrial democracies. Then, the book provides a tour of several prominent existing theories of cultural change, development and evolution. Approaches to explaining cultural dynamics will be discussed across disciplines and schools of thought, from "meme" theories to established cumulative cultural evolutionary theories to newly emerging theories on cultural tightness-looseness. The book concludes with a call for theoretical integration and a frank discussion of some of the most unexamined structures that drive cultural dynamics across schools of thought.

Aubinet, Stephane, Why Sami Sing: Knowing through Melodies in Northern Norway. (Arctic Worlds) 208 pp. 2023:1 (Routledge, UK) <687-895>
ISBN 978-1-03-232869-0 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

Why Sami Sing is an anthropological inquiry into a singing practice found among the Indigenous Sami people, living in the northernmost part of Europe. It inquires how the performance of melodies, with or without lyrics, may be a way of altering perception, relating to human and non-human presences, or engaging with the past. According to its practitioners, the Sami "yoik" is more than a musical repertoire made up by humans: it is a vocal power received from the environment, one that reveals its possibilities with parsimony through practice and experience. Following the propensity of Sami singers to take melodies seriously and experiment with them, this book establishes a conversation between Indigenous and Western epistemologies and introduces the "yoik" as a way of knowing in its own right, with both convergences and divergences vis-a-vis academic ways of knowing. It will be of particular interest to scholars of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and Indigenous studies.

Hilden, Irene, Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive: Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies. 340 pp. 2022:10 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <687-897>
ISBN 978-94-6270-340-7 paper ¥8,932.- (税込) EUR 28.00

Lipset, David / Silverman, Eric K. (eds.), Knots: Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) 240 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <687-899>
ISBN 978-0-367-46366-3 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island societies, granular ethnography depicts how knots are deployed to express unity in daily and ritual embodiment, political authority and the cosmos, as well as in social thought. The volume will be of interest to anthropologists and other scholars concerned with metaphor and symbolism, material culture and technology.

Ziker, John / Ferguson, Jenanne / Davydov, Vladimir (eds.), The Siberian World. (Routledge Worlds) 600 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <687-902>
ISBN 978-0-367-37475-4 hard ¥56,199.- (税込) GB￡ 195.00 *

The Siberian World provides a window into the expansive and diverse world of Siberian society, offering valuable insights into how local populations view their environments, adapt to change, promote traditions, and maintain infrastructure.Siberian society comprises more than 30 Indigenous groups, old Russian settlers, and more recent newcomers and their descendants from all over the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The chapters examine a variety of interconnected themes, including language revitalization, legal pluralism, ecology, trade, religion, climate change, and co-creation of practices and identities with state programs and policies. The book's ethnographically rich contributions highlight Indigenous voices, important theoretical concepts, and practices. The material connects with wider discussions of perception of the environment, climate change, cultural and linguistic change, urbanization, Indigenous rights, Arctic politics, globalization, and sustainability/resilience.The Siberian World will be of interest to scholars from many disciplines, including Indigenous studies, anthropology, archaeology, geography, environmental history, political science, and sociology.Chapter 25 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Pitrou, Perig, Les anthropologues et la vie: recherches en cours. (Philosophie) 2022:8 (Mimesis, IT) <687-41>
ISBN 978-88-697-6342-7 paper ¥4,862.- (税込) EUR 20.00