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

Kostera, Monika / Krzyworzeka, Pawel, How to Be an Ethnographer. (How to Research Guides) 144 pp. 2023:6 (E. Elgar, UK) <690-9>
ISBN 978-1-80088-393-2 hard ¥20,174.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *

Offering a practical guide on How to be an Ethnographer, this book will be a valuable resource for advanced students and early career researchers of organization studies, anthropology and sociology. It will also be a useful introduction to scholars exploring ethnography as a new research method. This book explores the aims, main methods, and ethical and methodological standards of ethnography. Placing human beings at the centre, it showcases why ethnography is a valuable method of research. Highlighting the importance of ethnographic engagement as a means to learn about different ways of being human, the book employs a range of case studies from researchers at all career stages to provide examples of different methods used in research projects. Going beyond tools and techniques, the authors discuss moral and methodological principles as well as community related modes that are important in conducting ethnography.

Walter, Maggie / Kukutai, Tahu / Gonzales, A. et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology. (Oxford Handbooks) 800 pp. 2023:6 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <690-963>
ISBN 978-0-19-752877-8 hard ¥42,636.- (税込) US$ 190.00 *

Indigenous sociology makes visible what is meaningful in the Indigenous social world. This core premise is demonstrated here via the use of the concept of the Indigenous Lifeworld in reference to the dispossessed Indigenous Peoples from Anglo-colonized first world nations. Indigenous lifeworld is built around dual intersubjectivities: within peoplehood, inclusive of traditional and ongoing culture, belief systems, practices, identity, and ways of understanding the world; and within colonized realties as marginalized peoples whose everyday life is framed through their historical and ongoing relationship with the colonizer nation state. The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology is, in part, a response to the limited space allowed for Indigenous Peoples within the discipline of sociology. The very small existing sociological literature locates the Indigenous within the non-Indigenous gaze and the Eurocentric structures of the discipline reflect a continuing reluctance to actively recognize Indigenous realities within the key social forces literature of class, gender, and race at the discipline's center. But the ambition of this volume, its editors, and its contributors is larger than a challenge to this status quo. They do not speak back to sociology, but rather, claim their own sociological space. The starting point is to situate Indigenous sociology as sociology by Indigenous sociologists. The authors in The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology, all leading and emerging Indigenous scholars, provide an authoritative, state of the art survey of Indigenous sociological thinking. The contributions in this Handbook demonstrate that the Indigenous sociological voice is a not a version of the existing sub-fields but a new sociological paradigm that uses a distinctively Indigenous methodological approach.

Hinsley, Curtis M. (ed.), Zuni, Hopi, Copan: Early Anthropology at Harvard, 1890-1893. 360 pp. 2023:6 (Peabody Museum Pr., US) <690-1057>
ISBN 978-0-87365-915-4 hard ¥14,586.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

Jallo, Zainabu (ed.), Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums) 224 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <690-1058>
ISBN 978-1-03-222387-2 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice constellates curators and scholars actively working with material culture within academic and museal institutions through theory and practice. The rich collection of essays critically addresses the multivalent ways in which mobility reshapes the characteristics of artefacts, specifically under prevailing issues of representation and colonial liabilities. The volume attests to material culture as central to understanding the repercussions of problematic histories and proposes novel ways to address them. It offers valuable reading for scholars of anthropology, museum studies, history and others with an interest in material culture.

Krenak, Ailton, Life Is Not Useful. Tr. by A. Brostoff et al. 80 pp. 2023:2 (Polity Pr., UK) <690-1060>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5404-1 hard ¥11,207.- (税込) US$ 49.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5405-8 paper ¥3,353.- (税込) US$ 14.95 *

Indigenous thinker and leader Ailton Krenak exposes the destructive tendencies of our 'civilization': rampant consumerism, environmental devastation and a narrow and restricted understanding of humanity's place on this Earth. For many centuries, Brazil's Indigenous peoples have bravely faced threats of total annihilation and, in extremely adverse conditions, have reinvented their lives and communities. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the rest of the world to reconsider its lifestyle, Ailton Krenak's clear and urgent thinking emerges with newfound impact and offers a vital perspective on the enormous challenges we face today: the ravages of the pandemic and the devastation caused by global warming, to name just two. Krenak questions the value of going back to normal when 'normal' is a vision of humanity divorced from nature, actively destroying the planet and digging deep trenches of inequality between peoples and societies. The 'civilized' world insists on giving life a purpose but life is not 'useful' and 'civilization' is not destiny. We must learn to embrace the joy of living life to its fullest, and inhabit the stillness that comes with not always being useful. In the wake of the pandemic, we have an opportunity to create deep and meaningful change in the way we live: this, more than ever, is a time to listen to voices that are one with the body of the Earth.

Nelson, Andrew / Curran, Rob, Journey without End: Migration from the Global South through the Americas. 282 pp. 2022:11 (Vanderbilt U. Pr., US) <690-1061>
ISBN 978-0-8265-0486-9 hard ¥22,427.- (税込) US$ 99.95 *
ISBN 978-0-8265-0485-2 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of extracontinentales-African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes an engrossing, sometimes surreal, narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants.The book begins with Kidane, an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the four-year trip to North America; it then picks up the natural disaster-riddled voyage of Roshan and Kamala Dhakal from Nepal to Ecuador; and it continues to the trials of Cameroonian exile Jane Mtebe, who becomes trapped in a bizarre beachside resort town on the edge of the DariEn Gap-the gateway from South to Central America.Journey without End follows these migrants as their fitful voyages put them in a semi-permanent state of legal and existential liminality as mercurial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecks-Quito's tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama's DariEn Gap, and a Mexican border town-into spontaneous migration-oriented spaces rife with race, gender, and class exploitation. Even then, migrant solidarity allows for occasional glimpses of subaltern cosmopolitanism and the possibility of mobile futures.

Rosen, Matthew, Tirana Modern: Biblio-Ethnography on the Margins of Europe. 204 pp. 2022:8 (Vanderbilt U. Pr., US) <690-1062>
ISBN 978-0-8265-0482-1 hard ¥22,427.- (税込) US$ 99.95 *
ISBN 978-0-8265-0481-4 paper ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Guided by the thesis that literature can transform social reality, Tirana Modern draws on ethnographic and historical material to examine the public culture of reading in modern Albania. Formulated as a question, the topic of the book is: How has Albanian literature and literary translation shaped social action during the longue duree of Albanian modernity?Drawing on material from the independent Albanian publisher, Pika pa siperfaqe ("Point without Surface"), Tirana Modern provides a tightly focused ethnography of literary culture in Albania that brings into relief the more general dialectic between social imagination and social reality as mediated by reading and literature.

方法としての政治的人類学
Szakolczai, Arpad, Political Anthropology as Method. (Contemporary Liminality) 256 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <690-11>
ISBN 978-1-03-221778-9 hard ¥36,025.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-223002-3 paper ¥10,371.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political sciences. Faithful to the basic guiding ideas of anthropology, it nonetheless challenges and rejects the pretended stance of scientific neutrality and advances a position that engages with the notion of participation, recognising its value and arguing that participation is essential to the development of a proper social and political understanding. An outline of what political anthropology can offer by way of methods, this invitation to consider the development of methodological ideas beyond the presumed 'scientific' and 'universalistic' approaches that dominate in the social sciences will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology and politics with interests in questions of method and methodology.