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

Channell-Justice, Emily, Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine. (Anthropological Horizons) 302 pp. 2022:12 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <693-896>
ISBN 978-1-4875-0973-6 hard ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-0974-3 paper ¥6,683.- (税込) US$ 31.00 *

Without the State explores the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests - a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine - through in-depth ethnographic research with leftist, feminist, and student activists in Kyiv. The book discusses the concept of "self-organization" and the notion that if something needs to be done and a person has the competence to do it, then they should simply do it. Emily Channell-Justice reveals how self-organization in Ukraine came out of leftist practices but actors from across the spectrum of political views also adopted self-organization over the course of Euromaidan, including far-right groups. The widespread adoption of self-organization encouraged Ukrainians to rethink their expectations of the relationship between citizens and their state. The book explains how self-organized practices have changed people's views on what they think they can contribute to their own communities, and in the wake of Russia's renewed invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has also motivated new networks of mutual aid within Ukraine and beyond. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, including the author's first-hand experience of the entirety of the Euromaidan protests, Without the State provides a unique analytical account of this crucial moment in Ukraine's post-Soviet history.

感覚人類学－アジアにおける文化と経験
Low, Kelvin E. Y., Sensory Anthropology: Culture and Experience in Asia. 232 pp. 2023:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <693-991>
ISBN 978-1-00-924083-3 hard ¥27,065.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

From constructions of rasa (taste) in pre-colonial India and Indonesia, children and sensory discipline within the monastic orders of the Edo period of Japan, to sound expressives among the Semai in Peninsular Malaysia, the sensory soteriology of Tibetan Buddhism, and sensory warscapes of WWII, this book analyses how sensory cultures in Asia frame social order and disorder. Illustrated with a wide range of fascinating examples, it explores key anthropological themes, such as culture and language, food and foodways, morality, transnationalism and violence, and provides granular analyses on sensory relations, sensory pairings, and intersensoriality. By offering rich ethnographic perspectives on inter- and intra-regional sense relations, the book engages with a variety of sensory models, and moves beyond narrower sensory regimes bounded by group, nation or temporality. A pioneering exploration of the senses in and out of Asia, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in social and cultural anthropology.

Howes, David, Sensorial Investigations: A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law. (Perspectives on Sensory History) 232 pp. 2023:4 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <693-640>
ISBN 978-0-271-09500-4 hard ¥24,783.- (税込) US$ 114.95 *
ISBN 978-0-271-09501-1 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

David Howes's sweeping history of the senses in the disciplines of anthropology and psychology and in the field of law lays the foundations for a sensational jurisprudence, or a way to do justice to and by the senses of other people.In part 1, Howes demonstrates how sensory ethnography has yielded alternative insights into how the senses function and argues convincingly that each culture should be approached on its own sensory terms. Part 2 documents how the senses have been disciplined psychologically within the Western tradition, starting with Aristotle and moving through the rise of Lockean empiricism and cognitive neuroscience. Here, Howes presents an anthropologically informed critique of experimental and cognitive psychology, sensory science, and phenomenology. In part 3, he introduces the paradigm of the "historical anthropology of the senses and sensation" and applies it to the analysis of trade relations between Europe and China in the early modern period, to the treaty-making process in North America during the colonial period, and to all the unresolved disputes over land rights and Indigenous sovereignty that continue to this day, arguing that these differences are rooted in a cultural clash of sensoria.Designed for the classroom, Sensorial Investigations displays an expansive critical engagement with generations of scholarship. It is essential reading for students and scholars of the history and anthropology of the senses, the psychology of sensation, and socio-legal studies.

Bell, Lindsay A., Under Pressure: Diamond Mining and Everyday Life in Northern Canada. (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom 63) 176 pp. 2023 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <693-347>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4827-8 hard ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-4821-6 paper ¥5,172.- (税込) US$ 23.99 *

In 2007, Canada became the third largest producer of diamonds in the world. Primarily mined on the edge of the Arctic, these diamonds are said to bring economic development and opportunity to nearby Indigenous communities. In Under Pressure, anthropologist Lindsay A. Bell examines the effects of diamond mining on an increasingly diverse northern population. Through an ethnographic focus on everyday life in Hay River, a multi-ethnic town in the Northwest Territories, this book illustrates the different ways Indigenous, settler, and immigrant northerners navigate the opportunities and obstacles created by large-scale resource development. By situating contemporary diamond mines within the long history of extraction in the region, Bell describes the social, cultural, and economic pressures that shape the people in this Northern community. In contrast to many polarizing accounts that deem mining as either good or bad, Under Pressure uses diamonds as an anthropological prism to consider larger issues related to Arctic extraction, globalization, Indigenous rights, and ethical consumption.

Funahashi, Daena Aki, Untimely Sacrifices: Work and Death in Finland. 222 pp. 2023:4 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <693-387>
ISBN 978-1-5017-6807-1 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-6808-8 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

Untimely Sacrifices questions why individuals may give their time and energy to the collective against their own self-interest. Turning to Finland where public health officials named occupational burnout as a "new hazard" of the new economy, Daena Funahashi asks: What moves people to work to the point of pathological stress? Contrary to health experts who highlight the importance of self-management and energetic conservation, Funahashi questions the very economic premise of cognitive psychology that one could "economize" one's energy and thus save oneself. By pitting anthropological takes on sacrifice next to the clinical discourses on pressure, work, and coping, Funahashi offers ways to rethink what drives stress. Untimely Sacrifices also provides a compelling critique of state welfare and political economy, contesting the tendency to treat the gift economy as something separate from the force that makes redistributive mechanisms of state welfare work. It is a book essential to those interested in how forces unassimilable to conventional economy come to matter in issues of labor, stress, and welfare.

Kummels, Ingrid, Indigeneity in Real Time: The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia. (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States) 226 pp. 2023:3 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <693-1417>
ISBN 978-1-9788-3479-8 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-3478-1 paper ¥8,181.- (税込) US$ 37.95 *

Long before the COVID-19 crisis, Mexican Indigenous peoples were faced with organizing their lives from afar, between villages in the Oaxacan Sierra Norte and the urban districts of Los Angeles, as a result of unauthorized migration and the restrictive border between Mexico and the United States. By launching cutting-edge Internet radio stations and multimedia platforms and engaging as community influencers, Zapotec and Ayuujk peoples paved their own paths to a transnational lifeway during the Trump era. This meant adapting digital technology to their needs, setting up their own infrastructure, and designing new digital formats for re-organizing community life in all its facets-including illness, death and mourning, collective celebrations, sport tournaments, and political meetings-across vast distances. Author Ingrid Kummels shows how mediamakers and users in the Sierra Norte villages and in Los Angeles created a transborder media space and aligned time regimes. By networking from multiple places, they put into practice a communal way of life called Comunalidad and an indigenized American Dream-in real time.

Nielsen, Marianne O. / Jarratt-Snider, Karen (eds.), Indigenous Justice and Gender. (Indigenous Justice) 277 pp. 2023:5 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <693-1421>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4969-6 paper ¥5,659.- (税込) US$ 26.25 *

Shea, John J., The Unstoppable Human Species: The Emergence of Homo Sapiens in Prehistory. 2023:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <693-1425>
ISBN 978-1-108-42908-5 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-108-45298-4 paper ¥7,689.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99 *

In The Unstoppable Human Species John Shea explains how the earliest humans achieved mastery over all but the most severe, biosphere-level, extinction threats. He explores how and why we humans owe our survival skills to our global geographic range, a diaspora that was achieved during prehistoric times. By developing and integrating a suite of Ancestral Survival Skills, humans overcame survival challenges better than other hominins, and settled in previously unoccupied habitats. But how did they do it? How did early humans endure long enough to become our ancestors? Shea places 'how did they survive?' questions front and center in prehistory. Using an explicitly scientific, comparative, and hypothesis-testing approach, The Unstoppable Human Species critically examines much 'archaeological mythology' about prehistoric humans. Written in clear and engaging language, Shea's volume offers an original and thought-provoking perspective on human evolution. Moving beyond unproductive archaeological debates about prehistoric population movements, The Unstoppable Human Species generates new and interesting questions about human evolution.

Siegl, Veronika, Intimate Strangers: Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth. 300 pp. 2023:7 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <693-1426>
ISBN 978-1-5017-6991-7 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-7131-6 paper ¥7,750.- (税込) US$ 35.95 *

Zooming in on commercial surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine, Intimate Strangers addresses market expansion into the intimate spheres of life that play out on women's bodies as mothers and workers. Veronika Siegl follows the inner workings of a surrogacy market marked by secrecy, distrust, and anonymous business relationships. She explores intended mothers' anxious struggles for a child in light of stigmatized infertility and the aggressive biopolitics of motherhood; the uncertain but pragmatic pathways in and out of fertility clinics as surrogates navigate harsh economic realities and resist being objectified or morally judged; and the powerful role of agents and doctors who have found a profitable niche in nurturing and facilitating other people's existential hopes. Intimate Strangers discusses these issues against the backdrop of ultra-conservatism and moral governance in Russia, the rising international popularity of the Ukrainian surrogacy market, and the pervasiveness of neo-liberal ideologies and individualized notions of reproductive freedom.

Stoller, Paul, Wisdom from the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times. (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge) 174 pp. 2023:8 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <693-1428>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7065-4 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-7066-1 paper ¥4,732.- (税込) US$ 21.95 *

Wisdom From the Edge describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a social future of wellbeing and viability. Paul Stoller shows how anthropologists can develop sensuously described ethnographic narratives to communicate powerfully their insights to a wide range of audiences. These insights are filled with wisdom about how respect for nature is central to the future of humankind. Stoller demonstrates how the ethnographic evocation of space and place, the honing of dialogue, and the crafting of character depict the drama of social life, and borrows techniques from film, poetry, and fiction to expand the appeal of anthropological knowledge and heighten its ability to connect the public to the idiosyncrasies of people and locale. Ultimately, Wisdom from the Edge underscores the importance of recognizing and applying indigenous wisdom to the social problems that threaten the future.

Valentin, Karen / Pradhan, Uma (eds.), Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Nepal: Educational Transformations and Avenues of Learning. 336 pp. 2023:1 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <693-1429>
ISBN 978-0-19-288475-6 hard ¥23,646.- (税込) GB￡ 83.00 *

What is education, and who counts as an 'educated person' amidst competing religious, political, and pedagogical ideologies, which have shaped contemporary educational practices and institutions in Nepal? How have social and political changes, an increasing commodification of education, a continued reliance on foreign aid, and expanded geographical horizons contributed to a reshaping of the educational landscape of Nepal and thereby altered, opened up, and closed avenues of learning available to the Nepali people? Grounded in the intersection between anthropology, sociology, and development studies, and based on rich ethnographic evidence, the essays in this edited volume illuminate educational transformations and avenues of learning in the context of wider social and political changes in Nepal. They capture diverse and competing educational experiences and trajectories; examine the process of construction and transmission of knowledge in different sites within and beyond institutions of formal education; and explore the interconnections between education, state, and society.

Oezyuerek, Esra, Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany. 264 pp. 2023:4 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <693-1431>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3466-4 hard ¥19,404.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-3556-2 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture-not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform. Since then, Turkish- and Arab-Germans have been considered as the prime obstacles to German national reconciliation with its Nazi past, a status shared to a lesser degree by Germans from the formerly socialist East Germany. It is for this reason that the German government, German NGOs, and Muslim minority groups have begun to design Holocaust education and anti-Semitism prevention programs specifically tailored for Muslim immigrants and refugees, so that they, too, can learn the lessons of the Holocaust and embrace Germany's most important postwar democratic political values. Based on ethnographic research conducted over a decade, Subcontractors of Guilt explores when, how, and why Muslim Germans have moved to the center of Holocaust memory discussions. Esra OEzyuerek argues that German society "subcontracts" guilt of the Holocaust to new minority immigrant arrivals, with the false promise of this process leading to inclusion into the German social contract and equality with other members of postwar German society. By focusing on the recently formed but already sizable sector of Muslim-only anti-Semitism and Holocaust education programs, this book explores the paradoxes of postwar German national identity.

Henriksen, Jan-Olav, Theological Anthropology in the Anthropocene: Reconsidering Human Agency and its Limits. 299 pp. 2023:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-162>
ISBN 978-3-031-21057-0 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

The Anthropocene presents theology, and especially theological anthropology, with unprecedented challenges. There are no immediately available resources in the theological tradition that reflect directly on such experiences. Accordingly, the situation calls for contextually based theological reflection of what it means to be human under such circumstances. This book discusses the main elements in theological anthropology in light of the fundamental points: a) that theological anthropology needs to be articulated with reference to, and informed by, the concrete historical circumstances in which humanity presently finds itself, and b) that the notion of the Anthropocene can be used as a heuristic tool to describe important traits and conditions that call for a response by humanity, and which entail the need for a renewal of what a Christian self-understanding means. Jan-Olav Henriksen explores what such a response entails from the point of view of contemporary theological anthropology and discusses selected topics that can contribute to a contextually based position.

Deka, Maitrayee, Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy. (Culture and Economic Life) 248 pp. 2023:8 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <693-1296>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3533-3 hard ¥19,404.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-3600-2 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

The term "tinker" calls to mind nomadic medieval vendors who operate on the fringe of formal society. Excluded from elite circles and characterized by an ability to leverage minimal resources, these tradesmen live and die by their ability to adapt their stores to the popular tastes of the day. In Delhi in the 21st century, an extensive network of informal marketplaces, or bazaars, has evolved over the course of the city's history, across colonial and postcolonial regimes. Their resilience as an economic system is the subject of this book. Today, instead of mending and selling fabrics and pots, these street vendors are primarily associated with electronic products-computers, cell phones, motherboards, and video games. This book offers a deep ethnography of three Delhi bazaars, and a cast of tinkers, traders, magicians, street performers, and hackers who work there. It is an exploration, and recognition, of the role of bazaars and tinkers in the modern global economy, driving globalization from below. In Delhi, and across the world, these street markets work to create a new information society, as the global popular classes aspire to elite consumer goods they cannot afford except in counterfeit.

Griffith, Lauren Miller, Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement. (Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium) 208 pp. 2023:6 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <693-1178>
ISBN 978-0-252-04506-6 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08719-6 paper ¥5,390.- (税込) US$ 25.00 *

Capoeira began as a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. Today, the practice incorporates song, dance, acrobatics, and theatrical improvisation-and leads many participants into activism. Lauren Miller Griffith's extensive participant observation with multiple capoeira groups informs her ethnography of capoeiristas--both individuals and groups--in the United States. Griffith follows practitioners beyond their physical training into social justice activities that illuminate capoeira's strong connection to resistance and subversion. As both individuals and communities of capoeiristas, participants march against racial discrimination, celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, organize professional clothing drives for job seekers, and pursue economic and environmental justice in their neighborhoods. For these people, capoeira becomes a type of serious leisure that contributes to personal growth, a sense of belonging, and an overall sense of self, while also imposing duties and obligations. An innovative look at capoeira in America, Graceful Resistance reveals how the practicing of an art can catalyze action and transform communities.

Alfonso-Durruty, Marta P. / Blom, Deborah E. (eds.), Foodways of the Ancient Andes: Transforming Diet, Cuisine, and Society. (Amerind Studies in Archaeology) 384 pp. 2023:4 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <693-1164>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4869-9 hard ¥15,092.- (税込) US$ 70.00 *

Widmer, Alexandra, Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu. (Anthropological Horizons) 224 pp. 2023:4 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) * paper 2023:3 <693-1079>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4320-4 hard ¥16,816.- (税込) US$ 78.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-4321-1 paper ¥5,819.- (税込) US$ 26.99 *

In the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twenty-first century, they experienced rapid population growth. From colonial governance to postcolonial sovereignty, Moral Figures shows that despite attempts to govern population size and birth, reproduction in Vanuatu continues to exceed bureaucratic economization through Ni-Vanuatu insistence on Indigenous relationalities. Through her examination of how reproduction is made public, Alexandra Widmer demonstrates how population sciences have naturalized a focus on women's fertility and privileged issues of wage labour over women's land access and broader social relations of reproduction. Widmer draws on oral histories with retired village midwives and massage healers on the changes to care for pregnancy and birth, as well as ethnographic research in a village outside the capital of Port Vila. Locating the Pacific Islands in global histories of demographic science and the medicalization of birth, the book presents archival material in a way that emphasizes bureaucratic practices in how colonial documents attempted to render Indigenous relationalities of reproduction governable. While demographic imaginaries and biomedical practices increasingly frame fertility control as an investment in the reproductive health of individual bodies, the Ni-Vanuatu worlds presented in Moral Figures show that relationships between people, land, knowledge, kin, and care make reproduction a distributed and assisted process.

Medeiros, Melanie A. / Guzman, Jennifer R., Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean. 496 pp. 2023:4 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <693-1190>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4798-1 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-5150-6 paper ¥12,289.- (税込) US$ 57.00 *

Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean offers a compelling introduction to the region by providing a series of ethnographic case studies that examine the most pressing issues communities are facing today. These case studies address key topics such as inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Black racism, resistance against extractive industries, migration and transnational families, revitalization of Indigenous languages, art and solidarity in the wake of political violence, resilience in the face of climate change, and recent social movements. Designed for courses in a variety of disciplines, this expansive volume is organized in thematic sections, with introductions that draw important connections between chapters. The first section provides essential background on ethnography, archaeology, and history, while chapters in the following sections center local perspectives, strategies, and voices. Each chapter ends with reflection and discussion questions, key concepts with definitions, and resources to explore further. Presenting a snapshot of life during the early decades of the twenty-first century, Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean illuminates the structural forces and human agency that are determining the future of the region and the world.

Reichman, Daniel R., Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil. 204 pp. 2023:8 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <693-1195>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7042-5 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-7043-2 paper ¥5,594.- (税込) US$ 25.95 *

Through a historical ethnography of Santos, Brazil, Progress in the Balance addresses and assesses an anthropological theory of progress. Observing that anthropology is a progressive discipline with a pessimistic attitude towards progress, Daniel Reichman explains the contested meanings of progress in Brazil and explores how anthropologists and others can define this concept more generally. He investigates how any society can separate "progress" from plain old change and, if change is constantly happening all around us, how and why certain events get lifted out of a normal timeframe and into a mythic narrative of progress. Each chapter outlines a particular episode in the history of Santos, a city undergoing an unprecedented period of economic and political turmoil, as it is represented in public culture, mainly through museums, monuments, art, and public events. Drawing on the anthropology of myth, Reichman proposes a model that he refers to as a "clash of timescapes." Progress in the Balance shows how this concept of "progress" requires a different temporal structure that separates sacralized social change from mundane historical events.

Roth, Barbara J., Households on the Mimbres Horizon: Excavations at La Gila Encantada, Southwestern New Mexico. (Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona) 96 pp. 2023:3 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <693-1196>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4854-5 paper ¥4,301.- (税込) US$ 19.95 *

Lederach, Angie, Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia. 280 pp. 2023:6 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <693-1182>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3464-0 hard ¥19,404.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-3568-5 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

On November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a revised peace accord that marked a political end to over a half-century of war. Feel the Grass Grow traces the far less visible aspects of moving from war to peace: the decades of campesino struggle to defend life, land, and territory prior to the national accord, as well as campesino social leaders' engagement with the challenges of the state's post-accord reconstruction efforts. In the words of the campesino organizers, "peace is not signed, peace is built." Drawing on nearly a decade of extensive ethnographic and participatory research, Angela Jill Lederach advances a theory of "slow peace." Slowing down does not negate the urgency that animates the defense of territory in the context of the interlocking processes of political and environmental violence that persist in post-accord Colombia. Instead, Lederach shows how the campesino call to "slowness" recenters grassroots practices of peace, grounded in multigenerational struggles for territorial liberation. In examining the various layers of meaning embedded within campesino theories of "the times (los tiempos)," this book directs analytic attention to the holistic understanding of peacebuilding found among campesino social leaders. Their experiences of peacebuilding shape an understanding of time as embodied, affective, and emplaced. The call to slow peace gives primacy to the everyday, where relationships are deepened, ancestral memories reclaimed, and ecologies regenerated.

Chute, Janet E. (ed.), Muiwlanej kikamaqki - Honouring Our Ancestors: Mi'kmaq Who Left a Mark on the History of the Northeast, 1680 to 1980. (Studies in Atlantic Canada History) 1360 pp. 2023:6 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <693-1406>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4613-7 hard ¥28,459.- (税込) US$ 132.00 *

Drawing upon oral and documentary evidence, this volume explores the lives of noteworthy Mi'kmaw individuals whose thoughts, actions, and aspirations impacted the history of the Northeast but whose activities were too often relegated to the shadows of history. The book highlights Mi'kmaw leaders who played major roles in guiding the history of the region between 1680 and 1980. It sheds light on their community and emigration policies, organizational and negotiating skills, diplomatic endeavours, and stewardship of land and resources. Contributors to the volume range from seasoned scholars with years of research in the field to Mi'kmaw students whose interest in their history will prove inspirational. Offering important new insights, the book re-centres Indigenous nationhood to alter the way we understand the field itself. The book also provides a lengthy index so that information may be retrieved and used in future research. Muiwlanej kikamaqki - Honouring Our Ancestors will engage the interest of Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers alike, engender pride in Mi'kmaw leadership legacies, and encourage Mi'kmaw youth and others to probe more deeply into the history of the Northeast.

Coutin, Susan Bibler / Yngvesson, Barbara, Documenting Impossible Realities: Ethnography, Memory, and the As-If. 162 pp. 2023:4 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <693-1407>
ISBN 978-1-5017-6882-8 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-6888-0 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Documenting Impossible Realities explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations. Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson speak to the current historical moment in which the dichotomy between an "above ground" inhabited by dominant groups and an "underground" to which unauthorized immigrants, political exiles, and transnational adoptees are relegated cannot be sustained. This dichotomy was made possible by the illusion that some people do not belong, that some forms of kin are not real, or that certain ways of knowing do not count. To examine accounts that challenge such illusions, Coutin and Yngvesson focus on the spaces between groups, where difference is constituted and where the potential for new forms of relationship may be realized. By juxtaposing and moving between entangled realities and modes of expression, Documenting Impossible Realities conveys the emotional experience of oscillating between being here and gone, legitimate and treated as counterfeit.

人類学の歴史
D'Agostino, Gabriella / Matera, Vincenzo (eds.), Histories of Anthropology. 561 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-1408>
ISBN 978-3-031-21257-4 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This edited volume presents, for the first time, a history of anthropology regarding not only the well-known European and American traditions, but also lesser-known traditions, extending its scope beyond the Western world. It focuses on the results of these traditions in the present. Taking into account the distinction between empire-building and nation-building anthropology, introduced by G. Stocking and taken up by U. Hannerz, the book investigates different histories of anthropology, especially in ex-colonial and marginal contexts. It highlights how the hegemonic anthropologies have been accepted and assimilated in local contexts, which approaches have been privileged by institutions and academies in different locations, how the anthropological approach has been modelled and adapted according to specific knowledge requirements related to the cultural features of different areas, and which schools emerge as the most consolidated today.Each chapter presents a "cultural history" of one of the historical-cultural and geo-political contexts that influenced and produced the specific disciplinary traditions. The chapters highlight the local contributions to the discipline, the influences that the world centres have on the peripheries, but also the ways in which the peripheries have "learned from the centres" in order to re-elaborate meaningful or otherwise recognisable disciplinary lines.

Dulfano, Isabel (ed.), Walking on Our Sacred Path: Indigenous American Women Affirming Identity and Activism. (Critical Indigenous and American Indian Studies 6) 138 pp. 2022:11 (P. Lang, SZ) <693-1410>
ISBN 978-1-4331-9737-6 hard ¥29,464.- (税込) SFR 118.00
ISBN 978-1-4331-9738-3 paper ¥10,487.- (税込) SFR 42.00

Indigenous women from the Americas are on the frontlines of activism in battles ranging from environmental protection, cultural and language revitalization and preservation, sovereignty campaigns, sexual violence, and human rights. This book introduces voices of Native activists blazing trails of resistance in new fields of engagement. Interviews with contemporary Native women from the northern and southern hemispheres of the Americas highlight commonalities amongst them and diverse paths of resistance work. Artists, lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists, athletes, educators, economists, and legislators seek societal transformation and reframe modes of resistance from their areas of expertise and Indigenous identity. For students in ethnic studies, gender studies, Latin American and American studies, sociology and anthropology, the conversations provide insights of Native women dynamically involved in shifting the socio-cultural imaginary and the futures of their Nations.

Jackson, Michael, Friendship. 224 pp. 2023:6 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <693-1415>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2428-5 hard ¥21,549.- (税込) US$ 99.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5128-2412-4 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love. Beginning with Aristotle's accounts of friendship as a political virtue and Montaigne's famous essay on friendship as a form of love, Jackson examines the tension between the political and personal resonances of friendship in the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, the biography of the Indian historian Brijen Gupta, and the oral narratives of a Kuranko storyteller, Keti Ferenke Koroma. He offers reflections on childhood friends, imaginary friends, lifelong friendships, and friendships with animals. He ruminates particularly on the complications of friendship in the context of anthropological fieldwork, exploring the contradiction between the egalitarian spirit of friendship on the one hand and, on the other, the power imbalance between ethnographers and their interlocutors. Through these stories, Jackson explores the unpredictable interplay of mutability and mutuality in intimate human relationships, and the critical importance of choice in forming friendship-what it means to be loyal to friends through good times and bad, and even in the face of danger. Through a blend of memoir, theory, ethnography, and fiction, Jackson shows us how the elective affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age, and offer us perennial means of taking stock of our lives and getting a measure of our own self-worth.

Jackson, Michael, Worlds Within and Worlds Without: Field Guide to an Intellectual Journey. 288 pp. 2023:4 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <693-1416>
ISBN 978-1-5017-6849-1 hard ¥11,415.- (税込) US$ 52.95 *

Anthropologist Michael Jackson predicates his intellectual autobiography, Worlds Within and Worlds Without, on the view that works and lives are intimately entangled. Through a skillful interweaving of personal and ethnographic descriptions, he focuses on the imaginative and practical ways human beings negotiate the space between worlds they call their own and worlds they regard as lying beyond their immediate purview. Whether the worlds that elude our empirical grasp are identified with divinities or the dead, ether or earth, history or myth, the Internet, or the nation state, we experience them ambivalently, as potential sources of wellbeing and as possible threats to our very existence. Closing ourselves off from the world is not an option, for our humanity depends on the ties that bind us to significant others, and others to us. As Jackson shows, the relationship between the familiar and the foreign is not only an existential issue that all human beings address in one way or another. It is a methodological issue for anthropologists concerned with the complementarity of individual and collective perspectivesethnos and anthropos, the intrapsychic and the intersubjective.

Simon, Scott E., Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa. (Anthropological Horizons) 336 pp. 2023:4 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <693-1034>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4733-2 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-4586-4 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

The Sediq and Truku Indigenous peoples on the mountainous island of Formosa - today called Taiwan - say that their ancestors emerged in the beginning of time from Pusu Qhuni, a tree-covered boulder in the highlands. Living in the mountain forests, they observed the sacred law of Gaya, seeking equilibrium with other humans, the spirits, animals, and plants. They developed a politics in which each community preserved its autonomy and sharing was valued more highly than personal accumulation of goods or power. These lifeworlds were shattered by colonialism, capitalist development, and cultural imperialism in the twentieth century. Based on two decades of ethnographic field research, Truly Human portrays these peoples' lifeworlds, teachings, political struggles for recognition, and relations with non-human animals. Taking seriously their ontological claims that Gaya offers moral guidance to all humans, Scott E. Simon reflects on what this particular form of Indigenous resurgence reveals about human rights, sovereignty, and the good of all kind. Truly Human contributes to a decolonizing anthropology at a time when all humans need Indigenous land-based teachings more than ever.

小川晃弘著　反原発市民－ポストフクシマの日本における持続可能な政策と草の根のアクティビズム
Ogawa, Akihiro, Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan. (Anthropology of Policy) 272 pp. 2023:6 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <693-1003>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3540-1 hard ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, tsunamis engulfed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located on Japan's Pacific Coast, leading to the worst nuclear disaster the world has seen since the Chernobyl crisis of 1986. Prior to this disaster, Japan had the third largest commercial nuclear program in the world, surpassed only by those in the United States and France-nuclear power significantly contributed to Japan's economic prosperity, and nearly 30% of Japan's electricity was generated by reactors dotted across the archipelago, from northern Hokkaido to southern Kyushu. This long period of institutional stasis was, however, punctuated by the crisis of March 11, which became a critical juncture for Japanese nuclear policymaking. As Akihiro Ogawa argues, the primary agent for this change is what he calls "antinuclear citizens"- a conscientious Japanese public who envision a sustainable life in a nuclear-free society. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research conducted across Japan-including antinuclear rallies, meetings with bureaucrats, and at renewable energy production sites-Ogawa presents an historical record of ordinary people's actions as they sought to survive and navigate a new reality post-Fukushima. Ultimately, Ogawa argues that effective sustainability efforts require collaborations that are grounded in civil society and challenge hegemonic ideology, efforts that reimagine societies and landscapes-especially those dominated by industrial capitalism-to help build a productive symbiosis between industry and sustainability.