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

Bradfield, Abraham, Aboriginal Art and Australian Racial Hegemony: Decolonising Consciousness. 272 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-860>
ISBN 978-1-03-238775-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book explores the complexities of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations in contemporary Australia.It unpacks the continuation of a pervasive colonial consciousness within settler-colonial settings, but also provokes readers to confront their own habits of thought and action. Through presenting a reflexive narrative that draws on the author's encounters with Indigenous artists and their artwork, knowledge, stories, and lived experiences, this provocative and insightful work encourages readers to consider what decolonising means to them.It presents a compelling and relevant argument that calls for a reorientation of dominant discourses fixed within Eurocentric frameworks, whilst also addressing the deep complexities and challenges of living within intercultural settler-colonial settings where different views and perspectives clash and complement one another.

Heaney, Christopher, Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology. 368 pp. 2023:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <697-940>
ISBN 978-0-19-754255-2 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

When the Smithsonian's Hall of Physical Anthropology opened in 1965 it featured 160 Andean skulls affixed to a wall to visualize how the world's human population had exploded since the birth of Christ. Through a history of Inca mummies, a pre-Hispanic surgery called trepanation, and Andean crania like these, Empires of the Dead explains how "ancient Peruvians" became the single largest population in the Smithsonian and many other museums in Peru, the Americas, and beyond. In 1532, when Spain invaded the Inca empire, Europeans learned that Inca and Andean peoples made their ancestors sacred by preserving them with the world's oldest practices of artificial mummification. To extinguish their power, the Spaniards collected these ancestors as specimens of conquest, science, nature, and race. Yet colonial Andean communities also found ways to keep the dead alive, making "Inca mummies" a symbol of resistance that Spanish American patriots used to introduce Peruvian Independence and science to the world. Inspired, nineteenth-century US anthropologists disinterred and collected Andean mummies and skulls to question the antiquity and civilization of the American "race" in publications, world's fairs, and US museums. Peruvian scholars then used those mummies and skulls to transform anthropology itself, curating these "scientific ancestors" as evidence of pre-Hispanic superiority in healing. Bringing together the history of science, race, and museums' possession of Indigenous remains, from the sixteenth century to the twentieth, Empires of the Dead illuminates how South American ancestors became coveted mummies, skulls, and specimens of knowledge and nationhood. In doing so it reveals how Peruvian and Andean peoples have learned from their dead, seeking the recovery of looted heritage in the centuries before North American museums began their own work of decolonization.

Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth / May, Sarah (eds.), Toxic Heritage: Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice. (Key Issues in Cultural Heritage) 430 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-961>
ISBN 978-1-03-242999-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-242997-7 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue.Bringing together case studies, visual essays, and substantive chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume provides a critical framing of the globally expanding field of toxic heritage. Authors from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies examine toxic heritage as both a material phenomenon and a concept. Organized into five thematic sections, the book explores the meaning and significance of toxic heritage, politics, narratives, affected communities, and activist approaches and interventions. It identifies critical issues and highlights areas of emerging research on the intersections of environmental harm with formal and informal memory practices, while also highlighting the resilience, advocacy, and creativity of communities, scholars, and heritage professionals in responding to the current environmental crises.Toxic Heritage is useful and relevant to scholars and students working across a range of disciplines, including heritage studies, environmental science, archaeology, anthropology, and geography.

Moreno-Fernandez, Francisco, Language Demography. 272 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-242>
ISBN 978-1-03-235539-9 hard ¥39,886.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-235538-2 paper ¥10,822.- (税込) GB￡ 37.99 *

Language Demography presents, exemplifies, and develops linguistic concepts involved in demography and the demographic concepts involved in sociolinguistics. The first introductory guide of its kind, it is presented in a way that is accessible to non-specialists. The book includes numerous examples of the sources and types of data used in this field, as well as the various factors affecting language demography. Taking a global perspective supported by examples, it gives explanations of how demolinguistic analyses are performed and their main applications in relation to minority and majority languages.Language Demography will be of interest to students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, from linguistics and modern languages to sociology, anthropology, and human geography.

博物館、遺産、死ハンドブック
Biers, Trish / Stringer Clary, Katie (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death. (Routledge Handbooks on Museums, Galleries and Heritage) 656 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-1064>
ISBN 978-1-03-204704-1 hard ¥61,253.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

This book provides a comprehensive examination of death, dying, and human remains in museums and heritage sites around the world.Presenting a diverse range of contributions from scholars, practitioners, and artists, the book reminds us that death and the dead body are omnipresent in museum and heritage spaces. Chapters appraise collection practices and their historical context, present global perspectives and potential resolutions, and suggest how death and dying should be presented to the public. Acknowledging that professionals in the galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) fields are engaging in vital discussions about repatriation and anti-colonialist narratives, the book includes reflections on a variety of deathscapes that are at the forefront of the debate. Taking a multivocal approach, the handbook provides a foundation for debate as well as a reference for how the dead are treated within the public arena. Most important, perhaps, the book highlights best practices and calls for more ethical frameworks and strategies for collaboration, particularly with descendant communities.The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death will be useful to all individuals working with, studying, and interested in curation and exhibition at museums and heritage sites around the world. It will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of heritage, museum studies, death studies, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, and history.

Barnard, Hans, Archaeological Mapping and Planning. (Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques) 75 pp. 2023:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <697-1122>
ISBN 978-1-00-907324-0 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

This richly illustrated Element introduces the reader to the basic principles of archaeological mapping and planning. It presents both the mathematical and the practical backgrounds, as well as many tips and tricks. This will enable archaeologists to create acceptable maps and plans of archaeological remains, even with limited means of in adverse circumstances.

Carrier, Neil / Gezon, Lisa L., The Anthropology of Drugs. 216 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-1125>
ISBN 978-0-367-62524-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-62526-9 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

From khat to kava to ketamine, drugs are constitutive parts of cultures, identities, economies and livelihoods. This much-needed book is a clear introduction to the anthropology of drugs, providing a cutting-edge and accessible overview of the topic. The authors examine and assess the following key topics:How drugs feature in anthropology and the work of anthropologists and the general role of drugs in societyComparison between biochemical and pharmacological approaches to drugs and bio-socio-cultural models of understanding drugsEvolutionary origins of psychotropic drug sensitivity and archaeological evidence for the spread of psychoactive substances in pre-historyDrugs in spiritual and religions contexts, considering their role in altered states of consciousness, divination and healingStimulant drugs and the ambivalence with which they are treated in societyAddiction and dependencyDrug economies, livelihoods and the production and distribution segments of drug commodity chainsDrug policies and drug warsDrugs, race and genderThe future of the study of drugs and anthropological professional engagements with solving drug problemsWith the inclusion of chapter summaries and many examples, further reading and case studies - including drug tourism, drug industries in the Philippines and Mexico, Afghanistan and the 'Golden Triangle' and the opioid crisis in North America - The Anthropology of Drugs is an ideal introduction for those coming to the topic for the first time, and also for those working in the professional and health sectors. It will be of interest to students of anthropology and to those in related disciplines including sociology, psychology, health studies and religion.

Dragojlovic, Ana / Samuels, Annemarie (eds.), Tracing Silences: Towards an Anthropology of the Unspoken and Unspeakable. 110 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <697-1126>
ISBN 978-1-03-249687-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Silence is crucial to our social world. Responding to the growing scholarly interest in social sciences and humanities for more in-depth engagements with social silence, this book explores what it means to trace silences and to include traces of silences in our scholarly representations.What qualifies as silence, and how does it relate to articulation, to voice, visibility and representation? How can silences be sensed and experienced viscerally as well as narratively? And how do we think with and interpret silences in the face of potential unknowability? Grounded in ethnographic research in the Netherlands, Israel, Turkey, China, and Indonesia, the chapters all contribute to a theorization of silence that embraces multivocality, unintelligibility and uncertainty of interpretation. As a collection of cutting-edge scholarly work at the intersection of anthropology and history, Tracing Silences argues for an in-depth engagement with the unspeakable and unspoken, through a range of modes and methods, and in the historical, social, and political ways in which they emerge and are enacted in the particularities of people's lives.This book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, anthropology, sociology, political science and archival studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.

Robinson, Heather, Language, Diaspora, and Home: Identity and Women's Linguistic Space-Making. (Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology) 168 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-1130>
ISBN 978-1-03-232877-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gate-keepers of family languages towards creating a sense of home.The volume features an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on work from narrative, storytelling, literary studies, and linguistic anthropology, as well as interviews with multiple generations of immigrant families, to reflect on the ways these families foster a sense of home and maintain connections to their homelands through language. Robinson showcases the voices of a diverse range of families to examine the choices women in immigrant families make between the use of family languages, dominant community languages, or a mix of the two. The volume enhances our understanding of the ways in which immigrants navigate the linguistic landscapes of home and community amid migration and diaspora.This book will be of interest to students and scholars in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, language and gender, and language and migration.

Sloan, John, Andrew Lang: Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect. 320 pp. 2023:6 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <697-1131>
ISBN 978-0-19-286687-5 hard ¥22,222.- (税込) GB￡ 78.00 *

In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance of modernity and science in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, authoring an extraordinary body of rigorous, scholarly works in the fields of social anthropology, folklore, Homeric studies, history, and religion, while simultaneously turning out novels, poems for periodicals, and inexhaustible columns of prose journalism to make money. He was widely regarded as one of the most influential men of letters and reviewers of his day. He was a founding member and later President of the Folklore Society, and, with his wife, helped transform the taste in children's literature with their anthologized fairy stories for young people. G. K. Chesterton, paying tribute on Lang's death in 1912 to the scale and diversity of his legacy to the humanities, compared him to a 'kind of Indian god with a hundred hands'. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished correspondence and new sources of information, this first full biography of Lang documents in compelling detail his double existence as a scholar and journalist, the intellectual impact of his cross-disciplinary approach to learning and writing, and the critical controversies he courted as a writer and thinker to advance knowledge in the human sciences. The book also throws new light on Lang's personal life: on the uncomfortable legacy of his grandfather, whose notorious part in the Sutherland Clearances earlier in the century left its mark on the family; on the enduring influence on him of his early Scottish education and its generalist traditions of learning; and on his friendships with fellow writers, among them Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Rider Haggard, Edmund Gosse, Rhoda Broughton, and William Henley. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who lived one of the most productive lives in literature, sought to make knowledge available to everyone, and bridged, as no other, the university and the literary world, the proverbial 'Grub Street and the ivory tower'.

Smith, Robin / Delamont, Sara (eds.), Leaving the Field: Methodological Insights from Ethnographic Exits. 264 pp. 2023:6 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <697-1132>
ISBN 978-1-5261-5765-2 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

Leaving the field gathers various accounts of ethnographers leaving their field sites. In doing so, the book offers original insights into an often-overlooked aspect of the research process; the ethnographic exit. The chapters variously consider situations in which the researcher must extricate themselves from field relations, deal with unexpected or imperfect ends to projects, or manage situations in which 'the field' becomes hard to leave. Whilst the chapters are firmly focussed on ethnographic exits, they also provide more general methodological insights into the conduct of fieldwork and the writing of ethnography, as well as questioning established notions of 'the field' as a bounded setting the researcher straightforwardly visits and then leaves. The book highlights the importance of recognising ethnographic exits as an essential part of the research process.

Vannini, Phillip (ed.), Mobilities in Remote Places. (Changing Mobilities) 312 pp. 2023 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <697-1133>
ISBN 978-1-03-234244-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-234245-0 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the world's most remote communities.As mobilities around the world proliferate in countless forms, the meanings of remoteness undergo significant change. Places once considered impossibly distant have appeared to become closer, more accessible, and less distinct from global centers of geopolitical power. But instead of disappearing altogether, configurations of remoteness evolve, manifesting themselves through new possibilities, new challenges, and new insecurities. Drawing from a variety of case studies from around the globe, the contributors of the book examine remoteness as an outcome of evolving mobility constellations. Rather than defining remoteness as an absolute or objective time-distance condition, the book shows how remoteness is a practice, experience, and representation that is situated, relational, and emergent.This collection of original and thought-provoking chapters will be of interest to students and researchers in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in mobilities, place, and human geography.