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

Fuller, C. J., Anthropologist and Imperialist: H. H. Risley and British India, 1873-1911. 466 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <705-974>
ISBN 978-1-03-259804-8 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1851 - 1911) - 'H. H. Risley', as he always signed himself - was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) from 1873 to 1910 who served in Bengal and became a senior administrator and policymaker in the colonial government, as well as the pre-eminent anthropologist in British India. He was also an imperialist, who was convinced of the rightness of 'civilising' British rule and its benefits for both India and Britain, and one of this book's objectives is to render his simultaneous commitment to anthropology and imperialism intelligible to present-day readers. More specifically, Anthropologist and Imperialist: H. H. Risley and British India, 1873-1911 documents the two sides of Risley's career, which is used as a case-study to investigate, first, the production and circulation of colonial knowledge, specifically anthropological knowledge, and secondly, its often loose and inconsistent connection with administration and policymaking, and with the government and state overall.Risley, like other officials engaged in anthropology in India, as well as the government itself, insisted that ethnography and anthropology had both 'administrative' and 'scientific' value; unlike previous works on Indian colonial anthropology, this book carefully examines its 'scientific' contributions in relation to contemporary metropolitan anthropology. It does not attempt to reinvent 'greatman' political or intellectual history, but does demonstrate the importance of studying the powerful officials who ruled British India, as well as the minor provincial politicians and subaltern subjects - or the abstract forces, such as colonialism and resistance - that have dominated recent historical scholarship. This book shows, too, that a detailed inquiry into Risley's career, and his ideas and actions, can open new perspectives on a variety of continuing debates, including those over the colonial construction of caste and race in 'traditional' India, orientalism and forms of colonial knowledge, Victorian anthropology's close relationship with the British empire, and the modern discipline's uneasy links with its colonial past.Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Gould, Hannah / McClelland, Gwyn (eds.), Aromas of Asia: Exchanges, Histories, Threats. (Perspectives on Sensory History) 246 pp. 2023:9 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <705-902>
ISBN 978-0-271-09541-7 hard ¥24,783.- (税込) US$ 114.95

A uniquely powerful marker of ethnic, gender, and class identities, scent can also overwhelm previously constructed boundaries and transform social-sensory realities within contexts of environmental degradation, pathogen outbreaks, and racial politics. This innovative multidisciplinary volume critically examines olfaction in Asian societies with the goal of unlocking its full potential as an analytical frame and lived phenomenon.Featuring contributions from international scholars with deep knowledge of the region, this volume conceptualizes Asia and its borders as a dynamic, transnationally connected space of olfactory exchange. Using examples like economic exchange along the Silk Road; the diffusion of dharmic religious traditions out of South Asia; the waves of invasion, colonization, and forced relocation that shaped the history of the continent; and other "sensory highways" of contact, the contributors break down essentializing olfactory tropes and reveal how scent functions as a category of social and moral boundary-marking and boundary-breaching within, between, and beyond Asian societies. Smell shapes individual, collective, and state-based memory, as well as discourses about heritage and power. As such, it suggests a pervasive and powerful intimacy that contributes to our understanding of the human condition, mobility, and interconnection.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Khoo Gaik Cheng, Jean Duruz, Qian Jia, Shivani Kapoor, Adam Liebman, Lorenzo Marinucci, Peter Romaskiewicz, Saki Tanada, Aubrey Tang, and Ruth E. Toulson.

Barrett, Ron / Zuckerman, Molly / Dudgeon, M. R. et al., Emerging Infections: Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to the Present. 2nd ed. 176 pp. 2023:11 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <705-354>
ISBN 978-0-19-284313-5 hard ¥23,076.- (税込) GB￡ 81.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-284314-2 paper ¥9,968.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99 *

Serving as both an accessible textbook and an original synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship, Emerging Infections traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases from the Paleolithic to the present day. Contrary to earlier predictions of a post-infectious era, humanity now faces a post-antimicrobial era with the emergence of drug-resistant pathogens and the entry of new and deadly viruses such as Ebola and COVID-19 in the human population. Yet despite the novelty of these infections, their evolution is primarily driven by the same human activities of subsistence, settlement, and social organization that have been recurring over the last ten thousand years. Approaching these activities from a biocultural perspective, this book examines the prehistory and history of human infectious diseases. Much has happened in the decade since the first edition, with significant developments in both disease research and in the evolution of the diseases themselves. As such, this new edition has been expanded to include recent epidemics of Ebola, Zika, MERS, and of course, COVID-19. Indeed, the book's biocultural approach is especially relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic, examining it from a deep time perspective and placing it within a much-needed explanatory framework. Emerging Infections is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in anthropology, the medical social sciences, public health, and the history of medicine. The book will also appeal to a more general readership with an interest in public health and infectious diseases.

Healey, Robynne Rogers / Spencer, Carole Dale (eds.), Quaker Women, 1800-1920: Studies of a Changing Landscape. (The New History of Quakerism) 310 pp. 2023:9 (Pennsylvania State U. Pr., US) <705-192>
ISBN 978-0-271-09550-9 hard ¥26,939.- (税込) US$ 124.95

This collection investigates the world of nineteenth-century Quaker women, bringing to light the issues and challenges Quaker women experienced and the dynamic ways in which they were active agents of social change, cultural contestation, and gender transgression in the nineteenth century.New research illuminates the complexities of Quaker testimonies of equality, slavery, and peace and how they were informed by questions of gender, race, ethnicity, and culture. The essays in this volume challenge the view that Quaker women were always treated equally with men and that people of color were welcomed into white Quaker activities. The contributors explore how diverse groups of Quaker women navigated the intersection of their theological positions and social conventions, asking how they both challenged and supported traditional ideals of gender, race, and class. In doing so, this volume highlights the complexity of nineteenth-century Quakerism and the ways Quaker women put their faith to both expansive and limiting ends. Reaching beyond existing national studies focused solely on white American or British Quaker women, this interdisciplinary volume presents the most current research, providing a necessary and foundational resource for scholars, libraries, and universities.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Joan Allen, Richard C. Allen, Stephen W. Angell, Jennifer M. Buck, Nancy Jiwon Cho, Isabelle Cosgrave, Thomas D. Hamm, Julie L. Holcomb, Anna Vaughan Kett, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Linda Palfreeman, Hannah Rumball, and Janet Scott.

Mohan, Urmila (ed.), The Efficacy of Intimacy and Belief in Worldmaking Practices. 216 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <705-223>
ISBN 978-1-03-249881-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book explores 'efficacious intimacy' as an embodied concept of worldmaking, and a framework for studying belief practices in religious and political domains. The study of how beliefs make and manifest power through their sociality and materiality can reveal who, or what, is considered effective in a particular socio-cultural context. The chapters feature case studies drawn from diverse religious and political contexts in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and explore practices ranging from ingesting sacred water to resisting injustice. In doing so, the authors analyze emotions and affects, and how they influence dynamics of proximity and distance. Taking an innovative approach to the topic of intimacy, the book offers a fascinating examination of how life-worlds are constructed by material practices. It will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, religion, and material culture.

P.ヴァニーニ編　感覚民族誌国際ハンドブック
Vannini, Phillip (ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography. (Routledge International Handbooks) 568 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <705-14>
ISBN 978-1-03-232873-7 hard ¥61,253.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography reviews and expands the field and scope of sensory ethnography by fostering new links among sensory, affective, more-than-human, non-representational, and multimodal sensory research traditions and composition styles. From writing and film to performance and sonic documentation, the handbook reimagines the boundaries of sensory ethnography and posits new possibilities for scholarship conducted through the senses and for the senses. Sensory ethnography is a transdisciplinary research methodology focused on the significance of all the senses in perceiving, creating, and conveying meaning. Drawing from a wide variety of strategies that involve the senses as a means of inquiry, objects of study, and forms of expression, sensory ethnography has played a fundamental role in the contemporary evolution of ethnography writ large as a reflexive, embodied, situated, and multimodal form of scholarship. The handbook dwells on subjects like the genealogy of sensory ethnography, the implications of race in ethnographic inquiry, opening up ethnographic practice to simulate the future, using participatory sensory ethnography for disability studies, the untapped potential of digital touch, and much more.This is the most definitive reference text available on the market and is intended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in anthropology, sociology, and the social sciences, and will serve as a state-of-the-art resource for sensory ethnographers worldwide.

Couttenier, Maarten, Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922). (Routledge Studies in Cultural History) 464 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <705-1011>
ISBN 978-1-03-259160-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book examines the history of Belgian physical anthropology in the long nineteenth century and discusses how the notion of 'race' structured Belgian pasts and presents as well as relations between metropole and empire.In a context of competing European nationalisms, Belgian anthropologists mainly used physical characters, like skull form and the color of hair and eyes, to delimitate 'races', which were believed to be permanent and existent. Their belief in a supposed racial superiority was however above all telling about their own origins and physical characters. Although it is often assumed that these ideas were subsequently transferred to the colony, the case of Belgian colonization in Congo shows that colonial administrators, at least in theory, were reluctant to use the idea of permanent 'races' because they needed the possibility of 'evolution' to legitimize their actions as part of a 'civilizing mission'. In reality, however, colonization was based on military occupation and economic exploitation, with devastating effects. This book analyzes how, in this violent context, widespread racial prejudices in fact dehumanized Congolese. This not only allowed colonizers to act inhuman but also reduced Congolese, or their body parts, to objects that could be measured, photographed, casted, and 'collected'.This volume will be of use to students and scholars alike interested in social and cultural history as well as imperial and colonial history.

Makris, Gerasimos, The Sudanese Zar Tumbura Cult: Slaves, Armies, Spirits and History. (The Anthropology of History) 320 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <705-1017>
ISBN 978-1-03-239403-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book offers a historically sensitive ethnography of the zar ?umbura spirit possession cult, associated with descendants of African slaves who live mainly in the area of Greater Khartoum, Sudan. It considers the history and transformations of ?umbura, from the 19th-century slaving era to the present post-Islamist autocracy. The chapters examine the ?umbura spiritual universe and ceremonial life, its relation to the more popular female cult of zar bore and to other now extinct forms of celebrating the zar spirit(s), as well as ?umbura's combination of possession, sorcery, ancestor worship and ?ufi piety. Based on long-term fieldwork, the study shows how successive generations of subaltern cult devotees construct a positive self-identity based on an alternative reading of Sudanese history. The author explores the edges of Sudanese Islamic religiosity and probes the limits of anthropological classifications concerning religious experience. Situating ?umbura in its wider context, the book discusses subaltern modes of historicity in their articulation with dominant conceptions of history, traces the legacy of slavery and the role of memory and invites comparisons with Middle Eastern, Sahelian and even New World societies regarding stigmatised identities, slavery, race, memory and history. It will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, history, religious studies, Islamic studies and African studies.

Palmie, Stephan, Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa. 288 pp. 2023:10 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <705-1040>
ISBN 978-0-226-82592-2 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-82594-6 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

A comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science that aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices. Inspired by the exercises of Father Lafitau, an eighteenth-century Jesuit priest and protoethnographer who compared the lives of the Iroquois to those of the ancient Greeks, Stephan Palmie embarks on a series of unusual comparative investigations of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science. What do organ transplants have to do with ngangas, a complex assemblage of mineral, animal, and vegetal materials, including human remains, that serve as the embodiment of the spirits of the dead? How do genomics and "ancestry projects" converge with divination and oracular systems? What does it mean that Black Cubans in the United States took advantage of Edisonian technology to project the disembodied voice of a mystical entity named ecue onto the streets of Philadelphia? Can we consider Afro-Cuban spirit possession as a form of historical knowledge production? By writing about Afro-Cuban ritual in relation to Western scientific practice, and vice versa, Palmie hopes to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices, revealing the logic that brings together enchantment and experiment.

Ramsey, Jason, Reckoning with Change in Yucatan: Histories of Care and Threat on a Former Hacienda. (The Anthropology of History) 256 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <705-1043>
ISBN 978-0-367-25366-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Reckoning with Change in Yucatan engages with how best to look upon and respond to change, arguing that this debate is an important arena for negotiating local belonging and a force of transformation in its own right. For residents of Chunchucmil, a historic rural community in Yucatan, Mexico, history is anything but straightforward. Living in what is both a defunct 19th-century hacienda estate and a vibrant Catholic pilgrimage site, Chunchucmilenos reckon past, present, and future in radically different ways. For example, while some use the aging estate buildings to weave a history of economic decline and push for revitalization by hotel developers, others highlight the growing fame of the Virgin of the Rosary in the attached church and vow to defend the site from developer interference. By exploring how past and future are channeled through changing built environments, landscapes, sacred relics, and legal documents, this ethnographic study details how the politics of change provide Chunchucmilenos with a common language for debating commitments to place and each another in the present. Against Western notions of 'History' as a relatively coherent account of change, the book suggests we reframe it as an ongoing performance that is always fractured, democratic, and morally tinged.

Beylier, Pierre-Alexandre, Constructing a Cross-Border Region in the Pacific Northwest: The Residents of Cascadia at the Canada/US Border. (Routledge Borderlands Studies) 264 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <705-1117>
ISBN 978-1-03-246477-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

For residents living at national borders, the divisions between countries are rarely black and white, and often everyday interactions contribute to the creation of a cross-border region. This book examines this phenomenon in Cascadia, which runs along the Canada/US border in the Pacific Northwest.Placing people at the heart of the analysis, the book considers the everyday interactions and links which bind residents together and help to define Cascadia as a cross-border region. The book also assesses the impact that increased border security in the wake of 9/11 has had on border residents. Following a bottom-up approach rather than a top-down approach, the book examines how border security impacts the residents' mobility, their representations of the border and, potentially the existence of a cross-border identity.Drawing on extensive original qualitative and quantitative data, this book will be of interest to researchers across border studies, geography, geopolitics, and cultural studies, as well as to policy-makers and other stakeholders with an interest in cross-border cooperation.

人類学におけるマルチモーダルな方法
Collins, Samuel / Durington, Matthew Slover, Multimodal Methods in Anthropology. 192 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <705-1202>
ISBN 978-1-03-236225-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-236224-3 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

Multimodal Methods in Anthropology develops several goals simultaneously. First, it is an introduction to the ways that multimodality might work for students and practitioners of anthropology, using multiple examples from the authors' research and from the field. Second, the book carefully examines the ethics of a multimodal project, including the ways in which multimodality challenges and reproduces "digital divides." Finally, the book is a theoretical introduction that repositions the history of anthropology along axes of multimodality and reframes many of the essential questions in anthropology alongside collaboration and access. Each chapter introduces new methods and techniques, frames the ethical considerations, and contextualizes the method in the work of other anthropologists. Multimodal Methods in Anthropology takes both students and practitioners through historical and contemporary sites of multimodality and introduces the methodological and theoretical challenges of multimodal anthropology in a digital world. Like multimodality itself, readers will come away with new ideas and new perspectives on established ideas, together with the tools to make them part of their practice. It is an ideal text for a variety of methods-based courses in anthropology and qualitative research at both the undergraduate and the graduate level.

de Martino, Ernesto, The End of the World: Cultural Apocalypse and Transcendence. Tr. by D. L. Zinn. 352 pp. 2023:12 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <705-1204>
ISBN 978-0-226-82055-2 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-82057-6 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

The first English translation of a classic work of twentieth-century anthropology and philosophy. A philosopher, historian of religions, and anthropologist, Ernesto de Martino (1908-1965) produced a body of work that prefigured many ideas and concerns that would later come to animate anthropology. In his writing, we can see the roots of ethnopsychiatry and medical anthropology, discussions of reflexivity and the role of the ethnographer, considerations of social inequality and hegemony from a Gramscian perspective, and an anticipation of the discipline's "existential turn." We also find an attentiveness to hope and possibility, despite the gloomy title of his posthumously published book La fine del mondo, or The End of the World. Examining apocalypse as an individual as well as a cultural phenomenon, treating subjects both classic and contemporary and both European and non-Western, ranging across ethnography, history, literature, psychiatry, and philosophy, de Martino probes how we relate to our world and how we might be better subjects and thinkers within it. This new translation offers English-language readers their first chance to engage with de Martino's masterwork, which continues to appear prescient in the face of the frictions of globalization and environmental devastation.

Morgan, Rachel, Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology. 312 pp. 2023:11 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <705-1210>
ISBN 978-0-226-82238-9 hard ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Nevot, Aurelie, Rethinking Relation-Substance Dualism: Submutances and the Body. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) 296 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <705-1211>
ISBN 978-1-03-242663-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book analyses anthropological debates on "relationism" (referring to methodological and theoretical issues) and sets out to reconsider these discussions with regards to the notion of "substance" (generally associated with the body). Reflecting on the philosophical origins and implications of these two concepts, the author aims to bring them to the heart of contemporary anthropological discourse and addresses the erasure (or blurring) of "substance" in favour of "relation." The argument put forward is that the conceptual pairing of "substance-relation" should be substituted for the "nature-culture" dualism that has been dominant in structural anthropology. The chapters engage with the work of scholars such as Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Wang Mingming as part of a decentring and questioning of the tradition in which anthropology is rooted. The book also considers the role that the anthropology of China plays in the re-evaluation of the relationship between relation and substance. The concept of "submutance" is introduced with Chinese ethnographic material to explore the possibility of moving beyond the relation-substance dualism of Western heritage. This is valuable reading for scholars interested in the theory and history of anthropology.

Wardle, Huon / Rapport, Nigel (eds.), Cosmopolitan Moment, Cosmopolitan Method. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) 224 pp. 2024 (Routledge, UK) <705-1214>
ISBN 978-1-032-20963-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

In conversation, and in the company of a new generation of scholars working in the field, Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle re-explore the terrain and meaning of cosmopolitan studies now. This book offers a new survey and theorisation of cosmopolitan research, a burgeoning topic responding to increasingly complex patterns of human interaction in world society. It considers the question of cosmopolitan methodology: What are the methods needed for, or elicited by, studying cosmopolitan situations? And how are we to remain faithful to the heteronomous human interiority and intentionality from which cosmopolitan moments are constructed? The volume focuses on the open-ended moment of ethnographic fieldwork that generates the concepts and methods needed to understand contemporary cosmopolitanisation. The chapters cover a wide range of ethnographic situations and open up debate on what are the opportunities and responsibilities of a cosmopolitan anthropology in its exploration of human difference and commonality.