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

Feldman, Rachel Z. / McGonigle, Ian (eds.), Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank. (McGill-Queen's Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies Series) 280 pp. 2023:10 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <706-950>
ISBN 978-0-228-01879-7 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *

Since Israel conquered the West Bank, formerly held by Jordan, in 1967, over 400,000 settlers have moved into the territory. In recent years, Israeli settler organizations and allied American-Jewish lobbyists have responded to international condemnation of the occupation by mobilizing narratives of indigeneity, claiming sovereign and divine rights to the land.Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank asks what Israeli settlers mean when they say they are indigenous; how settler indigeneity is felt, performed, and mediated; and what the implications of indigeneity claims are on the international stage. Building on foundational scholarship that has come out of post-colonial and indigeneity studies, the volume theorizes settler-indigeneity as a cultural phenomenon and product of transnational settler-colonial histories, while also interrogating the dialectic of "settler" and "indigenous" to illustrate their co-constitution. Considering agriculture, clothing, food, language, and religious practices, the chapters explore how feelings of indigeneity are fashioned and how these feelings continue to transform the landscape of the West Bank.Offering a series of original ethnographic accounts of these cultures and communities, Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank intimately documents and discusses the processes of settler-nativization in conversation with a variety of related literature in anthropology, cultural studies, Israel studies, religious studies, and settler-colonial studies.

Schmeding, Annika, Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan. 296 pp. 2023:11 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <706-190>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3338-4 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-3753-5 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

Despite its pervasive reputation as a place of religious extremes and war, Afghanistan has a complex and varied religious landscape where elements from a broad spectrum of religious belief vie for a place in society. It is also one of the birthplaces of a widely practiced variant of Islam: Sufism. Contemporary analysts suggest that Sufism is on the decline due to war and the ideological hardening that results from societies in conflict. However, in Sufi Civilities, Annika Schmeding argues that this is far from a truthful depiction. Members of Sufi communities have worked as resistance fighters, aid workers, business people, actors, professors, and daily workers in creative and ingenious ways to keep and renew their networks of community support. Based on long-term ethnographic field research among multiple Sufi communities in different urban areas of Afghanistan, the book examines navigational strategies employed by Sufi leaders over the past four decades to weather periods of instability and persecution, showing how they adapted to changing conditions in novel ways that crafted Sufism as a force in the civil sphere. This book offers a rare on-the-ground view into how Sufi leaders react to moments of transition within a highly insecure environment, and how humanity shines through the darkness during times of turmoil.

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Little, Peter D., Advanced Introduction to Economic Anthropology. (Elgar Advanced Introductions) 192 pp. 2023:11 (E. Elgar, UK) <706-215>
ISBN 978-1-78990-270-9 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-1-78990-272-3 paper ¥4,544.- (税込) GB￡ 15.95 *

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Expertly navigating the interdisciplinary field of economic anthropology, Peter D. Little illustrates how an anthropological perspective can deepen understandings of customary and global markets; different types of money; diversified livelihoods of the poor; gendered and racialized labor; climate change and other global issues. By questioning common dichotomies, such as the informal versus formal sectors and customary versus modern institutions, the book uncovers those hidden connections, power relations, and economic actors and processes that underpin real economies throughout the world.Key Features:Highlights the significance of neglected and unwaged economic activitiesFocuses on the role of social trust in both low- and high-income economiesCovers in depth how decisions in financial institutions are impacted by cultural factorsCritically analyzes seminal literature in economic anthropology and related disciplinesThis erudite Advanced Introduction is an indispensable resource for academics, researchers, and students in economics and finance, behavioral and experimental economics, economic history, anthropology, development studies, international and global studies, and cultural and social economy studies.

Hoffman, Diane M., A Critical Anthropology of Childhood in Haiti: Emotion, Power, and White Saviours. 272 pp. 2024:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <706-1013>
ISBN 978-1-350-32133-5 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This book offers a critical anthropological perspective on contemporary childhood in Haiti. It is based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of 13 years with vulnerable children in Haiti. Diane M. Hoffman raises important questions about how interventions by well-meaning foreigners and 'white saviors' often misrepresent Haitian culture and society as deficient, while privileging their own emotions alongside supposedly universal ideas about children that reinforce their own power to define and intervene in Haitian lives. She argues for a new approach to Haitian childhood that centers children's informal learning and self-education alongside indigenous spirituality and constructions of personhood that can resist the hegemony of neo-colonial and neo-liberal forces. Instead of representing the country and its children as a place of "problems to be solved," the book shows the importance prioritizing aspects of Haitian world-views in order to develop a more culturally-informed understanding of childhood in Haiti that can support genuine social change.

Seuru, Samuel / Albouy, Benjamin (eds.), Modelling Human-Environment Interactions in and beyond Prehistoric Europe. (Themes in Contemporary Archaeology) 160 pp. 2023:9 (Springer, GW) <706-1040>
ISBN 978-3-031-34335-3 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them. It reconstructs key aspects of the palaeoenvironment - from large-scale drivers of environmental conditions, such as climate, to more regional variables such as vegetation cover and faunal communities. The volume underscores how computational archaeology is leading the way in the study of past human-environment interactions across spatial and chronological scales. With the increased availability of high-resolution climate models, agent-based modelling, palaeoecological proxies and the mature use of Geographic Information System in ecological modelling, archaeologists working in interdisciplinary settings are well-positioned to explore the intersection of human systems and environmental affordances and constraints. These methodological advancements provide a better understanding of the role humans played in past ecosystems - both in terms of their impact upon the environment and, in return, the impact of environmental conditions on human systems. They may also allow us to infer past ecological knowledge and land-use patterns that are historically contingent, rather than environmentally determined. This volume gathers contributions that combine reconstructions of past environments and archeological data with a view to exploring their complex interactions at different scales and invites scholars from varying disciplines and backgrounds to present and compare different modelling approaches.

Apaydin, Veysel, Narrating Heritage: Rights, Abuses and Cultural Resistance. (UCL Critical Cultural Heritage Series) 240 pp. 2023:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <706-1213>
ISBN 978-1-350-33463-2 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Narrating Heritage critically examines the links among heritage, rights and social justice. This book brings important original ethnographic research and unique case studies together in a coherent and cohesive way to examine patterns and differences of approaches to heritage. It exposes discourses of the uses and abuses of heritage, and provides narratives of persistence, demonstrating the importance of heritage in securing human rights and social justice. Drawing on over ten years of research and ethnographic fieldwork based on six complex case studies from Turkey and comparing them with case studies from across the world, the book explores a variety of social, political, cultural and economic heritage discourses, making explicit the relationship between cultural and natural heritage. This book expands on these discourses by examining the role of violence in heritage, expanding on the concepts of both direct and slow violence. It situates heritage discourse within the sphere of human rights and lays out redistribution, recognition and representation as dimensions of social justice in a heritage context. The case studies in this volume explore multiple themes, from the links between cultural performance and the construction of collective identity and sense of belonging, to the roles of education, learning about other cultures and nationalist use of education. They also discuss the relationship between construction of heritage, space, and access and exclusion, as well as the impact of authoritarianism and heavy neoliberal policies on heritage making.

Cromer, Risa, Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics. (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice) 320 pp. 2023:9 (New York U. Pr., US) <706-1214>
ISBN 978-1-4798-1858-7 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-1859-4 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

How embryo adoption advances the Christian Right's political goals for creating a Christian nation In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation's first embryo adoption program to "save" the thousands of frozen human embryos remaining from assisted reproduction procedures, which they contend are unborn children. While a small part of US fertility services, embryo adoption has played an outsized role in conservative politics, from high-profile battles over public investment in human embryonic stem cell research to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Based on six years of ethnographic research with embryo adoption staff and participants, Risa Cromer uncovers how embryo adoption advances ambitious political goals for expanding the influence of conservative Christian values and power. Conceiving Christian America is the first book on embryo adoption tracing how this powerful social movement draws on white saviorist tropes in their aims to reconceive personhood, with drastic consequences for reproductive rights and justice. Documenting the practices, narratives, and beliefs that move embryos from freezers to uteruses, this book wields anthropological wariness as a tool for confronting the multiple tactics of the Christian Right. Timely and provocative, Conceiving Christian America presents a bold and nuanced examination of a family-making process focused on conceiving a Christian nation.

Doda, Hilary, Fashioning Acadians: Clothing in the Atlantic World, 1650-1750. (McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada) 408 pp. 2023:12 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <706-1215>
ISBN 978-0-228-01892-6 hard ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

What people wore in the distant past is often challenging to determine, owing to the disintegration of natural textiles and materials over time. Yet when new findings from archaeological excavations are compared with documentation about early Acadia, a fascinating picture of the society's early fashions is revealed.Fashioning Acadians is a history of clothesmaking and dress in Acadia from 1650 to 1750. Through the analysis of four Acadian settlements in what is now Nova Scotia, Hilary Doda uncovers the regional fashions and trends that had begun to emerge prior to the violence of the deportations of 1755. Men's and women's wardrobes are described from head to toe, from headdresses and hairstyles down to stockings and shoes, along with accessories such as buttons, buckles, and jewellery. While Acadians retained many aspects of the fashion systems of France, New France, and New England, a distinctive Acadian identity can be seen to take shape as their dress evolved and was influenced by other regional styles. Exploring the possibilities of a new methodology for identifying lost or decayed garments, Doda argues that surviving notions, sewing tools, and accessories - the small finds of archaeological sites - are important sources of information not only about domestic life, but about manufacturing processes, dress and textile cultures, and the influence of intersecting fashion systems in colonial spaces.Fashioning Acadians expands our understanding of Acadian lives and their connections to both the Atlantic world of goods and the landscapes of Nova Scotia.

Warner-Smith, Alanna L. / Platt, Sarah E. (eds.), Mapping and Historical Archaeology: Beyond (within, through) the Grid. 290 pp. 2023:10 (Springer, GW) <706-1221>
ISBN 978-981-9920-06-8 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book explores the intersections of mapping and historical archaeology and the ways in which mapping can generate new archaeological data and contribute to methodological and theoretical problems in historical archaeology. The chapters engage with diverse material remains-from travel writing to newspaper reports and colonial records to maps themselves-and also contemporary medical supplies, the architectural ruins along the Silk Road, nineteenth-century foundations in a company town, brick rubble, contemporary city landscapes, and ceramics. There are four key themes explored in the book: the interplay between invisibility and visibility; the visualization of embodied experiences; the use of maps to elucidate and problematize power and resistance, and the emancipatory potentials of mapping within the context of heritage practices and community collaboration. This book is of interest to students and researchers in historical archaeology and anthropology. Previously published in International Journal of Historical Archaeology Volume 24, issue 4, December 2020