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

Le Febvre, Emilie, Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013: An Anthropological Approach. (Photography, History: History, Photography) 304 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <707-724>
ISBN 978-1-03-202899-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Introducing a novel anthropological study of photography in the Middle East, Emilie Le Febvre takes us to the Naqab Desert where Bedouin use photographs to make, and respond to, their own histories.She argues Bedouin presentations of the past are selective but increasingly reliant on archival documents such as photographs which spokespersons treat as evidence of their local histories amid escalating tensions in Israel. These practices shape Bedouin visual historicity, that is the diverse ways people produce their pasts in the present with images. This book charts these processes through the afterlives of six photographs (c. 1906-2013) as they circulate between the Naqab's entangled visual economies - a transregional landscape organised by cultural ideals of proximity and assemblages of Bedouin iconography. Le Febvre illustrates how representational contentions associated with tribal, civic, and Palestinian-Israeli politics influence how images do history work in this society. She concludes Bedouin visual historicity is defined by acts of persuasion during which photographs authenticate alternating history projects. Here, Bedouin value photographs not because they evidence singular narratives of the past. Rather, the knowledges inscribed by photography are multifarious as they support diverse constructions of history and society with which members mediate a wide range of relationships in southern Israel.This book bridges studies of anthropology, photography, Palestinian-Israeli politics, and Bedouin Middle East history.

Meyiwa, Thenjiwe / Cekiso, Madoda (eds.), Names Fashioned by Gender: Stitched Perceptions. (Routledge/UNISA Press Series) 370 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <707-747>
ISBN 978-1-03-262819-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Names are very powerful and significant, especially in the African context. Across societies, there is a universal, albeit taken-for-granted fact that all human beings have names. Names Fashioned by Gender is a collection of essays on onomastics-a linguistics field of study focusing on the origin, form, history and use of proper names. The study of naming potentially provides significant evidence about the role of gender in the assimilation and/or enculturation processes as personal names evoke insight into the construction of gender and personhood in African societies.The book takes intellectual course from the idea that how names are viewed and used is heavily context-dependent and gendered. It demonstrates that personal names are narratives derived from different contexts within various cultures and circumstances subsequently imposing different identities on name bearers. Through persuasive essays, this book elucidates that naming is an activity that needs to be conducted cautiously because names tend to determine the destiny and character of an individual.Print editions not for sale in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Rosas, Gilberto / Loza, Mireya (eds.), The Border Reader. 704 pp. 2023:11 (Duke U. Pr., US) <707-778>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2025-7 hard ¥32,077.- (税込) US$ 142.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-2493-4 paper ¥8,739.- (税込) US$ 38.95 *

The Border Reader brings together canonical and cutting-edge humanities and social science scholarship on the US-Mexico border region. Spotlighting the vibrancy of border studies from the field's emergence to its enduring significance, the essays mobilize feminist, queer, and critical ethnic studies perspectives to theorize the border as a site of epistemic rupture and knowledge production. The chapters speak to how borders exist as regions where people and nation-states negotiate power, citizenship, and questions of empire. Among other topics, these essays examine the lived experiences of the diverse undocumented people who move through and live in the border region; trace the gendered and sexualized experiences of the border; show how the US-Mexico border has become a site of illegality where immigrant bodies become racialized and excluded; and imagine anti- and post-border futures. Foregrounding the interplay of scholarly inquiry and political urgency stemming from the borderlands, The Border Reader presents a unique cross section of critical interventions on the region. Contributors. Leisy J. Abrego, Gloria E. Anzaldua, Martha Balaguera, Lionel Cantu, Leo R. Chavez, Raul Fernandez, Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Roberto G. Gonzales, Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Ramon Gutierrez, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Jose E. Limon, Mireya Loza, Alejandro Lugo, Eithne Luibheid, Martha Menchaca, Cecilia Menjivar, Natalia Molina, Fiamma Montezemolo, Americo Paredes, Nestor Rodriguez, Renato Rosaldo, Gilberto Rosas, Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Sayak Valencia Triana, Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez, Patricia Zavella

自然を維持する－環境人類学リーダー
Osterhoudt, Sarah R. / Sivaramakrishnan, K. (eds.), Sustaining Natures: An Environmental Anthropology Reader. (Culture, Place, and Nature) 400 pp. 2023:7 (U. Washington Pr., US) <707-816>
ISBN 978-0-295-75144-3 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *
ISBN 978-0-295-75145-0 paper ¥7,180.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

Environmental anthropology is at its best when firmly grounded in respectful and systematic ethnographic research and writing that spotlights uncommon perspectives on widely recognized issues confronting the world. Intentionally crafted for undergraduate course use in anthropology, geography, and environmental studies, Sustaining Natures showcases the best contemporary writing on nature and sustainability. With concise introductions and sample discussion questions, the editors guide readers through some of the field's most pressing themes and debates, including farming, alternative energy, extractive industries, environmental justice, multispecies relationships, and urban ecology. This timely reader foregrounds diverse voices, views, and experiences of nature, from US corporate boardrooms to urban waste disposal sites in China, and moves environmental anthropology in new theoretical, methodological, and applied terrains.

先住民と地方コミュニティへの気候変動の影響ハンドブック
Reyes-Garcia, Victoria (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) 408 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <707-820>
ISBN 978-1-03-241213-9 hard ¥61,963.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

This Handbook examines the diverse ways in which climate change impacts Indigenous Peoples and local communities and considers their response to these changes.While there is well-established evidence that the climate of the Earth is changing, the scarcity of instrumental data oftentimes challenges scientists' ability to detect such impacts in remote and marginalized areas of the world or in areas with scarce data. Bridging this gap, this Handbook draws on field research among Indigenous Peoples and local communities distributed across different climatic zones and relying on different livelihood activities, to analyse their reports of and responses to climate change impacts. It includes contributions from a range of authors from different nationalities, disciplinary backgrounds, and positionalities, thus reflecting the diversity of approaches in the field. The Handbook is organised in two parts: Part I examines the diverse ways in which climate change - alone or in interaction with other drivers of environmental change - affects Indigenous Peoples and local communities; Part II examines how Indigenous Peoples and local communities are locally adapting their responses to these impacts. Overall, this book highlights Indigenous and local knowledge systems as an untapped resource which will be vital in deepening our understanding of the effects of climate change.The Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities will be an essential reference text for students and scholars of climate change, anthropology, environmental studies, ethnobiology, and Indigenous studies.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Whitridge, Peter / Hill, Erica (eds.), Reimagining Human-Animal Relations in the Circumpolar North. (Arctic Worlds) 176 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <707-828>
ISBN 978-1-138-48278-4 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This volume provides fresh insight into northern human-animal relations and illustrates the breadth and practical utility of archaeological human-animal studies. It surveys recent archaeological research in northern North America and Eurasia that frames human-animal relations as not merely economically exploitative but often socially complex and deeply meaningful, and attuned to the intelligence and agency of nonhuman prey and domesticates. The case studies sample a wide swath of the circumpolar region, from Alaska, Nunavut, and Greenland to northern Fennoscandia and western Siberia, and span sites, finds, and scenarios ranging in age from the Mesolithic to the twenty-first century. Many taxa on which northern lives hinged figure in these analyses, including large marine mammals, polar bear, reindeer, marine fish, and birds, and are variously approached from relational, multispecies, semiotic, osteobiographical, and political economic perspectives. Animals themselves are represented by osteological remains, harvesting gear, and depictions of animal bodies that include zoomorphic figurines, petroglyphs, ornamentation, and intricate portrayals of human-animal harvesting encounters. Far from settling the problem of how archaeologists should approach northern human-animal relations, these chapters reveal the irreducible complexity of northern worlds and highlight the diversity of human and nonhuman animal lives. This book will be of particular interest to northern archaeologists and zooarchaeologists, and all those interested in the possibilities of a multispecies approach to the archaeological record.

Oezden-Schilling, Tom, The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods. (Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices) 328 pp. 2023:12 (Duke U. Pr., US) <707-829>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2079-0 hard ¥24,223.- (税込) US$ 107.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-2553-5 paper ¥6,495.- (税込) US$ 28.95 *

In The Ends of Research Tom OEzden-Schilling explores the afterlives of several research initiatives that emerged in the wake of the "War in the Woods," a period of anti-logging blockades in Canada in the late twentieth century. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among neighboring communities of White environmental scientists and First Nations mapmakers in northwest British Columbia, OEzden-Schilling examines these researchers' lasting investments and the ways they struggle to continue their work long after the loss of government funding. He charts their use of planning documents, Indigenous territory maps, land use plots, reports, and other documents that help them not only to survive institutional restructuring but to hold on to the practices that they hope will enable future researchers to continue their work. He also shows how their lives and aspirations shape and are shaped by decades-long battles over resource extraction and Indigenous land claims. By focusing on researchers' experiences and personal attachments, OEzden-Schilling illustrates the complex relationships between researchers and rural histories of conservation, environmental conflict, resource extraction, and the long-term legacies of scientific research.

Brablec, Dana / Canessa, Andrew (eds.), Urban Indigeneities: Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century. 276 pp. 2023:9 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <707-834>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4882-8 hard ¥14,586.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

Bushnell, Cade Conlan / Moody, Stephen J. (eds.), Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives. (Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology) 288 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <707-979>
ISBN 978-1-03-246377-3 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Bushnell and Moody present a rich investigation into the navigation of friendships, adopting discursive and ethnographic perspectives to examine Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and English interactional data. Since the definition of friendship is hard to pin down, most sociocultural anthropologists have tended to focus on issues of kinship and descent, while leaving friendship as a residual or interstitial issue. However, this book puts friendship as the central focus and offers unique perspectives from the participants themselves. The interactional work implicated in the accomplishment of making and being friends, and the trials and tribulations of friendship, are both explored through the many detailed analyses showing how the participants navigate the calm and rough waters of friendship in and through their everyday interactions. Researchers, undergraduates, and postgraduate students in the fields of conversation analysis, pragmatics, and other social sciences will benefit from the real-life examples in the book as well as the analysis.

Clark, Jerome Jeffery / Boxer, Elise / Estes, Nick (eds.), From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis. (Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies) 296 pp. 2023:11 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <707-982>
ISBN 978-0-8165-4250-5 hard ¥22,440.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8165-4249-9 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Davis, Jade E., The Other Side of Empathy. 136 pp. 2023:8 (Duke U. Pr., US) <707-983>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2003-5 hard ¥20,183.- (税込) US$ 89.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-2501-6 paper ¥5,373.- (税込) US$ 23.95 *

In The Other Side of Empathy, Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool. Whether focusing on technology, colonialism, or racism, she shows how empathy can obscure relationships of dominance, control, submission, and victimization, arguing that these histories taint the whole concept of empathy. Drawing on digital archives of photographs, memoirs, newspapers, interviews, and advertisements regarding nineteenth-century ethnographic museums and human zoos, Davis shows how empathetic responses erase culpabilities from those institutions that commodify difference. She also contends that empathy's mediation through digital technology cannot lead to more ethical actions, as technology only connects representations of people rather than the people themselves. In empathy's place, Davis proposes mutual recognition as a way to see and experience others beyond colonial modes of empathy. Davis illustrates that moving beyond empathy allows for a more nuanced understanding of the colonial past and its ongoing impact while providing for a more meaningful affective engagement with the world.

Fienup-Riordan, Ann / Rearden, Alice / Meade, Marie, Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka: The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska. 320 pp. 2024:1 (U. Washington Pr., US) <707-986>
ISBN 978-0-295-75172-6 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *
ISBN 978-0-295-75174-0 paper ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

Parkas are part of a living tradition in southwest Alaska. Some are ornamented with tassels, beads, and elaborate stitching; others are simpler fur or birdskin garments. Although fewer fancy parkas are sewn today, many people still wear those made for them by their mothers and other relatives."Parka-making" conversations touch on every aspect of Yup'ik life-child rearing, marriage partnerships, ceremonies and masked dances, traditional oral instructions, and much more. In The Flying Parka, more than fifty Yup'ik men and women share sewing techniques and "parka stories," speaking about the significance of different styles, the details of family designs, and the variety of materials used in creating these functional and culturally important garments. Based on nearly two decades of conversations with Yup'ik sewing groups and visits to the National Museum of the American Indian and the National Museum of Natural History, this volume documents the social importance of parkas, the intricacies of their construction, and their exceptional beauty. It features over 170 historical and contemporary images, full bilingual versions of six parka stories, and a glossary in Yup'ik and English.

Jones, Tod, Heritage is Movement: Heritage Management and Research in a Diverse and Plural World. (Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect) 208 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <707-988>
ISBN 978-1-03-244803-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book presents new ways of understanding heritage and heritage work. It addresses the ways physical processes of creation, maintenance and decay are entangled with cultural and political processes of management, access and care. The book analyzes a critical practice of heritage work oriented to recognizing and collaborating with diverse knowledge holders and their practices of caring for heritage. This requires rethinking accepted heritage concepts, such as heritage management, artifact, site and the definition of heritage itself. The book presents an engaging and applied approach to this task through examples that include Majapahit statues and temples in Indonesia, skating in London, an online heritage movement, building bivouacs in Australia, First Nations advocacy for Country and batik collections in the Netherlands. Offering a new model for collaborative heritage research and analysis, this book will be of interest to researchers, students and practitioners. Drawing from developments from the posthumanities, cultural geography and critical heritage studies, it presents a collaborative mode of scholarship and writing that considers how people care for and use the things history leaves them.

M.モース再入門
Papilloud, Christian, Reintroducing Marcel Mauss. (Reintroducing...) 160 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <707-994>
ISBN 978-1-03-244763-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-244764-3 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This reintroduction to the life and work of Marcel Mauss highlights his coherent and original thought both as an academic and an engaged intellectual of his time. Since his work regained attention in social sciences in the later 20th century, Reintroducing Marcel Mauss also emphasises the progression of research on Mauss's thought, bringing to light various neglected aspects of his scientific project, including his political commitment and writings. With a review of the contemporary research on Mauss's legacy, it offers a fuller understanding of the questions with which he was concerned - questions which converged in the challenge of working out alternative ways for a social life that promotes a genuinely social society inspired by socialist and cooperative values. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with interests in the history and development of sociology, and the contemporary importance of classical social theory.

Rouhani, Bijan / Romao, Xavier (eds.), Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage: From Risk Preparedness to Recovery for Immovable Heritage. 296 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <707-508>
ISBN 978-1-03-220458-1 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-220453-6 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage presents case studies from different regions in the world and establishes a framework for understanding, identifying, and analysing disaster risks to immovable cultural heritage. Featuring contributions from academics and practitioners from around the globe, the book presents a comprehensive view of the scholarship relating to cultural heritage, disaster risk preparedness, and post-disaster recovery. Particular attention is given to the complex and dynamic nature of disaster risks and how they evolve during different phases of a catastrophic event, especially as hazards can create secondary effects that have greater impacts on cultural heritage, infrastructure, and economy. Arguing that risk preparedness and mitigation have historically been secondary to reactive emergency and first aid response, the book demonstrates that preparedness plans based on sound risk assessments can prevent hazards from becoming disasters. Emphasising that the protection of cultural heritage through preparedness, mitigation actions, and risk adaptation measures - especially for climate change - can contribute to the resilience of societies, the book highlights the vital role of communities in such activities.Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage will be useful to students, professionals, and scholars studying and working with cultural heritage protection. It will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of Cultural Heritage, Archaeology, Conservation and Preservation, Sustainable Development, and Disaster Studies.

Plets, Gertjan, Heritage Statecraft and Corporate Power: Altai Activism in Post-Soviet Siberia. (Routledge Studies in Heritage) 272 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <707-558>
ISBN 978-1-138-65688-8 hard ¥30,261.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00 *

Heritage Statecraft and Corporate Power examines the politicization of heritage and heritage conflicts in Siberia. In so doing, it challenges the idea that heritage is created by the state and instead argues that heritage creates the state.Building upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in south-central Eurasia, this book provides an analysis of the sociopolitical enmeshment of archaeology and heritage in Russia's resource colony: Siberia. Although many examples from across Siberia are discussed, the core study region for the book is the Altai Republic, which is located where Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and China intersect. Taking a "heritage statecraft" approach, Plets argues that heritage is a particularly important political instrument in this region. The book considers how different social "groups"-including indigenous communities, Russian settlers, displaced groups, national and international archaeologists, political parties, and energy companies-translate archaeological data into culturally distinct heritages. Plets encourages scrutiny of the different players that mobilize heritage to instill norms and ideas and the ways in which new regulations or institutions are ultimately implemented.Heritage Statecraft and Corporate Power contributes to key debates around the politics of archaeology, resource development, and cultural heritage. It will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of heritage, archaeology, and memory.

Muller, Lorraine, Indigenous Research into Mainstream Australian Culture: Shifting the Lens. 216 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <707-675>
ISBN 978-1-03-216170-9 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-216168-6 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Informed by original ground-breaking research, this book "shifts the lens" of study, identifying how Indigenous Australian values and principles have influenced and contributed to an evolving non-Indigenous mainstream Australian culture. Based on the Indigenous principle of respect, Muller presents a solid research framework to break down the barriers of social differences in a culturally safe space.The text offers an insight into the cultural aspects of modern Australian society that contributed to its globally acclaimed handling of the current coronavirus pandemic. During the preparation for dealing with the pandemic, Muller's research was validated as the world witnessed the Australian culture undergoing major change, shifting away from the original colonialist culture based on individuality and social stratification, to a community collective-based culture. It will be a valuable read for scholars in the area of community and allied health, humanities, social policy, social sciences and political studies. People seeking alternative lifestyles, a decolonised future and social change will also find this book useful.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Chaturvedi, Ruchi, Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India. 272 pp. 2023:8 (Duke U. Pr., US) <707-686>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2001-1 hard ¥23,549.- (税込) US$ 104.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-2077-6 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

In Violence of Democracy Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India's divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in Kerala between members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and supporters of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research, Chaturvedi investigates the unique character of the conflict between the party left and the Hindu right. This conflict, she shows, defies explanations centering religious, caste, or ideological differences. It offers instead new ways of understanding how quotidian political competition can produce antagonistic majoritarian communities. Rival political parties mobilize practices of disbursing care and aggressive masculinity in their struggle for electoral and popular power, a process intensified by a criminal justice system that reproduces rather than mitigating violence. Chaturvedi traces these dynamics from the late colonial period to the early 2000s, illuminating the broader relationships between democratic life, divisiveness, and majoritarianism.

Kowal, Emma, Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia. (Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices) 264 pp. 2023:11 (Duke U. Pr., US) <707-69>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2059-2 hard ¥23,549.- (税込) US$ 104.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-2537-5 paper ¥6,271.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scientists. Kowal illustrates how the material persistence of samples over decades and centuries folds together the fates of different scientific methodologies. Blood, bones, hair, comparative anatomy, human biology, physiology, and anthropological genetics all haunt each other across time and space, together with the many racial theories they produced and sustained. The stories Kowal tells feature a variety of ghostly presences: a dead anatomist, a fetishized piece of hair hidden away in a war trunk, and an elusive white Indigenous person. By linking this history to contemporary genomics and twenty-first-century Indigeneity, Kowal outlines the fraught complexities, perils, and potentials of studying Indigenous biological difference in the twenty-first century.

カースト・ハンドブック
Jodhka, Surinder S. / Naudet, Jules (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Caste. 688 pp. 2023:9 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <707-694>
ISBN 978-0-19-889671-5 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

Beginning with the 1990s, the subject of caste has seen a profound increase in interest among scholars. What was until then approached as a fossilized tradition of the ritual-obsessed Hindus refusing to see the progressive spirits of the emerging world and studied as a branch of anthropology, suddenly began to be seen as a complex reality deeply embedded in a range of institutions and social practices, attracting scholars from a wide range of disciplines--sociology, political science, history, literature, and even economics. Underlying this opening of the subject of caste were many factors: epistemic, empirical, and political. Caste is no longer approached through the classical binaries of 'traditional' and 'modern'; the 'East' and the 'West'; or the 'closed' and 'open' systems of stratification. With the growing consolidation of caste-based identities among those ranked lower down in the hierarchy since the 1990s, raising questions of citizenship and dignity, the subject has acquired a new salience. As the emerging research shows, the realities of caste on the ground have always been diverse across regions, often contested and ever changing. This Handbook presents a wide range of essays written by authors representing diverse academic disciplines and perspectives, bringing together the emerging trends in the research, imaginations, and lived realities of caste.

Shankar, Arjun, Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India. 360 pp. 2023:8 (Duke U. Pr., US) <707-709>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2011-0 hard ¥24,671.- (税込) US$ 109.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-2509-2 paper ¥6,719.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of "brown saviors"-globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India's help economy. Shankar argues that these brown saviors actually reproduce many of the racialized values and ideologies associated with who and how to help that have been passed down from the colonial period, while masking other operations of power behind the racial politics of global brownness. In India, these operations of power center largely on the transnational labor politics of caste. Ever attentive to moments of discomfort and complicity, Shankar develops a method of "nervous ethnography" to uncover the global racial hierarchies, graded caste stratifications, urban/rural distinctions, and digital panaceas that shape the politics of help in India. Through nervous critique, Shankar introduces a framework for the study of the global help economies that reckons with the ongoing legacies of racial and caste capitalism.

経営人類学の基礎
de Waal Malefyt, Timothy, Business Anthropology: The Basics. (The Basics) 200 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <707-297>
ISBN 978-1-03-241609-0 hard ¥34,584.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-241608-3 paper ¥5,472.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99 *

Business Anthropology: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues in the field. It introduces readers to the application of anthropological theory and practice to real world examples in industry and will assist students in developing awareness, skill, and perspectives to help address real life situations they encounter in the world.Topics covered include:Defining applied, design and digital anthropologyExplaining key research methods and approaches used in industry, government, and non-profit sectorsInvestigating issues internal to an organization that assist in managing changeCovering topics like marketing communications, user experience, product development and entrepreneurshipExplaining ways for organizations to partner and interact with communities, economics and politics to implement changeDiscussing approaches to encourage public conversation about social issuesBusiness Anthropology: The Basics is an essential read for students and faculty approaching the subject for the first time.

Cambou, Dorothee / Ravna, Oyvind (eds.), The Significance of Sami Rights: Law, Justice, and Sustainability for the Indigenous Sami in the Nordic Countries. (Routledge Research in Polar Regions) 240 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <707-385>
ISBN 978-1-03-211598-6 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book examines the significance of the rights of the Sami people and analyses the issues raised by the recognition and implementation of these rights in the Nordic countries.Written together by Sami and non-Sami experts, the book adopts a human rights approach to examine the adequacy of law and policies that seek to protect the culture and livelihood of Sami communities in their traditional lands and territories. The book discusses contemporary legal and jurisprudential developments in the field of Sami rights. It examines the processes and challenges in the recognition and implementation of these rights, particularly in relation to the governance of their traditional land and resources.The book will be of particular interest to legal scholars, political scientists, experts in the field of Indigenous peoples' rights, governmental authorities, and members of Indigenous communities.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Egeler, Matthias, Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural: Nordic Perspectives on Landscape Theory. (AAR Religion, Culture, and History) 344 pp. 2023:11 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <707-121>
ISBN 978-0-19-774736-0 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. All societies fill the geographical space in which they are living with the holy, the sacred, and the supernatural. A lively academic debate has developed in the last few decades about how human beings make the landscapes that they live in and how these landscapes work. This discussion has repeatedly referenced religion and the supernatural, but it has never engaged either in significant depth. Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural: Nordic Perspectives on Landscape Theory presents a summa of current and classic theorizing on religion and the supernatural in relationship to the land and develops these theories further by bringing them into dialogue with a rich set of folkloristic and historical data. Focusing on many different themes, including time and memory, repeating patterns, identity formation, power and subversion, sound, home and unhomeliness, and nature and environment, author Matthias Egeler engages with a broad range of theoretical concepts and approaches from the interdisciplinary fields of landscape theory and the study of religions. He brings this theorizing into dialogue with the rich culture of local storytelling and landscape-related traditional beliefs of the Strandir district of the Icelandic Westfjords. In this rural region, landscape-related traditions have been documented since the early nineteenth century and continue to be important to this day. Confronting this vibrant heritage with the insights of landscape theory--both in and beyond the study of religions--allows important new contributions to both fields, especially through the inclusion of perspectives held by rural populations rather than the urban upper classes that have been the focus of research to date. The example of the Icelandic Westfjords shows the extreme richness of religious and supernatural approaches to the landscape that can be developed in rural communities and how they are significantly and characteristically different from the perspectives found in literature and the arts.

Stevens, Phillips, Jr., Rethinking the Anthropology of Magic and Witchcraft: Inherently Human. 216 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <707-1000>
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This book introduces students to the anthropology of magic and witchcraft, terms widely used but with no widely accepted definitions. It takes a new approach to this area within the anthropology of religion, demonstrating that the bases for these beliefs and alleged practices are inherent in human cognition and psychology, even instinctual, and likely rooted in our evolutionary biology. It shows how magic and magical thinking are regular elements in people's daily lives, and that understanding the components of the witchcraft complex offers surprisingly important insights into patterns of thinking and social behavior.The book reviews the many meanings of "magic" and "witchcraft," and introduces the best anthropological meanings of the terms. The components of these beliefs are timeless and universal; this fact, and recent advances in the brain sciences, suggest that the principles of magic are derived from basic processes of human thinking, and the attributes of the witch derive from neurobiologically based fears and fantasies. The propensity for such beliefs probably had adaptive significance in the evolutionary development of the human species; they are inherently human.This book is intended to focus anew on the core concepts of magic, witchcraft, and the supernatural, while also serving as an introduction to the anthropology of religion for undergraduate and graduate-level courses.

Teuton, Christopher B. / Shade, Hastings, Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World. 296 pp. 2023:2 (U. Washington Pr., US) <707-1001>
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Ayetli gadogv-to "stand in the middle"-is at the heart of a Cherokee perspective of the natural world. From this stance, Cherokee Earth Dwellers offers a rich understanding of nature grounded in Cherokee creature names, oral traditional stories, and reflections of knowledge holders. During his lifetime, elder Hastings Shade created booklets with over six hundred Cherokee names for animals and plants. With this foundational collection at its center, and weaving together a chorus of voices, this book emerges from a deep and continuing collaboration between Christopher B. Teuton, Hastings Shade, Loretta Shade, and others. Positioning our responsibilities as humans to our more-than-human relatives, this book presents teachings about the body, mind, spirit, and wellness that have been shared for generations. From clouds to birds, oceans to quarks, this expansive Cherokee view of nature reveals a living, communicative world and humanity's role within it.