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

Hauser, Mark William / Haines, Julia Jong (eds.), The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean. 350 pp. 2023:12 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <709-868>
ISBN 978-0-8130-6984-5 hard ¥19,404.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *

Case studies that show the importance of the Indian Ocean region to the emergence of modernity and globalization. This volume brings together a diverse range of specialists working in multiple areas of the Indian Ocean world, providing broad geographical coverage and comparisons across sites. Contributors use a historical archaeological approach, which bridges everyday life in the recent past with large-scale processes of globalization, to examine topics related to colonialism, labor, race, ethnicity, diaspora, human-environment relationships, and heritage. Case studies from Zanzibar, Mauritius and the Mascarene islands, India, Indonesia, Java, and other locations emphasize networks and connections across the Indian Ocean. Contributors apply a variety of disciplinary methods, including bioanthropology, analysis of medieval illustrations and colonial documents, architectural history, and anthropology of built space. They discuss the material history of domestic areas, religious structures, and colonial outposts; the structure of the slave trade; and the everyday implications of disease and health management within laboring populations. This volume decenters European narratives and actors to show the important ways this region shaped the modern world. By highlighting the experiences of ordinary people in East Africa and South and Southeast Asia, the research in these chapters contributes to a better understanding of histories in the Global South over the last four hundred years. Contributors: Mark Hauser Julia Haines Mick de Ruyter Ellen Hseih Sakai Takashi Krish Seetah Stefania Manfio Akshay Sarathi Sasa Caval Alessandra Cianciosi Adria LaViolette Neil Norman V. Selvakumar Brian C. Wilson Chapurukha M. Kusimba Supriya Varma

加藤恵津子著　大西洋の東西への日本人移民－自分探し、仕事、同一視
Kato, Etsuko, Mobile Japanese Migrants to the Pacific West and East: Self-searching, Work, and Identification. (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series 111) 240 pp. 2024 (Routledge, UK) <709-881>
ISBN 978-1-03-253964-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book explores "self-searching migrants," a new group of indefinitely globally mobile people whose purpose of overseas stay is the search of true self and the work they really want to do, using Japanese trans-Pacific sojourners as the case study.Utilizing testimonies collected from interviews with Japanese migrants in their twenties to forties who had entered the job market between the early 1990s and 2010 and left for the English-speaking countries of Canada, Australia, and Singapore, the book argues that their practices are both ubiquitous and unique, the products of global and local contexts of a specific time. As semiskilled migrants from an extra-Western, postindustrial country, their struggles show a different picture of the West-centric world power system from those experienced by migrant workers from the Global South.Including extensive qualitative research and interview material collected over a 20-year period, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society, cultural anthropology, and migration.

Elkin, Dolores / Delaere, Christophe (eds.), Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America. 480 pp. 2023:12 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <709-988>
ISBN 978-0-8130-6982-1 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *

Diverse case studies that explore the relationship between humans and water environmentsThis volume features a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to underwater and coastal archaeology in Latin America. Showcasing the efforts of 82 researchers working across the region, the case studies in this book point to a long tradition of practices and beliefs related to the exploitation and management of aquatic environments, displaying a wide chronological vision that recognizes the vast and rich precolonial heritage of these waters.Chapters on the pre-Hispanic period include an analysis of evidence about the exploitation of maritime resources, ritual practices related to water, ancestral navigation, and inundated cultural landscapes, addressing examples from Mesoamerica, the Central American isthmus, and the Andes. Historical case studies are also explored, including shipwrecks, harbors, and maritime coastal landscapes in the Caribbean, on the Atlantic coast, or in Patagonia. The countries represented comprise Mexico, Belize, Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.The material landscapes of oceans, lakes, and rivers discussed in this volume contribute to a better understanding of the dynamic relationships between humans and their environments over time. By integrating the study of behaviors associated with waterscapes into the interpretations of past and current cultures, this volume introduces new ways of seeing Latin America.

Nations, James D., Lacandon Maya in the Twenty-First Century: Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in Mexico's Tropical Rainforest. (Maya Studies) 320 pp. 2023:9 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <709-994>
ISBN 978-0-8130-6978-4 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8130-8024-6 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

From the ancient traditions of the Lacandon Maya comes an Indigenous model for a sustainable future.Having lived for centuries isolated within Mexico's largest remaining tropical rainforest, the Indigenous Lacandon Maya now live at the nexus of two worlds-ancient and modern. While previous research has focused on documenting Lacandon oral traditions and religious practices in order to preserve them, this book tells the story of how Lacandon families have adapted to the contemporary world while applying their ancestral knowledge to create an ecologically sustainable future.Drawing on his 49 years of studying and learning from the Lacandon Maya, James Nations discusses how in the midst of external pressures such as technological changes, missionary influences, and logging ventures, Lacandon communities are building an economic system of agroforestry and ecotourism that produces income for their families while protecting biodiversity and cultural resources. Nations describes methods they use to plant and harvest without harming the forest, illustrating that despite drastic changes in lifestyle, respect for the environment continues to connect Lacandon families across generations. By helping with these tasks and inheriting the fables and myths that reinforce this worldview, Lacandon children continue to learn about the plants, animals, and spiritual deities that coexist in their land.Indigenous peoples such as the Lacandon Maya control one-third of the intact forest landscapes left on Earth, and Indigenous knowledge and practices are increasingly recognized as key elements in the survival of the planet's biological diversity. The story of the Lacandon Maya serves as a model for Indigenous controlled environmental conservation, and it will inform anyone interested in supporting sustainable Indigenous futures.A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

音楽文化の現象学ハンドブック
Berger, Harris M. / Riedel, Friedlind et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures. (Oxford Handbooks) 384 pp. 2024:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <709-37>
ISBN 978-0-19-069387-9 hard ¥38,376.- (税込) US$ 178.00 *

A source of profound insights into human existence and the nature of lived experience, phenomenology is among the most influential intellectual movements of the last hundred years. The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures brings ideas from the phenomenological tradition of Continental European philosophy into conversation with theoretical, ethnographic, and historical work from ethnomusicology, anthropology, sound studies, folklore studies, and allied disciplines to develop new perspectives on musical practices and auditory cultures. With sustained theoretical meditations and evocative ethnography, the book's twenty-two chapters advance scholarship on topics at the heart of the study of music and culture today--from embodiment, atmosphere, and Indigenous ontologies, to music's capacity to reveal new possibilities of the person, the nature of virtuosity, issues in research methods, the role of memory, imagination, and states of consciousness in musical experience, and beyond. Thoroughly up-to-date, the handbook engages with both classical and contemporary phenomenology, as well as theoretical traditions that have drawn from it, such as affect theory or the German-language literature on cultural techniques. Together, these essays make major contributions to fundamental theory in the study of music and culture.

Dunn, Nick / Edensor, Tim (eds.), Dark Skies: Places, Practices, Communities. 320 pp. 2023:11 (Routledge, UK) <709-1042>
ISBN 978-1-03-252802-1 hard ¥39,886.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00 *

Dark Skies addresses a significant gap in knowledge in relation to perspectives from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In providing a new multi- and interdisciplinary field of inquiry, this book brings together engagements with dark skies from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, empirical studies, and theoretical orientations.Throughout history, the relationship with dark skies has generated a sense of wonder and awe, as well as providing the basis for important cultural meanings and spiritual beliefs. However, the connection to darks skies is now under threat due to the widespread growth of light pollution and the harmful impacts that this has upon humans, non-humans, and the planet we share. This book, therefore, examines the rich potential of dark skies and their relationships with place, communities, and practices to provide new insights and understandings on their importance for our world in an era of climate emergency and environmental degradation.This book is intended for a wide audience. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and professionals in geography, design, astronomy, anthropology, ecology, history, and public policy, as well as anyone who has an interest in how we can protect the night sky for the benefit of us all and the future generations to follow.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.

Bortolotto, Chiara / Skounti, Ahmed (eds.), Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention. (Key Issues in Cultural Heritage) 232 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-1118>
ISBN 978-1-03-215434-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-215433-6 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Drawing on debates about intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding at the local and international levels, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention, explores the theoretical and practical implications of the intertwinement between these policy fields.Considering how sustainable development (SD) priorities are influencing representations of ICH, the volume questions how they are expanding the frontiers of the heritage realm and unsettling accepted understandings of the social uses of heritage. The contributing authors, who hail from a variety of different contexts and disciplinary backgrounds, explore these issues from a unique vantage point as both scholars and actors of the processes they analyze. Playing different roles in the implementation of the Convention, their positioning as insiders allows for a unique analytical perspective that is based on first-hand engagement with the practices of the Convention.Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention sheds light on the complexity, potential, and consequences of combining ICH and SD at the policy-making level and in heritage practices on the ground. It will be of interest to academics and students working in heritage studies, development studies, anthropology, archaeology, international law, political science, international relations, and sociology.

Alst, Emily C. Van / Gover, Carlton Shield Chief (eds.), Indigenizing Archaeology: Putting Theory into Practice. 240 pp. 2024:1 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <709-1170>
ISBN 978-0-8130-6986-9 hard ¥19,404.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8130-8033-8 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

This book highlights early-career Indigenous scholars conducting research in North America who are advancing the growing paradigm of archaeological study done with, by, and for members of Native-descendant communities. Expanding on the foundational works of scholars from previous generations, this volume includes examples of Indigenous methodologies and illustrates different approaches for applying theory in various research scenarios.The contributors weave together western scientific research methods and Indigenous knowledge, ontologies, and epistemologies, demonstrating how this combination can lead to fuller interpretations of the archaeological record. Case studies describe new, culturally specific ways of establishing working relationships with descendant communities and stakeholders. The volume argues that there are many ways a collaborative method can be implemented and that Indigenous people should be involved not just as consultants but as participants and stewards of their own cultural heritage. Indigenizing Archaeology demonstrates that this approach is more than a subfield; it is the path forward for the discipline.Contributors: Emily C. Van Alst Carlton Shield Chief Gover Ash Boydston-Schmidt Honey Constant-Inglis Patrick Cruz Lydia Curliss Zoe Antoinette Eddy Nicholas C. Laluk Kay Kakendasot Mattena S. Margaret Spivey-Faulkner Ashleigh BigWolf Thompson Joe Watkins

Broeker, Fabian, Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin. (Anthropology of Now) 224 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-1173>
ISBN 978-1-03-253352-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin explores how dating apps fit into Berlin's unique dating culture and brand of intimacy and form a tangible nucleus around which users navigate dating rituals, romantic biographies, and digitally mediated intimacies within city space.Drawing on the field of digital anthropology, this book takes the form of an immersive ethnography, resulting from 13 months of fieldwork with young dating app users, across Tinder, Bumble, and OkCupid, in Berlin. It argues that dating apps offer, or impose, depending on their context of use, a series of affordances. These affordances, and the technological devices they rely upon, exist through the relation between users and their environment, both in terms of physical spaces and cultural frameworks. The book posits that dating apps are woven into spatial practices and self-narrativisation, constituting imagined communities for their users, as well as a canvas, alongside the city of Berlin, against which to characterise romantic experiences.Scholars interested in digital anthropology, ethnography, dating, and regional Berlin will find that Love and Technology offers a vibrant springboard for thinking through both theoretical and methodological concerns.

Cipolla, Craig N. / Crellin, Rachel J. / Harris, O. J. T., Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow. 272 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-1174>
ISBN 978-1-03-215430-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-215431-2 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow explores how cutting-edge archaeological theories have implications not only for how we study the past but also how we think about and prepare for the future.Ranging from how we understand migration or political leadership to how we think about violence or ecological crisis, the book argues that archaeology should embrace a "future-oriented" attitude. Behind the traditional archaeological gaze on the past is a unique and useful collection of skills, tools, and orientations for rethinking the present and future. Further, it asserts that archaeological theory is not only vital for how we conduct our work as archaeologists and how we create narratives about the past but also for how we think about the broader world in the present and, crucially, how we envision and shape the future. Each of the chapters in the book links theoretical approaches and global archaeological case studies to a specific contemporary issue. It examines such issues as human movement, violence, human and non-human relations, the Anthropocene, and fake news to showcase the critical contributions that archaeology, and archaeological theory, can make to shaping the world of tomorrow.An ideal book for courses on archaeology in the modern world and public archaeology, it will also appeal to archaeology students and researchers in general and all those in related disciplines interested in areas of critical contemporary concern.

Hodge, Christina J. / Kreps, Christina (eds.), Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums) 256 pp. 2024:2 (Routledge, UK) <709-1178>
ISBN 978-0-367-64183-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology shifts museum anthropology's relationship to the broader field from marginal to central by revealing the sophisticated transdisciplinary praxis (theory + practice) at the heart of current museum anthropologies. The book features international case studies that operate at the interfaces of critical museology, anthropology, material culture studies, art practice, and more. The theory of pragmatics proposes that meaning-making is collaborative and best evaluated through its impact in the world. Collectively the chapters in this volume evidence a 'pragmatic imagination' at work as museum anthropology practitioners ingeniously combine inventiveness (the possible) and practicality (the actual) in ways that drive the field forward. Defining museum anthropology as a pragmatic practice explicitly theorizes this work in order to mark its significance; demystify its processes of knowledge production; connect it more readily to debates within and beyond anthropology; and facilitate critique.

T.インゴルド著　今日の世代の盛衰
Ingold, Tim, The Rise and Fall of Generation Now. 157 pp. 2023:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <709-1179>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5660-1 hard ¥12,925.- (税込) US$ 59.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5661-8 paper ¥3,654.- (税込) US$ 16.95 *

Is the future about to close in, or is it open to new horizons? For anthropologist Tim Ingold, the root of our difficulty in facing up to the future lies in the way we think about generations. We imagine them as layers, succeeding one another like sheets in a stack. This view figures as a largely unquestioned backdrop to discussions of evolution, life and death, longevity, extinction, sustainability, education, climate change and other matters of contemporary concern. What if we were to think of generations, instead, as wrapping around one another along their length, more like fibres in a rope than stacked sheets? In this compelling new book, Ingold argues that a return to the idea that life is forged in the collaboration of overlapping generations might not only assuage some of our anxieties, but also offer a lasting foundation for future coexistence. But it would mean having to abandon our faith both in the inevitability of progress, and in the ability of science and technology to cushion humanity from environmental impacts. A perfect world is not around the corner, nor will our troubles ever end. Nevertheless, for as long as life continues, there is hope for generations to come.

Kubiak, Anna E. / Dlugozima, Anna et al. (eds.), Death and Funeral Practices in Poland. (Routledge International Focus on Death and Funeral Practices) 152 pp. 2023:10 (Routledge, UK) <709-1181>
ISBN 978-1-03-207552-5 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on funerary practice in Poland. An overview of the important features of the Polish funeral law, funerals, cremations, cemeteries, and funeral industry, the book also covers the demographic characteristic of mortality in Poland.Drawing on original empirical research, the book is interdisciplinary, which facilitates further transnational comparative research on this important topic. It is the first book to offer a broad look at the evolution and current status of Polish funerary practices. It provides an essential summary to researchers with an interest in funeral practices in Poland. Some of the areas explored are the country's historical development, the contemporary legal framework and how Poland manages its cemeteries, crematoria and other death spaces. Built on original ethnographic research conducted by the authors, this book interprets the predominance of Catholic funerals, examines the relatively recent history of cremation, and contextualizes the practices of commemoration and memoralisation.This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to academics, policymakers and practitioners interested in the historic, geographic, demographic, (multi)cultural and political context in which the funerary practices in Poland have developed, as well as the technical and professional aspects of the industry.

ジェンダーとセクシュアリティの人類学ハンドブック
McCallum, Cecilia / Posocco, Silvia / Fotta, Martin (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality. (Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology) 655 pp. 2023:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <709-1182>
ISBN 978-1-108-42744-9 hard ¥34,188.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00 *

The tense but enduring engagement between anthropology and gender and sexuality studies has had profound effects upon anthropological theory and practice. Bringing together contributions from an international team of authors, this Handbook shows that anthropological work has taken inspiration from feminist and LGBTQI movements to create a transformative body of research. It provides an accessible, state-of-the-art overview of the anthropology of gender and sexuality whilst also documenting its historical emergence, highlighting the varied impact gender and sexuality studies have had on anthropological theory. It is split into five parts, with each chapter introducing a contemporary anthropological theory through in-depth ethnographical discussion. It features intersectional, black, and indigenous authors, providing a forum for established and emerging voices to gesture towards futures of anthropology of gender and sexuality. Authoritative and cutting-edge, it is essential reading for researchers and students in anthropology, and will set the agenda for future research in the field.

McDonnell, Siobhan, My Land, My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire. (Pacific Islands Monograph Series 31) 277 pp. 2023 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <709-1183>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9445-0 hard ¥14,660.- (税込) US$ 68.00 *

Throughout Oceania, land is central to identity because it is understood to be spiritually nourishing and sustaining. Land is the mother. Land, and the kinship it nurtures, is the basis for sustaining livelihoods and ways of life. Therefore, Indigenous dispossession from the land has deep and far-reaching consequences. My Land My Life: Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire explores the land rush that took place in Vanuatu from 2001 to 2014 which resulted in over ten percent of all customary land being leased. In this book, Siobhan McDonnell offers new insights into the drivers of capitalist land transformations. Using multi-scalar and multi-sited ethnography she describes not simply a linear march toward commodification of the landscape by foreign interests, but a complex web replete with the local powerful Indigenous men involved in manipulating power and property. McDonnell meticulously describes land-leasing processes and maps the relationships between investors, middlemen, and local men. She shows how property is a tool with which foreigners reassert capitalism and neocolonial control over Indigenous landscapes. The legal identity of "landowner" contains foundational contradictions between the rights established in Vanuatu's kastom system and those afforded by property, as individualized rights over land. Property has also created sites for the production of masculine authority and enabled men to manipulate claims to land and entrench their personal power. This book explores how transactions of customary land have created new domains of agency and frontiers of desire: foreign desire to possess land and local desire to lease land for cash. It concludes with a discussion of Vanuatu's constitutional and land reform package, drafted by the author, which took effect in 2014 and delivered a more empathetic approach to Indigenous land rights and ended the land rush.Informed by decades of study, legal work, and community engagement, My Land My Life demonstrates an engaged anthropological practice based on reciprocity that responds directly to what Indigenous people have asked for. This book is certain to appeal to a wide range of scholars as well as policy makers.

D.ミラー著　十分良い生活
Miller, Daniel, The Good Enough Life. 300 pp. 2023:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <709-1184>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5964-0 hard ¥15,081.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5965-7 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town. Attending carefully to the everyday lives of these people, the ethnographic chapters examine topics ranging from freedom and inequality to the creation of community and the purpose of life. These chapters alternate with discussions of similar topics by a wide range of philosophers in the Western tradition, from Socrates and the Stoics through Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger to Adorno, Rawls, MacIntyre, and Nussbaum. As an ethnography, this book reveals just how much we can learn from a respectful acknowledgement of what ordinary modest people have achieved. By creating community as a deliberate and social project that provides the foundation for a more fulfilling life, where affluence has not led to an increase in individualism, the people in this town have found a way to live the good enough life. The book also shows how anthropology and philosophy can complement and enrich one another in an enquiry into what we might accomplish in our lives.

Sheehan, Norm / Jones, D. S. / Creighton, J. et al. (eds.), Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing: Voices of Country. 232 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-1186>
ISBN 978-0-367-72049-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-70688-3 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Heritage, Indigenous Doing and Wellbeing presents an Aboriginal Australian relational understanding of the world that offers a counter-narrative to the Western notion of heritage and new insights into the potential for sustaining the complex systems that support all life.From an Indigenous Australian perspective, the Western concept of heritage is intentionally exclusionary and supports social, political, economic, and environmental injustice. Aboriginal People engage with landscape every day in entirely, different ways, seeing Country as a living 'heritage', but in a unique relationship form that engages the individual with place, ancestors, language, and wellbeing. However, Country is most often relegated by heritage proponents to 'intangible heritage', and this results in the concept having little legislative, legal, or administrative weight. Drawing on a common understanding of Country as sacred, living, and sentient, rather than as objectified property or resource, the contributors to this book explore a diversity of relationships with Country that demonstrate the richness and the practical utility of this relational understanding.Heritage, Indigenous Doing, and Wellbeing foregrounds the voices of Australian Aboriginal People who are involved in 'Caring for Country'. It will be an essential resource for those engaged in the study of Country, heritage, museums, Indigenous Peoples, landscape architecture, environmental studies, planning, and archaeology. It will also be of great interest to heritage practitioners working around the globe.

Watkins, Trevor, Becoming Neolithic: The Pivot of Human History. 296 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-1187>
ISBN 978-0-415-22151-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-415-22152-8 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Becoming Neolithic examines the revolutionary transformation of human life that was taking place around 12,000 years ago in parts of southwest Asia. Hunter-gatherer communities were building the first permanent settlements, creating public monuments and symbolic imagery, and beginning to cultivate crops and manage animals.These communities changed the tempo of cultural, social, technological and economic innovation. Trevor Watkins sets the story of becoming Neolithic in the context of contemporary cultural evolutionary theory. There have been 70 years of international inter-disciplinary research in the field and in the laboratory. Stage by stage, he unfolds an up-to-date understanding of the archaeology, the environmental and climatic evidence and the research on the slow domestication of plants and animals. Turning to the latest theoretical work on cultural evolution and cultural niche construction, he shows why the transformation accomplished in the Neolithic began to accelerate the scale and tempo of human history. Everything that followed the Neolithic, up to our own times, has happened in a different way from the tens of thousands of years of human evolution that preceded it.This well-documented account offers a useful synthesis for students of prehistoric archaeology and anyone with an interest in our prehistoric roots. This new narrative of the first rapid transformation in human evolution is also informative to those interested in cultural evolutionary theory.

Zee, Emile / Marechal, Laetitia (eds.), Introduction to Human-Animal Interaction: Insights from Social and Life Sciences. 186 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-1188>
ISBN 978-1-03-211837-6 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-211836-9 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

Introduction to Human-Animal Interaction focuses on the human dimension of interacting with other animals. This book introduces recent developments, theories and debates in the relatively new research area of human-animal interaction (HAI) and focuses on the social and life sciences aspect of these interactions. Experts from different academic disciplines provide an overview for students and professionals interested in how humans and other animals interact, and what advantages and disadvantages emerge for both parties in this relationship.The book starts with the theories and mechanisms supporting our interactions with animals, such as human-animal communication, and it then covers the implications of HAI in terms of ethics and welfare. After discussing cultural differences and forensic aspects in HAI (e.g., wildlife crime and animal abuse), the book examines evidence in the area of animal-assisted intervention. The final chapters give an overview of current research in specific human-animal interaction systems: human-pet, human-livestock and human-wildlife interaction. The book offers a scientific, evidence-based perspective on human-animal interaction, providing pedagogical tools to make a systematic, critical and constructive evaluation of research in HAI possible. It offers a range of in-text pedagogical features like a subject index, chapter MCQs, open questions, further reading and additional digital resources including videos which are accessible via QR codes or through the associated website. This textbook provides the fundamental tools for achieving a comprehensive, current and critical overview of the HAI field and is an integral text for undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking modules in human-animal interaction, in social sciences such as anthropology, cultural studies, criminology, ethics and laws, or in life sciences such as animal behaviour, conservation and welfare, biology, neuroscience, physiology, psychology, public health and those studying veterinary science.