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

Little, Peter C., Critical Zones of Technopower and Global Political Ecology: Platforms, Pathologies, and Plunder. 258 pp. 2023:9 (Lexington Books, US) <710-743>
ISBN 978-1-66690-109-2 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

This book explores technology and the global tech industry in relation to social, health, economic, and environmental relations and politics. Peter Little argues that the power and influence of electronics and Big Tech-from the proliferation of digital platforms to the expansion of global electronic waste streams-is a political-ecological problem that impacts communities and lives in both the Global North and South. From intense resource extraction, industrial pollution, and surging health and economic inequalities, to data-driven surveillance, platform economy proliferation and intrusion, and Silicon Valley corporate-power, Little argues that the political ecology of tech matters now more than ever. Based on a mixture of engagements with tech criticism, ethnographic case studies, and critical analysis and development of guiding concepts-ranging from technocapital to technoprecarious political ecology-the book exposes and interrogates the underlying toxicity, precarity, and planetary politics of the global tech. Critical Zones of Technopower and Global Political Ecology also tracks justice struggles that confront technopower, including "just tech" forms of social action that further reinforce the importance of a global political ecology of technocapitalism in the digital age.

松川恭子、渡邉暁子他編　アジア湾岸諸国他におけるトランスナショナルな世代
Matsukawa, Kyoko / Watanabe, Akiko / Babar, Zahra R. (eds.), Transnational Generations in the Arab Gulf States and Beyond. (Gulf Studies 10) 295 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-860>
ISBN 978-981-9951-82-6 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book examines the recent migration phenomenon in the Arab Gulf states for work and residence. It sheds light on the transnationality of diverse groups of migrants from different generations, and unpacks how migrants' multiple senses of belonging, orientations and adaptive strategies have shaped contemporary migration in the Gulf region. In turn, the analysis presented here shows how the Arab Gulf states' citizenship and educational policies affect second-generation migrants in particular. Through a series of fine-grained ethnographic case studies, the authors demonstrate the ways in which these second-generation migrants construct their identities in relation to their putative 'home' country in the Gulf as well as their complex relationship to their parents' countries of origin. This is what underpins the deeply transnational character of their lives, choices and notions of belonging. While migration scholars often situate these groups as 'temporary', this does not in fact capture the reality of temporariness for the migrants themselves, their children or their dependants. The result is a complex and ongoing construction of identity that shapes the way of life for millions of migrants. Relevant to scholars of migration and international studies, particularly focused on the Middle East, Transnational Generations in the Arab Gulf States and Beyond is also of interest to social scientists researching student mobility in higher education, intergenerational families, identity politics and globalisation.

Feder-Nadoff, Michele Avis, An Anthropology of Making in Santa Clara del Cobre: Presence of Absence. 382 pp. 2023:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-905>
ISBN 978-3-031-36681-9 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book offers a nuanced reflection on the meaning of making and artisan agency, demonstrating how copper-smithing produces not only objects, but also lives, worlds, meanings, and social transformation. Through long-term ethnography, grounded in apprenticeship to master coppersmith Jesus Perez Ornelas, Feder-Nadoff's intimate description of communal and artisanal life in Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacan, Mexico provides a critical reappraisal of aesthetics and compelling ways to think about how aura and agency are produced. By mapping flows and frictions between persons, places, and things, this study closes the gap between economic and socio-political analysis of craft, on the one hand, and aesthetic, material, and phenomenological studies of making, on the other. Although craft historically plays a prominent national, even ideological role in Mexico, as in many countries, most artisans ironically remain absent, often living in marginalized, precarious circumstances. By tracing the cycles of life, death, and afterlife, of these maker-protagonists, their bodies of knowledge, skilled performances, and objects, this poetic monograph testifies to their presence.

Mendoza, Ruben G. / Hansen, Linda (eds.), Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica: Recent Findings and New Perspectives. (Conflict, Environment, and Social Complexity) 550 pp. 2023:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-911>
ISBN 978-3-031-36599-7 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This edited volume addresses the environmental and cultural underpinnings of the kind of social conflict that spawned the origins and elaboration of ritualized human and animal sacrifice in Mesoamerica. The chapters variously document the place of cultural evolution and social complexity in the origins and elaboration of ritual human sacrifice, cannibalism, and trophy-taking across a broad spectrum of Mesoamerican cultural and social contexts that first saw the light of day before 2600 BCE, and rapidly developed and proliferated across the Mesoamerican world in the centuries to follow. They study the developments in sacrifice rituals through the centuries into the first millennium CE, when the Mexica Aztec and their allies had elevated ritual human sacrifice such that they produced a plethora of sacrificial acts, modes and manners of death, and associated deities to articulate the necro-cultures and blood-tribute of the times. The chapters further study present-day rites of Amerindian communities from throughout Mesoamerica that include paying homage to the deities of earth and sky through sacrifice and consumption of animal surrogates. The interdisciplinary effort undertaken by this international cadre of scientists, including anthropologists, bioarchaeologists, art historians, ethnohistorians, iconographers, and religious studies experts provides a particularly rich forum for launching an interrogation into the role of conflict, environment, and social complexity in the emergence and persistence of ritual violence and human sacrifice in the Mesoamerican world.

Urban, Matthias, Linguistic Stratigraphy: Recovering Traces of Lost Languages in the Central Andes. 149 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-917>
ISBN 978-3-031-42101-3 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages that were partially or fully replaced by the expansion of the Quechuan family through the region.The author presents a coherent and generally applicable framework for studying prehistoric language shift processes and reconstructing earlier linguistic landscapes before significant language spreads ousted former patterns of linguistic diversity. This framework combines toponymic evidence with the analysis of substrate contact effects, and, in some cases, extralinguistic evidence, to create an integrated if incomplete of extinct and undocumented languages. In an authoritative exploration of case studies, concerning Aymara in parts of Southern Peru, Canar in Ecuador, and Chacha in Northern Peru, the book shows how the identities of lost languages and earlier linguistic panoramas can be reconstructed.

Chacon, Richard J. (ed.), The History and Environmental Impacts of Hunting Deities: Supernatural Gamekeepers and Animal Masters. (Conflict, Environment, and Social Complexity) 428 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-925>
ISBN 978-3-031-37502-6 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective. It documents the antiquity and widespread occurrence of the belief in supernatural gamekeepers at the global level. This interdisciplinary volume documents both the antiquity and the widespread geographical distribution of this belief along with surveying the various manifestations of this cosmology by way of studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America. Some chapters explore the manifestations of this belief as they appear in petroglyphs/pictographs and other forms of material culture. Others focus on the environmental impacts of these beliefs/rituals and prescribed foraging restrictions by analyzing how they affect game harvests. The internationally recognized scholars in this volume assess the efficacy of this particular form of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and investigate if adherence to the belief in animal masters actually causes hunters to refrain from overharvesting wild game and thereby contributes to sustainable hunting practices. This volume is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists and other social scientists researching traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), indigenous conservation, biodiversity, and sustainability practices, and animal deities.

Rantala, Outi / Kinnunen, Veera / Hoeckert, Emily (eds.), Researching with Proximity: Relational methodologies for the Anthropocene. (Arctic Encounters) 212 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-939>
ISBN 978-3-031-39499-7 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-39502-4 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental damage that have come to be known as the age of the Anthropocene. Throughout the book authors develop more nuanced ways of engaging with the environmentally vulnerable Arctic. They counter distancing, exoticising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Arctic by staying proximate with mundane places and beings of the north. The volume engages and plays with familiar tourism concepts, such as hospitality, visiting, difference, care, openness, and distance, while expanding the focus from binary and human-centric approaches of hosts and guests to questions of wellbeing among multispecies communities. The transdisciplinary group of contributors share a curiosity about how staying proximate may provide theoretical depth and epistemological openings to attend to current tensions and to diversify the ways we do and enact research. Thus, each chapter provides a methodological experiment with proximity, developing diverse ways of envisioning and storying more-than-human worlds.?

Sapignoli, Maria / Hitchcock, Robert K., People, Parks, and Power: The Ethics of Conservation-Related Resettlement. (SpringerBriefs in Anthropology) 101 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-940>
ISBN 978-3-031-39266-5 paper ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This book presents a critical review of the ethics of conservation-related resettlement. We examine what has become known as the" parks versus people" debate, also known as the "new conservation debate," which has pitted indigenous and other local people against nation states and social scientists against ecologists and conservationists for the past several decades. Aiming to promote biodiversity conservation and habitat preservation, some biologists, park planners, and conservation organizations have recommended that indigenous and other people should be removed from protected areas. Local people, for their part, have argued that residents of the areas that were turned into protected areas, national parks, game reserves and monuments had managed them in productive ways for generations and that they should have the right to remain there and to use natural resources as long as they do so sustainably. This position is often supported by indigenous rights organizations and social scientists, especially anthropologists. There are also some conservation-oriented NGOs that have policies involving a more human rights-oriented approach aimed at poverty alleviation, sustainable development, and social justice. The book discusses biodiversity conservation, indigenous peoples (those who are ethnic minorities and who are often marginalized politically), and protected areas, those categories of land set aside by nation-states that have various kinds of rules about land use and residence. The focus initially is on case studies from protected areas in the United States including Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park, and Glacier National Park and on national monuments and historical parks where resettlement took place. We then consider issues of coercive conservation in southern Africa, including Hwange National Park (Zimbabwe), the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana), Etosha National Park, and Bwabwata National Park (Namibia), and Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (South Africa and Botswana). All of these cases involved involuntary resettlement at the hands of the governments. In the book we consider some of the social impacts of conservation-forced resettlement (CfR), many of which tend to be negative. After that, we assess some of the strategies employed by indigenous peoples in their efforts to recover rights of access to protected areas and the cultural and natural resources that they contain. Examples are drawn from cases in Asia, Africa, and South America. Conclusions are provided regarding the ethics of conservation-related resettlement and some of the best practices that could be followed, particularly with regard to indigenous peoples.

Stroeken, Koen, Simplex Society: How to Humanize. 320 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-984>
ISBN 978-3-031-41114-4 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-41117-5 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment, the long-term trends that led us here, and the prospects for a humane future. The experience of complexity characterizing a globalized information society triggers simplexes. These unidimensional responses instrumental in bringing about a predictable effect are altering our ways of communicating and the technologies we design. In Part I, a 'speciated' history, injected with the anthropology of Bateson and Gluckman, describes the semantic and experiential impoverishment of the lifeworld. After going through the affects of distrust (the neolithic lifeway), of futility (industrial lifeway) and disconnection (post-knowledge), the human species today depends for its survival on installing a new lifeway, which manages to wed (eco-social) inclusion to the already difficult first pair of the French Revolution. The species needs to rehumanize. Part II illustrates the remedies currently developed: to reframe, re-sphere and re-source. What do critical street art, international football matches, presidential elections, hip-hop dissing performances, charismatic church services, intuition stimulation, and 'pre-ceptive' experiences of consciousness have in common? They are moments of the real. Rooted in 'life sensing', they are tensors organizing frameshift. As multiplex measures tackling the simplex, these tensors overcome the cultural relativism of the postmodern matrix.

Miller, Lantz, The Roots of Equality: Anthropological and Normative Sources. 260 pp. 2023:8 (Lexington Books, US) <710-54>
ISBN 978-1-66691-486-3 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

For centuries, thinkers have grappled with the mystery of how humans ever invented the notion of equality. The species is quite territorial and, since earliest recorded history, has proven to have a violent streak. How could such a creature have devised such a peaceful idea as ensuring everyone gets their fair share?Equality may be a last-gasp measure: If we could guarantee such peace, we may survive self-annihilation. However, if we step back and look at the phenomenon across Homo sapiens' existence, a naturalistic solution to the puzzle starts to shine through. After all, as Aristotle enjoined, to understand a thing, look to its origin. Lantz Miller looks to the origin of H. sapiens along its Homo line to argue that we did not concoct equality to nurture peace and so forestall self-annihilation. Rather, archaeology points to our species' having lived hundreds of thousands of years in a certain social condition that happened to abet our continual survival. That condition was one of profound individual autonomy, allowing-even urging-social equality. Bringing together insights from both philosophy and anthropology, The Roots of Equality: Anthropological and Normative Sources investigates how our foraging ancestors thrived in and nurtured an autonomy-inducing social phenomenon that so shaped our species.

Meierotto, Lisa / Mares, Teresa / Holmes, Seth M. (eds.), The Well-Being of Latinx Farmworkers in a Time of Change. 2nd ed. (SpringerBriefs in Anthropology) 67 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-269>
ISBN 978-3-031-40234-0 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book explores the well-being of Latinx farmworkers living and laboring in the United States. The contributions take a deeper look at the lived experiences of farmworkers. The chapters explore the various ways in which well-being is framed in diverse academic disciplines, and how the concept of well-being has been employed in previous research on Latinx farmworkers. This volume appeals to students, researchers and professionals. Previously published in Agriculture and Human Values Volume 37, issue 1, March 2020

伏木香織、櫻田涼子編　身体の経験を通じた人類学
Fushiki, Kaori / Sakurada, Ryoko (eds.), Anthropology Through the Experience of the Physical Body. 127 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-1109>
ISBN 978-981-9957-23-1 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining changing understandings of the physical human body from a variety of anthropological perspectives. In doing so, it interrogates how the body has been and continues to be conceptualised, experienced and interacted with. After an introductory appraisal of recent approaches to understanding the body, the book provides empirically rich accounts from East and Southeast Asia of how cultural, environmental and social norms shape human physicality. The contributions are organised in four broad themes. Part I, 'Body and Space', offers two contrasting case studies from Malaysia, both of which examine gender norms associated with marriage and pregnancy, including the taboos associated with these rites of passage. Part II, 'Imperfect Bodies: Communication and the Body as Media', analyses two case studies-Deaf people in Japan and masked theatre performance in Bali, Indonesia, to reflect on changing attitudes towards disability, which reflect broader social norms and cultural beliefs about the nature of disability and its place in society. Part III, 'The Body and Image', provides a pair of case studies from Singapore, on male fans of the popular manga Boys Love genre and on ways that the Chinese zodiac system is determined from birth and continues to be spiritually embedded in the body of a Chinese individual through ritual practices. Part IV, 'The Body as Container: Taming the Bodies?', presents a single case study from Thailand of spirit possession among schoolchildren. Though wide-ranging, all the case studies posit that the body is a site of constant negotiation. The way the body is presented and the way it is seen is shaped by a complex array of social, cultural, political and ideational factors. Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body is a valuable interdisciplinary work for advanced students and researchers interested in representations of the body in East and Southeast Asia and for those with wider interests in the field of critical anthropology.

Hollington, Andrea / Mitchell, A. / Nassenstein, N. (eds.), Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa. (Culture and Language Use 23) 475 pp. 2024:1 (J. Benjamins, NE) <710-1110>
ISBN 978-90-272-1440-9 hard ¥24,717.- (税込) EUR 105.00

This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no comprehensive volume dedicated to the anthropological linguistics of Africa has yet been published. This volume seeks to fill this gap. The chapters address a broad range of topics in anthropological linguistics, including classic themes such as spatial reference, color, kin terms, and emotion, as well as emerging interests in the linguistic expression of personhood, sociality, and language ideology. All contributions are based on original empirical research and present insights into African language practices from a sociocultural perspective. The volume showcases research on dozens of African languages spoken across the continent, with particular emphasis on languages of East Africa. This book will be of interest to areal specialists as well as to anthropological linguists worldwide.

Olko, Justyna / Radding, Cynthia (eds.), Living with Nature, Cherishing Language: Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History. 460 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-1117>
ISBN 978-3-031-38738-8 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-38741-8 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and oral traditions. This volume fills a unique space by bringing together the issues of environment, language and cultural integrity in Latin American historical and cultural spheres. It explores the reciprocal and necessary relations between language/culture and environment; how they can lead to sustainable practices; how environmental knowledge and sustainable practices toward the environment are reflected in local languages, local sources and local socio-cultural practices. The book combines interdisciplinary methods and initiates a dialogue among scientifically trained scholars and local communities to compare their perspectives on well-being in remote and recent historical periods and it will be of interest to students and scholars in fields including sociolinguistics, (ethno)history, linguistic anthropology, cultural studies and cultural anthropology, environmental studies and Indigenous/minority studies.

Peres, Tanya M., Foodways Archaeology - Methods and Cases. (SpringerBriefs in Archaeology) 114 pp. 2023:10 (Springer, GW) <710-1118>
ISBN 978-3-031-41016-1 paper ¥10,589.- (税込) EUR 44.99

Rosen, Matthew (ed.), The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty. (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology) 302 pp. 2023:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <710-1120>
ISBN 978-3-031-38225-3 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This edited volume examines what the classic text The Ethnography of Reading (Boyarin ed., 1993), and the diverse ethnographies of reading it helped inspire, can offer contemporary scholars interested in understanding the place of reading in social life. The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty brings together new research and critical reflections from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who have kept their ears tuned to the voices in and around the texts they encountered and constructed in the process of bringing the ethnography of reading into the twenty-first century. Rather than operating from universalist assumptions about how people interact with and make meaning from written texts, each of the present contributors draw in one way or another on the theoretical, methodological, and creative legacies of The Ethnography of Reading. Under the broad umbrella of ethnographic reader studies, they collectively explore new relations between texts, social imagination, and social action.

Susemihl, Genevieve, Claiming Back Their Heritage: Indigenous Empowerment and Community Development through World Heritage. (Heritage Studies) 453 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-1123>
ISBN 978-3-031-40062-9 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book provides a unique, in-depth look at three Indigenous World Heritage sites in Canada and their use for Indigenous empowerment and community development. Based on extensive ethnographic field studies and comprehensive narrative interviews, it shows how the three First Nation communities presented in the case studies enforce recognition of their collective rights to preserve their cultural heritage and assert their right to political, economic, cultural, and social self-determination. It also considers the prevailing universalistic discourses around World Heritage and the various ways in which they serve to either reinforce existing oppressive conditions regarding Indigenous communities and voices or provide opportunities to overcome them. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working on social and cultural histories, histories of colonialism, and in heritage and museum studies.

Weisgrau, Maxine / Rosman, Abraham / Rubel, Paula G., The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. 11th ed. 438 pp. 2023:8 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <710-1126>
ISBN 978-1-5381-6380-1 hard ¥39,886.- (税込) US$ 185.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5381-6381-8 paper ¥16,816.- (税込) US$ 78.00 *

Whitehead, Hunter W. / Lickliter-Mundon, Megan (eds.), Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology. (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) 170 pp. 2023:10 (Springer, GW) <710-1127>
ISBN 978-3-031-40962-2 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

Kuligowski, Waldemar / Poprawski, Marcin, Festivals and Values: Music, Community Engagement and Organisational Symbolism. (Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action) 213 pp. 2023:11 (Springer, GW) <710-1054>
ISBN 978-3-031-39751-6 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This is an original book, covering all the past areas of research anyone would need to know about festivals and 'event-based culture'. It is based on academic research but written in a way relevant for cultural professionals - uniquely explaining the cultural power of festivals, and with original empirical research, the realities of organisation and management, and social and economic value. Dr Jonathan Vickery, Reader in Cultural Policy Studies and Director: Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, Univeristy of Warwick.This book discusses music festivals in the context of the specific values they convey. Today, music festivals are a permanent feature of national, regional and local cultural policies, a valuable asset in the tourism industry and a significant source of income for an industry that has been adversely affected by the steady decline in physical sales of music. For the audience, on the other hand, it is an opportunity to escape from everyday life, multi-sensory contact with art, an activity that stands for "full-body participation"- a cultural phenomenon that drags people out of their homes like no other. There is one common denominator linking the above-mentioned features of contemporary music festivals - namely the world of values. This is evident from the non-accidental locations, festivals spaces' design, planning and the line-ups created consciously, with great care. The organisers' "missions", logos, and other symbolic organisational artefacts communicate specific values. These values are explicitly mentioned by artists and audiences: they can be easily identified in online forums and media reports; participant behaviour, festival "rituals" and additional festival programs are shaped on the basis of values, and cooperation is built between the festival and the local community. As the reader will quickly realize, numbers and statistics sit alongside descriptions and quotations in this book, and the organisers' statements are accompanied by the opinions of academics, but above all the festival audience is given a voice - both through quotations and their drawings. This voice is by no means uniform, as it turned out that research into values was often transformed into a pretext for spinning tales about one's life situation, one's political preferences, and one's understanding of freedom and responsibility. Memories were mixed with declarations, joy with regret, curses with dreams, prose with poetry. Thomas Pettitt was not wrong in noting that "Social history has learnt to appreciate festival as a valuable window on society and its structures". The authors have tried to open all the windows available. Students and researchers in the fields of cultural anthropology, social psychology, folklore studies, comparative religion, sociology of culture, cultural policy, cultural history, and cultural management will find this book highly interesting.

Tam, Kwok-kan (ed.), Sight as Site in the Digital Age: Art, the Museum, and Representation. (Digital Culture and Humanities 5) 239 pp. 2023:12 (Springer, GW) <710-1073>
ISBN 978-981-19-9208-7 hard ¥40,014.- (税込) EUR 169.99 *

This volume presents a broad coverage of theoretical issues that deal with digital culture, representation and ideology in art and museums, and other cultural sites, offering new insights into issues of representation in the digitization of art. It critically examines the roles of museum and archives in the digital age and reexamines the intricate relations between sight and site in art, museums, exhibitions, theme parks, theatre performances, music videos, and films. The collection represents a multidisciplinary approach to the complex issues underlying the advent of technologies and digital culture. The rise of visual culture since the twentieth century can be accounted for by the advent of technology in film, TV, museum exhibitions, and the wide use of websites, but it can also be understood as a paradigmatic shift toward representation as a visual means to interpret culture, with new understandings of the site-sight dilemma and the co-implications in related tensions. Complicating the issue of representation is the rise of digital culture, as digital sites replace actual physical sites. This book explores how the virtual has replaced the actual, and in what ways, and to what effects, the digital has displaced the physical. With contributions by museum curators, communications scholars, visual artists, theatre artists, filmmakers, literary critics, and historians, this volume is of appeal to academics and graduate students in information science, art, media, performance, literary and cultural studies, and history. "The book binds together different concepts such as site, sight and digitalization in a very original way. It convincingly gathers contributions from academics and practitioners, artists and museum specialists. The chapters are theoretically well-founded, show an interesting breadth of content and are also dealing with current developments."- Monika Gaenssbauer, Professor of Chinese and Head of the Institute of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden "The chapters raise important and latest questions and discussions on the impact of digital technology has on art, culture, creativity, representation and innovation. They are original in dealing with latest examples in recent years, especially during the pandemic, with reflections and philosophical discussions on the transformation digital culture undergoes in relation to human and posthuman contexts, with examinations of art works, archives and museum collections, exhibitions, theme parks, theatre performances, films and music videos that encompass cultures from ancient to contemporary, from the West to the East, and from physical to digital."- Jack Leong, Associate Dean of Research and Open Scholarship, York University Libraries, Toronto, Canada