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

Bremer, Scott / Wardekker, Arjan (eds.), Changing Seasonality: How Communities are Revising their Seasons. 200 pp. 2023:12 (de Gruyter, GW) <715-972>
ISBN 978-3-11-124551-5 hard ¥18,819.- (税込) EUR 79.95 *

Communities worldwide are critically re-examining their seasonal cultures and calendars. As cultural frameworks, seasons have long patterned community life and provided repertoires for living by annual rhythms. In a chaotic world, the seasons ? winter, the monsoon and so on ? can feel like stable cultural landmarks for reckoning time and orienting our communities. Seasons are rooted in our pasts and reproduced in our present. They act as schemes for synchronising community activities and professional practices, and as symbol systems for interpreting what happens in the world. But on closer inspection, seasons can be unstable and unreliable. Their meanings can change over time. Seasonal cultures evolve with environments and communities’ worldviews, values, technologies and practices, affecting how people perceive seasonal patterns and behave accordingly. Calendars are contested, especially now. Communities today find themselves in a moment of accelerated and intersecting changes ? from climate to social, political, and technological ? that are destabilizing seasonal cultures. How they reorient themselves to shifting patterns may affect whether seasonal rhythms serve as resources, or lead people down maladaptive pathways. A focus on seasonal cultures builds on multi-disciplinary work. The social sciences, from anthropology to sociology, have long studied how seasons order people’s sense of time, social life, relationship to the environment, and politics. In the humanities, seasons play an important role in literature, art, archaeology and history. This book advances scholarship in these fields, and enriches it with extrascientific insights from practice, to open up exiting new directions in climate adaptation.

遺産と政治国際ハンドブック
Bozoglu, Goenuel / Campbell, Gary / Smith, L. et al. (eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics. (Routledge Handbooks on Museums, Galleries and Heritage) 670 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <715-677>
ISBN 978-1-032-29260-1 hard ¥61,253.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics surveys the intersection of heritage and politics today and helps elucidate the political implications of heritage practices. It explicitly addresses the political and analyses tensions and struggles over the distribution of power. Including contributions from early-career scholars and more established researchers, the Handbook provides global and interdisciplinary perspectives on the political nature, significance and consequence of heritage and the various practices of management and interpretation. Taking a broad view of heritage, which includes not just tangible and intangible phenomena, but the ways in which people and societies live with, embody, experience, value and use the past, the volume provides a critical survey of political tensions over heritage in diverse social and cultural contexts. Chapters within the book consider topics such as: neoliberal dynamics; terror and mobilisations of fear and hatred; old and new nationalisms; public policy; recognition; denials; migration and refugeeism; crises; colonial and decolonial practice; communities; self- and personhood; as well as international relations, geopolitics, soft power and cooperation to address global problems.The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics makes an intervention into the theoretical debate about the nature and role of heritage as a political resource. It is essential reading for academics and students working in heritage studies, museum studies, politics, memory studies, public history, geography, urban studies and tourism.

Horvath, Agnes, Magic and the Will to Science: A Political Anthropology of Liminal Technicality. (Contemporary Liminality) 248 pp. 2024:3 (Routledge, UK) <715-684>
ISBN 978-1-03-245736-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, combining insights from historical sociology, political theory, and cultural anthropology. Its central idea, departing from the works of Frances Yates and the Gnosticism thesis of Eric Voegelin, is that far from being the radical opposite of magic, modern science effectively grew out of magic, and its varieties, like alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, the occult, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism. Showing that the desire to use science to solve various - real or presumed - problems of human existence has created a permanent liminal crisis, it contends that the 'will to science' is parasitic, existing as it does in sheer relationality, outside of and in between concrete places and communities. A study of the mutual relationship between magic and science in different historical eras, ranging from the Early Neolithic to recent disease prevention ideas, Magic and the Will to Science will appeal to scholars and students of social and anthropological theory, and the philosophy and sociology of science.

Fullwiley, Duana, Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science. (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century 14) 384 pp. 2024:4 (U. California Pr., US) <715-70>
ISBN 978-0-520-40116-7 hard ¥18,326.- (税込) US$ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-40117-4 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the genomic age. She presents many of the influential scientists at the forefront of genetics who have redefined how we practice medicine and law and understand ancestry in an era of big data and waning privacy. Exceedingly relatable and human, the scientists in these pages often struggle for visibility, teeter on the tightrope of inclusion, and work tirelessly to imprint the future. As they actively imagine a more equal and just world, they often find themselves ensnared in reproducing timeworn conceits of race and racism that can seed the same health disparities they hope to resolve. Nothing dynamic can live for long as a blank slate, an innocent tabula rasa. But how the blank slate of the once-raceless human genome became one of racial differences, in various forms of what Fullwiley calls the tabula raza, has a very specific and familiar history-one that has cycled through the ages in unexpected ways.

Middleton, Townsend, Quinine's Remains: Empire's Medicine and the Life Thereafter. 212 pp. 2024:5 (U. California Pr., US) <715-76>
ISBN 978-0-520-39912-9 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What happens after colonial industries have run their course-after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of India's Darjeeling Hills, Quinine's Remains chronicles the history and aftermaths of quinine. Harvested from cinchona bark, quinine was malaria's only remedy until the twentieth-century advent of synthetic drugs, and it was vital to the British Empire. Today, the cinchona plantations-and the roughly fifty thousand people who call them home-remain. Their futures, however, are unclear. The Indian government has threatened to privatize or shut down this seemingly obsolete and crumbling industry, but the plantation community, led by strident trade unions, has successfully resisted. Overgrown cinchona fields and shuttered quinine factories may appear the stuff of postcolonial and postindustrial ruination, but quinine's remains are not dead. Rather, they have become the site of urgent efforts to redefine land and life for the twenty-first century. Quinine's Remains offers a vivid historical and ethnographic portrait of what it means to forge life after empire.

Yang, Mayfair (ed.), Anthropology of Ascendant China: Histories, Attainments, and Tribulations. (Anthropology of Now) 368 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <715-860>
ISBN 978-1-03-241611-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-241610-6 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This volume represents the latest research in cultural anthropology on an ascendant and globalizing China, covering the many different dimensions of China's ascendancy both within China itself and beyond.It focuses not only on the real and perceived successes of China in the past four decades, but also on the difficulties, tensions, and dangers that have emerged as a result of rapid economic development: class polarization, state expansion, psychological distress, and environmental degradation. Including contributions by some of the most well-known cultural anthropologists of China, as well as rising innovative younger scholars, this book documents and analyzes China's multifaceted transformations in the modern era-both within Chinese society and in Chinese relations with the outside world. It features the unique perspective of anthropology, with its on-the-ground deep cultural immersion through long-term fieldwork, coupled with a macrolevel global perspective, a strong historical perspective, and theoretically engaged analyses to present a balanced account of China's ascendancy.Anthropology of Ascendant China: Histories, Attainments, and Tribulations is suitable for students and scholars in Anthropology, Sociology, History, Political Science, and East Asian Studies, as well as those working on contemporary Chinese society and culture more broadly.

Jusionyte, Ieva, Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border. (California Series in Public Anthropology 57) 348 pp. 2024:4 (U. California Pr., US) <715-532>
ISBN 978-0-520-39595-4 hard ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

Turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from the United States to Mexico and their ricochet effects. American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction-following the guns from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico. An expert work of narrative nonfiction, Exit Wounds provides a rare, intimate look into the world of firearms trafficking and urges us to understand the effects of lax US gun laws abroad. Jusionyte masterfully weaves together the gripping stories of people who live and work with guns north and south of the border: a Mexican businessman who smuggles guns for protection, a teenage girl turned trained assassin, two US federal agents trying to stop gun traffickers, and a journalist who risks his life to report on organized crime. Based on years of fieldwork, Exit Wounds expands current debates about guns in America, grappling with US complicity in violence on both sides of the border.

P.ハンセン著　北海道の酪農場－日本のフロンティアでの他者性と安全のコスモポリティクス
Hansen, Paul, Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan. 304 pp. 2024:2 (State U. New York Pr., US) <715-237>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9647-4 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Hokkaido Dairy Farm offers a historical and ethnographic examination of the rapid industrialization of the dairy industry in Tokachi, Hokkaido. It begins with a history of dairy farming and consumption in Hokkaido from a macro perspective, mapping the transition from survival to subsistence and then from mixed family farms to monoculture and "mega" industrial operations. It then narrows the focus to examine concrete changes in a Tokachi-area dairying community that has undergone rapid sociocultural upheaval over the last three decades, with shifts in human relationships alongside changes in human and cow connections through new technologies. In the final chapters, the scope is further narrowed to a detailed history and ethnography of a single industrializing dairy farm and the morphing cast of individuals attached to it, centering on their idiosyncratic searches for economic, social, and even ontological security in what is popularly considered a peripheral region and industry. The culmination of over fifteen years of ethnographic, policy, and historical research, Hokkaido Dairy Farm argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.

Anteby, Michel, The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field. 208 pp. 2024:4 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <715-1153>
ISBN 978-0-691-25536-1 hard ¥21,549.- (税込) US$ 99.95 *
ISBN 978-0-691-25537-8 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

A practical and theoretical guide for field researchers struggling with accessResistance is the bane of all field researchers, who are often viewed as interlopers when they enter a community and start asking questions. People obstruct investigations and hide evidence. They shelve complaints, silence dissent, and even forget their own past and deny having done so. How can we learn about a community when its members resist so strongly? The answer is that the resistance itself is sometimes the key.Michel Anteby explains how community members often disclose more than intended when they close ranks and create obstacles. He draws insights from diverse stories of resistance by uncooperative participants-from Nazi rocket scientists and Harvard professors to Disney union busters and people who secure cadavers for medical school dissection-to reveal how field resistance manifests itself and how researchers can learn from it. He argues that many forms of resistance are retrospectively telling, and that these forms are the routine products, not by-products, of the field. That means that resistance mechanisms are not only indicative of something else happening; instead, they often are the very data points that can shed light on how participants make sense of their worlds.An essential guide for ethnographers, sociologists, and all field researchers seeking access, The Interloper shares practical and theoretical insights into the value of having the door slammed in your face.

Brunette-Debassige, Candace, Tricky Grounds: Indigenous Women's Experiences in Canadian University Administration. 320 pp. 2024:1 (U. Regina Pr., CN) <715-1156>
ISBN 978-0-88977-980-8 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-0-88977-977-8 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Geroulanos, Stefanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins. 368 pp. 2024:4 (Liveright, US) <715-1158>
ISBN 978-1-324-09145-5 hard ¥6,465.- (税込) US$ 29.99 *

Books about the origins of humanity dominate best-seller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture but gave rise to our modern world. The very idea that there was a human past before recorded history only emerged with the Enlightenment, when European thinkers began to reject faith-based notions of humanity and history in favour of supposedly more empirical ideas about the world. From the "state of nature" and Romantic notions of virtuous German barbarians to theories about Neanderthals, killer apes and a matriarchal paradise where women ruled, Geroulanos captures the sheer variety and strangeness of the ideas that animated many of the major thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and Karl Marx. Yet as Geroulanos shows, such ideas became, for the most part, the ideological foundations of repressive regimes and globe-spanning empires. Deeming other peoples "savages" allowed for guilt-free violence against them; notions of "killer apes" who were our evolutionary predecessors made war seem natural. The emergence of modern science only accelerated the West's imperialism. The Nazi obsession with race was rooted in archaeological claims about prehistoric IndoGermans; the idea that colonialised peoples could be "bombed back to the Stone Age" was made possible by the technology of flight and the anthropological idea that civilisation advanced in stages. As Geroulanos argues, accounts of prehistory tell us more about the moment when they are proposed than about the deep past-and if we hope to start improving our future, we would be better off setting aside the search for how it all started. A necessary, timely, indelible account of how the quest for understanding the origins of humanity became the handmaiden of war and empire, The Invention of Prehistory will forever change how we think about the deep past.

民族誌的思考－理論から思考様式へ　第2版
Hasbrouck, Jay, Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset. 2nd ed. (Anthropology & Business) 176 pp. 2024:4 (Routledge, UK) <715-1160>
ISBN 978-1-03-246308-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-246309-4 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This second edition of Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset serves as a primer for practitioners who want to apply ethnography to real-world challenges and commercial ventures. Building on the first edition, each chapter now includes a section focusing on practical advice to help readers activate key insights in their work.The book's premise - that the thought processes and patterns ethnographers develop through their practice have strategic value beyond consumer insights - remains the same. Using real-world examples, Hasbrouck demonstrates how a more holistic view of an organization can help it benefit from a deeper understanding of its offerings within dynamic cultural contexts. In doing so, he argues that ethnographic thinking helps organizations increase appreciation for openness and exploration, hone interpretive skills, and cultivate holistic thinking; allowing them to broaden perspectives, challenge assumptions, and cross-pollinate ideas between differing viewpoints.Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset is essential reading for managers and strategists who want to tap into the full potential that an ethnographic perspective offers, as well as those searching more broadly for new ways to innovate. It will also be of value to students and practitioners of applied ethnography, as well as professionals who would like to optimize the value of ethnographic thinking in their organizations.

Jackson, Bruce, Folklore Matters: Incursions in the Field, 1965-2021. 388 pp. 2024:2 (State U. New York Pr., US) <715-1162>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9616-0 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Loftin, John D. / Frey, Benjamin E., People of Kituwah: The Old Ways of the Eastern Cherokees. 288 pp. 2024:4 (U. California Pr., US) <715-1165>
ISBN 978-0-520-40031-3 hard ¥18,326.- (税込) US$ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-40032-0 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

According to Cherokee tradition, the place of creation is Kituwah, located at the center of the world and home to the most sacred and oldest of all beloved, or mother, towns. Just by entering Kituwah, or indeed any village site, Cherokees reexperience the creation of the world, when the water beetle first surfaced with a piece of mud that later became the island on which they lived. People of Kituwah is a comprehensive account of the spiritual worldview and lifeways of the Eastern Cherokee people, from the creation of the world to today. Building on vast primary and secondary materials, native and non-native, this book provides a window into not only what the Cherokees perceive and understand-their notions of space and time, marriage and love, death and the afterlife, healing and traditional medicine, and rites and ceremonies-but also how their religious life evolved both before and after the calamitous coming of colonialism. Through the collaborative efforts of John D. Loftin and Benjamin E. Frey, this book offers an in-depth understanding of Cherokee culture and society.

Stonechild, Blair A, Challenge to Civilization: Indigenous Wisdom and the Future. 184 pp. 2024:1 (U. Regina Pr., CN) <715-1167>
ISBN 978-0-88977-984-6 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-0-88977-981-5 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

James, Erica Caple, Life at the Center: Haitians and Corporate Catholicism in Boston. (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century 15) 307 pp. 2024:6 (U. California Pr., US) <715-126>
ISBN 978-0-520-40054-2 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Life at the Center, Erica Caple James traces how faith-based and secular institutions in Boston have helped Haitian refugees and immigrants attain economic independence, health, security, and citizenship in the United States. Using the concept of "corporate Catholicism," James documents several paradoxes of assistance arising among the Catholic Church, Catholic Charities, and the Haitian Multi-Service Center: how social assistance produces and reproduces structural inequalities between providers and recipients; how these inequities may deepen aid recipients' dependence and lead to resistance to organized benevolence; how institutional financial deficits harmed clients and providers; and how the same modes of charity or philanthropy that previously caused harm can be redeployed to repair damage and rebuild "charitable brands." The culmination of more than a decade of advocacy and research on behalf of the Haitians in Boston, this groundbreaking work exposes how Catholic corporations have strengthened-but also eroded-Haitians' civic power.