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

Xu, Jing, Unruly' Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village. (New Departures in Anthropology) 290 pp. 2024:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <720-658>
ISBN 978-1-00-941627-6 hard ¥19,943.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-941625-2 paper ¥6,549.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

How do we become moral persons? What about children's active learning in contrast to parenting? What can children teach us about knowledge-making more broadly? Answer these questions by delving into the groundbreaking ethnographic fieldwork conducted by anthropologists Arthur and Margery Wolf in a martial law era Taiwanese village (1958-60), marking the first-ever study of ethnic Han children. Jing Xu skillfully reinterprets the Wolfs' extensive fieldnotes, employing a unique blend of humanistic interpretation, natural language processing, and machine-learning techniques. Through a lens of social cognition, this book unravels the complexities of children's moral growth, exposing instances of disobedience, negotiation, and peer dynamics. Writing through and about fieldnotes, the author connects the two themes, learning morality and making ethnography, in light of social cognition, and invites all of us to take children seriously. This book is ideal for graduate and undergraduate students of anthropology and educational studies.

Mitchell, Peter, The Archaeology of Southern Africa. 2nd ed. (Cambridge World Archaeology) 644 pp. 2024:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <720-721>
ISBN 978-1-00-932473-1 hard ¥29,914.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-932475-5 paper ¥9,968.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99 *

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition. Building on its rich rock art heritage, archaeologists have developed theoretical work that continues to influence rock art studies worldwide, with the relationship between archaeological and anthropological data central to understanding past hunter-gatherer, pastoralist, and farmer communities alike. New work on pre-colonial states contests models that previously explained their emergence via external trade, while the transformations wrought by European colonialism are being rewritten to emphasise Indigenous agency, feeding into efforts to decolonise the discipline itself. Inhabited by humans longer than almost anywhere else and with an unusually varied, complex past, southern Africa thus has much to contribute to archaeology worldwide. In this revised and updated edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive and extensively illustrated synthesis of its archaeology over more than three million years.

Peterson, Kristin / Olson, Valerie, The Ethnographer's Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design. 376 pp. 2024:4 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-8>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2590-0 hard ¥23,705.- (税込) US$ 109.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3015-7 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

The Ethnographer's Way guides researchers through the exciting process of turning an initial idea into an in-depth research project. Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson introduce "multidimensioning," a method for planning projects that invites scholars to examine their research interests from all angles. Researchers learn to integrate seemingly disparate groups, processes, sites, and things into a unified conceptual framework. The handbook's ten modules walk readers step-by-step, from the initial lightbulb moment to constructing research descriptions, planning data gathering, writing grant and dissertation proposals, and preparing for fieldwork. Designed for ethnographers and those working across disciplines, these modules provide examples of multidimensional research projects with exercises readers can utilize to formulate their own projects. The authors incorporate group work into each module to break the isolation common in academic project design. In so doing, Peterson and Olson's handbook provides essential support and guidance for researchers working at all levels and stages of a project.

Edwards, Terra, Going Tactile: Life at the Limits of Language. (Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language) 168 pp. 2024:7 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <720-845>
ISBN 978-0-19-777802-9 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-777803-6 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95

In the 2010s, leaders of the DeafBlind community in Seattle called into question the community's dependence on sighted interpreters and sought new ways of communicating, interacting, and navigating through touch. This effort became the "protactile movement," and it spread quickly across the country.In Going Tactile, Anthropologist Terra Edwards draws on thirty months of ethnographic fieldwork with DeafBlind artists, intellectuals, political leaders, and community members, to show how autonomous spaces away from sighted norms were created and life was re-imagined. In doing so, she offers a new perspective on the nature of language, its limits, and what it means to find a new way of being in the world.

Hostettler, Marco / Buhlke, A. / Drummer, C. et al. (eds.), The 3 Dimensions of Digitalised Archaeology: State-of-the-Art, Data Management and Current Challenges in Archaeological 3D-Documentation. 225 pp. 2024:4 (Springer, GW) <720-847>
ISBN 978-3-031-53031-9 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This open access book aims to provide an overview of state-of-the-art approaches to 3D documentation from a practical perspective and formulate the most important areas for future developments. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, examples of best practice approaches, workflows, and first attempts to establish sustainable solutions to pressing problems, this book offers readers current practical advice on how to approach 3D archaeology and cultural heritage.Divided into five parts, this book begins with an overview of 3D archaeology in its present state. It goes on to give insights into the development of the technology and recent cutting-edge applications. The next section identifies current challenges in 3D archaeology and then presents approaches and solutions for data management of a large number of 3D objects and ways to ensure sustainable solutions for the archiving of the produced data. This book will be of interest to researchers working in the fields of archaeology, heritage management, and digital humanities in general.

Palincas, Nona / Martins, Ana Cristina (eds.), Gender and Change in Archaeology: European Studies on the Impact of Gender Research on Archaeology and Wider Society. (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) 330 pp. 2024:4 (Springer, GW) <720-850>
ISBN 978-3-031-52154-6 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

人類学と租税
Mugler, Johanna / Sheild Johansson, M. / Smith, R. (eds.), Anthropology and Tax: Ethnographies of Fiscal Relations. 354 pp. 2024:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <720-441>
ISBN 978-1-00-925458-8 hard ¥29,914.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00 *

From the perspective of individual taxpayers to international tax norm negotiators, the anthropologists in this collection explore how taxes shape our world: our social relationships and value regimes, how we exclude and include, the categories we think with, and the way we share with each other. A first of its kind, it presents an anthropological discussion about tax rooted in ethnographic work. It asks fundamental questions such as: what is tax, what is taxable, and what do taxes do? By forwarding multiple perspectives from around the world about fiscal systems and how they are experienced and constituted, Anthropology and Tax reconceptualises tax in society. In doing so, this volume makes an incisive intervention in what might be one of the most important debates of our time - that of fiscal sociality. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

21世紀の東京におけるギャンブル、尊厳、日雇い労働者
Hammering, Klaus K. Y., Perilous Wagers: Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo. (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) 288 pp. 2024:8 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <720-206>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7641-0 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-7642-7 paper ¥7,535.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eking out a living from occasional construction work and welfare handouts, permanently displaced from their hometowns to metropolitan Tokyo. Although San'ya has nearly vanished during the past twenty years, its import persists as a black market where its small population of male day-laborers can be contracted for the most undesirable of tasks, without consideration for their health or safety. In this context, Hammering's book examines classic ethnographic themes of labor, exchange, value, honor, shame, temporality, desire, gender, and personhood. It explores how one group of day-laborers embodied a transgressive masculinity intimately intertwined with honorable mobster values of old, and how they created dignity and sociality under abject conditions of life. Perilous Wagers tracks these underdog values across construction sites, non-profit organizations, hospitals, bunkhouses, and illegal gambling dens, giving imaginative life to a stigmatized, forgotten social world.

Bandak, Andreas / Knight, Daniel M. (eds.), Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres. 344 pp. 2024:3 (Duke U. Pr., US) <720-25>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2605-1 hard ¥23,705.- (税込) US$ 109.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3028-7 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

One of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, French philosopher of science Michel Serres (1930-2019) broke free from disciplinary dogmas. His reflections on science, culture, technology, art, and religion have proved foundational to scholars across the humanities. The contributors to Porous Becomings bring the inspirational and enigmatic world of Serres to the attention of anthropology. Through ethnographic encounters as diverse as angels and religious conversion in Ethiopia, the percolation of war in Bosnia, and incarcerated bodies crossing the Atlantic, the contributors showcase how Serres's interrogation of the fundamentals of human existence opens new pathways for anthropological knowledge. Proposing the notion of "porosity" to characterize permeability across boundaries of time, space, literary genre, and academic discipline, they draw on Serres to map the constellations that connect humans, time, technology, and planet Earth. The volume concludes with a conversation between the editors and Vibrant Matter author Jane Bennett. Contributors. Andreas Bandak, Jane Bennett, Tom Boylston, Steven D. Brown, Matei Candea, Alberto Corsin Jimenez, David Henig, Michael Jackson, Daniel M. Knight, Celia Lowe, Morten Nielsen, Stavroula Pipyrou, Elizabeth Povinelli, Andrew Shryock, Arpad Szakolczai