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

変容した住宅
Stolz, Rosalie / Alderman, Jonathan (eds.), Houses Transformed: Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building. 392 pp. 2024:1 (Berghahn, US) <723-805>
ISBN 978-1-80539-231-6 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

Over the decades, there has been a world-wide transformation of so-called 'vernacular houses'. Based on ethnographic accounts from different regions, Houses Transformed investigates the changing practices of building houses in a transnational context. It explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology as well as the rhetoric of the vernacular. The volume provides new anthropological pathways to understanding the dynamics of dwelling in the 21st century.

Feldman, Gregory, The Subject of Sovereignty: Relationality and the Pivot Past Liberalism. 226 pp. 2023:10 (Berghahn, US) <723-812>
ISBN 978-1-80539-096-1 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Seeking new forms of democracy, progressive politics raises a fundamental question: what is the alternative to the allegedly coherent, self-contained liberal subject that represents the project of modernity? Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the "relational subject": a subject that is inseparable from the global field of relations through which it emerges and yet distinct from that field because it lives a life that no one else ever has. Recognizing ourselves as such subjects allows us not only to rethink politics, but, more profoundly, to envision sovereignty as the means by which we each rejuvenate ourselves and the polities we constitute with others.

Rollason, Will / Hirsch, Eric (eds.), Compliance: Cultures and Networks of Accommodation. (Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories 3) 216 pp. 2023:12 (Berghahn, US) <723-820>
ISBN 978-1-80539-225-5 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance: instead, it appears as a valuable heuristic approach for understanding collective life, as a means by which actors strive to accommodate themselves to others. This perspective transcends conventional distinctions between power and resistance, and offers to open up new avenues of anthropological enquiry.

Artz, Matt / Koycheva, Lora (eds.), EmTech Anthropology: Careers at the Frontier. (Anthropology and Business) 216 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-932>
ISBN 978-1-03-260302-5 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-260299-8 paper ¥9,219.- (税込) GB￡ 31.99

EmTech Anthropology: Careers at the Frontier emphasizes anthropology's critical role at the frontier of emerging technologies (EmTech). The book delves into the possibilities and opportunities that arise from the convergence of anthropology and emerging technology, highlighting the potential benefits for both the discipline of anthropology and EmTech.The book examines fundamental questions about the value of anthropological perspectives in technology development, ethical considerations, and how anthropologists can ensure that their work has a lasting impact. To accomplish this, the book highlights the work of early to mid-career anthropologists at the frontier of near-term and still-distant technologies and explores the stories of these innovative anthropologists who explore, abandon, and realize possibilities for the future. By showcasing the work of early to mid-career anthropologists, the book provides a roadmap for future anthropologists who wish to design careers in emerging technologies.While the volume recognizes the importance of anthropological theory, it also presents an alternative perspective on how theory can be developed and advanced through tie-ins to multiple existing theoretical approaches, given the interdisciplinary nature of early adopter work that prioritizes practical impact and intervention.EmTech Anthropology: Careers at the Frontier is an essential and valuable guide for anyone interested in exploring the frontiers of anthropology and emerging technologies, offering profound insights into the future potential of these roles and the anthropologists working in the field.

Bowles, Ben, Boaters of London: Alternative Living on the Water. (Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories 5) 302 pp. 2024:5 (Berghahn, US) <723-934>
ISBN 978-1-80539-494-5 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

London and the Southeast of England is home to an alternative community of people called 'boaters': individuals and families who live on narrowboats, cruisers and barges, along a network of canals and rivers. Many of these people move from place to place every two weeks due to mooring rules and form itinerant communities in the heart of some of the UK's most built-up and expensive urban spaces. Boaters of London is an ethnography that delves into the process of becoming a boater, adopting an alternative lifestyle on the water and the political impact that this travelling population has on the state.

Caraher, William R., The Archaeology of Contemporary America. (The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective) 288 pp. 2024:3 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <723-935>
ISBN 978-0-8130-6996-8 hard ¥19,074.- (税込) US$ 85.00

This book provides a survey of contemporary archaeology in the United States, demonstrating the plurality of theoretical and methodological approaches that make this discipline in the US unique.

Cotofana, Alexandra (ed.), The Familial Occult: Explorations at the Margins of Critical Autoethnography. (EASA Series 47) 206 pp. 2023:11 (Berghahn, US) <723-937>
ISBN 978-1-80539-175-3 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. Those with backgrounds in the familial occult often experience a series of conflicting relationships and different ways of interacting with binaries such as the subjective and objective, a powerful conceptual couple still governing academic thinking. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.

Gauthier-Berube, Marijo / Dempsey, Annaliese (eds.), Agency and Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire. 190 pp. 2023:12 (Berghahn, US) <723-940>
ISBN 978-1-80539-229-3 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

The French maritime empire enabled the continued colonization of territories all over the world from the 17th to the 19th centuries and was built upon the backs of those in lower socioeconomic classes. These classes were heavily impacted by social, political and economic structures. Detailed archaeological case studies using an agency perspective indicate that these lower socioeconomic classes were extremely diverse and dynamic groups that constantly negotiated their identities. These stories are not about the kings, military leaders, and politicians, but rather an exploration of the perspective of those who provided the fuel, both willingly and unwillingly, for the French maritime empire.

Gray, Geoffrey / Munro, Doug / Winter, Christine, Chicanery: Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920-1960. (Methodology & History in Anthropology 44) 260 pp. 2023:5 (Berghahn, US) <723-941>
ISBN 978-1-80073-970-3 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. It is also a time when harsh assessments can be made about colleagues' intellectual abilities and their capacity as a scholar and fieldworker. The assessors' reports were often disturbingly personal, laying bare their likes and dislikes that could determine the futures of peers and colleagues. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process, and includes accounts of the appointments of influential anthropologists such as Raymond Firth and Alexander Ratcliffe-Brown.

『西太平洋の遠洋航海者』の100年－マリノフスキー、エスノグラフィー、経済人類学
Hann, Chris / James, Deborah (eds.), One Hundred Years of Argonauts: Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology. (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 13) 362 pp. 2024:6 (Berghahn, US) <723-943>
ISBN 978-1-80539-521-8 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory and method, while simultaneously establishing the sub-field of economic anthropology. Even a century after its publication, Malinowski's pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives. It critically explores the meaning of "economy" for Malinowski from his formation in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to his path-breaking fieldwork in Melanesia and ensuing career in London.

Huffer, Damien / Graham, Shawn, These Were People Once: The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters. 236 pp. 2023:9 (Berghahn, US) <723-944>
ISBN 978-1-80539-086-2 hard ¥33,435.- (税込) US$ 149.00 *

People buy and sell human remains online. Most of this trade these days is over social media. In a study of this 'bone trade', how it works, and why it matters, the authors review and use a variety of methods drawn from the digital humanities to analyze the sheer volume of social media posts in search of answers to questions regarding this online bone trade. The answers speak to how the 21st century understands and constructs 'heritage' more generally: each person their own expert, yet seeking community and validation, and like the major encyclopedic museums, built on a kind of digital neocolonialist othering of the dead.

Huttunen, Laura / Perl, Gerhild (eds.), An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing. (EASA Series 46) 298 pp. 2023:9 (Berghahn, US) <723-945>
ISBN 978-1-80539-072-5 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

All over the world, people disappear from their families, communities and the state's bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while migrating along clandestine routes. This volume brings together scholars who engage ethnographically with such disappearances in various cultural, social and political contexts. It takes an anthropological perspective on questions about human life and death, absence and presence, rituals and mourning, liminality and structures, citizenship and personhood as well as agency and power. The chapters explore the political dimension of disappearances and address methodological, epistemological and ethical challenges of researching disappearances and the disappeared. The combination of disappearance through political violence, crime, voluntary disappearance and migration make this book a unique combination.

M.グラックマン
Macmillan, Hugh, Max Gluckman. (Anthropology's Ancestors 6) 184 pp. 2024:3 (Berghahn, US) <723-949>
ISBN 978-1-80539-172-2 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-80539-174-6 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most significant social anthropologists of the twentieth century. Max Gluckman was the founder in the 1950s of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. He did fieldwork among the Zulu of South Africa in the 1930s and the Lozi of Northern Rhodesia/Zambia in the 1940s. This book describes in detail his academic career and the lasting influence of his Analysis of A Social Situation in Modern Zululand (1940-42) and of his two large monographs on the legal system of the Lozi. From the Introduction: Max Gluckman was the most influential of a group of social anthropologists who emerged from South Africa during the 1930s into what was essentially a new academic discipline. His description and analysis of events in real time implied a rejection of contemporary social anthropological practice, of the 'ethnographic present', and of hypothetical or conjectural reconstructions and an acceptance of the need to study 'primitive' societies in the context of the modern world.

Mallios, Seth / Gonzalez, Sara L. et al. (eds.), Inclusion, Transformation, and Humility in North American Archaeology: Essays and Other "Great Stuff" Inspired by Kent G. Lightfoot. 332 pp. 2024:1 (Berghahn, US) <723-950>
ISBN 978-1-80539-252-1 hard ¥33,435.- (税込) US$ 149.00 *

In a dynamic near half-century career of insight, engagement, and instruction, Kent G. Lightfoot transformed North American archaeology through his innovative ideas, robust collaborations, thoughtful field projects, and mentoring of numerous students. Authors emphasize the multifarious ways Lightfoot impacted-and continues to impact-approaches to archaeological inquiry, anthropological engagement, Indigenous issues, and professionalism. Four primary themes include: negotiations of intercultural entanglements in pluralistic settings; transformations of temporal and spatial archaeological dimensions, as well as theoretical and methodological innovations; engagement with contemporary people and issues; and leading by example with honor, humor, and humility. These reflect the remarkable depth, breadth, and growth in Lightfoot's career, despite his unwavering stylistic devotion to Hawaiian shirts.

Matos, Patricia Ferraz de, Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism: Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology. 394 pp. 2023:3 (Berghahn, US) <723-951>
ISBN 978-1-80073-875-1 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

A major contribution to the history of European anthropology, this book highlights the Porto School of Anthropology and analyses the work of its main mentor, Mendes Correia (1888-1960). It goes beyond a Portuguese focus to present a wider comparative analysis in which the colonial empire, knowledge of origins, ethnic identity and cultural practices all receive special attention. The analysis takes into account the fact that nationalism, as associated with an ethno-racial paradigm, decisively influenced discourse and scientific and political practices.

McKearney, Patrick / Evans, Nicholas H. A. (eds.), Against Better Judgment: Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives. (WYSE Series in Social Anthropology 14) 204 pp. 2023:6 (Berghahn, US) <723-952>
ISBN 978-1-80539-000-8 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' - that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to act out of line with what they judge, desire and intend. The result is a robust examination of how people around the world experience weaknesses of will, which speaks to debates in both the anthropology of ethics and moral philosophy.

Newell, Sasha (ed.), Of Hoarding and Housekeeping: Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective. (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement 13) 288 pp. 2023:10 (Berghahn, US) <723-953>
ISBN 978-1-80539-092-3 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective, and decluttering from an aesthetic and ecological one, while little work has been done to think about the cultural and global economic aspects of these phenomena. Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering using cases from a variety of countries including US, Japan, India, Cameroon, and Argentina. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.

Rakita, Gordon F. M. / Lozada, Maria Cecilia (eds.), Exploring Ontologies of the Precontact Americas: From Individual Bodies to Bodies of Social Theory. 340 pp. 2024:5 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <723-955>
ISBN 978-1-68340-407-1 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *

Applying social theory and incorporating non-Western perspectives in the interpretation of bioarchaeological research This volume demonstrates how researchers in bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology can work to better understand concepts of life and death in past societies of the Indigenous Americas. Through case studies that apply the "ontological turn" to human funerary and skeletal remains, contributors set aside Western views of reality, nature, and personhood to explore how people of various cultures understood existence and the human body.Contributors examine mortuary records from Inuit groups in Labrador and Greenland, Hopewell culture in the lower Illinois River valley, and Weeden Island and Puebloan traditions in the United States Southeast and Southwest. They look at the Paquime community in Mexico, iconography of the Maya civilization, the demographics of Inka populations, and an ancient village on the Amazon River in Brazil. With attention to the viewpoints of these cultures, these essays deconstruct the boundaries between human remains and other interred artifacts, the living and the dead, and other binaries rooted deeply in Western science.Exploring Ontologies of the Precontact Americas reminds readers that their own ontological perspectives affect how they interpret the past. By considering diverse, non-Western worldviews and engaging with novel social theories of the body, this volume inspires new understandings of precontact societies.

Rethmann, Petra / Wulff, Helena (eds.), Exceptional Experiences: Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork. 246 pp. 2023:7 (Berghahn, US) <723-958>
ISBN 978-1-80539-020-6 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker's experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art. By exploring exceptional experiences through art, the volume asks probing questions for anthropology. In recognizing that art is all-encompassing - including, as it does, narrative, performance, dance and images - Exceptional Experiences situates itself within a number of conversations on methodological and conceptual issues in anthropology and beyond.

Richards, Paul / Perri 6, Mary Douglas. (Anthropology's Ancestors 4) 164 pp. 2023:9 (Berghahn, US) <723-959>
ISBN 978-1-80073-979-6 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80073-981-9 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

This handy, concise book covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. Her work focused on how human groups classify one another, and how they resolve the anomalies that then arise. Classification, she argued, emerges from practices of social life, and is a factor in all deep and intractable human disputes. This biography offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival. From the Preface: The influence of Professor Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007) upon each of the social sciences and many of the disciplines in the humanities is vast. The list of her works is also vast, and this presents a problem of choice for the many readers who want to get a general idea of what she wrote and its significance, but who are somewhat baffled about where to begin. Our book offers a short overview and suggests why her key writings remain significant today.

Santo, Diana Espirito, UFOs, The Absurd, and The Limit of Anthropological Knowledge: Imagining the Impossible in Chile. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology) 232 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-961>
ISBN 978-1-03-249466-1 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on Chilean ufology and the ufological 'absurd', nonsensical instances for their experiencers in which there is no conceptual way out. It asks how anthropology can come to terms with what is not said, not known, with what is in the dark, or even with what both 'is' and 'is not'. The work draws on three years of participant observation with empirical ufologists, amateur sky watchers, and contactees of varying kinds in Chile. The chapters mobilize three main bodies of literature to elucidate the ufological absurd: negative theology, anthropology of play and deceit, and the physics of dark matter. They explore notions of parallax, paradox, and trickster anthropology. The author takes UFO phenomena, specifically the absurd aspects, as a heuristic with which to posit a conversation between domains; a conversation which highlights darknesses, finiteness, the limits of representation and media in anthropology, and that could perhaps signal the route to a new language. Consideration is given to how not-knowing can be a space of extreme productiveness for the discipline. The argument put forward is that only by doing an anthropology that looks outside of itself for conceptual inspiration can we come to terms with the non-representable, the un-conceptualizable, the fully paradoxical. This innovative book will be of particular interest to scholars of anthropological theory and religion.

Taccone, Ines, The Feeling of the Fall: An Ethnographic Writing Experiment between the Belize Barrier Reef and the Edges of Toronto, Ontario. (New Directions in Anthropology 46) 110 pp. 2023:8 (Berghahn, US) <723-964>
ISBN 978-1-80539-034-3 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time "beyond ruin" in a fictional, ecotourist community in the year 2040. Here, loss is taken up through an inventive form of ethnographic storytelling that brings together people, animals, landscapes, and the weather in a world beyond the climate crisis right now where new entanglements with things which have fallen to ruin emerge in imagined milieus in which loss and life converge.

A.C.ハッドン
Walsh, Ciaran, Alfred Cort Haddon: A Very English Savage. (Anthropology's Ancestors 5) 306 pp. 2023:9 (Berghahn, US) <723-966>
ISBN 978-1-80073-982-6 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-80073-984-0 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

An innovative account of one of the least-understood characters in the history of anthropology. Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciaran Walsh argues that Haddon, the grandson of anti-slavery activists, set out to revolutionize anthropology in the 1890s in association with a network of anarcho-utopian activists and philosophers. He regards most of what has been written about Haddon in the past as a form of disciplinary folklore shaped by a theory of scientific revolutions. The main action takes place in Ireland, where Haddon adopted the persona of a very English savage in a new form of performed photo-ethnography that constituted a singularly modernist achievement in anthropology. From the Introduction: Alfred Cort Haddon was written out of the story of anthropology for the same reasons that make him interesting today. He was passionately committed to the protection of simpler societies and their civilisations from colonists and their supporters in parliament and the armed forces.

Lloyd, Geoffrey / Vilaca, Aparecida, Of Jaguars and Butterflies: Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy. 130 pp. 2023:4 (Berghahn, US) <723-47>
ISBN 978-1-80073-904-8 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

What are we to make of statements that jaguars see themselves as humans, or of doubts about the boundary between dreams and waking? Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book investigates some of the most puzzling ideas and practices reported in modern ethnography and ancient philosophy, concerning humans, animals, persons, spirits, agency, selfhood, consciousness, nature, life, death, disease and health. The study's twin aims are first to explore the possibility of achieving a better understanding of the materials we discuss and then to see what lessons we can draw from them to challenge and revise our own fundamental assumptions.

E.レヴィナスと人類学
Rapport, Nigel, 'I am Here', Abraham Said: Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science. (Methodology & History in Anthropology 47) 208 pp. 2024:4 (Berghahn, US) <723-50>
ISBN 978-1-80539-470-9 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical work on 'the Other' offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the 'secrecy' of subjectivity - a fundamental facet of the human condition - demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through 'inspiration'. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if it would define itself as a science as well as a humanistic documentation of social life? This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts equally seriously and offers a radical conclusion.

Bayly, Susan, Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective: Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity. (WYSE Series in Social Anthropology 16) 402 pp. 2024:5 (Berghahn, US) <723-619>
ISBN 978-1-80539-500-3 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

Contemporary Asian societies bear the imprint of the experience and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism and religious and secular nationalism in dramatically contrasting ways. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate the role of these far-reaching transformations in the shaping of two Asian settings in particular - India and Vietnam. It traces historical and contemporary realities through a variety of compelling topics including the lived experience of India's caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.

Copeman, Jacob / Chau, Lam Minh / Cook, J. et al. (eds.), An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange: Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond. (WYSE Series in Social Anthropology 15) 326 pp. 2023:9 (Berghahn, US) <723-620>
ISBN 978-1-80539-070-1 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the centre of anthropology. Such 'intellectual exchange' is also central to anthropologists' own professional practice: from their interactions with research participants and modes of pedagogy to their engagements with each other and scholars from adjacent disciplines. This collection of essays explores how such processes might best be studied cross-culturally. Foregrounding the diverse interactions, ethical reasoning, and intellectual lives of people from across the continent of Asia, the volume develops an anthropology of intellectual exchange itself.

Ellerich, Sebastian T., Melanesian Mainstream: Stringband Music and Identity in Vanuatu. (Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists 11) 266 pp. 2024:1 (Berghahn, US) <723-659>
ISBN 978-1-80539-223-1 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Citizens of Vanuatu (ni-Vanuatu) perceive stringband music as a marker of national identity, an indicator of their cultural, stylistic, and musical heritage. Through extensive field and ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream offers a detailed historical record of the roots, context, evolution, and impact of stringband music. Beyond chronicling the genre's history and cultural significance, this thorough monograph positions the genre's musical hybridity, communal lyrics, and unique organizational structures as key factors in the anthropological understanding of ni-Vanuatu socio-cultural history.

Rauchholz, Manuel, Adoption, Emotion, and Identity: An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society. (Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific 8) 240 pp. 2024:2 (Berghahn, US) <723-661>
ISBN 978-1-80539-254-5 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive "transaction in parenthood." It examines the effects it has on adoptees' inner sense of self, their conflicted emotional lives, and familial relationships that are affected by a personal sense of rejection and not belonging. This account is theoretically rooted in ethnopsychology, based on field work conducted across multiple research sites in the Chuuk Lagoon, its neighboring Chuukic-speaking atolls, and persons from neighboring Micronesian island communities.

Tamisari, Franca, Enacted Relations: Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community. (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 15) 320 pp. 2024:1 (Berghahn, US) <723-662>
ISBN 978-1-80539-239-2 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

The Yolngu Indigenous people in the Northeast Arnhem Land of Australia respond to neo-colonial challenges by continuing to affirm their political autonomy and transmit 'Yolngu Law', which are ways of knowing and being with the younger generation. They deal with non-indigenous institutions, through participation of bodies, language, things, images of movement and notions of mutual care, feelings and accountability. This book explores the Yolngu relational ontology and epistemology in the context of everyday practices, ritual ceremonies, bicultural education, vernacular Christianity and the production of popular music.

インドと南アフリカにおける抗議の人類学とより新しい社会運動
Luthra Sinha, Bobby, How Social Movements Imagine: Anthropology of Protest and the Newer Social Movements in India and South Africa. 224 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-675>
ISBN 978-1-03-251477-2 hard ¥37,466.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book examines how micro, contextual issues inspire collective social action forms against everday situations of crises and crimes through an inter-disciplinary, ethnograhic and comparative research conducted among Bishnois and Indian South Africans.Exploring the role of the publics that practice and mobilise their social movement imaginations, the work delves into peoples' ability to move beyond their immediate contexts and politicize multiple social spaces and discursive spheres around them to project their causes. Mapping an anti-poaching movement spearheaded by the Bishnois of western Rajasthan in India and, an anti-substance abuse movement led by the historical Indian diaspora of South Africa, the author argues that such contemporray forms of organised social action replete with alternative frames, symbols and repertoires possess key requisites to be understood as the, 'Newer Social Movements' of the Global South. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social and protest movements, migration and diaspora studies, political science, social anthropology, and ethnography.

Sommerfelt, Axel, Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa: An Axel Collection. Ed. by T. H. Eriksen et al. (Methodology & History in Anthropology 46) 252 pp. 2024:3 (Berghahn, US) <723-726>
ISBN 978-1-80539-289-7 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly written articles and an interview which positions him in the history of 'North Sea' social anthropology and shows his continued relevance. An Africanist, Sommerfelt did research in Ruwenzori (Uganda and Belgian Congo), but also wrote about the Tallensi (Ghana) and worked for years in Salisbury (Harare) before being evicted by Ian Smith's racist regime in 1966. His contributions to political anthropology, methodology and legal anthropology have a lasting value.

Halbmayer, Ernst / Goletz, Anne (eds.), Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America: Anthropological Perspectives. 290 pp. 2023:6 (Berghahn, US) <723-736>
ISBN 978-1-80539-006-0 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America. The volume shows how people create and reinforce their conditions of being by employing different genres of transgression and by creatively shifting contexts of significance. Local socio-cosmic orders, the interrelation of creative genres (myth, verbal art, song, ritual, and handicrafts), and their changing frames of reference (from communal celebrations to wider political and commercial realms) demonstrate the relational, generative, and processual quality of Amerindian creativity.

Kofti, Dimitra, Broken Glass, Broken Class: Transformations of Work in Bulgaria. (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 12) 264 pp. 2023:8 (Berghahn, US) <723-222>
ISBN 978-1-80539-036-7 hard ¥30,294.- (税込) US$ 135.00 *

Based on a long-term study of the everyday postsocialist politics of labour in the wider context of intense socio-economic transformation in Bulgaria, this book tells the story of the flexibilization of production, the precaritization of work, shifting managerial practices, and ways in which people with different employment statuses live and work together. The ethnography starts with the rapidly moving conveyor belt of a glass factory, where a variety of global and local forces and workers' divisions meet, and analyses how inequalities are reproduced both at the production site and back home.

近代性、宗教、物の力
Pels, Peter, The Spirit of Matter: Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects. (Methodology & History in Anthropology 45) 387 pp. 2023:7 (Berghahn, US) <723-120>
ISBN 978-1-80539-014-5 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00 *

A range of meaningful objects-exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers-demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their 'life'. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of 'mind over matter'. It traces this mindset back to Protestant Christian influences that were secularized in the course of modern and colonial history.