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

Singh, Kundan / Maheshwari, Krishna, Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children: A Francophone Postcolonial Analysis. 259 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-941>
ISBN 978-3-031-57626-3 hard ¥12,151.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-57629-4 paper ¥9,720.- (税込) EUR 39.99

Euro-American misrepresentations of the non-West in general, and in particular on Hinduism and ancient India, run deep and have far greater colonial connections than that have been exposed in academia. This book analyzes the psycho-social consequences that Indian American children face after they are exposed to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. The authors show that there is an intimate connection-an almost exact correspondence-between James Mill's colonial-racist discourse and the current school-textbook discourse. The very parameters and coordinates on which James Mill constructed the discourse are the ones that are being used to describe Hinduism, Hindus, and ancient India in the textbooks currently. Consequently, this archaic and racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces in the Indian American children a psychological impact quite similar to what racism is known to produce: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon similar to racelessness where the children dissociate from the tradition and culture of their ancestors. This book argues that the current school textbook discourse on Hinduism and India needs to change so that the Indian American children do not become victims of overt and covert racism. For the change to occur, the first step is to recognize the overarching and pervasive influence of the colonial-racist discourse of James Mill on the textbooks. For the reconstruction of the discourse to take place, the first step is to engage in a thorough deconstruction, which is what the book attempts.

Pillen, Alex, Endurance: Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World. (Brill Kurdish Studies 1) 220 pp. 2024:10 (Brill, NE) <726-965>
ISBN 978-90-04-70951-5 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) EUR 120.00

In Endurance , Alex Pillen portrays a sense of being unique within Kurdish cultural spheres. How to feel unique despite devastating violence, cultural oppression and assimilation is a question faced by many communities globally. Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji) is a focal point for such uniqueness. When a culture is under siege and many have lost a former way of life it may not be clear how a society looks itself in the mirror, finds its reflection. Alex Pillen's portrayal of Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World locates such lines of reflection within everyday language. The fear of a random geopolitical pair of dice is global, a fear to be honed when reading this account of uniqueness in the face of totalising loss

Pintchman, Tracy, Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple. 200 pp. 2024:11 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <726-222>
ISBN 978-0-19-067301-7 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-067302-4 paper ¥4,924.- (税込) US$ 21.95

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen years of field work, Tracy Pintchman reveals how the Parashakthi Temple has become a site of theological and ritual innovation. A unique spiritual community, the temple does not simply reproduce Indian goddess traditions, but instead reimagines Hinduism and the Hindu Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape. The congregation's faith is grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Like her congregants, Pintchman suggests, the goddess is emblematic of the qualities of a new immigrant; she embraces the opportunities her new home affords her and refashions herself, but she does not forget her roots, keeping one foot planted in her Indian homeland and another planted firmly in her new land, the United States. Pintchman considers larger issues concerning the creativity of immigrant Hindu communities and the ways in which diaspora contexts facilitate the production of new forms of Hinduism that are made possible by globalization and modern technology.

Letiche, Hugo / De Loo, Ivo / Moriceau, Jean-Luc, How Do I Conduct Ethnographic Research? (Elgar Dissertation Companions) 176 pp. 2024:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <726-23>
ISBN 978-1-80392-652-0 hard ¥23,056.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-80392-654-4 paper ¥7,766.- (税込) GB￡ 26.95

Providing indispensable guidance to how to engage in and carry out ethnographic research, this book highlights the potential advantages and possible pitfalls of this type of qualitative studies. Hugo Letiche, Ivo De Loo and Jean-Luc Moriceau paint a full picture of this fascinating research approach, focusing on its adaptability in the field, when researchers become actively involved with those who they are researching.How Do I Conduct Ethnographic Research? addresses three forms of ethnographic analysis: ethnography, autoethnography, and netnography. Each chapter begins with specific aims to be addressed, and is concluded with helpful exercises to strengthen both one's theoretical and practical academic skills. Stressing the role of researcher choice-making, this timely book aids the reader in devising a unique approach that best suits the context of their research.This book is crucial for postgraduate students of business and management, marketing, strategy and organization, as well as related subject areas such as finance and human resource management. Those who are new to ethnographic research will additionally find this guide to be invaluable.

Haddad, Fernando, The Excluded Third: Contribution to a Dialectical Anthropology. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 288) 171 pp. 2024:8 (Brill, NE) <726-1142>
ISBN 978-90-04-70089-5 hard ¥44,487.- (税込) EUR 183.00

In view of the new forays from biology into the Humanities, this book aims not only to demonstrate the inconsistencies of the theory of evolution in addressing cultural dynamics but also to offer an alternative that begins from a resumption of the dialogue between anthropology and historical materialism in which dialectics reintroduces itself to anthropology from different premises and the role of symbolic language within materialism is reevaluated.

Hofmann, Daniela / Frieman, C. J. / Furholt, M. et al., Negotiating Migrations: The Archaeology and Politics of Mobility. (Debates in Archaeology) 264 pp. 2024:8 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1143>
ISBN 978-1-350-42766-2 hard ¥21,615.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00

As a species, we have always been mobile and migration was a habitual feature of prehistoric life. This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies mainly from the European Neolithic, but also from the Pacific, the US Southwest, the medieval Migration Period and the historical Great Lakes, to discuss how a focus on small-scale inter-personal relations - on the power struggles, negotiations and choices that people make in everyday settings - can help us understand migration events in archaeology. While much archaeological scholarship, using isotopes and aDNA, focuses on migrations as large-scale phenomena and crisis responses, this book offers a new approach by exploring how moving on was embedded in social practice. This book offers a novel reinterpretation of how the political aspects of migration shaped past people's worlds in Europe and beyond, drawing on archaeological, historical, linguistic and aDNA evidence. Overall, the conclusion is that a bottom-up approach can help us to understand migration in the past at a variety of scales, in many different regions of the world The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre of Advanced Studies in Oslo.

van Roekel, Eva / Murphy, Fiona (eds.), A Collection of Creative Anthropologies: Drowning in Blue Light and Other Stories. (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology) 319 pp. 2024:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-1150>
ISBN 978-3-031-55104-8 hard ¥10,936.- (税込) EUR 44.99

A Collection of Creative Anthropologies brings together a series of creative work of anthropologists who share the art of writing that arises from 'ordinary' engagement and reveals its potential for the reimagining of anthropological futures and alternative worlds. This is a collection of creative anthropology anchored in experimentality and encouragement. A book that defies imaginaries of academic convention through the cultivation of a mundus imaginalis requiring moments of pause, of introspection, and of discomfort. This centring of creativity at the heart of anthropology subtly conveys how the complex ethical and moral issues around fieldwork and anthropological theorising can be reflected on through writing otherwise, in creative spaces such as this book. A Collection of Creative Anthropologies fits the current call for radical revisions of the academic canon in anthropology, and the social sciences and humanities more broadly.

Darmangeat, Christophe, Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be: At the Origin of Male Domination. (Historical Materialism Book Series 323) 316 pp. 2024:9 (Brill, NE) <726-123>
ISBN 978-90-04-53523-7 hard ¥37,680.- (税込) EUR 155.00

When was male domination established in human societies, and why did it take hold? How does humanity's most remote past inform today's feminist struggle? This new, updated edition of Primitive Communism Is Not What It Used to Be - available for the first time in English translation - represents a timely contribution to the debate, drawing on the accumulated knowledge of ethnology and archaeology. While noting the many outdated aspects of Morgan and Engels' seminal work, this vast synthesis, guided by a rigorous materialist approach, renews Marxist analysis on a theme that is at once remote and pressingly topical.

石田慎一郎著　羽と角と守護者たち－あるアフリカ農村の社会的変遷
Ishida, Shin-ichiro, Feathers, Horns and Guardians: A Study of Social Transition in an African Community. 244 pp. 2024:2 (Trans Pacific Pr., AT) <100-6445>
ISBN 978-1-920850-31-9 hard ¥14,798.- (税込) US$ 65.95
ISBN 978-1-920850-32-6 paper ¥10,310.- (税込) US$ 45.95

Pipatti, Otto, The Origins Of Human Social Nature: Westermarckian Sociology and Social Anthropology. 264 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-1063>
ISBN 978-3-031-55146-8 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book is the first comprehensive study of Westermarckian sociology and social anthropology, which flourished in Finland for half a century, until the Second World War. Edward Westermarck (1862-1939) was not only the founder of Finnish sociology but also Britain's first professor of sociology, influencing and contributing to teaching and research at LSE for nearly three decades. In Finland, a group of disciples shared his Darwinian interest in the human mind and the comparative study of the origins of social phenomena. Like Westermarck, they also conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork beyond Europe. Many of them became internationally renowned scholars who published their works through leading British publishers. The book traces his influence on British sociology and social anthropology more broadly also by considering his work and students at LSE, who emphasised their debt to Westermarck. Drawing on both published writings and unpublished archival material, the book offersa reinterpretation of 'origin' as the Westermarckian school's core concept.