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

Pritzker, Sonya E., Learning to Love: Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China. 288 pp. 2024:7 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <728-999>
ISBN 978-0-472-07686-4 hard ¥16,170.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05686-6 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Learning to Love offers a range of perspectives on the embodied, relational, affective, and sociopolitical project of "learning to love" at the New Life Center for Holistic Growth, a popular "mind-body-spirit" bookstore and practice space in northeast China, in the early part of the 21st century. This intimate form of self-care exists alongside the fast-moving, growing capitalist society of contemporary China and has emerged as an understandable response to the pressures of Chinese industrialized life in the early 21st century. Opening with an investigation of the complex ways newcomers to the center suffered a sense of being "off," both in and with the world at multiple scales, Learning to Love then examines how new horizons of possibility are opened as people interact with one another as well as with a range of aesthetic objects at New Life. Author Sonya Pritzker draws upon the core concepts of scalar intimacy-a participatory, discursive process in which people position themselves in relation to others as well as dominant ideologies, concepts, and ideals-and scalar inquiry-the process through which speakers interrogate these forms, their relationship with them, and their participation in reproducing them. In demonstrating the collaborative interrogation of culture, history, and memory, she examines how these exercises in physical, mental, and spiritual self-care allow participants to grapple with past social harms and forms of injustice, how historical systems of power continue in the present, and how they might be transformed in the future. By examining the interactions and relational experiences from New Life, Learning to Love offers a range of novel theoretical interventions into political subjectivity, temporality, and intergenerational trauma/healing.

Marcondes, Danilo, Skepticism and the New World: The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity. 122 pp. 2024:10 (Lexington Books, US) <728-78>
ISBN 978-1-66693-554-7 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00

The arrival of Europeans in the New World in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, often neglected by historians of philosophy, is a crucial historical event that transformed modern thought. Skepticism and the New World: The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity argues that the encounter between Europeans and the inhabitants of the New World challenges Europeans' concept of a universal human nature and leads to new forms of skepticism. Contrasting a theological and political debate on the rights of indigenous peoples with the rights of conquest and "just war" of the Spanish, Danilo Marcondes examines their anthropology, exploring how the French saw the indigenous cultures of the New World and how they shaped their epistemology.

Isomae, Jun'ichi, Listening to the Voices of the Dead: The 3-11 Tohoku Disaster Speaks. Tr. by L. E. Riggs & Manabu Takechi. 216 pp. 2024:11 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <728-975>
ISBN 978-0-472-07707-6 hard ¥15,092.- (税込) US$ 70.00 *
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Listening to the Voices of the Dead is an account of the author's search for disquieted voices of the dead in the wake of the March 11, 2011, Tohoku Disaster and his attempt to translate those voices for the living. Isomae Jun'ichi considers the disaster a challenge for outside observers to overcome, especially for practitioners of religion and religious studies. He chronicles the care and devotion for the dead shown by ordinary people, people displaced from their homes and loved ones. Drawing upon religious studies, Japanese history, postcolonial studies, and his own experiences during the disaster, Isomae uncovers historical symptoms brought to the surface by the traumas of disaster. Only by listening to the disquiet voices of the dead, translating them, and responding to them can we regain our true selves as well as offer peace to the spirits of the victims. While Listening to the Voices of the Dead focuses on this one event in Japanese history and memory, it captures a broadening critique at the heart of many movements responding to how increasing globalization impacts our sense of place and community.

Candea, Matea / Fedirko, Taras / Heywood, P. et al. (eds.), Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power. (Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life) 528 pp. 2025:2 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <728-567>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4884-1 paper ¥9,486.- (税込) US$ 44.00

Bringing together leading anthropologists, this collection sheds light on the vast topic of freedoms of speech from a comparatively human perspective. Freedoms of Speech provides a sustained, empirical exploration of the variety of ways freedom of speech is lived, valued, and contested in practice; envisioned as an ideal; and mediated by various linguistic, ethical, and material forms. From Ireland to India, from Palestine to West Papua, from contemporary Java to early twentieth-century Britain, and from colonial Vietnam to the contemporary United States, the book broadly interrogates the classic vision of a singular "Western liberal tradition" of freedom of speech, exploring its internal complexities and highlighting alternative perspectives on the relationship between speech, freedom, and constraint in other times and places. Chapters analyse subjects commonly linked to freedom-of-speech debates, shedding new light on familiar topics that include campus speech codes, defamation, and press freedom, while also exploring unexpected ones such as therapy, gift-giving, and martyrdom. These analyses not only provide unexpected perspectives and unique insights but also address a myriad of questions, contributing to a rich, interdisciplinary, and human understanding of the nature of freedom of speech.

Grandia, Liza, Kernels of Resistance: Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power. 392 pp. 2024:11 (U. Washington Pr., US) <728-284>
ISBN 978-0-295-75329-4 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-295-75330-0 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00

The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and wonRight before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala's legislature into lifting its national ban on genetically modified (GM) crops and criminalizing traditional seed saving practices. Maya elders responded with a campaign of mass civil disobedience, blocking highways until the Guatemalan Congress repealed this "Monsanto Law." Uniting rural and urban Guatemalans, this uprising spotlighted the existential threat of GM corn to the livelihood, dignity, and cultural heritage of maize-producing milperos (small farmers) throughout Mesoamerica. Ten years later, Mexico is also facing down US trade aggression to defend a 2020 presidential ban on the import of GM corn for human consumption. Liza Grandia chronicles how diverse coalitions in Mexico and Guatemala have defended their sacred maize against corporate threats to privatize it. Rather than just "voting with their forks" like the consumer-driven US food movement, Mesoamerican farmers and their allies have voted with their feet through direct action. In a world of interconnected trade, their victories chart a path that other food movements might follow. They also show how everyday people can demand better regulatory protections for environmental health and forge more climate-resilient agricultural systems with native seed saving.Dramatic and timely, Kernels of Resistance celebrates this Indigenous triumph over corporate greed.

Minnis, Paul E. / Freedman, Robert, Plants for Desperate Times: The Diversity of Life-Saving Famine Foods. 208 pp. 2024:10 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <728-286>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5376-1 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *
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Sepulveda, Charles A., Native Alienation: Spiritual Conquest and the Violence of California Missions. (Indigenous Confluences) 2024:11 (U. Washington Pr., US) <728-195>
ISBN 978-0-295-75326-3 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-295-75327-0 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missionsSites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions played a central role in the brutal subjugation of the region's Indigenous peoples. Mainstream California history, however, still largely presents a romanticized portrait of the creation of the twenty-one Spanish missions between San Diego and Sonoma in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Providing a corrective to this benign historiography, Charles A. Sepulveda reconstructs the violence toward Native people as well the resistance and refusals of his ancestors and other Native people during and after the Spanish genocide. The conquest enforced the attempted spiritual possession of Native souls and the physical position of Native bodies and the land. At the same time, it strengthened the Spanish view of California's Indigenous people as disposable. Sepulveda demonstrates how enslavement was a key method of conquest, putting to rest the myth of the Spanish as benevolent and beneficial. Centering the experiences of Native peoples, Sepulveda brings to light the gendered dimensions of the conquest and genocide. His fuller history confronts the erasure of Indian individuality and resistance and historicizes the relationship between enslavement, dispossession, and environmental degradation. He also illuminates the mission system's central role in destroying Indigenous people's relationships to the land while examining the practice's centuries-long impact on the lives of Native people. A groundbreaking reconsideration, Native Alienation transforms our understanding of California Indian history.

Procter, Caitlin / Spector, Branwen (eds.), Inclusive Ethnography: Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier and More Ethical. 232 pp. 2024:4 (Sage, UK) <728-23>
ISBN 978-1-5296-2003-0 hard ¥31,339.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5296-2002-3 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

How can you do ethnographic field research in a safe way for you and the people you work with? In this nuanced, candid book, researchers from across the globe discuss core challenges faced by ethnographers, reflecting on research from preparation to dissemination and how identity interacts with the realities of doing fieldwork. Building on the work of the editors' The New Ethnographer Project, which has been seeking to change the way ethnographic methods are approached and taught since 2018, the book: Promotes an inclusive approach that invites you to learn from the challenges faced by a diverse range of scholars.Addresses underexplored issues including emotional and physical safety in the face of ableism, homophobia and racism.Challenges assumptions of what it means to produce knowledge by conducting fieldwork. Whether you're an undergraduate student or an experienced researcher, this book will help you do fieldwork that is safer, healthier and more ethical.

Anders, Allison Daniel / Noblit, George W. (eds.), Evolutions in Critical and Postcritical Ethnography: Crafting Approaches. 296 pp. 2024:8 (Springer, GW) <728-1206>
ISBN 978-3-031-58826-6 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

Moving beyond traditional critical ethnography, postcritical ethnographies accept as a key premise that studies which are critical of the social world must also turn critique back on the ethnographer, the study, and its process. The book includes an introduction to the evolutions of critical ethnography and postcritical ethnography and exemplar chapters from contributors who engaged in long-term ethnographic studies. Accompanying each chapter is an introductory preface and margin notes created by the editors to underscore the methodological 'moves' made by each author. Addressing the distinct orientations critical and postcritical ethnographies take, the book illuminates how different authors think, enact, and represent their critical and postcritical/post-critical work. In this way the book is pedagogical within and across each chapter. Each contributor has produced a chapter that includes a brief summary of their respective long-term inquiry project with emphases on relation in the being, doing, and theorizing of qualitative research. Contributors discuss their navigation of commitments across the arc of their research and engage critical social theory, interrogating issues of power and ideology. Each chapter includes retrospective analytical reflections on the long-term ethnographic work contributors completed. The chapters address interpretivist commitments to emic analyses, metaphor, and representation and each contributor's personal and professional commitments to equity and justice. The chapters engage critical social theories, crip horizons, critical race theory, and queer theory, as well as critical and queer pedagogies, de/colonialism, and post-humanism. A summary chapter addresses key issues in contemporary postcritical/post-critical qualitative research. The book is designed to prepare novice qualitative researchers to craft, conduct, and represent postcritical/post-critical qualitative research. The book provides guidance for researchers who are interested in social critique, equity, and justice and who seek to avoid the failures in the last quarter of the 20th Century of critical ethnography.

Counihan, Carole / Hojlund, Susanne (eds.), Chefs, Restraurants, and Culunary Sustainability. 2024:6 (U. Arkansas Pr., US) <728-1277>
ISBN 978-1-68226-264-1 hard ¥21,549.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-1-68226-265-8 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95

Bowser, Brenda J. / Cameron, Catherine M. (eds.), Landscapes of Movement and Predation: Perspectives from Archaeology, History, and Anthropology. (Amerind Studies in Archaeology) 344 pp. 2024:10 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <728-1355>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5335-8 hard ¥16,170.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *

Davis, Elizabeth Anne, The Time of the Cannibals: On Conspiracy Theory and Context. (Thinking from Elsewhere) 320 pp. 2024:11 (Fordham U. Pr., US) <728-1359>
ISBN 978-1-5315-0884-5 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5315-0885-2 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals reconsiders this history and the public discourse on it to reconsider how we think about conspiracy theory, and specifically, what it means to understand conspiracy theories "in context." The months after Papadopoulos's body was stolen saw intense public speculation in Cyprus, including widespread expressions of sacrilege, along with many false accusations against Cypriots and foreigners positioned as his political antagonists. Davis delves into the public discourse on conspiracy theory in Cyprus that flourished in the aftermath, tracing theories about the grave robbery to theories about the division of Cyprus some thirty-five years earlier, and both to longer histories of imperial and colonial violence. Along the way, Davis explores cross-contextual connections among Cyprus and other locales, in the form of conspiracy theories as well as political theologies regarding the dead bodies of political leaders. Through critical close readings of academic and journalistic approaches to conspiracy theory, Davis shows that conspiracy theory as an analytic object fails to sustain comparative analysis, and defies any general theory of conspiracy theory. What these approaches accomplish instead, she argues, is the perpetuation of ethnocentrism in the guise of contextualization. The Time of the Cannibals asks what better kind of contextualization this and any "case" call for, and proposes the concept of conspiracy attunement: a means of grasping the dialogic contexts in which conspiracy theories work recursively as matters of political and cultural significance in the long duree.

Falk, Dean, The Botanic Age: Planting the Seeds of Human Evolution. 272 pp. 2024:9 (Aevo UTP, CN) <728-1360>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4664-9 hard ¥5,819.- (税込) US$ 26.99

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful? The beginning of the Stone Age, marked by the invention of stone tools, has traditionally dominated discussions about the origin and evolution of human intelligence. However, feminist anthropologists have long theorized that the first tools were actually nests, slings, and baskets that would not have survived in the archaeological record. In The Botanic Age, leading evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk argues that millions of years of weaving botanical materials and woodworking preceded the Stone Age, facilitating the basic neurological underpinnings for humankind's later creative and technological inventions. She further suggests that mothers and infants may hold the key to understanding a series of events that eventually kindled the emergence of advanced cognitive abilities, including language and music. The Botanic Age takes readers millions of years into the past to a time before our relatives began living full-time on the ground. From stationary hominin sleeping trees in Africa to beached trees on the shores of Indonesia, the impact of the Botanic Age on hominin evolution was far-reaching. Only from this vantage point "in the trees" can we really begin to understand how and why our ancestors evolved - and how we became human.

Fleming, Luke Owles, On Speaking Terms: Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship. (Studies in the Anthropology of Language, Sign, and Social Life) 296 pp. 2024:12 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <728-1361>
ISBN 978-1-4875-4970-1 hard ¥11,211.- (税込) US$ 52.00

Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into "joking" and "avoidance" relations? Foundational figures in the human sciences, from E.B. Tylor and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown to Sigmund Freud and Claude Levi-Strauss, have sought to explain why some classes of kin are normatively expected to prank and tease one another while others must studiously avoid each other's presence. In this extensively researched comparative study, linguistic anthropologist Luke Owles Fleming offers a bold new answer to this problem. With a particular focus on avoidance relationships, On Speaking Terms argues that in order to understand cross-cultural convergences in the patterning of kinship-keyed comportments, we must attend to the sociolinguistic codes through which kinship relationships are enacted. Drawing on ethnographic data from more than one hundred different societies, the book documents and analyses parallels in the linguistic and non-verbal signs through which avoidance relationships are experientially realized. With dedicated discussions of Aboriginal Australian "mother-in-law languages," name and word tabooing practices, pronominal honorification, and non-verbal strategies of interactional and sensorial avoidance, it reveals recurrent sociolinguistic patterns attested in kinship avoidance. In demonstrating the vital role of sociolinguistic codes for transforming kinship categories into phenomenologically rich relationships, On Speaking Terms makes an important contribution to the anthropology of kinship.

Goldfarb, Kathryn E. / Bamford, Sandra (eds.), Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship and Care. 238 pp. 2024:10 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <728-1362>
ISBN 978-1-9788-4143-7 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-9788-4142-0 paper ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing decades of scholarly research. But what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is anything but 'warm and fuzzy' but is characterized, instead, by neglect, violence, negative affect, or a lack of nurturance and care? In the three interlinked sections of this volume, the view that kinship is about "solidarity" and "care" is challenged by exploring how kin relations are not only about connection and inclusion but also about disconnection, exclusion, neglect, and violence. Kinship relationships that feel "positive" and "good" take a great deal of perseverance and work; there is nothing "natural" about kinship ties as being based on positive sociality. In these chapters, the contributors take seriously the contingency of kinship relations (the moments when kinship breaks down or is a source of suffering) and how this prompts scholars to develop new theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Haley, Brian D., Hopis and the Counterculture: Traditionalism, Appropriation, and the Birth of a Social Field. 352 pp. 2024:10 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <728-1364>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5366-2 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *
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Jacobsen, Kristina, Sing Me Back Home: Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics. (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom) 296 pp. 2024:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <728-1366>
ISBN 978-1-4875-5385-2 hard ¥15,307.- (税込) US$ 71.00 *
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Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, Sing Me Back Home explores language and culture through songwriting as an ethnographic method. Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork writing songs with Sardinian musicians, artisans, shepherds, poets, and language activists, Kristina Jacobsen asks: How are Sardinian lives and language ideologies narrated against the backdrop of American music? The book shows how Sardinian musicians sing their own history between the lines. It reveals how Sardinian songs become a site of transduction where, through the process of songwriting, recording, and performance, the energy from one genre of music and lingua-culture is harnessed to signal another one much closer to home. Sing Me Back Home is accompanied by original songs written and recorded in the field, with links to songs in each chapter. It includes songwriting prompts and lyrics, a glossary of key terms, and photographs from the field. Drawing on work from critical collaborative research, auto-ethnography, public anthropology, arts-based research, and ethnographic poetry, this sensory ethnography offers new ways for us to hear culture through stories and songs.

Jelinski, Jamie, Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada. (McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History) 424 pp. 2024:6 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <728-1367>
ISBN 978-0-228-02198-8 hard ¥16,170.- (税込) US$ 75.00

In 1891 J. Murakami travelled from Japan, via San Francisco, to Vancouver Island and began working in and around Victoria. His occupation: creating permanent images on the skin of paying clients.From this early example of tattooing as work, Jamie Jelinski takes us from coast to coast with detours to the United States, England, and Japan as he traces the evolution of commercial tattooing in Canada over more than one hundred years. Needle Work offers insight into how tattoo artists navigated regulation, the types of spaces they worked in, and the dynamic relationship between the images they tattooed on customers and other forms of visual culture and artistic enterprise. Merging biographical narratives with an examination of tattooing's place within wider society, Jelinski reveals how these commercial image makers bridged conventional gaps between cultural production and practical, for-profit work, thereby establishing tattooing as a legitimate career.Richly illustrated and drawing on archives, print media, and objects held in institutions and private collections across Canada and beyond, Needle Work provides a timely understanding of a vocation that is now familiar but whose intricate history has rarely been considered.

McClaurin, Irma, Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics. 25th Anniversary Ed. 296 pp. 2024:11 (Rutgers U. Pr., US) <728-1369>
ISBN 978-1-9788-4330-1 hard ¥32,340.- (税込) US$ 150.00
ISBN 978-1-9788-4329-5 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics is a groundbreaking collection that centers the imaginative intellectual perspectives, voices, and experiences of Black American feminist anthropologists. Twenty-five years ago, as the Foreword states, this book dared to put three words together in the title-Black. Feminist. Anthropology- "that have not always kept company with each other-and in the minds of many both in and outside of the academy, they should remain separate." Standing the test of time, it is still a bold reimagining of anthropology, and all social sciences, as inclusive and decolonized, while establishing a new Black feminist anthropology canon that decades later is too often taken for granted as normative. Black Feminist Anthropology is filled with a message of theoretical possibilities that anyone who enters its pages will find "healing," "life-saving," and an affirmation that Black women anthropologists have contributed much to the theory, politics, praxis and poetics of anthropology, gender and women's studies, masculinity studies, queer studies, the social sciences generally, and any other discipline that seeks transformation from the inside out. It is both an archive and a legacy for the next generation.

Reetz, Elizabeth C. / Sperling, Stephanie T. (eds.), A Practitioner's Guide to Public Archaeology: Intentional Programming for Effective Outreach. 208 pp. 2024:8 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <728-1374>
ISBN 978-1-5381-8081-5 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5381-8082-2 paper ¥8,192.- (税込) US$ 38.00 *

AQ: Many archaeologists learn by trial and error while developing public programs and events and are mostly unaware that others in the profession are undergoing the same challenges. Archaeologists seldom receive professional development on K-12 pedagogy, public engagement, program design, or assessment. For many in the field, public outreach is often an under-funded and under-resourced extension of an already overwhelming workload; yet this work is incredibly important. InA Practitioner's Guide to Public Archaeology: Intentional Programming for Effective Outreach, more than thirty public archaeology practitioners will help you reduce the guesswork and stress behind program planning in this engaging and reader-friendly handbook. A complement to the growing library of public archaeology publications, the authors exclusively focus on key components of planning, implementing, and assessing public archaeology programming. Learn how to connect with your audience; build an accessibility mindset; create intentional goals and outcomes; identify resources, collaborators, and other logistical needs; and conduct assessments to better understand your impact. Discover ideas and techniques for all ages programming, like public excavations, site tours, festivals, and lectures; K-12 presentations and events, including formal and nonformal educational programs that occur inside and outside of a classroom; and community-based heritage management programs that include those designed for recurring participation by active, trained volunteers. Throughout the book, curated case study excerpts provide a diversity of perspectives and offer practical insights. The book concludes with a collection of logistics templates and real-world examples to help you streamline your program preparation. Drawing from decades of experience, you'll discover guidance on navigating challenges, celebrating successes, and lessons learned. Whether you are new to public archaeology or a seasoned expert, this book offers valuable insights for all practitioners.

Ward, Shannon M., Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau. (Anthropological Horizons) 240 pp. 2024:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <728-1006>
ISBN 978-1-4875-5866-6 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4875-5867-3 paper ¥5,172.- (税込) US$ 23.99 *

In Amdo, a region of eastern Tibet incorporated into mainland China, young children are being raised in a time of social change. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, Chinese state development policies are catalysing rural to urban migration, consolidating schooling in urban centres, and leading Tibetan farmers and nomads to give up their traditional livelihoods. As a result, children face increasing pressure to adopt the state's official language of Mandarin. Amdo Lullaby charts the contrasting language socialization trajectories of rural and urban children from one extended family, who are native speakers of a Tibetan language known locally as "Farmer Talk." By integrating a fine-grained analysis of everyday conversations and oral history interviews, linguistic anthropologist Shannon M. Ward examines the forms of migration and resulting language contact that contribute to Farmer Talk's unique grammatical structures, and that shape Amdo Tibetan children's language choices. This analysis reveals that young children are not passively abandoning their mother tongue for standard Mandarin, but instead are reformatting traditional Amdo Tibetan cultural associations among language, place, and kinship as they build their peer relationships in everyday play.

Roy, Arpan, Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference. (Anthropological Horizons) 192 pp. 2024:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <728-1059>
ISBN 978-1-4875-5871-0 hard ¥17,032.- (税込) US$ 79.00

Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic portrait of Dom Romani communities living between Palestine and Jordan, zooming in on everyday life in working-class neighborhoods, and under conditions of perpetual war and instability. The book focuses on how Doms are able to sustain ethnic difference through kinship, even when public performances of difference are no longer emphasized - a kind of alterity that is neither visible by obvious markers like race or religious difference, nor detected by the antennas of the state. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Amman, Roy makes a case for such alterity for Romani people and other groups in the region. Analysing intimate ethnographic scenes through anthropological theories of kinship, psychoanalysis, social theory from the Global South, and more, the book reveals how alterity in the Middle East does not adhere to rigid identitarian categories. Ultimately, Relative Strangers demonstrates the inadequacy of transposing models of pluralism centred on European and American experiences of minoritization onto other contexts.

Williams, Selase W. / Spencer-Walters, Tom, Sierra Leone Krio: Language, Culture, and Traditions. 328 pp. 2024:8 (Hamilton Books, US) <728-1113>
ISBN 978-0-7618-7450-8 paper ¥9,268.- (税込) US$ 42.99 *

This book offers a comprehensive, holistic, and systematic description and analysis of the language, culture, and traditions of the Sierra Leone Krio people. Through this multifaceted approach, the authors bring significant new insights into the history and the establishment of Krio society, a better understanding of the syntactic structures and semantic elements in the Krio language, and greater recognition, use, and role of oral traditions in the everyday lives of the people. The Krio folktales, parables, and riddles presented in the book represent the centuries' old West African wisdom and communal lessons for young and old.The authors celebrate Krio creativity as reflected in their fashion, music, and poetry. Featured here are some previously unpublished Krio poems, as well as Jamaican Patois poems that have been translated for the first time in Krio and English. These latter poems reveal the similarities in the themes, social commentary, and African continuities witnessed across the diaspora.Refuting the claims that the linguistic foundation of Krio is English, the authors provide concrete evidence that its underlying structure of Krio is based in languages belonging to the Kwa language family, represented by Yoruba, Igbo, and Akan. Unique in our analysis of Krio language is the demonstration of substantive linguistic contributions from at least one indigenous local language, that being Temne, and opens up a whole new area for future research.

Canessa, Andrew / Picq, Manuela Lavinas, Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State. 216 pp. 2024:11 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <728-1118>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5396-9 hard ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Opperman, Stephanie Baker, Cold War Anthropologist: Isabel Kelly and Rural Development in Mexico. 248 pp. 2024:11 (U. Arizona Pr., US) <728-1133>
ISBN 978-0-8165-5391-4 hard ¥11,858.- (税込) US$ 55.00