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

Lucero, Lisa J., Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet. 240 pp. 2025:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <731-914>
ISBN 978-0-19-776570-8 hard ¥5,351.- (税込) US$ 24.95

We now live in the Anthropocene, the first epoch of our own making. We have altered the Earth's atmosphere, landscapes, and bodies of water. The burning of fossil fuels has warmed the planet enough to change weather patterns, melt glaciers, and raise sea levels, a situation made worse by rampant deforestation and resource depletion. Many look to governments to confront these existential challenges. In Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet, Lisa Lucero looks to the Maya, past and present. Through the lens of the traditional Maya inclusive worldview--one in which humans are part of the world, not separate from it, and where everything is connected--Lucero provides a practical roadmap on how to sustainably address climate change and environmental degradation. She shows how the Maya collaborate with rather than try to subjugate forests, animals, soils, water, and other nonhuman entities. The Maya sustainably farmed for millennia and provided goods, labor, and services to their kings in cities. In return, kings performed vital ceremonies to the Rain God Chahk, other gods, and ancestors to replenish urban reservoirs that lasted throughout the long dry season--a balancing act that worked for over 1,000 years. Lucero shows how approaches to tackle climate change from the bottom-up, beginning with the family or household, are just as important as top-down governmental mitigation, and how learning from traditional knowledge is vital for the survival of us all. She brings to life the tropical jungles of Central America and reveals the valuable solutions its ancient and contemporary inhabitants offer us to save our planet.

Johnston, Jay, Amulets in Magical Practice. (Elements in Magic) 80 pp. 2024:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-93>
ISBN 978-1-009-51779-9 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-108-94879-1 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element takes as its remit the production and use of amulets. The focus will be on amulets with no, or minimal, textual content like those comprising found stone, semi-precious gem and/or animal body parts. That is a material form that is unaccompanied by directive textual inscription. The analysis considers this materiality to understand its context of use including ritual and metaphysical operations. Through discussion of selected case studies from British, Celtic, and Scandinavian cultures, it demonstrates the associative range of meaning that enabled the attribution of power/agency to the amuletic object Uniquely, it will consider this material culture from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing together insights from the disciplines of cultural studies, religious studies, 'folk' studies, archaeology and Scandinavian studies. It develops the concept of 'trans-aniconism' to encapsulates an amulet's temporal relations and develops the proposition of 'landscape amulets.'

Sutton, Mark Q. / Anderson, E. N., Our Traumatized Planet: What We Can Learn from Ancient Societies and Contemporary Traditional Peoples. 240 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <731-949>
ISBN 978-1-032-90892-2 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-89899-5 paper ¥10,415.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Our Traumatized Planet explores the state of the environment and some of the major issues faced today and asks what we can learn and apply from contemporary traditional peoples, ancient societies, and our own successes and failures.Providing straightforward information on some of the serious environmental issues we face so that non-scientists can understand them, this book explores what is at stake so that we can choose to make a difference. Combining the latest data from environmental, anthropological, and archaeological science allows for fresh perspectives and an empirical approach to describing these problems that eliminates hopeful denial, speculation, wishful thinking, and downright lies. Using archaeological data, the authors provide examples of success and failures in the past that could be used to make decisions about the future. They also highlight examples of how traditional peoples, past and present, have dealt with these same issues. Seeing the current crisis through the eyes of two experienced anthropologists broadens our understanding and allows us to set contemporary issues in the context of the past and traditional knowledge. However, this is not a book of easy solutions from the past to solve our future; rather, it is an impassioned plea to people today to read and understand what state the planet is in and encourage them to find the will to change.This book is for students of archaeology, anthropology, and environmental science and all those wanting to, in a clear and readable way, understand the fate of our planet.

Saitta, Dean, First Cities: Planning Lessons for the 21st Century. (Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century) 94 pp. 2024:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-984>
ISBN 978-1-009-47591-4 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-33874-5 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element describes and synthesizes archaeological knowledge of humankind's first cities for the purpose of strengthening a comparative understanding of urbanism across space and time. Case studies are drawn from ancient Mesopotamia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. They cover over 9000 years of city building. Cases exemplify the 'deep history' of urbanism in the classic heartlands of civilization, as well as lesser-known urban phenomena in other areas and time periods. The Element discusses the relevance of this knowledge to a number of contemporary urban challenges around food security, service provision, housing, ethnic co-existence, governance, and sustainability. This study seeks to enrich scholarly debates about the urban condition, and inspire new ideas for urban policy, planning, and placemaking in the twenty first century.

ブレグジットが意味するもの－イギリスにおける二極化と文化的変化の人類学
Horder, Max, What Brexit Means: An Anthropology of Polarization and Cultural Change in Britain. (Anthropology of Now) 232 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <731-741>
ISBN 978-1-032-60296-7 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-60293-6 paper ¥10,415.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

What Brexit Means explores the rise of populism in Britain. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork amongst ideologically committed Brexit activists, it examines the discourse of populism across language, culture, politics, psychology, and cognition. It explains how populism is expressed in terms of ritually renewing social order and solidarity. Rejecting the notion that the territory of populism studies belongs to political science, this book shows how it is in the realm of anthropology - myth, ritual, alterity, consciousness, selfhood - that we witness the most compelling examples of how a phenomena as modern as populism depends upon the same symbolic logics that we find in the premodern world. What Brexit Means is a demonstration of the power of anthropology to explain momentous and poorly predicted transformations in the global order. It will become a benchmark text for those eager for anthropology's contribution to understanding the political turbulence that is rocking the stability of Western democracies.

スラヴ及び東欧のフォークロア・ハンドブック
Beissinger, Margaret H. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore. (Oxford Handbooks) 1144 pp. 2025:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <731-1060>
ISBN 978-0-19-008077-8 hard ¥56,199.- (税込) US$ 262.00

The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore provides a wide-ranging survey of the oral traditions of the Slavic and East European world. It covers national, ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic, and religious groups extending from the eastern zones of Russia to the western borders of the Czech Republic and from Estonia along the Baltic Sea to Greece at the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula. The volume presents this broad world area - loosely connected by circumstances of geography, history, and politics - as a large and diverse cultural continuum. In forty-three chapters written by scholars ranging from folklorists who are natives of the Slavic and East European region to British and North American specialists in the field, Editor-in-Chief Margaret Hiebert Beissinger presents an extensive array of distinctive yet comparable traditions, rituals, and genres. Divided into five sections, the volume includes: the folklore and lyric genres of the life cycle (wedding, birth, and death rites); calendrical-cycle traditions, dance, magic, and folk belief; traditional prose and poetic narrative; oral traditions among minority ethno-religious and racial communities, as well as folk and popular music and song; and the folklore of everyday life, including aphoristic verbal forms and material culture. The volume's chapters focus on folklore of the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, from the very "traditional," to contemporary issues that influence folklore and expressive culture, such as life-changing pandemics, ethnic conflict, and war, as well as evolving gender roles. The handbook presents a wide assortment of materials for an audience of students and specialists alike: folklorists, ethnographers, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, and literature scholars, as well as others who wish to explore the rich oral traditions of the Slavic and East European world.

van der Grijp, Paul, Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums: An anthropology of donations. (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) 240 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <731-1105>
ISBN 978-1-032-81321-9 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums questions why private collectors donate their collection, or parts of it, to museums and examines what the implications of this gifting process might be.Presenting case studies from Europe, North America, East Asia, and the South Pacific, this book is concerned with both elite and popular collections and examines the act of donating art from the collector's point of view. Demonstrating that art museums depend on donations from private collectors, Paul van der Grijp emphasizes that it is crucial to understand the psychological, sociological, economic, and educational motivations for gifting works of art to institutions. Taken together, the chapters argue that collectors donate to museums because the latter represent an imagined community, to whom those collectors would like to bestow a sacred gift. Private collectors are, Van der Grijp maintains, motivated to ensure the immortality of their collections and, ultimately, to preserve some memory of their own lives in the process.Art Collecting and Gifts to Museums will be of interest to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums, culture, art, anthropology, history, and sociology.

Argote, Denisse L. / Lopez-Garcia, Pedro A. et al., Machine Learning for Archaeological Applications in R. (Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques) 75 pp. 2024:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-1125>
ISBN 978-1-009-50659-5 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-50664-9 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element highlights the employment within archaeology of classification methods developed in the field of chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics. These run in both high- and low-dimensional environments and often have better results than traditional methods. Instead of a theoretical approach, it provides examples of how to apply these methods to real data using lithic and ceramic archaeological materials as case studies. A detailed explanation of how to process data in R (The R Project for Statistical Computing), as well as the respective code, are also provided in this Element.

Bi, Suriyah, Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim Masculinities as Colonial Legacy. 248 pp. 2024:12 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <731-1127>
ISBN 978-1-5261-8132-9 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

In this eye-opening ethnography, we learn about the experiences of Muslim migrant husbands from Pakistan and Kashmir, who marry their British counterparts in the hope of marital and global social mobility bliss. For many, the parallel and intertwined migration and marital journeys do not pan out in the way they had hoped. Many experience precarity and vulnerability within the household and/or in employment, with some even being subjected to harrowing forms of domestic violence. Migrant husbands navigate an increasingly hostile British immigration system not only in public but also in private, at the hands of their wives and in-laws. The ethnography demonstrates how citizenship can be deployed as a performance of white power within single group identity, differentiated through colonial legacies of 'Britishness'.

Blake, Emma, Identity Studies in Archaeology. (Elements in Anthropological Archaeology in the 21st Century) 2024:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-1128>
ISBN 978-1-009-45975-4 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-45970-9 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element explores the origins, current state, and future of the archaeological study of identity. A floruit of scholarship in the late 20th century introduced identity as a driving force in society, and archaeologists sought expressions of gender, status, ethnicity, and more in the material remains of the past. A robust consensus emerged about identity and its characteristics: dynamic; contested; context driven; performative; polyvalent; intersectional. From the early 2000s identity studies were challenged by new theories of materiality and ontology on the one hand, and by an influx of new data from bioarchaeology on the other. Yet identity studies have proven remarkably enduring. Through European case studies from prehistory to the present, this Element charts identity's evolving place in anthropological archaeology.

Cabatingan, Lee / Bibler Coutin, Susan et al. (eds.), Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork: Creating Supportive Research Experiences. 286 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <731-1129>
ISBN 978-1-032-51525-0 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-51531-1 paper ¥12,105.- (税込) GB￡ 42.99 *

Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork offers a new perspective on how ethnography might be learned in real time through participation in a supportive community of practice.It draws on the experiences, knowledge, and training of an interdisciplinary group of scholars who have studied legal topics ethnographically alongside and with the support of fellow ethnographers at varying stages of their careers. Contributors address topics that are of interest to those who teach ethnography as well as to those who are learning this approach. Such topics include ethics, positionality in the field, the combination of personal and professional circumstances, and the process and pain of changing research topics. Each chapter emphasizes the role of mentoring and collective problem-solving through a lab model of fieldwork practice, particularly when carrying out research with subjects and interlocutors who may have undergone trauma.Written by a diverse group of scholars, this volume will appeal especially to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and female-identifying ethnographers in a range of fields. It provides a framework for how fieldwork can continue moving forward even in the most challenging of times and will be of particular interest to scholars in anthropology, sociology, law, urban planning/studies, geography, political science, ethnic studies, public policy, sociolegal studies, and education.

David, Bruno / Fletcher, Michael-Shawn / Connor, S. et al., Cultural Burning. (Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques) 72 pp. 2024:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-1130>
ISBN 978-1-009-48530-2 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-48529-6 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element addresses a burning question - how can archaeologists best identify and interpret cultural burning, the controlled use of fire by people to shape and curate their physical and social landscapes? This Element describes what cultural burning is and presents current methods by which it can be identified in historical and archaeological records, applying internationally relevant methods to Australian landscapes. It clarifies how the transdisciplinary study of cultural burning by Quaternary scientists, historians, archaeologists and Indigenous community members is informing interpretations of cultural practices, ecological change, land use and the making of place. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Lopez Garcia, Pedro A. / Argote, Denisse L. et al., Knowledge Discovery from Archaeological Materials. (Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques) 75 pp. 2024:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-1134>
ISBN 978-1-009-50680-9 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-18187-7 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element highlights the employment within archaeology of classification methods developed in the field of chemometrics, artificial intelligence, and Bayesian statistics. These operate in both high- and low-dimensional environments and often have better results than traditional methods. The basic principles and main methods are introduced with recommendations for when to use them.

ジェンダー考古学ハンドブック
Moen, Marianne / Pedersen, Unn (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Gender Archaeology. 504 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <731-1135>
ISBN 978-1-032-19064-8 hard ¥60,544.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of gender archaeology, both theory and practice, and contributes a substantial and definitive reference work by bringing together state-of-the-art research, theoretical overviews, and the latest debates in the field.Responding to the shifts in the theoretical landscape and the societal and political frameworks within which we produce our knowledge, chapters create both a solid theoretical baseline which help readers grasp the significance of gender in archaeology as well as offer perspectives on how to engender produced knowledge about the past. In line with recent focus on the shortcomings of gender and archaeological representation, chapters also detangle academic discourse and popular representations in order to present novel ways of successfully negotiating the pitfalls of gendered ideas about past behaviours. By encouraging novel ways of integrating theoretical perspectives with scrutiny of gender stereotypes, original empirical examinations of identity markers and behaviours, and re-examinations of static representations of identities through new lenses, such as intersectional perspectives, personhood, and materiality debates, the volume is theoretically rich and will simultaneously provide a necessary benchmark for future archaeological discourses. Finally, it will incorporate perspectives from researchers with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints to provide a truly comprehensive overview. It will not shy away from engaging with politically contentious issues surrounding knowledge production but will include perspectives from researchers whose focus is less on feminist critiques and more on gender and identities. Thus, the volume bridges the two most prominent directions currently discernible within the focus area, namely, feminist re-examinations on the one hand and research focused more on bodily practice and gendered experiences on the other.The Routledge Handbook of Gender Archaeology is an invaluable resource for students and researchers in gender archaeology as well as gender studies more widely.

考古学と言語ハンドブック
Robbeets, Martine / Hudson, Mark (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language. (Oxford Handbooks) 1008 pp. 2025:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <731-1136>
ISBN 978-0-19-286835-0 hard ¥53,504.- (税込) GB￡ 190.00

Vander Linden, Marc, The Bell Beaker Phenomenon in Europe: A Harmony of Difference. (Elements in the Archaeology of Europe) 96 pp. 2024:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-1140>
ISBN 978-1-009-49688-9 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-49686-5 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Covering vast swathes of Europe, the Bell Beaker Phenomenon has enjoyed a privileged status in the history of archaeology and is often referred to as a key period in the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age partly due to the emergence of social elites. After a brief presentation of the historiography of the Bell Beaker phenomenon, this Element offers a synthetic account of the available evidence structured on a regional basis. Following the renewed interest in human mobility generated by stable isotopes and ancient DNA studies, the central thesis developed here is that the Bell Beaker Phenomenon can adequately be described as a metapopulation, a concept borrowed from population ecology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.