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

Petty, Karis Jade, Sensing the Landscape: An Ethnography of Blindness. (Sensory Studies) 264 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-375>
ISBN 978-0-367-65022-3 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book examines how vision impaired walkers experience and engage with the English countryside through five sensory activities: walking, seeing, listening, seeing in the mind's eye, and touching. Journeying through woodland and fields, the chapters reveal a landscape alive with memory, the imagination, and suffused with shifting temporalities. Karis Jade Petty develops the concepts of inclusive sensoriality and sensorial emplacement, which enable us to revise our understandings of the sensory organisations of experience, animate conceptualisations of landscape, and rethink self-landscape relationality. Reimagining notions of vision and the boundedness of the sensory body, this book will be relevant to scholars from a number of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, geography, visual studies, disability studies, and sensory studies more broadly.

Bollard, Kate, The Power of Empty Places: From Megalithic Monuments to Social Media. (Contemporary Liminality) 180 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-1471>
ISBN 978-1-032-83563-1 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Social media has been established as a central feature of the modern world and a propagator of contemporary culture. Political anthropology is employed as a method to understand digital fascination in the modern world. The theory of the void is utilised to examine the destructive features of social media that induce an unreality and provoke users to unfold in alternate ways. Classifying the realm of social media as a void illustrates how the intangible non-place is a divisive feature of modernity.To gain comprehension of the pervasive void created by technology, a consideration of historical precursors can be useful. Features of stone circles, such as their material character, configuration and optical display on the solstice can be used to understand how social media operates to lure people into its domain and promotes entrapment. This book is aimed at individuals with an interest in social media, social theory and political anthropology. It will be of use to those working in the areas of identity, unreality, media and communication studies. It addresses fundamental issues of modernity such as social media, identity and unreality.

Brooks, James F. / Moss, Jeremy M. (eds.), Public Archaeology for the Twenty-First Century. 288 pp. 2025:6 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <737-1472>
ISBN 978-0-8203-7351-5 hard ¥26,519.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7352-2 paper ¥7,284.- (税込) US$ 32.95

In Public Archaeology for the Twenty-First Century, James F. Brooks and Jeremy M. Moss have collected essays from twenty-seven scholars and community members to illuminate archaeological sites like ancient "water courts" at Mound Key in Florida, the lost Black cemetery at Nashville Zoo, fur-trade-era Fort Michilimackinac, and Arizona's Gila Bend Internment Camp. Each case offers readers an experience that enlivens the past whilespeaking to the present.These essays wrestle with key tensions in the fields of public archaeology. What do we mean by "public"? Is this site public facing or public participating? Does "public" simply imply simplifications in scholarly rigor or does it require more creative attention to methods of analysis and interpretation to render stories sensible for those beyond the academy?In the broadest sense, these chapters explore the relationship between archaeological practice, the representation of archaeology and history, and our varied publics. This requires not only consultation with varied stakeholders but also collaborative partnerships with descendant communities who have direct connections to the heritage resources we wish to share.

Chibois, Jonathan / Shapiro, Samuel (eds.), Doing Fieldwork in Centres of Power: The Case of Deliberative Assemblies. (Routledge Studies in Fieldwork and Ethnographic Research) 280 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-1473>
ISBN 978-1-032-37240-2 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book considers the challenges posed by fieldwork in centres of power to researchers in the social sciences, with a focus on deliberative assemblies. It includes work by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars united around a common interest in producing complementary knowledge about today's political institutions based on qualitative approaches. The chapters feature various case studies on specific issues that arose from the authors' fieldwork, as well as broader theoretical syntheses. The contributors offer some practical tools and solutions for others who would like to engage in this type of research, given the difficulties and complexities of doing fieldwork in centres of power and the lack of methodological resources currently available. The volume is valuable reading for anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and others with an interest in the ethnography of politics.

Colligan, Sumi / Jaysane-Darr, Anna (eds.), The Disabled Anthropologist. 244 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-1474>
ISBN 978-1-032-76030-8 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-032-76027-8 paper ¥10,578.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book brings much needed attention to disabled anthropologists, making clear that "disabled" and "anthropologist" belong together. The disabled anthropologists who contribute to this volume and on which these chapters focus have refused erasure from a profession that would ignore their critiques and creativity. Applying autoethnographic, photographic, and poetic venues, the contributors assess the drawbacks of their anthropology training programs, the limitations of accessibility practices in the academy, and how their own embodiments and the contingencies of their research and research settings have facilitated the discovery of novel methodologies and insights. Collectively the volume's contributors demonstrate a shared concern for the wellbeing of disabled ethnographers and interlocutors, whether working with Colombian refugees in Ecuador or those living with chronic pain in Michigan.The Disabled Anthropologist is essential reading for students and scholars working in cultural and medical anthropology.

人類学における視覚調査方法国際ハンドブック
Cox, Rupert / Wright, Chris (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropology. 312 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-1475>
ISBN 978-1-138-30808-4 hard ¥61,490.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00

Routledge International Handbook of Visual Research Methods in Anthropology approaches the question of method through conceptualisations of the visual world as light, sight, images and technologies of imaging, that can be analysed and described through a range of visual practices, in the course of anthropological research.The aim of the book is to move beyond making a case for the importance of "the visual" via its notional arrangement as a subject and means of study in anthropology, by showing how it is applied as a way of doing anthropological research through the explication of a series of examples. Employing an innovative structure for a handbook, each contribution is orientated around a single distinguishing concept and addresses the following three issues: How to see through images, by treating the visual as a form of knowledge made visible. A second group of entries are concerned with how to see through time, by approaching the visual as a modality for representing duration and rendering legible what may no longer be available to vision. Finally, a third group of entries deal with the visual at a phenomenal level, as a medium that we see in.The Handbook is a timely and useful resource for both students and researchers of anthropology at this time because the disciplines long standing, theoretical, as well as empirically rich practical engagements with visual methods provide valuable insights for the social sciences into current transmutations of "the visual" into "the multimodal", the non-representational' and "the sensory". The importance of these areas as well as of digital research more generally makes visual methods ever more important for social scientists, hence the Handbook is also valuable for those on general Research Methods courses and in related fields such as Sociology, Health Studies and Social Work.

de Barros Viana Hissa, Sarah (ed.), Archaeologies of Smoking, Pipes and Transatlantic Connections. (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) 229 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <737-1476>
ISBN 978-3-031-71256-2 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This volume presents a global study of the economic and cultural global systems in which smoking materials, practices and ideas circulate, intertwine, and transform. This book compiles original work authored by researchers from the Americas, Africa, and Europe to elicit a comparative archaeology of smoking and pipes through histories and case studies from localities and regions on both sides of the Atlantic. Consequently, the book is divided into four sections divided by region. The first chapters focus on Amerindian pipes and smoking, and these are followed by research on smoking and clay pipe use in post-17th century Europe. Chapters on the production and use of clay smoking pipes in Brazil and a reflection on the influence of pipes and smoking in Senegambia comprise the final two sections respectively. Taken together, this volume explores a wide range of issues, such as economic and cultural relations between old and new worlds; the effects of colonization in different parts of the globe; circulation of ideas, practices, and objects in hegemonic and non-hegemonic transatlantic connections; techniques and styles of making and decorating pipes; materialization and expression of ethnicities and of their blurred frontiers; changes and continuities observed in smoking materials and their inferred meanings. The book compiles fresh insights on the complex and diverse history of smoking and transatlantic economic and cultural interactions associated with it. It is of interest to both historical and pre-historical archaeologists researching material culture in several regions of the world, but also historians and anthropologists interested in material culture and global cultural systems.

Gorbanenko, Jenia et al. (eds.), Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space: Methods and Perspectives. (Anthropology of Now) 248 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-1477>
ISBN 978-1-032-57129-4 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-032-57128-7 paper ¥10,578.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book explores new methods and perspectives in the anthropology of outer space. For the past ten years, scholarship of outer space has grown significantly in the social sciences. Now, an international community of anthropologists is starting to produce significant contributions to this work. This is pushing the conversations around the future of humanity, technology, and outer space beyond the realm of speculative theory into concrete challenges to established norms within anthropology. Each chapter in this volume introduces a unique take on what constitutes an ethnographic field in anthropology. They signal a reimagination of the central concept for the discipline and offer a timely meditation on the shift in anthropology's understanding of fieldwork from its inception until now. The volume consists of 11 ethnographic chapters, plus an introduction by the editors, and two invited responses. Each of the main body chapters presents a distinct approach to situating outer space empirically on Earth. By bringing together emerging and established scholars, this book ultimately posits that an anthropological approach to outer space requires creative approaches to ethnography that are no longer exclusively premised on a co-presence with the people under study. A primer of innovative ethnographies and an ideal companion to courses on methods, this volume will provide students with a body of accessible, contemporary work on futurisms and outer space. In addition, this book will serve as a snapshot of a moment in ethnographically innovative anthropology that will be relevant to a wider academic audience through its exegesis of new methods for the study of distributed communities.

Heywood, Paolo, Burying Mussolini: Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism. 204 pp. 2024:12 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-1478>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7827-8 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-7828-5 paper ¥6,620.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Burying Mussolini addresses the global resurgence in authoritarian and nationalist populism and its connection with valorizations of ordinary life. Predappio is the birthplace and burial site of Benito Mussolini and Italy's premier neo-fascist tourist site with hundreds of thousands of fascist sympathizers descending on the town annually. But, Paolo Heywood asks, what of the people who actually live there? What does 'ordinary life' look like in the shadow of Mussolini's grave? As politicians, commentators, and social scientists seek to understand what lies behind new forms of political authoritarianism, and whether and how they resemble movements once thought consigned to the past, Burying Mussolini narrates how people in Predappio cope with the dark heritage of their home by carefully crafting a sense of 'ordinariness' that is itself inflected by ghosts of their fascist past.

Johnston, Carolyn Ross / Baker, Terri McKinney, Living Indigenous Feminism: Stories of Contemporary Native American Women. 321 pp. 2025:6 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <737-1479>
ISBN 978-0-8203-7376-8 hard ¥26,519.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7377-5 paper ¥6,178.- (税込) US$ 27.95

Living Indigenous Feminism is a bricolage of historical research and historiography, poetry, interviews, biographies, memoirs, and stories--both traditional and contemporary. This book poses the question of what southern and western history would look like if viewed through the eyes of a diverse sample of indigenous women. The answer is that these indigenous women have been "living feminism" in ways that shed new light on these histories, while showing how their lives and visions can offer fresh guidance for turbulent present and the shared future we are making now.This book features Native women of many different nations, cultures, and regions, including Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Seminole, Seneca, Iroquois, Navajo, Salish and Kootenai, Kiowa, Muscogee, Creek, Yankton Dakota Sioux, Fort Sill Apache, Cheyenne, Red Lake Ojibwe, Ho-Chunk, Seneca, Tonawanda Band, Standing Rock Sioux, Lakota Sioux, Blackfeet, Laguna Pueblo, and San Ildefonso Pueblo. Indigenous women, the authors contend, have always lived a pattern of gender power and balance. Indigenous feminism is traditional, and at the same time, a source of fresh insights about how we can sustain balanced, inclusive, meaningful lives through times of challenge and change.Although traditional academic scholarship is an individualistic and solitary venture, this approach is relational and organic, with the living indigenous women who shared their stories with them and with the indigenous women who lived before them, whom the authors met on the pages of scattered historical records. Their stories suggest powerful new meanings to what "living feminism" can do when we do it together.

Jovanovic, Deana, Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town. 246 pp. 2025:1 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-1480>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7909-1 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-8013-4 paper ¥7,063.- (税込) US$ 31.95

Staging the Promises reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a post-socialist decline, were the audience theatrically performed promises of aspirational futures. Deana Jovanovic chronicles the efforts of the copper-processing company and the town's authorities to theatrically perform promises of better economic, urban, environmental, infrastructural and post-industrial futures. Her book asks: What impact did the staging of promises have on the residents? What temporal, material, and political effects did these performances generate? How did they shape the citizens' futures and their present? Jovanovic offers many ethnographic examples of ambivalence in people's orientation to their futures, while residents balanced hope with despair, disillusionment, and dismay. Staging the Promises highlights how the performances shaped the present, and how, in a Gramscian twist, they sustained hope alongside power dynamics that residents often criticized. Staging the Promises assesses the performative ways through which contemporary capitalist futures are remade. For Jovanovic, Bor represents a site that reflects a current global trend: staging the promises of enhanced futures today play a significant role in contemporary populist politics. Through them, she argues, distant futures become gradually withdrawn from people's horizons.

Knight, Daniel M., Energy Talk: Green Knowledge from Greece's Silicon Plains. 180 pp. 2025:5 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-1481>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8110-0 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-8111-7 paper ¥6,620.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Energy Talk disrupts the claims of institutionalized categories such as sustainability, green economy, climate change, and net zero that promote a shared consensus on energy transition. These concepts often conceal the intricate detail of how people engage with rapidly shifting sociotechnical environments. On the Plains of Thessaly, Greece, interactions with the emerging energy landscape, particularly the expanding photovoltaic (solar) program, lead people to critique long-standing assumptions about nationalism and belonging, their experience of time and modernity, the morality of entrepreneurial opportunism, and historically grounded notions of neo-colonialism and foreign occupation. Daniel M. Knight showcases how obscured 'adelo-knowledge' is exposed during epochs of intense upheaval. Since 2009 Greece has been a hot spot of interrelated crises around which new socio-techno-natural contracts have emerged. Energy is a pivot for comprehending a decade where conventional information has been upended, traditions challenged, and assumptions fractured. Energy Talk offers an ethnographically and theoretically rich rereading of established categories usually associated with the green transition, from their local particularity to the potential implications for planetary relations.

Laws, Ben, Asylum and Nonreligion: Emotions, Evidence-making and Credibility. 100 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <737-1482>
ISBN 978-3-031-71764-2 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access Palgrave Pivot explores the experiences of nonreligious asylum seekers in Northern Europe. While religious persecution is often cited as a reason for seeking asylum, nonbelievers also face significant persecution in their home countries due to their lack of religious affiliation. Despite this, their experiences are frequently overlooked in academic discussions, and asylum assessment centers have been slow to develop frameworks that address their unique challenges. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research from Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the challenges nonbelievers face, as well as the opportunities they create as agents within the system. Emotions offer an analytical window into the world of nonbelievers, highlighting their desperation and innovative practices of evidence creation. Throughout the book, the logics of credibility assessment are critically explored, revealing the cultural chasm between assessors and nonreligious claimants.

Pandian, Anand, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down. 272 pp. 2025:5 (Redwood Pr., US) <737-1484>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3787-0 hard ¥6,190.- (税込) US$ 28.00

Reed, Adam, Animal People: Moral Subjects in the Work of Animal Protection. (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge) 324 pp. 2025:1 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-1487>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7963-3 hard ¥28,743.- (税込) US$ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-7964-0 paper ¥8,831.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be "moderate" activists. Adam Reed explores the interrelationships between moral cause and organizational culture, including the ways in which expert roles such as investigator and lobbyist inform the practice and outlook of animal protection. This book examines not only connections between forms of professionalism and everyday advocacy but also how those working to improve the welfare of animals can come to possess an expertise in public or mainstream ethics. Reed explores these issues through the example of a Scottish-based animal protection organization. Animal People makes a distinctive contribution to anthropological debate and discussion relating to human and nonhuman animal interactions, activism, and the attributions and imperatives of moral action.

Shore, Bradd, At the Crossroads of Psychology and Anthropology: In Conversation with Jerome Bruner. 290 pp. 2025:2 (MIT Pr., US) <737-1488>
ISBN 978-0-262-55104-5 paper ¥11,055.- (税込) US$ 50.00

Sutton, Mark Q. / Bartelink, Eric J., Bioarchaeology: An Introduction to the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Dead. 2nd ed. 340 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <737-1489>
ISBN 978-1-032-75656-1 hard ¥37,180.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-032-72495-9 paper ¥10,292.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Bioarchaeology provides an accessible introduction to the history and general theory of human remains in context from an archaeological and anthropological perspective, as well as their recovery and laboratory treatment.Since the first edition, there have been new developments in several areas and this volume provides readers with updated coverage of this fast moving field. Updates include information on new methodological approaches such as modelling approaches for reconstructing infant breastfeeding and weaning and childhood diet from serial samples of tooth dentin as well as new approaches to paleodemography, biological sex estimation, ancient DNA, new forensic anthropology methods, and new archaeological data from newly reported sites. Through numerous case studies the book explores how the ways a society deals with their dead can reveal a great deal about that society, including its religious, political, economic, and social organizations. It details recovery methods and how, once recovered, human remains can be analyzed to reveal details about the funerary system of the subject society and inform on a variety of other issues, such as health, demography, disease, workloads, mobility, sex and gender, and migration. The book concludes with contemporary applications, highlighting how bioarchaeological techniques can be used in contemporary forensic settings and in investigations of genocide and war crimes.Theories, principles, and scientific techniques are set out in a comprehensive and understandable fashion making this book an excellent introduction to bioarchaeology for students of archaeology at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Bilal, Muhammad, Beyond the Law: Living Blasphemy in Pakistan: Ethnography of Mundane Violence, Faith, and Lifeworlds. (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) 205 pp. 2024:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <737-1080>
ISBN 978-3-031-71028-5 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

The book embarks on a journey into the intricate landscape of blasphemy in Pakistan amid a rising tide of blasphemy accusations, public lynchings, and contentious blasphemy laws. Challenging conventional perspectives, this book delves beyond legal and religious confines, offering an ethnography of the mundane as a secular reading and a grand existential scheme to highlight how blasphemy laws and religious prisms often fail to capture the essence of the blasphemy dilemma in Pakistan. The author offers an insightful re-evaluation of the blasphemy issue, addressing its multifaceted definition, the motivations driving intentional blasphemous acts and frivolous accusations, the authority to punish alleged offenders, the paradox of religious violence, and the emergence of mediated expressions and virtual negotiation of blasphemy. Through meticulous grassroots analysis of ordinary Pakistanis' perspectives, the book offers pragmatic policy solutions for blasphemy issues, presenting unorthodox insights into Pakistan, its diverse populace, and the ever-evolving sensibilities of Islam and societal dynamics in both local and global contexts.

イエメンの政治人類学
Porter, Ross (ed.), A Political Anthropology of Yemen: Concept and Critique. (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) 268 pp. 2025:6 (Syracuse U. Pr., US) <737-1139>
ISBN 978-0-8156-3858-2 hard ¥19,899.- (税込) US$ 90.00
ISBN 978-0-8156-3859-9 paper ¥8,831.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Morales, Gabriela Elisa, Decolonizing Medicine: Indigenous Politics and the Practice of Care in Bolivia. 280 pp. 2025:5 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <737-1195>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4085-6 hard ¥26,532.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4272-0 paper ¥6,633.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Decolonizing Medicine examines Bolivian state-led efforts to decolonize health services during the administration of Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president. Governing from 2006 to 2019, the Morales administration undertook sweeping reforms, vowing to reverse intertwined colonial and capitalist systems of oppression and restore Indigenous good living. Predating more recent calls from global health practitioners to "decolonize global health," Bolivian state projects included a range of initiatives, such as integrating Indigenous traditional medical practitioners into clinical care and encouraging cultural sensitivity among healthcare providers. And yet, despite layered institutional investments, many Indigenous patients continued to describe their local hospital as a place "donde no hay atencion" ("where there is no care"). Through fine-grained ethnography of health policymaking and implementation, Gabriela Elisa Morales tracks how Bolivian biomedical and public health institutions fell short of the far-reaching transformations proposed by decolonial activists and theorists. At the same time, she foregrounds how Indigenous patients and healers challenged the terms of caregiving and demanded that state and medical institutions fulfill their obligations to Indigenous flourishing. In tracing these dynamics, Morales articulates the multiplicity of ways that care practice becomes a locus of political foreclosure as well as radical transformation, with crucial insights for broader projects of decolonization and Indigenous rights.