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

Camargo, Alejandro / Cortesi, Luisa / Krause, Franz (eds.), Amphibious Anthropologies: Living in Wet Environments. (Culture, Place, and Nature / A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) 272 pp. 2025:4 (U. Washington Pr., US) <739-600>
ISBN 978-0-295-75388-1 hard ¥24,321.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-295-75389-8 paper ¥7,738.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Rau, Vanessa, Becoming Jewish in Berlin: Ethnography of an Urban Scene. (Culture and Social Practice) 250 S. 2025:4 (Transcript, GW) <739-634>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7415-6 paper ¥6,730.- (税込) EUR 29.00

Why do young Israelis choose to come to Berlin and how does this impact Jewish life? With this ethnography, Vanessa Rau provides a captivating portrait and analysis of a new Jewish-Hebrew urban scene. Depicting different initiatives and biographical trajectories, she shows diverse and complex ways of being and becoming Jewish in Berlin, and presents an analysis of a vibrant scene, its actors, stages and performances and how it is shaped by its historical and socio-political context and representations. She shows how actors struggle with fundamental questions of ≫being Jewish≪ and ≫being German≪ and illuminates contemporary Jewishness - offering new understandings of migration and its impact on social and religious life.

Apekaum, Charles E., Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian. Ed. by B. R. Kracht. (American Indian Lives) 250 pp. 2025:7 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-731>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4318-8 hard ¥14,371.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Born during the final years of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, Charles E. Apekaum, grandson of Kiowa Chief Stumbling Bear, served as the principal interpreter for the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field expedition in 1935. Educated, bilingual, and world traveled, Apekaum's services as a translator were sought by anyone who dealt with the Kiowa Indian Agency personnel, politicians, and scholars. The following year, Apekaum traveled throughout Oklahoma with anthropologist Weston La Barre and ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, serving as their liaison as they documented the peyote religion. During off days, Apekaum narrated his life story to La Barre, recounting the final days of the reservation, allotment, the early days of Anadarko, Oklahoma, his seventeen years attending boarding schools, service in the navy during World War I and then as a state game warden, his work translating for politicians, and his involvement in the Native American Church. La Barre never published the manuscript, which contains rich details about intertribal variants of the sacred peyote rite as well as about Apekaum's life experience. In Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian Benjamin R. Kracht presents Apekaum's autobiography for the first time. This eyewitness account is an important addition to Native American life narratives and the reconstruction of Kiowa cultural, social, and religious life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the southern Great Plains.

Chen, Chung-yu, The Pre-Austronesian 'Liangdao Man'. (The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation 7) 266 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <739-733>
ISBN 978-981-9789-26-9 hard ¥25,527.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book adopts a comprehensive approach, drawing from archaeology, physical anthropology, human genetics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, ethnology and ethnography, to explore the Austronesian link of 'Liangdao Man,' and the origins of Austronesian language groups. Due to their dating 2,300~1,500 years earlier than Austronesian-speaking peoples, these two individuals should be Pre-Austronesian or Proto-Austroasiatic. The Matsu archipelago is situated off Fuzhou City's estuary in Fujian Province. In 2011-2012, the author unearthed two human skeletons, 'Liangdao Man 1' and 'Liangdao Man 2,' aged 8,300 and 7,500 years, respectively, on Liangdao Island, one of these islands. DNA analysis revealed that haplogroups E and R9 were identified, linking them to Austronesians of Taiwan aborigines' maternal lineage.

Darnell, Regna / Gleach, Frederic W. (eds.), Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions. (Histories of Anthropology Annual 15) 372 pp. 2025:8 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-734>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4229-7 paper ¥9,949.- (税込) US$ 45.00

Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions, volume 15 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual, focuses on themes of individual scholars and national developments, with each specific case building toward an understanding of an international discipline. Similar to the cultures that anthropologists study, anthropology's four-field discipline contains myriad practices, theories, and methodologies that are often divergent, contradictory, and associated with nationally based schools of thought, contributing to a vital and diverse global discipline. This volume emphasizes the challenges international scholars face as they engage both local and global movements. Several European traditions are represented, including two chapters adding to the body of work on Portugal from previous volumes in the series. North American traditions are well represented, including a collection of works on Nancy Lurie. Also included is an important examination of the collection of human skeletal remains in Argentina, presented in English for the first time. Readers will find both new information and new ways of understanding this complex history.

S.O.Murray記念論集
Darnell, Regna / Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy (eds.), Invisible Contrarian: Essays in Honor of Stephen O. Murray. (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology) 330 pp. 2025:6 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-735>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4300-3 hard ¥15,477.- (税込) US$ 70.00

In Invisible Contrarian Regna Darnell and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz have assembled scholars to memorialize and celebrate the prescient vision and interdisciplinary contributions of the late Stephen O. Murray (1950-2019), who did pioneering research in ethnolinguistics and anthropology of gender and homosexuality. His socially relevant work continues to provide a cogent example of an emergent, forward-looking anthropology for the twenty-first century. Murray's wide-ranging work included linguistics, regional ethnography in Latin America and Asia, activism, history of anthropology in relation to social sciences, and migration studies. Along with a complete list of his publications, Invisible Contrarian highlights Murray's methodological innovations and includes key writings that remain little known, since he never pursued a tenured research position. ?Murray's significant, prolific contributions deserve not only to be reexamined but to be shared with contemporary and future audiences. Ideal both as a primer for those who have not yet read Murray's work and as an in-depth resource for those already familiar with him, this volume demonstrates the wide-ranging accomplishments of a man who modeled how to be an independent scholar outside an academic position.

Frey, Benjamin E., Rising Above: Language Revitalization in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. (Many Wests) 240 pp. 2025:7 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-736>
ISBN 978-1-4962-3570-1 hard ¥13,266.- (税込) US$ 60.00

Today there are roughly two hundred first-language Cherokee speakers among the seventeen thousand citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. In 2019 the United Keetoowah Band, the Cherokee Nation, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians declared a state of emergency for the Cherokee language. In Rising Above Eastern Band Cherokee citizen Benjamin E. Frey chronicles his odyssey of being introduced to the Cherokee language with trepidation as a young adult and to his eventual work revitalizing the Cherokee language in a Cherokee way. In the first book to examine the process of language shift and revitalization among this band, Frey explores the institutional, economic, and social factors that drove the language shift from Cherokee to English, interpreted through the lens of a member of the Eastern Band Cherokee community in conversation with other community members. Rising Above navigates Frey's upbringing, the intricacies of language and relationships, the impact of trauma, and the quest for joy and healing within the community. In addition to language documentation and preservation, Rising Above explores how to breathe new life into the language and community, using storytelling to discuss the Cherokee language, its grammatical components, and its embedded cultural ideologies alongside its interactions with broader American society.

Lowry, David Shane, Lumbee Pipelines: American Indian Movement in the Residue of Settler Colonialism. 310 pp. 2025:8 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-737>
ISBN 978-1-4962-3279-3 hard ¥14,371.- (税込) US$ 65.00

In Lumbee Pipelines David Shane Lowry (Lumbee) examines the historical and modern paths, or "pipelines," through which members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina maintain Lumbee national identity, community practices, and tribal sovereignty. Through extensive ethnographic research and contextualization, Lowry explores these pipelines: the programs and traditions through which the Lumbee people engineer the settler-colonial conditions that define life in North Carolina and the United States as a whole. Even as the Lumbee community depends on the economics, politics, and histories of settler colonialism, those realities at once threaten Lumbee life, freedom, and community. Despite that conflict, Lumbee people use these pipelines to protect their interests and to influence the world in the realms of public infrastructure and education, healthcare services, humanitarian networks, fossil fuel pipelines, environmental degradation, and artificial intelligence. Lowry paints an intimate portrait of how individual Lumbees define their identities and sense of being, revealing the disputes and affinities between Lumbee community members in various states of accepting and rejecting settler-colonial circumstances.Lumbee Pipelines engages conversations about how, even as American Indian identities and communities are often erased amid the business of contemporary American life, Lumbee people have devised ways to empower and enrich themselves and other peoples by repurposing and evading the genocidal pressures that define settler-colonial society.

Perley, Bernard C. (ed.), Remediating Cartographies of Erasure: Anthropology, Indigenous Epistemologies, and the Global Imaginary. 274 pp. 2025:8 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-739>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4340-9 hard ¥14,371.- (税込) US$ 65.00

Remediating Cartographies of Erasure brings together leading sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists to explore the moral imperatives of anthropology as a discipline to contribute to the self-determination and equality of Indigenous peoples around the globe. This engaged collaboration highlights the partnerships between Indigenous communities and anthropology as a mutually respectful and emancipatory practice of Indigenous and anthropological epistemologies. Indigenous scholars from New Zealand, the United States, and Canada and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia, the United States, and Canada each provide concrete examples of how researchers actualize the moral imperative to work with Indigenous peoples in ways that foster their human rights and self-determination. The contributors discuss anthropological work done in Canada, United States, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Australia, Sardinia, and New Zealand. In laying out a world anthropology, this volume demonstrates the rectification practices of Indigenous peoples and continues anthropology's long-standing advocacy for social justice and human rights around the globe.

Sowry, Nathan, Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures. (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology) 338 pp. 2025:4 (U. Nebraska Pr., US) <739-741>
ISBN 978-1-4962-4192-4 hard ¥14,371.- (税込) US$ 65.00

In Turning the Power Nathan Sowry examines how some Native American students from the boarding school system, with its forced assimilationist education, became key cultural informants for anthropologists conducting fieldwork during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Salvage anthropologists of this era relied on Native informants to accomplish their mission of "saving" Native American cultures and ultimately turned many informants into anthropologists after years of fieldwork experience. Sowry investigates ten relatively unknown Native American anthropologists and collaborators who, from 1878 to 1930, attended a religiously affiliated mission school, a federal Indian boarding school, or both. He tells the stories of Native anthropologists Tichkematse, William Jones, and James R. Murie, who were alumni of the Hampton Institute in Virginia. Richard Davis and Cleaver Warden were among the first and second classes to attend the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Amos Oneroad graduated from the Haskell Indian Industrial Training School in Lawrence, Kansas, after attending mission and boarding schools in South Dakota. D. C. Duvall, John V. Satterlee, and Florence and Louis Shotridge attended smaller boarding and mission schools in Montana, Wisconsin, and Alaska Territory, respectively.Turning the Power follows the forced indoctrination of Native American students and then details how each of them "turned the power," using their English knowledge and work experience in the anthropological field to embrace, document, and preserve their Native cultures rather than abandoning their heritage.

Molapo, Sepetla (ed.), Collective Action in Post-colonial Societies: Beyond the Binary of Sovereignty and Solidarity. 161 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <739-486>
ISBN 978-3-031-77546-8 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book offers an exploration of collective action by bringing together the themes of sovereignty and solidarity in post-colonial societies in Africa and beyond. It does so against a common tradition of writing about collective action that assumes an opposition between the state as a legal framework of unity and social movements that express the aspirations of marginalized people. The book's examination of collective action resists this binary division. It states that sovereignty can be imagined beyond the confines of the law and consequently beyond the centrality of the state. Power therefore appears as a construct of forces and factors that signal or gesture to a complex but fascinating way of imagining collective action. These forces and factors open our eyes to the dynamics of life in post-colonial societies in ways that the understanding of sovereignty centred on law conceals. Brought into an intimacy with solidarity, sovereignty opens collective action to nuanced, complex and multiple configurations that surpass binary thinking. This is an innovative approach and of interest to students and scholars from across the social sciences.