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

Uehling, Greta Lynn, Decolonizing Ukraine: How the Indigenous People of Crimea Remade Themselves after Russian Occupation. 224 pp. 2025:2 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <743-860>
ISBN 979-88-8180-445-9 hard ¥20,377.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 979-88-8180-446-6 paper ¥8,580.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

Chen, Chun, Theory and Perspective: Essays in Chinese Archaeology. 508 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-958>
ISBN 978-981-9613-59-5 hard ¥51,058.- (税込) EUR 219.99

This book draws attention to the importance of theoretical problems in archaeological research in China. At present, Chinese archaeology has adoped the traditional culture-historical paradigm, with research themes has mainly focused on chronology and cultural relationships. The lack of training at theoretical thinking and scientific methods, such as positivist methods and logical reasoning, it has become difficult to reconstruct the processes of human behavior and social change with rigorous steps of looking at people behind the artifacts. As a response to this situation, this book discusses various problems that bother Chinese archaeologists in terms of the advances of archaeological theories and methods. This book emphasizes the importance for theoretical guidance and problem awareness in archaeological research, while illustrates this scientific philosophy with diversified case studies. The purpose of this volume is trying to summarize the history and practice of Chinese archaeology in the global context. It will greatly broaden the perspective of researchers all over the world with an insight into this particular practice and can also serve as a comprehensive reference work in the field of Chinese archaeology.

Zaporowski, Andrzej, Crack and Culture: On Representations of Movement in Anthropology and Philosophy. (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy) 108 pp. 2025:2 (Springer, GW) <743-77>
ISBN 978-3-031-83421-9 paper ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book analyzes the representations of movement that reflect time. The author scrutinizes movement critically assuming that (1) movement is composed of change, (2) a change may be a crack, (3) the crack demonstrates a disturbance in the experienced movement, and (4) it is culture that is a remedy to the crisis caused by this disturbance. It is shown that artistic sensitivity allows for the detection of various cracks, and it is, among other examples, religious mythology and scientific narratives where one finds a multiplicity of representations to manage the consequences of this detection. Zaporowski sees these tools as purposefully constructed to respond to the human experience of discontinuity in the world and proposes to frame time cyclically while - critically - paying attention to the cracks as significant indicators that force one to amend one's conduct in an ordered fashion. He appeals to the notion of culture, which allows one to manage the cracked nature of movement. Culture conditions one's purposeful and ordered actions, and is subject to possible reconfigurations through a series of interactions. It allows for foreseeable conduct while at the same time being aware of possible and irreversible changes. This volume appeals to researchers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy and anthropology.

Leontiy, Halyna / Schulz, Miklas (eds.), Ethnography and Diversity: Knowledge Production at the Boundaries and the Boundaries of Knowledge Production. 344 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <743-1143>
ISBN 978-3-658-47167-5 paper ¥27,848.- (税込) EUR 119.99

The focus of the volume is on ethnographically oriented research practice. It is reflected in the mirror of the currently controversial concepts of diversity and intersectionality in the cultural and social sciences. Special attention is paid to the question of how researchers deal with the methodological problem of the production, reproduction and reflection of categories. Which categories are already brought to the 'field', later revised or solidified, and which categories finally accompany the interpretation process and which constitute the presentation of results? How and why do they emerge? And last but not least: How are specific worlds of experience of human diversity co-produced or transformed by (research) categories? The Content Conceptual foundations - Diversity and inclusion in educational contexts - Interculture in diversity - Diversity in the field of tension between body, gender and disability The Editors Dr. rer. soc. Halyna Leontiy is Substitute Professor (Verwaltungsprofessorin) of Foundations of Social Sciences, Institute of Methods and Methodological Principles in the Social Sciences (IMMS), University of Goettingen, Germany since October 2021. Prof. Dr. phil. Miklas Schulz is a visiting researcher focusing on Inclusive Education and School Development at the Institute of Educational Science, Department of Applied Educational Science, at the University of Hildesheim.

人類学の歴史　第2版
D'Agostino, Gabriella / Matera, Vincenzo (eds.), Histories of Anthropology: Interactions Between Centers and Peripheries in the Making of Anthropological Discourses. 2nd ed. 674 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <743-1244>
ISBN 978-3-031-75051-9 hard ¥39,453.- (税込) EUR 169.99

This edited volume presents, for the first time, a history of anthropology regarding not only the well-known European and American traditions, but also lesser known traditions, extending its scope beyond the Western world. It focuses on the results of these traditions in the present. Taking into account the distinction between empire-building and nation-building anthropology, introduced by G. Stocking and taken up by U. Hannerz, the book investigates different histories of anthropology, especially in ex-colonial and marginal contexts. It highlights how the hegemonic anthropologies have been accepted and assimilated in local contexts, which approaches have been privileged by institutions and academies in different locations, how the anthropological approach has been modelled and adapted according to specific knowledge requirements related to the cultural features of different areas, and which schools emerge as the most consolidated today. Each chapter presents a "cultural history" of one of the historical-cultural and geo-political contexts that influenced and produced the specific disciplinary traditions. The chapters highlight the local contributions to the discipline, the influences that the world centres have on the peripheries, but also the ways in which the peripheries have "learned from the centres" in order to re-elaborate meaningful or otherwise recognisable disciplinary lines.

Papachristophorou, Marilena, Performing Self in Ethnographic Fieldwork. 146 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <743-1247>
ISBN 978-3-031-77305-1 hard ¥25,527.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This provocative book presents a methodological proposal for teaching ethnographic fieldwork, applying interdisciplinary tools inspired from performance theory, acting, experiential anthropology and existential psychotherapy. At the same time, it constitutes a theoretical and methodological trajectory mapping the history of ethnographic fieldwork through highly characteristic moments along with the author's own personal journey in the field in terms of a lifetime project. Starting from the assumption that ethnographic fieldwork constitutes a deeply human experience, the book proposes a step further towards the performative dimension of an ethnographic condition inspired by the Stanislavski method, which in practice complements performance theory issues: it is argued that participant observation offers an intermediate identity for the ethnographer through a conscious management of the social "role" dictated by their research participants; this ethnographic mediation of the Self may also have psychotherapeutic effects, mainly through conscious management of self-diversity and reflexivity in ethnographic writing. Ethnographic fieldwork is thus highlighted as a performative stage and a field of deep transformations for the ethnographer's identity.

人類学の哲学
Rapport, Nigel (ed.), Anthropology's Philosophy: How Anthropology Makes Concepts its Own. (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology) 376 pp. 2025:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <743-1248>
ISBN 978-3-031-83818-7 hard ¥37,132.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This book focuses on anthropology's ambition for comprehensiveness and its interdisciplinary nature. It consists of concise essays, each around 2,500 words, in which contributors examine how concepts traditionally linked to philosophy or other disciplines are interpreted and applied within anthropology. Each contributor selects a personally inspiring concept and illustrates its relevance to anthropology, showcasing how it takes on new meaning within an anthropological framework. These essays vary in style and content, allowing contributors to discuss the history of the concept's usage, provide an ethnographic illustration of the concept, or offer an analytical, comparative or theoretical exposition of the concept as deployed anthropologically. A common theme across all entries is the exploration of anthropological disciplinarity - or 'anti-disciplinarity' - highlighting its intellectual flexibility and genre-blurring practices, in an effort to approach that expansiveness necessary to do justice to the complexity of human existence.

Williamson, Christine / Crook, Penny (eds.), Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tim Murray. (Outstanding Contributions to Archaeology) 280 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <743-1250>
ISBN 978-3-031-77101-9 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This festschrift volume celebrates Tim Murray's significant and wide-ranging contribution to archaeological thought and practice. It includes 27 papers by Tim Murray's colleagues, research collaborators and students-former and current. Together these comprise a substantive and reflective contribution to Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Cultural Heritage in Australia, Oceania, China, India, the United Kingdom, Northern Europe, and North America. The collected papers in this volume tie together Murray's research into the history (or historiography) of archaeological thought, and his commitment to understanding the material culture of the past to 'write history'. They provide a cross-section of philosophical enquiries and substantive research: from epistemological studies of shared lexicons and important debates in the history of archaeological thought, to the minutae of material culture studies. Several papers explcitly and implicitly explore one of Murray's great interests: the role of heritage preservation in our exploration of the past, including dedicated tertiary training programs for Indigenous Australians to manage, research and protect their own Country. The book is divided into four parts: History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Heritage, offering an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the past. This volume would of interest to archaeologists, historians, philosophers of archaeology, and heritage scholars.

Guenther, Mathias, Mythology of the San Bushmen of Southern Africa. (World Mythology in Theory and Everyday Life) 328 pp. 2025:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <743-136>
ISBN 978-0-19-763434-9 hard ¥28,314.- (税込) US$ 132.00
ISBN 978-0-19-763435-6 paper ¥6,003.- (税込) US$ 27.99

Amongst the oldest continuing cultures on Earth, San Bushmen are indigenous peoples that make up the first nations of Southern Africa. San culture is rich in myth and lore, actively and expansively transmitted by storytellers. Mythology of the San Bushmen of Southern Africa gives an in-depth account of this fascinating mythology and its connections to the religion, social organization, and ecological adaptations of this erstwhile hunting-gathering people. Drawing on a rich trove of archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, and oral traditions of the San, Mathias Guenther reveals the ongoing connections and interactions between actual, experienced reality and virtual, imagined myth time in the mythology and cosmology of San Bushmen. Their myth time was an age of inchoateness and of becoming inhabited by morally flawed human-animal hybrid beings, a state of ambiguity that finds its fullest embodiment in the trickster figure. In addition to this being's persona as prankster-protagonist, the San Bushman trickster is also a god. While not unique in mythologies around the world, the configuration of this secular-sacred trickster-god figure is distinctive among the San, along with other conflations--of human with animal and woman/wife with antelope/meat. San Bushmen of Southern Africa is a significant contribution to hunter-gatherer studies and places San mythology firmly in the context of world mythology.