Relational Archaeologies and Cosmologies in the North, coming soon. Some dunderheaded cover-bot at Routledge has given it a most misleading cover photo of a moose crossing a road. Either they’re hoping for the Northern Exposure crowd, or the bot’s auto-semantics module confused animistic with animal.

Surely Routledge makes enough profit on its over-priced academic books that it can afford some proper cover designers? But apparently not. It’s time that authors started demanding oversight of their cover designs at academic publishers, I’d suggest, as the trend toward robo-designers increases.

Anyway, despite the misleading cover, the book is actually a survey of… “animistic-shamanistic cosmologies and the associated human-environment relations from the Neolithic to modern times” in the far-north, which incorporates the latest thinking and discoveries. Looks fascinating. No ebook, but the paperback looks somewhat affordable at about £30. It’s due toward the end of July 2019.