Books published by Left Coast Press Inc

Ethics has been a perennial concern of qualitative researchers; a subject confounded with the emergence of human subjects regulations, increased concern with indigenous communities, globalization of research practices, and the breakdown of barriers between researcher and subject. This book looks at the key topics that face qualitative researchers.

Guides the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. This book offers various techniques for gathering data on the self and shows how to transform this information into a study that looks for the connection with others present in a diverse world.

A guide to the theory and practice of conducting ethnographic research in corporate consumer environments. It is suitable for students, who are likely to both study and work in corporate environments.

Jeremy Green's systematic overview of maritime archaeology offers a step-by-step description of this fast-growing field.

The contributors to this volume take advantage of the diversity of landscape archaeology to examine the link to heritage, the impact on our understanding of temporality, and the situated theory that arises out of landscape studies, using examples from New York to Northern Ireland, Africa to the Argolid.

Addresses the crucial issue often overlooked by researchers: How do you ensure that the interview you so carefully collected will be preserved and available in the future? This book looks at the various steps that take place after the interview - transcribing, cataloging, preserving, archiving, and making your study accessible to others.

Dame Kathleen Kenyon has always been a larger-than-life figure, likely the influential woman archaeologist of the 20th century. This biography of Kenyon recounts not only her many achievements in the field but also her personal side, known to very few of her contemporaries.

Despite political upheavals under Muslim domination in the Middle Ages, Palestine was a center of great artistic activity and was recognized for its incredible dynamism. Offering an introduction to Palestinian Islamic art and archaeology, this book presents the multifaceted and long-lasting achievements of Islamic art in Palestine.

Talks about young, bright women who are mentored by older scholars, usually men, who attempt to mould them into their own masculine ideals. Using the tropes of mythology and Jungian psychology, the author characterizes the many paths these women's academic lives take: as muse for an older scholar, as mistress or wife, or as the dutiful daughter.

This book describes the fundamental principles and methods of using ancient starch molecules to elicit plant use, environmental conditions, and social relations in the ancient world.

This volume attempts to present a dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian scholars over competing narratives in the 19th and 20th century history of the Middle East to 1948, in the hopes of creating an appreciation, understanding, and respect for the "other."

Shows how sorcery, typically associated with ""traditional culture"", and conspiracy, usually analyzed in terms of national politics and international inequality, are in fact closely linked and mutually operationalized. This book helps readers understand the cultural dimensions of health and disease.

Takes you inside the trenches of one of the world's most important archaeological excavations and the biggest prehistoric village ever discovered: 9,500 year old Catalhoeyuek, in south-central Turkey. This book details the dramatic quest by archaeologists to unearth the buried secrets of this spectacularly well-preserved early farming settlement.

This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science.