Books published by Left Coast Press Inc

Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory, anthropologist Brian Moeran argues that fashion magazines are able to cast a spell over their readers by using practices and rituals found in age-old magical and religious rites.

Whitney Battle-Baptiste outlines the basic tenets of black feminist thought for archaeologists and shows how it can be used to improve historical archaeological practice.

Traditional qualitative interviews typically involve a single subject; interviews of dyads rarely appear outside marketing research and family studies. Experienced qualitative researcher David Morgan's brief guide to dyadic interviewing provides readers with a road map to expand this technique to many other settings.

Includes a ground-breaking manifesto that calls for the establishment of a more inclusive, visitor-centred paradigm based on the shared experience of human habitation; draws inspiration from film, theatre, public art, and urban design to transform historic house museums; and rovides a how-to guide for making historic house museums sustainable.

Intimacy at Work shows how portable, digital media allow people to bring their private lives into the workplace, thus softening and humanizing what is often a hard, isolating business world.

This brief, practical guide shows you how to identify the right journal or book publisher for your work and guides you through the publications process, from the abstract through writing, production, and marketing.

The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures.

This book focuses on community engagement in museum and archaeological contexts. It shows how the process of opening authority through engagement is implicitly and explicitly connected to a variety of social issues and, as a consequence, is a social issue in itself.

This book uses engaging narratives to illustrate that mental illnesses are not only problems individuals face but problems that need to be understood and treated globally at the social and cultural levels.

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable

This groundbreaking book explores the revolution in New Zealand museums that is influencing the care and exhibition of indigenous objects around the world.

This book explores the place of museums in addressing a goal the University of Washington staunchly supports-to make the world a better place through education and research. It describes the interpretation of identity across the realm of museum work and social issues.

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable

Sponsored by the Museum Education Rountable

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable

This book promotes the idea and the practice of a scientific culture in science museums, art museums, gardens, libraries, coffee houses, school meetings and social gatherings. It encourages common man to think about, use and sometimes contribute to science.

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable