Books published by Left Coast Press Inc

Chris Webster¿s handy, informative guide outlines what it takes to become an archaeological technician, a field worker in cultural resource management archaeology.

Three of the Europe's leading paleoanthropologists and physical scientists outline here--in student friendly language--the revolutionary changes in the science of studying of human origins and the amazing findings those tools have produced.

The first book on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, this concise, accessible text opens up a major new approach for research across the disciplines and applied fields.

Over the past decade, evidence has been mounting that our ancestors developed skills to sail across large bodies of water early in prehistory. In this fascinating volume, Alan Simmons summarizes and synthesizes the evidence for prehistoric seafaring and island habitation worldwide, then focuses on the Mediterranean.

In concise entries, this dictionary analyses ideas and concepts about advertising and its social, economic, psychological and cultural significance.

Addresses key questions regarding the extent of the Younger Dryas climate event at the end of the Pleistocene and how hunter-gatherer populations worldwide adapted behaviorally and technologically in the face of major climatic change.

Archaeology for whom? The dozen well-known contributors to this innovative volume suggest nothing less than that transformation of the discipline into a service-oriented, community-based endeavor.

This volume shows how scholars take qualitative inquiry into the outside world, presenting models, cases, and experiences to show how qualitative research can be used as an effective instrument for social justice.

Argues for a new approach to combat stress and trauma that sees these "invisible wounds of war" not just as individual medical pathologies but as social phenomena demanding a collective reconciliation with the post-9/11 wars.

This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes.

What does it mean to be a responsible methodologist? In The Responsible Methodologist , Aaron Kuntz uses the latest movements in social theory to challenge qualitative researchers to reconceptualize their work away from the technocratic toward an intervention, an ethical disruption of the norm, an activist stance toward progressive social change.

The life stories in this book present the journeys of over 30 indigenous researchers from six continents and many different disciplines. They show, in their own words, the challenges, paradoxes, and oppression they have faced, their strategies for overcoming them, and how their work has produced more meaningful research and a more just society.

Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Using a Darwinian approach, this book seeks to explain this rich cultural variation.

Focuses on the anthropological concept of trade as a fundamentally social activity concerned not only with the movement of goods, but also on the social context and consequences of that exchange. This title discusses trade on various scales ranging from a solitary confinement cell to trans-oceanic networks.

The first major synthesis of African archaeobotany in decades, this book significantly advances our knowledge of relationship between agriculture and social complexity.

Evaluates techniques for excavation, sampling of sites and regions, and stylistic analysis, as well as such theoretical factors of explanation as population pressure, trade, and religion.

Two experienced exhibit designers lead you through the complex process of design and installation of natural history exhibitions.

Highlights the variety of roles played by qualitative researchers in addressing global communities in crisis. It shows how qualitative researchers can bridge gaps in cultural and linguistic understanding to address issues of disparity in race, ethnicity, gender, and environment in the interests of global social justice and human rights.

A concise intellectual biography of Harold Garfinkel, a key figure in 20th-century social science, and a basic description of ethnomethodology, a research tradition that he created.

Addresses some of the main themes of the study of Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book examines the status of Egypt as an important example of traditional Asian scholarship, and as an ancient model of imperialism itself, using a combination of case studies and discursive chapters.

The Yearbook is to provide those in the heritage management world with summaries of notable court cases, settlements and other dispositions, legislation, government regulations, policies and agency decisions that affect their work.

Observation is one of the foundational methods of qualitative inquiry - but only if it is conducted in a systematic fashion that allows for the careful recording of data and the consistent retrieval of those data for purposes of analysis. This book features a brief how-to guide to conducting observations in naturalistic settings.

This distinguished group of archaeologists select key subjects and genres used by Hollywood and provide the historical and archaeological depth that a movie cannot--what really happened in history. Topics include Egypt, the Wild West, Civil War submarines, Vikings, the Titanic, and others.

A useful introduction to the study of tourism that applies semiotics and cultural theory to deal with some of our most iconic tourist destinations from the Taj Mahal to Las Vegas, and from the Eiffel Tower to Antarctica.

Using 20 years of data from more than 600 ground-penetrating radar surveys, Lawrence Conyers provides the consumer of GPR studies with basic information on how to read and interpret GPR data for identifying subsurface remains and do cultural analysis.