Books published by Left Coast Press Inc

This volume tells the stories-in their own words-- of 37 indigenous archaeologists from six continents, how they became archaeologists, and how their dual role affects their relationships with their community and their professional colleagues.

Abridged and updated version of the basic work on the development of maize, including 20 chapters of interest to Mesoamerican specialists, updated with recent findings and interpretations.

Focuses on two kindergarten classrooms, examining moments of disobedience as children interacted with children, their teachers, and the space and time elements of the classroom environments. This study also examines the elements of school, kindergarten and teachers within the spaces of their intersections with the children.

Paul Bahn has collected dozens of fun tales from the trenches to illuminate what actually occurs when archaeologists go into the field.

Report of excavations on a key archaeological site for understanding first agriculture in the New World, with a new 2009 foreword by Kent Flannery

A comprehensive revision of the classic prehistory of the North American high plains.

Histories of Maize is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize published to date.

In this volume, the authors present an original ethnographic study of five llama herding communities in Ayacucho, Peru.

This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to bring to western scholarship the advances made in Paleolithic archaeology and palaeoanthropology in the People's Republic of China.

This volume shows how hunter gatherer societies maintain their traditional lifeways in the face of interaction with neighboring herders, farmers, and traders.

In this volume, the founder of processual archaeology, Lewis R. Binford collects and comments on the twenty-eight substantive papers published in the 1980's, the third in his set of collected papers. A 2009 Foreword allows for further reflections on this work.

Offers a synthesis of archaeological work done in the lower Ohio River Valley, emphasizing population growth and adaptation within an ecological framework in an attempt to explain the area's cultural evolution.

Contains the information and analyses that keep heritage professionals, lawyers, and land managers abreast of the legal practice, including summaries of notable court cases, settlements and other dispositions, legislation, government regulations, policies and agency decisions.

The major international recognition of a World Heritage Site designation can bring important preservation efforts and a wealth of tourist dollars to an impoverished area - but it can also have destructive side effects. This book examines the redevelopment and packaging of Luang Prabans in Laos - one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.

This collection of original articles compares various key archaeological topics-agency, violence, social groups, diffusion-from evolutionary and interpretive perspectives.

For many the disclosure of their own stories of marginalization has become a tool for advocacy, for telling a larger truth. For others, self-disclosure is a more personal action, intended to assist isolated others in developing trust and connection. This book shows how people can use the transformative potential of storytelling for social action.

Offers a history of the field of qualitative inquiry.

Using an analysis of urban structure and cosmology, 1000 years of historical writing, and diverse archaeological materials, this book provides both a history of Quanzhou and a Chinese paradigm for civilizational studies, one distinctly different from Eurocentric models.

What does the gold standard of rescue, as ideology and industry, mean for the dying patient in the hospital and for the status of dying in American culture? This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals.

Presents an ethnographic exploration of the sensory and aesthetic experiences of popular Eastern and Western therapies and how they 'cure'. This book investigates the very different ways in which Western, Ayurvedic, and religious (Christian, Muslim, and Hindu) healing systems define psychiatric problems and cures.

A forceful advocate for historical archaeology as an activist pursuit, the author argues that the way to live in the postmodern period is not simply to chronicle it, but to use the process of interpreting of heritage to develop new understandings the cultural and political issues of our time.

The collected essays in this volume address contemporary issues regarding the relationship between Indigenous groups and archaeologists, including the challenges of dialogue, colonialism, the difficulties of working within legislative and institutional frameworks, and NAGPRA and similar legislation.

Discusses the most commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated centuries ago. This book describes the system whereby these objects get made, purchased, authenticated, and placed in major museums as well as the complicity of forgers, dealers, curators, and collectors in this system.

The origin of Israel, their settlement in the land of Canaan and transformation into an organized kingdom is one of the most stimulating and controversial chapters in the history of ancient Israel. This title presents an important introduction to the debate over this question.

This reader of original and reprinted articles-many by indigenous authors-is designed to display the array of writings around relationships between archaeologists and indigenous peoples around the globe.

Presents an ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultural experience. This title analyses the social, economic, and political landscape of Brazil to understand dramatic healing practices that seem to defy medical explanation.

Offers a literary exploration of how scholars can promote global social justice through their work and lives. This book engages in a dialogue that seeks to decolonize the world of American scholarship and promote the use of research toward inclusive social justice.

Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global warming using a range of theoretical tools from anthropology, medicine, and environmental sciences.

Rarely do archaeological studies provide critical consideration of how historical, archaeological, and scientific data relate to each other, or explicit attempts at demonstrating successful strategies for these kinds of interdisciplinary research. The authors in this volume provide such a critical consideration, examining a wide range of cultures, time periods, and materials.