Left Coast is a full service publisher for anthropologists. Our list will include everything from introductory textbooks to advanced research materials, including pedagogical materials, series, serials, visual media, and references. We view our domain as all 4 fields of anthropology, with special attention paid to the needs of applied anthropologists.
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A Millennium of Cultural Contact Alistair Paterson (Author) |
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A New Human The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia, Updated Paperback Edition Mike Morwood, Penny van Oosterzee |
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A War Canoe Heading for Christianity Claus Bager Nielsen |
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Accidental Ethnography An Inquiry into Family Secrecy Christopher N. Poulos (Author), H.L. Goodall , Jr. (Foreword By) |
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Advancing Ethnography in Corporate Environments Challenges and Emerging Opportunities Brigitte Jordan (Editor) |
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Advocacy and Indigenous Film-Making Exploration in Visual Anthropology Birgitte Markussen, Hans Henrik Philipsen |
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African Homecoming Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage Katharina Schramm (Author) |
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After the First Full Moon in April A Sourcebook of Herbal Medicine from a California Indian Elder Josephine Grant Peters (Author), Beverly Ortiz (Contributor) |
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Agency Uncovered Archaeological Perspectives on Social Agency, Power, and Being Human Andrew Gardner (Editor) |
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AIDS, Behavior, and Culture Understanding Evidence-Based Prevention Edward C. Green, Allison Herling Ruark |
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Anthropologists in the SecurityScape Ethics, Practice, and Professional Identity Robert Albro (Editor), George Marcus (Editor), Laura A McNamara (Editor), Monica Schoch-Spana (Editor) |
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Anthropology and Climate Change From Encounters to Actions Susan A. Crate (Editor), Mark Nuttall (Editor) |
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Applied Ethnography Guidelines for Field Research Pertti J. Pelto (Author) |
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Applying Anthropology in the Global Village Christina Wasson (Editor), Mary Odell Butler (Editor), Jacqueline Copeland-Carson (Editor) |
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Appropriating Images The Semiotics of Visual Representation Keyan Tomaselli |
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Archaeology After Interpretation Returning Materials to Archaeological Theory Benjamin Alberti (Editor), Andrew Meirion Jones (Editor), Joshua Pollard (Editor) |
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Archaeology and Capitalism From Ethics to Politics Yannis Hamilakis (Editor), Philip Duke (Editor) |
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Archaeology of the Lower Ohio River Valley Jon Muller |
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Basketry Technology A Guide to Identification and Analysis, Updated Edition J. M. Adovasio |
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Before Modern Humans New Perspectives on the African Stone Age Grant S. McCall (Author) |
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Behind the Eye Reflexive Methods in Culture Studies, Ethnographic Film, and Visual Media Toril Jenssen |
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Beyond Post-Traumatic Stress Homefront Struggles with the Wars on Terror Jean Scandlyn (Author), Sarah Hautzinger (Author) |
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Broken Promises How the AIDS Establishment has Betrayed the Developing World Edward C. Green |
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Coach Fellas Heritage and Tourism in Ireland Kelli Ann Costa |
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Computational Approaches to Archaeological Spaces Andrew Bevan (Editor), Mark Lake (Editor) |
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Creolization History, Ethnography, Theory Charles Stewart (Editor) |
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Critical Anthropology Foundational Works Stephen Nugent (Editor) |
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Cultural Diversity and Discourse Practices in Grade Nine Lynne V. Wiltse |
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Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability Diane Barthel-Bouchier (Author) |
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Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research A Practical Field Guide Elisa J. Sobo |
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Cultures of Energy Power, Practices, Technologies Sarah Strauss (Editor), Stephanie Rupp (Editor), Thomas Love (Editor) |
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Disappearing Peoples? Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia Barbara Brower (Editor), Barbara Rose Johnston (Editor) |
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Disaster Culture Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Wake of Human and Environmental Catastrophe Gregory Button (Author) |
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DNA for Archaeologists Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith (Author), K. Ann Horsburgh (Author) |
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Does Everyone Want Democracy? Insights from Mongolia Paula L. W. Sabloff (Author) |
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Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research Patricia L. Sunderland, Rita M. Denny |
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Drug Effects Khat in Biocultural and Socioeconomic Perspective Lisa L Gezon (Author) |
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Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity A Unified Approach Elisa J. Sobo (Author) |
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Empire and Local Worlds A Chinese Model of Long-Term Historical Anthropology Mingming Wang |
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Encyclopedia of the Negro Preparatory Volume with Reference Lists and Reports, Reissued W. E. B. Du Bois (Author), Eugene F. Provenzo , Jr. (Editor) |
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Ethics and AIDS in Africa The Challenge to Our Thinking Anton A. Van Niekerk (Editor), Loretta M. Kopelman (Editor) |
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Everyday Disasters Rethinking Iconic Events in Cultural Perspective Gregory Button (Author), Anthony Oliver-Smith (Foreword By) |
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Exhuming Loss Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War Layla Renshaw (Author) |
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Faith in Heritage Displacement, Development, and Religious Tourism in Contemporary China Robert J. Shepherd (Author) |
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Give Refuge to the Stranger The Past, Present, and Future of Sanctuary Linda Rabben (Author) |
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Giving Comfort and Inflicting Pain Irena Madjar |
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Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions Hans Baer (Author), Merrill Singer (Author) |
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Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology Soren Blau (Editor), Douglas H. Ubelaker (Editor) |
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Heritage That Hurts Tourists in the Memoryscapes of September 11 Joy Sather-Wagstaff |
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Heritage Values in Contemporary Society George Smith (Editor), Phyllis Mauch Messenger (Editor), Hilary Soderland (Editor) |
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Histories of Maize Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize John E. Staller (Editor), Robert H. Tykot (Editor), Bruce F. Benz (Editor) |
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How Culture Makes Us Human Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies Dwight W. Read (Author) |
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Immigrants in America Museums & Social Issues 3:2 Thematic Issue Kris Morrissey (Editor), Ron Chew (Editor) |
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Indigenous Peoples and the Collaborative Stewardship of Nature Knowledge Binds and Institutional Conflicts Anne Ross (Author), Kathleen Pickering Sherman (Author), Jeffrey G. Snodgrass (Author), Henry D. Delcore (Author), Richard Sherman (Author) |
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Indigenous Statistics A Quantitative Research Methodology Maggie Walter (Author), Chris Andersen (Author) |
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Inside Cultures A New Introduction to Cultural Anthropology William Balée (Author) |
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Intangible Heritage and the Museum New Perspectives on Cultural Preservation Marilena Alivizatou (Author) |
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Internet and Change An Ethnography of Knowledge and Flexible Work Jens Kjaerulff (Author) |
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Intimate Colonialism Head, Heart, and Body in West African Development Work Laurie L. Charlés |
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Islands in the Rainforest Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia Stéphen Rostain (Author) |
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Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia Peter Jordan (Editor) |
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Landscapes of Clearance Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives Angèle Smith (Editor), Amy Gazin-Schwartz (Editor) |
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Lesotho Herders Video Project Exploration in Visual Anthropology Chuck Scott |
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Life and Death Matters Human Rights, Environment, and Social Justice, SECOND EDITION Barbara Rose Johnston (Editor) |
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Livelihoods at the Margins Surviving the City James Staples (Editor) |
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Looking Two Ways Documentary Film’s Relationship with Reality and Cinema Toni de Bromhead |
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Militarizing Culture Essays on the Warfare State Roberto J González (Author) |
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Modern Capitalist Culture Abridged Edition Leslie A. White |
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Modern Capitalist Culture Leslie A. White (Author) |
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Mourning the Dreams How Parents Create Meaning from Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Early Infant Death Claudia Malacrida |
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Mudpacks and Prozac Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing Murphy Halliburton |
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Mundane Objects Materiality and Non-verbal Communication Pierre Lemonnier (Author) |
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No Place for Dying Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue Helen Stanton Chapple |
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Nukak Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People Gustavo Politis (Author), Benjamin Alberti (Translator) |
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On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine Roland Littlewood (Editor) |
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Paleoanthropology and Paleolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China Wu Rukang (Editor), John Olsen (Editor) |
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Paleoepidemiology The Measure of Disease in the Human Past Tony Waldron |
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Participatory Visual and Digital Methods Aline Gubrium (Author), Krista Harper (Author) |
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Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies Carmel Schrire (Editor) |
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Pesticides and Global Health Understanding Agrochemical Dependence and Investing in Sustainable Solutions Courtney Dowdall (Author), Ryan Klotz (Author) |
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Pieces of Mosaic An Essay on the Making of Makedonija Jonathan Matthew Schwartz |
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Poor and Pregnant in New Delhi, India Helen Vallianatos |
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Positioning Identities Lesbians’ and Gays’ Experiences with Mental Health Care Hazel K. Platzer |
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Practical Ethnography A Guide to Doing Ethnography in the Private Sector Sam Ladner (Author) |
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Prime-Time Society An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition Conrad Phillip Kottak |
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Protecting Çatalhöyük Memoir of an Archaeological Site Guard Sadrettin Dural (Author), Ian Hodder (Contributor) |
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Qualitative Health Research Creating a New Discipline Janice M. Morse (Author) |
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Reclaiming Heritage Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa Ferdinand de Jong (Editor), Michael Rowlands (Editor) |
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Reflecting Visual Ethnography Using the Camera in Anthropological Research Metje Postma (Editor), Peter I. Crawford (Editor) |
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Representing Aboriginality A Post-colonial Analysis of the Key Trends of Representing Aboriginality in South African, Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand Film Sacha Clelland-Stokes |
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Revision Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work Carolyn Ellis |
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Sacred Geographies of Ancient Amazonia Historical Ecology of Social Complexity Denise P. Schaan (Author) |
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Scoping the Amazon Image, Icon, Ethnography Stephen Nugent |
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Seeing and Knowing Understanding Rock Art with and without Ethnography Geoffrey Blundell (Editor), Christopher Chippindale (Editor), Benjamin Smith (Editor) |
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Social and Ecological History of the Pyrenees State, Market, and Landscape Ismael Vaccaro (Editor), Oriol Beltran (Editor) |
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Speaking Out Storytelling for Social Change Linde Zingaro |
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Spirits with Scalpels The Cultural Biology of Religious Healing in Brazil Sidney M. Greenfield |
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Surface Tensions Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self Lenore Manderson (Author) |
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Syndemic Suffering Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women Emily Mendenhall (Author) |
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The American Indian Oral History Manual Making Many Voices Heard Charles E. Trimble, Barbara W. Sommer, Mary Kay Quinlan |
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The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide From Student to a Career Carol J Ellick (Author), Joe E Watkins (Author) |
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The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life Theresa A. Singleton (Editor) |
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The Bone Readers Science and Politics in Human Origins Research Claudio Tuniz (Author), Richard Gillespie (Author), Cheryl Jones (Author) |
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The Consequential Damages of Nuclear War The Rongelap Report Barbara Rose Johnston (Author), Holly M. Barker (Author) |
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The Cultural Theorist’s Book of Quotations Arthur Asa Berger |
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The Evolution of Cultural Diversity A Phylogenetic Approach Ruth Mace (Editor), Clare J. Holden (Editor), Stephen Shennan (Editor) |
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The Evolution of Culture The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome Leslie A. White (Author) |
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The Falling Dawadawa Tree Female Circumcision in Developing Ghana Christiana Oware Knudsen |
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The Flocks of the Wamani A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru Kent V. Flannery, Joyce Marcus, Robert Reynolds |
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The Healthy Ancestor Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai’ian Health Juliet McMullin |
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The Hobbit Trap How New Species Are Invented Maciej Henneberg (Author), Robert B Eckhardt (Author), John Schofield (Author) |
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The Nordic Eye Proceedings from NAFA 1 Peter I. Crawford |
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The Origin of Cultures How Individual Choices Make Cultures Change W. Penn Handwerker |
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The Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe Sue Colledge (Editor), James Conolly (Editor), Keith Dobney (Editor), Katie Manning (Editor), Stephen Shennan (Editor) |
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The Patterned Skin Ethnic Scarification in Developing Ghana Christiana Oware Knudsen |
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The Pedagogic Principal Rodney Evans |
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The Potters of Buur Heybe, Somalia Steven Brandt (Archaeological Director), Tara Belkin (Producer) |
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The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration Russell McDougall (Editor), Iain Davidson (Editor) |
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The Science of Human Origins Claudio Tuniz (Author), Giorgio Manzi (Author), David Caramelli (Author) |
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The Social Value of Drug Addicts Uses of the Useless Merrill Singer (Author), J Bryan Page (Author) |
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The Ten-Thousand Year Fever Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias Loretta A Cormier (Author) |
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The World System and The Earth System Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability Since the Neolithic Alf Hornborg (Editor), Carole L. Crumley (Editor) |
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The Wounds of Exclusion Poverty, Women’s Health, and Social Justice Colleen Reid |
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Tourism and Archaeology Sustainable Meeting Grounds Cameron Walker (Editor), Neil Carr (Editor) |
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Tradition, Trade and Woodcarving in Solomon Islands Jari Kupiainen |
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Translating Museums A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology Shaila Bhatti (Author) |
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Uncovering Identity in Mortuary Analysis Community-Sensitive Methods for Identifying Group Affiliation in Historical Cemeteries Michael P Heilen (Editor) |
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Waging War, Making Peace Reparations and Human Rights Barbara Rose Johnston (Editor), Susan Slyomovics (Editor) |
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What Objects Mean An Introduction to Material Culture Arthur Asa Berger |
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When a Baby Dies of SIDS The Parents’ Grief and Search for Reason Karen Martin |
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Witches, Westerners, and HIV AIDS and Cultures of Blame in Africa Alexander Rödlach |
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Woman the Toolmaker Hideworking and Stone Tool Use in Konso, Ethiopia Steven Brandt (Archaeological Director), Kathryn Weedman (Archaeological Director), Tara Belkin (Writer, Producer, & Editor), Justin Shipley (Director of Photography and Field Producer) |
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Women in Anthropology Autobiographical Narratives and Social History Maria G. Cattell (Editor), Marjorie M. Schweitzer (Editor) |
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