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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Accidental Ethnography
An Inquiry into Family Secrecy
Christopher N. Poulos (Author), H.L. Goodall , Jr. (Foreword By) |
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Advocacy and Indigenous Film-Making
Exploration in Visual Anthropology
Birgitte Markussen, Hans Henrik Philipsen |
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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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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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Anthropology and Climate Change
From Encounters to Actions
Susan A. Crate (Editor), Mark Nuttall (Editor) |
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Appropriating Images
The Semiotics of Visual Representation
Keyan Tomaselli |
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Archaeology and Capitalism
From Ethics to Politics
Yannis Hamilakis (Editor), Philip Duke (Editor) |
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The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life
Theresa A. Singleton (Editor) |
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Archaeology of the Lower Ohio River Valley
Jon Muller |
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Barrio Professors
Tales of Naturalistic Research
Lloyd H. Rogler |
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Basketry Technology
A Guide to Identification and Analysis, Updated Edition
J. M. Adovasio |
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Behind the Eye
Reflexive Methods in Culture Studies, Ethnographic Film, and Visual Media
Toril Jenssen |
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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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Coach Fellas
Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
Kelli Ann Costa |
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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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Creolization
History, Ethnography, Theory
Charles Stewart (Editor) |
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Cultural Diversity and Discourse Practices in Grade Nine
Lynne V. Wiltse |
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The Cultural Theorist’s Book of Quotations
Arthur Asa Berger |
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Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research
A Practical Field Guide
Elisa J. Sobo |
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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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Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research
Patricia L. Sunderland, Rita M. Denny |
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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
WEB Dubois (Author), Eugene Provenzo (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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The Evolution of Cultural Diversity
A Phylogenetic Approach
Ruth Mace (Editor), Clare J. Holden (Editor), Stephen Shennan (Editor) |
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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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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), Merill Singer (Author) |
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Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology
Soren Blau (Editor), Douglas H. Ubelaker (Editor) |
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The Healthy Ancestor
Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai’ian Health
Juliet McMullin |
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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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The Hobbit Trap
How New Species Are Invented
Maciej Henneberg (Author), Robert B Eckhardt (Author), John Schofield (Author) |
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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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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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Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia
Peter Jordan |
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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 |
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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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A Millennium of Cultural Contact
Alistair Paterson (Author) |
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Modern Capitalist Culture
Leslie A. White (Author) |
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Modern Capitalist Culture
Abridged Edition
Leslie A. White |
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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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A New Human
The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia
Mike Morwood, Penny van Oosterzee |
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No Place for Dying
Hospitals and the Ideology of Rescue
Helen Stanton Chapple |
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The Nordic Eye
Proceedings from NAFA 1
Peter I. Crawford |
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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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The Origin of Cultures
How Individual Choices Make Cultures Change
W. Penn Handwerker |
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Palaeoepidemiology
The Measure of Disease in the Human Past
Tony Waldron |
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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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Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies
Carmel Schrire (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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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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The Potters of Buur Heybe
Steven Brandt (Archaeological Director), Tara Belkin (Producer) |
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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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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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The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration
Russell McDougall (Editor), Iain Davidson (Editor) |
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Scoping the Amazon
Image, Icon, Ethnography
Stephen Nugent |
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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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Tradition, Trade and Woodcarving in Solomon Islands
Jari Kupiainen |
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Waging War, Making Peace
Reparations and Human Rights
Barbara Rose Johnston (Editor), Susan Slyomovics (Editor) |
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A War Canoe Heading for Christianity
Claus Bager Nielsen |
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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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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 |