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) |