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Communications & Media Studies

Left Coast has a small and diverse list of books of interest to communication scholars and students. We are the North American distributors for Intervention Press, who have an extensive list on visual anthropology. We have also done a number of other works on social science and the media. In addition, we are active publshers of communication scholars who do ethnographic and autoethnographic work.

Subject Titles

The Academic Writer's Toolkit
A User's Manual
Arthur Asa Berger (Author)
Accidental Ethnography
An Inquiry into Family Secrecy
Christopher N. Poulos (Author), H.L. Goodall , Jr. (Foreword By)
Advocacy and Indigenous Film-Making
Exploration in Visual Anthropology
Birgitte Markussen, Hans Henrik Philipsen
The American Indian Oral History Manual
Making Many Voices Heard
Charles E. Trimble, Barbara W. Sommer, Mary Kay Quinlan
Appropriating Images
The Semiotics of Visual Representation
Keyan Tomaselli
Archaeology and the Media
Timothy Clack (Editor), Marcus Brittain (Editor)
Archaeology is a Brand!
The Meaning of Archaeology in Contemporary Popular Culture
Cornelius Holtorf (Author)
Behind the Eye
Reflexive Methods in Culture Studies, Ethnographic Film, and Visual Media
Toril Jenssen
Betweener Talk
Decolonizing Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Praxis
Marcelo Diversi, Claudio Moreira
Box Office Archaeology
Refining Hollywood’s Portrayals of the Past
Julie M. Schablitsky (Editor)
Counter-Narrative
How Progressive Academics Can Challenge Extremists and Promote Social Justice
H.L. Goodall , Jr. (Author)
Cultural Icons
Keyan Tomaselli (Editor), David Scott (Editor)
The Cultural Theorist’s Book of Quotations
Arthur Asa Berger
Curating Oral Histories
From Interview to Archive
Nancy MacKay (Author)
Erotic Mentoring
Women’s Transformations in the University
Janice Hocker Rushing (Author)
The Falling Dawadawa Tree
Female Circumcision in Developing Ghana
Christiana Oware Knudsen
The Folkloral Voice
Ian William Sewall
Heritage That Hurts
Tourists in the Memoryscapes of September 11
Joy Sather-Wagstaff
Internet and Change
An Ethnography of Knowledge and Flexible Work
Jens Kjaerulff (Author)
The Interview
From Formal to Postmodern
Andrea Fontana (Author), Anastasia H. Prokos (Author)
Intimate Colonialism
Head, Heart, and Body in West African Development Work
Laurie L. Charlés
Lesotho Herders Video Project
Exploration in Visual Anthropology
Chuck Scott
Looking Two Ways
Documentary Film’s Relationship with Reality and Cinema
Toni de Bromhead
A Need to Know
The Clandestine History of a CIA Family
H.L. Goodall , Jr. (Author)
The Nordic Eye
Proceedings from NAFA 1
Peter I. Crawford
The Origin of Cultures
How Individual Choices Make Cultures Change
W. Penn Handwerker
Prime-Time Society
An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition
Conrad Phillip Kottak
Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire
Toward a New Paradigm Dialogue
Norman K. Denzin
Qualitative Inquiry and Social Justice
Norman K. Denzin, Michael D. Giardina
The Qualitative Manifesto
A Call to Arms
Norman K. Denzin
Reflecting Visual Ethnography
Using the Camera in Anthropological Research
Metje Postma (Editor), Peter I. Crawford (Editor)
Revision
Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work
Carolyn Ellis
Scoping the Amazon
Image, Icon, Ethnography
Stephen Nugent
Searching for Yellowstone
Race, Gender, Family, and Memory in the Postmodern West
Norman K. Denzin
Trickster in Tweed
The Quest for Quality in a Faculty Life
Thomas S. Frentz
A Visual Narrative Concerning Curriculum, Girls, Photography Etc.
Hedy Bach
What Objects Mean
An Introduction to Material Culture
Arthur Asa Berger
Writing Archaeology, Second Edition
Telling Stories About the Past
Brian Fagan (Author)
Writing Archaeology
Telling Stories About the Past
Brian Fagan (Author)
Writing Qualitative Inquiry
Self, Stories, and Academic Life
H.L. Goodall , Jr.

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