books by Left Coast Press, Inc.     books:       Faking the Ancient Andes Karen O. Bruhns, Nancy L. Kelker Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009 Nasca pots, Quimbaya figurines, Moche porn figures, stone shamans. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Andean art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Karen Bruhns and Nancy Kelker examine the phenomenon in this eye-opening volume. They discuss the most commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated as early as the 19th century. More important, they describe the system ...             Negotiation Basics for Cultural Resource Managers (Techniques & Issues in Cultural Resource Management) Nicholas Dorochoff Left Coast Press, Inc., 2007 Anyone in the cultural resource management world will tell you that much of the job is successfully negotiating consensus on a course of action between various stakeholders. In this volume, Nicholas Dorochoff offers the heritage management community the benefit of decades of thinking on negotiation where it is practiced daily?the business world. Brief, practical, and geared specifically for cultural resource managers, consultants, and other ...             Archaeologist's Book of Quotations K. Kris Hirst Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009 ?Hell, I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you can have with your pants on.? - Kent V. Flannery. In her quest to make archaeology available to the public, Kris Hirst has put together a collection of over 400 pithy quotes from archaeologists and others about the science of archaeology or the mysteries of history and the past. The quotations are categorized into subject ...             Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures, Second Edition3 reviews Deborah M. Pearsall Left Coast Press, Inc., 2001 paleoethnobotany, a handbook of procedures This new edition of the definitive work on "doing paleoethnobotany" follows the steady growth in the quantity and sophistication of paleoethnobotanical research. It features a rewritten chapter on phytolith analysis and a new chapter, Integrating Biological Data. It also includes new techniques, such as residue analysis, and new applications of old indicators, such as starch grains. An ...             The Bone Readers: Science and Politics in Human Origins Research Claudio Tuniz, Richard Gillespie, ... Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009 The Bone Readers are a dedicated group of scholars who study the earliest human remains, their chemistry and DNA, their extinct floral and faunal contemporaries, and the geologic layers in which they were found. Their research leads them to theories about modern human origins that continually challenge conventional wisdom and cherished beliefs? about ?Eve ,? Neanderthals, ?hobbits,? and the Bering Straits, among others. Two leading Bone ...             The Origin of Cultures: How Individual Choices Make Cultures Change (Key Questions in Anthropology) W. Penn Handwerker Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009 What makes a 17-year-old girl decide to wrap a bomb around her body, walk into a supermarket, and detonate it, killing herself and an 18-year old girl shopping there? In this provocative and important book, renowned anthropologist W. Penn Handwerker shows that individual choices, from the fatal to the mundane, are fundamentally questions of cultureÂ?what it is, where it comes from, and the complex ways it changes and evolves. In accessible and ...             Faking Ancient Mesoamerica Nancy L. Kelker, Karen O. Bruhns Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009 Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Nancy Kelker and Karen Bruhns examine the phenomenon in this eye-opening volume. They discuss the most commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated as early as the 19th century. More important, they ...             Autoethnography as Method (Developing Qualitative Inquiry)2 reviews Heewon V. Chang Left Coast Press, Inc., 2008 Autoethnography as Method by Heewon V. Chang As a PhD student of hospice nursing and using Autoethnography as a research methodology I welcome literature discussing this 'new ethnographic' approach. This book is one that is a valuable addition to my collection of references one I frequently access as the methodology chapter evolves.             Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains: Second Edition (New World Archaeological Record)2 reviews George C. Frison Left Coast Press, Inc., 1991 Archaeology Student-University of Montana Not much needs to be said----Its the Bible of plains archaeology             Paleoepidemiology: The Measure of Disease in the Human Past (Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, ...1 review Tony Waldron Left Coast Press, Inc., 2007 Great book for paleoepidemiology studies The book reviews the methods used in both traditional epidemiology studies and paleoepidemiology studies. The overview of these methods, as well as, the positives and negatives associated with them is concise and easy to understand.             Fostering Active Prolonged Engagement: The Art of Creating APE Exhibits Left Coast Press, Inc., 2005 : A must for exhibit developers, researchers, educators, and other museum professionals looking for ways to engage visitors more deeply with interactive science exhibits, this book documents the exploration and findings of the Exploratorium?s Active Prolonged Engagement project, funded by the National Science Foundation. Both a significant contribution to visitor research and a nuts-and-bolts guide to exhibit development, Fostering Active ...             Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest Left Coast Press, Inc., 1986 This volume reports on a series of multidisciplinary projects involving the Archaic period of the American Midwest. A period of innovation and technical achievement, the articles focus on changes in environmental, social, and economic factors operating in this period, and the adaptation of the hunter gatherer peoples living at this time.             Archaeological Approaches to Technology Heather Margaret-Louise Miller Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009 This book is designed for upper-division undergraduate and graduate level archaeology students taking courses in ancient technologies, archaeological craft production, material culture, the history of technology, archaeometry, and field methods. This text can also serve as a general introduction and a reference for archaeologists, material culture specialists in socio-cultural disciplines, and engineers/scientists interested in the backgrounds ...             Being and Becoming Indigenous Archaeologists (Archaeology & Indigenous Peoples) Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009 What does being an archaeologist mean to Indigenous persons? How and why do some become archaeologists? What has led them down a path to what some in their communities have labeled a colonialist venture? What were are the challenges they have faced, and the motivations that have allowed them to succeed? How have they managed to balance traditional values and worldview with Western modes of inquiry? And how are their contributions broadening the ...             The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai?ian Health (Advances in ... McMullin. Juliet Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009 Native Americans, researchers increasingly worry, are disproportionately victims of epidemics and poor health because they ?fail? to seek medical care, are ?non-compliant? patients, or ?lack immunity? enjoyed by the ?mainstream? population. Challenging this dominant approach to indigenous health, Juliet McMullin shows how it masks more fundamental inequalities that become literally embodied in Native Americans, shifting blame from unequal social ...             Archaeology of the Southwest: Second Edition3 reviews Linda Cordell Left Coast Press, Inc., 1997 The best serious text yet written on southwest archeology Linda Cordell's extensively revised and updated text is just fabulous.I teach Archeology of New Mexico at the U. of New Mexico and this text has it all--It handles fact and theory straightforwardly,is well illustrated and has the best single bibliography available.Students and professionals just can't miss with this one.             The Falling Dawadawa Tree: Female Circumcision in Developing Ghana Christiana Oware Knudsen Left Coast Press, Inc., 2006 In this comprehensive study the Ghanaian/Danish anthropologist examines a phenomenon, which has caused debate inside and outside anthropology: female circumcision. The book provides a solid ethnographic background to understanding circumcision practices in their ethnic, cultural and medical context. It shows ethnic and regional differences in the practices of circumcision and the problems related to these practices. The book also contains an ...             Reflecting Visual Ethnography: Using the Camera in Anthropological Research Left Coast Press, Inc., 2006 Renowned writing and filming anthropologists engage in a dialogue by which they explore new understandings of aspects of specific realities, that visual representation has made possible. Examples are: the relation between vision and reliving passed experiences through film, visibility as an existential feature of identity, sociality as embodied practice, ritual space and its representation in text, by means of maps or in the image, and the ...             Paleoanthropology and Paleolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China Left Coast Press, Inc., 2008 This book represents the first comprehensive attempt to bring to western scholarship the great advances made in Paleolithic archaeology and palaeoanthropology in the PeopleÂ?s Republic of China. The 15 chapters are devoted to a historical overview of past and recent studies, the development of chronological frameworks, the composition and stratigraphy of vertebrate fauna, the pongid and hominid palaeontological records, and Pleistocene ...             Prehistoric Europe Timothy Champion, Clive Gamble, ... Left Coast Press, Inc., 1999 The study of European prehistory has been revolutionized in recent years by the rapid growth rate of archeological discovery, advances in dating methods and the application of scientific techniques to archaeological material and new archaeological aims and frameworks of interpretation. Whereas previous work concentrated on the recovery and description of material remains, the main focus is now on the reconstruction of prehistoric societies and ...              search for books anthropolog, anthropological, anthropology, archaeological, archaeologist, archaeologists, archaeology, autoethnography, circumcision, developing, ethnography, individual, inequality, management, mesoamerica, negotiation, paleoanthropology, paleoepidemiology, paleoethnobotany, paleolithic, prehistoric, procedures, publications, qualitative, quotations, reflecting, revitalization, techniques, technology, university books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Computer Animation we recommend The Green Super Spray machine!! home  impressum - about us