Amanda L Logan
Biographic Data
| ID | 106671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda L Logan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda L |
| FAMILY NAME | Logan |
| SIGNATURE | LOGAN A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0682-9050 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 264 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
How African Pasts Can Inspire Alternative Responses to Climate Change
How can we use the past to help us solve today’s urgent climate change concerns? Archaeology provides one way forward by providing a long-term view of what worked and what did not work in the past. Indigenous knowledge systems have long curated a range of survival strategies that provide powerful inspiration for thinking differently about sustainability. Inspired by Africanfuturism—or how writers of African descent have creatively reimagined Blac…
We Need Social Archaeology to Understand Resilience and Build Usable Pasts
Usable Pasts Forum
Genealogies of Practice in and of the Environment in Banda, Ghana
An Archaeology of Food Security in Banda, Ghana
Food security is an all-inclusive concept, with a lack of access to sufficient food on one end of the spectrum and access to plentiful, desirable foods on the other. Archaeology's long-term perspective allows us to trace contexts in which food insecurity emerged by investigating the pillars of food security outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO): food availability, access, use, and preference. Using these criteria, I evaluate food securi…
Why Can't People Feed Themselves
Today, food insecurity is associated with both severe climatic shifts and pervasive poverty. What is less well understood is how the problem of hunger came to take its present-day form, especially in the African continent, where the highest prevalence of undernourishment is found. In this article, I propose that archaeology can be used as an alternative archive of food security. Material remains provide a from-the-hearth-up view of changing foodw…
The Future of Food Studies
The use of food as a core mode of exploring and explaining the world has expanded remarkably quickly in the past ten years, with food studies programming in particular gaining ground in institutional learning arrangements during the last three. Establishing a new field and creating relevant educational programming carries its associated struggles, practicalities and initial successes. To this end, this report highlights five of the most pressing …
Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world
Archaeology of African plant use
Amanda L. LoganDepartment of Anthropology, Northwestern University, United States of [email protected]© 2014, Amanda L. Logan
Gendered Taskscapes
Comparing Craft and Culinary Practice in Africa
Temporalising anthropology
The central premise of Temporalising Anthropology is to add a chronological dimension to the classic structural functionalist studies of Meyer Fortes among the Talensi in the 1930s and 1940s. The a
A history of food without history
A history of food without history: food, trade, and environment in west-central Ghana in the second millennium AD. University of Michigan, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2012.728341 Afric
Let's Drink Together
Since the Formative times, maize is and has been a highly valued social commodity in the Andes, particularly in the form of a traditional beer called chicha. While chicha production is well attested in the archaeology and ethnohistory of Andean states, the emergence of maize symbolism in earlier societies has not been systematically addressed. In this study phytolith and starch grain analyses are used to trace production, processing, and consumpt…
Oil palm, arboriculture, and changing subsistence practices during Kintampo times (3600–3200 BP, Ghana)
Early domesticated cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) from Central Ghana
From examining the remains of charred cowpeas from rock shelters in Central Ghana, the authors throw light on the subsistence strategies of the Kintampo people of the second millennium BCE. Perhaps driven southwards from the Sahel by aridification, the Kintampo operated as both foragers and farmers, cultivating selected plants of the West African tropics, notably cowpea, pearl millet and oil palm
Oil palm and prehistoric subsistence in tropical West Africa
This study reports on the analysis of macrobotanical remains recovered at three of the B-sites rock shelters in central Ghana (B4C, B5C, B6B), which were excavated under the auspices of the Kintampo Archaeological Research Project (KARP). These rock shelters yielded large quantities of Kintampo material culture as well as pottery attributed to the Punpun. The overall aims are to further our understanding of prehistoric subsistence in tropical Wes…
Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world
Let's Drink Together
Since the Formative times, maize is and has been a highly valued social commodity in the Andes, particularly in the form of a traditional beer called chicha. While chicha production is well attested in the archaeology and ethnohistory of Andean states, the emergence of maize symbolism in earlier societies has not been systematically addressed. In this study phytolith and starch grain analyses are used to trace production, processing, and consumpt…
Why Can't People Feed Themselves
Today, food insecurity is associated with both severe climatic shifts and pervasive poverty. What is less well understood is how the problem of hunger came to take its present-day form, especially in the African continent, where the highest prevalence of undernourishment is found. In this article, I propose that archaeology can be used as an alternative archive of food security. Material remains provide a from-the-hearth-up view of changing foodw…
A history of food without history
A history of food without history: food, trade, and environment in west-central Ghana in the second millennium AD. University of Michigan, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2012.728341 Afric
Comparing Craft and Culinary Practice in Africa
Oil palm, arboriculture, and changing subsistence practices during Kintampo times (3600–3200 BP, Ghana)
Usable Pasts Forum
Archaeology of African plant use
Amanda L. LoganDepartment of Anthropology, Northwestern University, United States of [email protected]© 2014, Amanda L. Logan
Oil palm and prehistoric subsistence in tropical West Africa
This study reports on the analysis of macrobotanical remains recovered at three of the B-sites rock shelters in central Ghana (B4C, B5C, B6B), which were excavated under the auspices of the Kintampo Archaeological Research Project (KARP). These rock shelters yielded large quantities of Kintampo material culture as well as pottery attributed to the Punpun. The overall aims are to further our understanding of prehistoric subsistence in tropical Wes…
An Archaeology of Food Security in Banda, Ghana
Food security is an all-inclusive concept, with a lack of access to sufficient food on one end of the spectrum and access to plentiful, desirable foods on the other. Archaeology's long-term perspective allows us to trace contexts in which food insecurity emerged by investigating the pillars of food security outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO): food availability, access, use, and preference. Using these criteria, I evaluate food securi…
Early domesticated cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) from Central Ghana
From examining the remains of charred cowpeas from rock shelters in Central Ghana, the authors throw light on the subsistence strategies of the Kintampo people of the second millennium BCE. Perhaps driven southwards from the Sahel by aridification, the Kintampo operated as both foragers and farmers, cultivating selected plants of the West African tropics, notably cowpea, pearl millet and oil palm
Genealogies of Practice in and of the Environment in Banda, Ghana
Gendered Taskscapes
The Future of Food Studies
The use of food as a core mode of exploring and explaining the world has expanded remarkably quickly in the past ten years, with food studies programming in particular gaining ground in institutional learning arrangements during the last three. Establishing a new field and creating relevant educational programming carries its associated struggles, practicalities and initial successes. To this end, this report highlights five of the most pressing …
How African Pasts Can Inspire Alternative Responses to Climate Change
How can we use the past to help us solve today’s urgent climate change concerns? Archaeology provides one way forward by providing a long-term view of what worked and what did not work in the past. Indigenous knowledge systems have long curated a range of survival strategies that provide powerful inspiration for thinking differently about sustainability. Inspired by Africanfuturism—or how writers of African descent have creatively reimagined Blac…
Oil palm and prehistoric subsistence in tropical West Africa
This study reports on the analysis of macrobotanical remains recovered at three of the B-sites rock shelters in central Ghana (B4C, B5C, B6B), which were excavated under the auspices of the Kintampo Archaeological Research Project (KARP). These rock shelters yielded large quantities of Kintampo material culture as well as pottery attributed to the Punpun. The overall aims are to further our understanding of prehistoric subsistence in tropical Wes…
Early domesticated cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) from Central Ghana
From examining the remains of charred cowpeas from rock shelters in Central Ghana, the authors throw light on the subsistence strategies of the Kintampo people of the second millennium BCE. Perhaps driven southwards from the Sahel by aridification, the Kintampo operated as both foragers and farmers, cultivating selected plants of the West African tropics, notably cowpea, pearl millet and oil palm
Oil palm, arboriculture, and changing subsistence practices during Kintampo times (3600–3200 BP, Ghana)
A history of food without history
A history of food without history: food, trade, and environment in west-central Ghana in the second millennium AD. University of Michigan, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2012.728341 Afric
Let's Drink Together
Since the Formative times, maize is and has been a highly valued social commodity in the Andes, particularly in the form of a traditional beer called chicha. While chicha production is well attested in the archaeology and ethnohistory of Andean states, the emergence of maize symbolism in earlier societies has not been systematically addressed. In this study phytolith and starch grain analyses are used to trace production, processing, and consumpt…
Gendered Taskscapes
Comparing Craft and Culinary Practice in Africa
Temporalising anthropology
The central premise of Temporalising Anthropology is to add a chronological dimension to the classic structural functionalist studies of Meyer Fortes among the Talensi in the 1930s and 1940s. The a
The Future of Food Studies
The use of food as a core mode of exploring and explaining the world has expanded remarkably quickly in the past ten years, with food studies programming in particular gaining ground in institutional learning arrangements during the last three. Establishing a new field and creating relevant educational programming carries its associated struggles, practicalities and initial successes. To this end, this report highlights five of the most pressing …
Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world
Archaeology of African plant use
Amanda L. LoganDepartment of Anthropology, Northwestern University, United States of [email protected]© 2014, Amanda L. Logan
An Archaeology of Food Security in Banda, Ghana
Food security is an all-inclusive concept, with a lack of access to sufficient food on one end of the spectrum and access to plentiful, desirable foods on the other. Archaeology's long-term perspective allows us to trace contexts in which food insecurity emerged by investigating the pillars of food security outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO): food availability, access, use, and preference. Using these criteria, I evaluate food securi…
Why Can't People Feed Themselves
Today, food insecurity is associated with both severe climatic shifts and pervasive poverty. What is less well understood is how the problem of hunger came to take its present-day form, especially in the African continent, where the highest prevalence of undernourishment is found. In this article, I propose that archaeology can be used as an alternative archive of food security. Material remains provide a from-the-hearth-up view of changing foodw…
Genealogies of Practice in and of the Environment in Banda, Ghana
Usable Pasts Forum
How African Pasts Can Inspire Alternative Responses to Climate Change
How can we use the past to help us solve today’s urgent climate change concerns? Archaeology provides one way forward by providing a long-term view of what worked and what did not work in the past. Indigenous knowledge systems have long curated a range of survival strategies that provide powerful inspiration for thinking differently about sustainability. Inspired by Africanfuturism—or how writers of African descent have creatively reimagined Blac…
We Need Social Archaeology to Understand Resilience and Build Usable Pasts
Archaeology (14 works) · Geography (13 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · History (8 works) · History (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (5 works)