A B Stahl
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12230 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A B Stahl |
| PRENOMES | A B |
| SOBRENOME | Stahl |
| ASSINATURA | STAHL A B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2569-2387 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 507 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
From “Studying Prehistory” to “Making History” to “Co-creating Heritage
African Archaeology in Support of School Learning
School Learning Enriched by Doing
Using Africa’s past to promote change toward safer alternatives for food packaging in Accra
This study aimed at promoting attitude change among street vendors and their customers by exposing them to a communication intervention. The respondents were exposed to digitized images of ancient pottery and materials used to meet daily needs of food storage in Africa’s past, followed by a narration of how these materials were used in the past that could be used in the present day to package food. Respondents reflected on their experiences in th…
Differential impacts of dam construction on livelihoods in Ghana
Debates about the benefits and costs of hydro-electric dams have provoked this study, which examines how the Bui Dam in Ghana impacts on 13 nearby communities. Impacts were assessed using the capital assets framework, embracing seven types of capital assets: social, natural, human, physical, financial, cultural, and political. Data was collected through a quantitative questionnaire administered to 339 households, and qualitative interviews with 2…
Slavery in Africa
As exemplified by the contributions to this special issue of Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, recent decades have seen the topic of slavery in Africa transition from what Mbembe (2001: 21
Assembling "Effective Archaeologies" toward Equitable Futures
An urgency compels us to engage how archaeology relates to contemporary situations and future dilemmas as citizens anxiously contemplate their futures. We see "crowd-sourced" efforts to define pressing questions. A welter of theoretical approaches promises new insight into our relationally configured worlds. We couple awareness of the situated character of knowledge with a commitment to its empirical grounding. In light of this contemporary frame…
Efficacious Objects and Techniques of the Subject
Essouk-Tadmekka. An early Islamic trans-Saharan market town
Situated astride a wadi in the arid Adrar des Iforas region of northeastern Mali lay the ancient ruins of Essouk-Tadmekka, a town long if dimly known from early Arabic sources. Surface-visible wall
Genealogies of Practice in and of the Environment in Banda, Ghana
Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory’. Taking stock and looking forward
Contemporary practices of archaeology in Africa differ from those of earlier decades, but do so in ways that resist the tidy textbook categories of ‘culture history,’ ‘processual’ and ‘post-process
The Transactional Dynamics of Surplus in Landscapes of Enslavement
Circulations Through Worlds Apart
Metalworking and Ritualization
Villagers of the 15th through mid-16th centuries C.E. in the Banda area of west central Ghana were living in times of change. The Saharan exchange networks that for several centuries had shaped the lives of earlier villagers were to give way by the late 17th century to Atlantic ones. Both offered opportunities (of access to desired goods) and perils (of enslavement). This paper focuses on a metallurgical workshop and the varied ritual practice as…
Intersections of Craft and Cuisine
The Oxford handbook of African archaeology
Ann StahlUniversity of Victoria, BC, [email protected]© 2014, Ann Stahl
Africa in the World
In early postcolonial decades, scholars of Africa’s pasts turned inward, endeavoring to demonstrate the independence of African achievement from the world. Archaeological research in particular was directed toward demonstrating Africa’s original and independent trajectories of technological, social, and political innovation, with little attention paid to Africa’s interrelations with areas outside the continent. Much has changed in recent years as…
Archaeological Insights into Aesthetic Communities of Practice in the Western Volta Basin
September 01 2013 Archaeological Insights into Aesthetic Communities of Practice in the Western Volta Basin Ann B. Stahl Ann B. Stahl Ann B. Stahl, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is an anthropological archaeologist whose long-term research in the Banda area, Ghana has centered on the implications for daily life of the region's shifting inter-regional and inter-continental connect…
Material Histories
The term ‘material culture’ is often used by archaeologists as a non-specific way to refer to the artifacts or other concrete things left by past cultures. An archaeologist thus can be described as a person who studies the material culture of a past society. This article focuses on the idea of material histories. This idea as explored in this article has a dual sense. First, it underscores the ways in which material culture was bound up in how hi…
Inventing Africa
Inventing Africa: history, archaeology and ideas by Robin Derricourt, London, Pluto Press, 2011, xi + 183 pp., $28 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-7453-3105-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2012.64897
Route Work’ through Alternative Archives
The Five Hundred Year Initiative stresses the value of cross-disciplinary perspectives in investigating the antecedents of contemporary southern African societies, with archaeological sources playing a prominent role in its associated projects. To produce effective histories, these projects require analytical attention to both the processes that gave rise to contemporary societies and those that shape history making in the present. In this articl…
Ceramic production, consumption and exchange in the Banda area, Ghana
Writing for Many
Making History in Banda
Ivory production & consumption in Ghana in the early second millennium AD
In the eighteenth to nineteenth century West Africa was the scene of the infamous Atlantic trade in ivory and slaves. The authors' researches show a different situation in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, when the people of Ghana were engaged in the indigenous procurement, manufacture and trade in ivory with neighbours across the Sahara
Colonial Entanglements and the Practices of Taste
Anthropology has over the last quarter century privileged language, ideation, and meaning as central tropes in the study of culture. Meaning has been construed primarily in terms of linguistic signification, resulting in logocentric approaches to its study. This preoccupation endures despite the embrace of practice theory and renewed attention to object worlds. In this article, I explore the implications of logocentric approaches for the study of…
Hominid Dietary Selection Before Fire [and Comments and Reply]
Control of fire was apparently acquired rather late in the course of hominid evolution. It is therefore necessary, in the study of dietary selection by early hominids, to consider the range of plants that would have proven inedible without cooking. Some plants contain toxins or digestibility-reducing compounds, and some plant constituents are indigestible. Cooking mitigates the impact of toxins and renders complex carbohydrates more digestible. P…
Concepts of Time and Approaches to Analogical Reasoning in Historical Perspective
Analogy is fundamentally important to archaeological inquiry, yet archaeologists remain profoundly ambivalent about its use. In this paper I address issues of how we develop and subsequently apply analogical models. Selecting an analogue requires that we have some implicit or explicit sense of its relevance to the case at hand. In the past, archaeologists often assumed that principles of relevance implied extensive similarities between the ethnog…
Political Economic Mosaics
This review explores recent research that moves away from conventional preoccupations with origins and independent innovation in African Iron Age archaeology. Critiques of cultural evolutionary formulations and empirically robust case studies combine to shape new concerns with the following: the variable expressions of complexity in time and space; the mosaic quality of social, political economic, and technological landscapes; and the effects of …
The Archaeology of Global Encounters Viewed from Banda, Ghana
Ethnic Style and Ethnic Boundaries
This article calls into question the essentialist assumption that often underlies our use of contemporary ethnic labels in structuring discussions of the historical dimension in anthropology. Drawing on historical documentation and oral traditions, it explores variation in the content of ethnic style and the permeability of ethnic boundaries for an ethnolinguistically complex area of west-central Ghana. It concludes that meaningful discussion of …
Innovation, diffusion, and culture contact
Writing for Many
Assembling "Effective Archaeologies" toward Equitable Futures
An urgency compels us to engage how archaeology relates to contemporary situations and future dilemmas as citizens anxiously contemplate their futures. We see "crowd-sourced" efforts to define pressing questions. A welter of theoretical approaches promises new insight into our relationally configured worlds. We couple awareness of the situated character of knowledge with a commitment to its empirical grounding. In light of this contemporary frame…
Africa in the World
In early postcolonial decades, scholars of Africa’s pasts turned inward, endeavoring to demonstrate the independence of African achievement from the world. Archaeological research in particular was directed toward demonstrating Africa’s original and independent trajectories of technological, social, and political innovation, with little attention paid to Africa’s interrelations with areas outside the continent. Much has changed in recent years as…
Reinvestigation of Kintampo 6 rock shelter, Ghana
Early Food Production in West Africa
Change and Continuity in the Banda Area, Ghana
Archaeologists have long valued historical connections as a means of establishing the relevance of ethnography for inte1preting archaeological sites. While the direct historical approach has most often been used to support continuities between archaeological and ethnographic contexts, recent historical anthropological literature stresses the tremendous changes that occurred as a result of European contact, and suggests an expanded role for the di…
Archaeological Insights into Aesthetic Communities of Practice in the Western Volta Basin
September 01 2013 Archaeological Insights into Aesthetic Communities of Practice in the Western Volta Basin Ann B. Stahl Ann B. Stahl Ann B. Stahl, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is an anthropological archaeologist whose long-term research in the Banda area, Ghana has centered on the implications for daily life of the region's shifting inter-regional and inter-continental connect…
Ivory production & consumption in Ghana in the early second millennium AD
In the eighteenth to nineteenth century West Africa was the scene of the infamous Atlantic trade in ivory and slaves. The authors' researches show a different situation in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, when the people of Ghana were engaged in the indigenous procurement, manufacture and trade in ivory with neighbours across the Sahara
Genealogies of Practice in and of the Environment in Banda, Ghana
Making History in Banda
Essouk-Tadmekka. An early Islamic trans-Saharan market town
Situated astride a wadi in the arid Adrar des Iforas region of northeastern Mali lay the ancient ruins of Essouk-Tadmekka, a town long if dimly known from early Arabic sources. Surface-visible wall
Route Work’ through Alternative Archives
The Five Hundred Year Initiative stresses the value of cross-disciplinary perspectives in investigating the antecedents of contemporary southern African societies, with archaeological sources playing a prominent role in its associated projects. To produce effective histories, these projects require analytical attention to both the processes that gave rise to contemporary societies and those that shape history making in the present. In this articl…
Metalworking and Ritualization
Villagers of the 15th through mid-16th centuries C.E. in the Banda area of west central Ghana were living in times of change. The Saharan exchange networks that for several centuries had shaped the lives of earlier villagers were to give way by the late 17th century to Atlantic ones. Both offered opportunities (of access to desired goods) and perils (of enslavement). This paper focuses on a metallurgical workshop and the varied ritual practice as…
Intersections of Craft and Cuisine
Material Histories
The term ‘material culture’ is often used by archaeologists as a non-specific way to refer to the artifacts or other concrete things left by past cultures. An archaeologist thus can be described as a person who studies the material culture of a past society. This article focuses on the idea of material histories. This idea as explored in this article has a dual sense. First, it underscores the ways in which material culture was bound up in how hi…
Making History in Banda
African Archaeology in Support of School Learning
Theory in Africa, Africa in Theory’. Taking stock and looking forward
Contemporary practices of archaeology in Africa differ from those of earlier decades, but do so in ways that resist the tidy textbook categories of ‘culture history,’ ‘processual’ and ‘post-process
Hominid Dietary Selection Before Fire [and Comments and Reply]
Control of fire was apparently acquired rather late in the course of hominid evolution. It is therefore necessary, in the study of dietary selection by early hominids, to consider the range of plants that would have proven inedible without cooking. Some plants contain toxins or digestibility-reducing compounds, and some plant constituents are indigestible. Cooking mitigates the impact of toxins and renders complex carbohydrates more digestible. P…
Reinvestigation of Kintampo 6 rock shelter, Ghana
More on Hominid Diet Before Fire
Early Food Production in West Africa
Hominid Use of Fire in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene
Pottery from the Begho-B2 Site, Ghana
Ethnic Style and Ethnic Boundaries
This article calls into question the essentialist assumption that often underlies our use of contemporary ethnic labels in structuring discussions of the historical dimension in anthropology. Drawing on historical documentation and oral traditions, it explores variation in the content of ethnic style and the permeability of ethnic boundaries for an ethnolinguistically complex area of west-central Ghana. It concludes that meaningful discussion of …
Concepts of Time and Approaches to Analogical Reasoning in Historical Perspective
Analogy is fundamentally important to archaeological inquiry, yet archaeologists remain profoundly ambivalent about its use. In this paper I address issues of how we develop and subsequently apply analogical models. Selecting an analogue requires that we have some implicit or explicit sense of its relevance to the case at hand. In the past, archaeologists often assumed that principles of relevance implied extensive similarities between the ethnog…
Change and Continuity in the Banda Area, Ghana
Archaeologists have long valued historical connections as a means of establishing the relevance of ethnography for inte1preting archaeological sites. While the direct historical approach has most often been used to support continuities between archaeological and ethnographic contexts, recent historical anthropological literature stresses the tremendous changes that occurred as a result of European contact, and suggests an expanded role for the di…
Innovation, diffusion, and culture contact
Has ethnoarchaeology come of age
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Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa
Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa: Archaeology, History, Languages, Cultures, and Environments. Joseph O. Vogel. ed. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1997.606 pp
The Archaeology of Global Encounters Viewed from Banda, Ghana
Making History in Banda
Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, Ann Brower Stahl reconstructs the daily lives of Banda villagers of west central Ghana, from the time that they were drawn into the Niger trade (around AD 1300) until British overrule was established early in the twentieth century. The case study aims to closely integrate perspectives drawn from archaeology, history and anthropology in African studies
Making History in Banda
Colonial Entanglements and the Practices of Taste
Anthropology has over the last quarter century privileged language, ideation, and meaning as central tropes in the study of culture. Meaning has been construed primarily in terms of linguistic signification, resulting in logocentric approaches to its study. This preoccupation endures despite the embrace of practice theory and renewed attention to object worlds. In this article, I explore the implications of logocentric approaches for the study of…
Making History in Banda
Ann Brower Stahl, Making History in Banda: anthropological visions of Africa's past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 268 pp., £47.50 (US$69.95), ISBN 0 521 80182 6 (hard covers). - Volume 73 Issue 3
Making History in Banda
Ann B. Stahl. Making History in Banda: Anthropological Visions of Africa's Past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xix + 268 pp. Photographs. Drawings. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Price not reported. Cloth. Ann B. Stahl has provided an important and long-awaited contribution to the growing list of monograph-length archaeological studies of later African history. An examination of this period is crucial to developing an increasing…
The Archaeology of Traditions
The Archaeology of Traditions: Agency and History before and after Columbus. Timothy R. Pauketat. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. 384 pp
Writing for Many
Making History in Banda
Ivory production & consumption in Ghana in the early second millennium AD
In the eighteenth to nineteenth century West Africa was the scene of the infamous Atlantic trade in ivory and slaves. The authors' researches show a different situation in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, when the people of Ghana were engaged in the indigenous procurement, manufacture and trade in ivory with neighbours across the Sahara
Political Economic Mosaics
This review explores recent research that moves away from conventional preoccupations with origins and independent innovation in African Iron Age archaeology. Critiques of cultural evolutionary formulations and empirically robust case studies combine to shape new concerns with the following: the variable expressions of complexity in time and space; the mosaic quality of social, political economic, and technological landscapes; and the effects of …
Ceramic production, consumption and exchange in the Banda area, Ghana
Route Work’ through Alternative Archives
The Five Hundred Year Initiative stresses the value of cross-disciplinary perspectives in investigating the antecedents of contemporary southern African societies, with archaeological sources playing a prominent role in its associated projects. To produce effective histories, these projects require analytical attention to both the processes that gave rise to contemporary societies and those that shape history making in the present. In this articl…
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