ANN B. STAHL

Email: astahl@binghamton.edu

(PhD University of California, Berkeley 1985), Professor of Anthropology, is an Africanist archaeologist whose recent research focuses on how daily life was reshaped through West Africa's long-term involvement in global trade (via trans-Saharan and later Atlantic networks). Her research draws on broader theoretical and methodological interests in political economy, ethnohistory, material culture studies, analogy, and the production of history in the present. Her earlier work on dietary reconstruction and the transition to food production in Africa shapes her current interest in the dietary changes associated with global exchange.

Recent Articles & Book Chapters :

in press Dogs, Pythons, Pots and Beads The Dynamics of Shrines and Sacrificial Practices in Banda , Ghana , AD 1400-1900. In Memory Work: The Materiality of Depositional Practice , edited by Barbara Mills & William Walker. Sante Fe NM: School of American Research Press.

in press Entangled Lives: the Archaeology of Daily Life in the Gold Coast Hinterlands, AD 1400-1900. In Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Toyin Falola & Akin Ogundiran. Bloomington : Indiana University Press.

2004 Political Economic Mosaics: Archaeology of the Last Two Millennia in Tropical Sub-Saharan Africa . Annual Review of Anthropology 33:145-172.

2004 Comparative Insights into the Ancient Political Economies of West Africa . In Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies , edited by Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas. Pp. 253-270. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press.

2004 Making history in Banda: Reflections on the construction of Africa 's past. Historical Archaeology 38(1):50-65.

2004 (Ann B. Stahl & Peter W. Stahl) Ivory production & consumption in Ghana in the early second millennium AD. Antiquity 78:86-101.

2004 (Ann Stahl, Rob Mann and Diana Loren) Writing for many: Interdisciplinarity, constructionism and the practices of writing. Historical Archaeology 38(2):83-102.

2002 Colonial entanglements and the practices of taste: An alternative to logocentric approaches. American Anthropologist 104(3):827-845.

2001 Historical process and the impact of the Atlantic trade on Banda , Ghana , 1800-1920. In West Africa during the Atlantic slave trade: Archaeological perspectives, edited by C. DeCorse, pp. 38-58. London : Leicester University Press.

Books:

2005 (editor) African Archaeology. A Critical Introduction . Oxford : Blackwell.

2001 Making History in Banda. Anthropological Visions of Africa 's Past . Cambridge University Press.

Courses for the Spring 2008 Semester: ANTH 300, ANTH 504 (With D. Elliston)

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