Faculty success: Partner with UVic Libraries
October 11, 2022
Photo: Ann Stahl holds a 2019 photo of Banda area potter Mary Yakosua (centre), who holds a 1994 photo of her mother from whom she learned potting skills.
"The Digital Scholarship Commons and the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab afford free access to up-to-date equipment and software, together with a community of scholars actively working on projects that expand knowledge access through digital media."
Ann Stahl, Anthropology
Internationally-renowned UVic archaeologist Ann Stahl is working with UVic Libraries to preserve and make available her vast and irreplaceable collection of research material from the Banda region in Ghana.
Her digital exhibit, , contains photographs and video documenting how several Ghanaian communities negotiated change wrought by centuries of global connections, including recent electrification and the construction of a hydroelectric dam. The exhibit highlights local knowledge and ingenuity and it forms the basis for Middle School curriculum guides that will be implemented across Ghana. The photos, videos, and documents in this exhibit foster active learning about Ghanaian history and culture among Ghanaian and Canadian students alike.
UVic Libraries is honoured to help Ann ensure that four decades of cultural research materials will be preserved for the ongoing use of the communities that helped produce them.
Read the full interview with Ann Stahl to learn more about this project.
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