ANTH 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Canadian Passport, Settler Colonialism, Ethnography

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 308
• Professor: Katherine Lemons

Document Summary

Announcements: the professor is discussing how to read an entire book. Some of the tricks she is recommending is: read the intro. What the author really thinks about these central arguments. It is important to read everything and sometimes it"s easier to read books than articles because not every single word has such a weight like in an article. Once you finish each chapter try to look at how these central arguments are coming in and where does the book push back. Group work for a few minutes to talk about the main concepts of the first 4 chapters. She is a full professor in new york. She is invested in rethinking how we do ethnography. She asks us to reconsider the ethnography of first nations peoples by asking us in some way to think about culture as a political construct and claims making.