ANTH 495D: Anthropology of Memoir, Life History and Family

Instructor: Dr. Charles Menzies


Term 1

Tuesdays

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm


Description:

This course explores the intersection of memoir and anthropological writing through a First Nation’s lens. We will use First Nations’ approaches that centre relations and place to assess anthropological fieldwork memoirs, life histories of the studied, autoethnographic modes of writing, and anthropologists’ memories of their own families. Students will practice writing memoir through a careful reading of First Nations and anthropological works.