Today Anne Galloway, one of the peer advisors took us on a walk to tell us about ways of “knowing”: more specifically, using anthropology to look at populations. We visited the cemetery (”Old Banff Cemetery”) as a case study. Things to look for were trends in dates, types of names (Anglo, Asian, etc.) and the like. From this, we could make assumptions about the culture and society that lived here. Very similar to what Susan Leigh-Starr speaks of in “Ethnography of Infrastructure”; looking for trends and making inferences by what is leftover (in the case of Susan, the telephone book specifically). Interesting, but nothing too new to me.