ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an anthropological exploration of Canada’s island province of Newfoundland, including its own offshore island of Fogo. Here, I return to the theme of centre/periphery and examine the ways that political imaginations form and inform island culture. I begin with a brief cultural history of the island in relation to the rest of the country before moving on to discuss my own ethnographic fieldwork along Newfoundland’s southern coast. In the remaining micro-essays, all of which focus on Fogo Island, I outline the intersection of design, anthropology, and material culture with a brief introduction to the concept of object-oriented hauntology, a theoretical framework I have been developing for the past several years.
