Homage to an Ethnographic Table

KREGG HETHERINGTON

If you’ve ever been to the Concordia Ethnography Lab, then you’ll know the large, sturdy, and decidedly amateur hunk of a table that lends the room much of its character. The table was the brainchild of Adam Van Sertima, a philosopher-carpenter who tasked himself with furnishing the Lab in the month it opened. This post is an introduction and homage to that table.