Locating Anthropological Inquiry Within Contemporary Sociologies of Knowledge

FAIN: FB-12838-76

Michael W. Messmer
Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA 23284-9005)

To assess the implications of various anthropological theories for work in the sociology of knowledge and to situate those theories in the broader context of contemporary approaches to the sociology of knowledge. An attempt would then be made to move toward an ethnography of modern British society through use of methods derived from the seminar.