ANTH 455 - Cultures of Expertise

Credits: 4

The seminar examines the challenges posed in adapting ethnographic practices to analyze diverse settings such as science labs, experimental arts programs, and financial institutions. The issue that draws together these studies is how experts create, manage, and manipulate knowledge within contexts in which “research,” broadly conceived, plays a decisive role. Sociocultural anthro course. Prerequisite: ANTH 166.