Born in Montréal, Michel Verdon studied anthropology at the Université de Montréal and at Cambridge University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in1975. He taught at Cambridge from 1979 to 1984 and is now teaching in the Department of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. His research interest in the epistemological problems plaguing the study of society resulted in the publication in Paris of his own theoretical manifesto, Contre la culture (Edition des Archives Contemporaines).