Re: private practice anthro'-clinical anthro'
Gil Hardwick (gil@landmark.iinet.net.au)
Wed, 19 Apr 1995 03:37:35 GMT
In article <3mr2pj$qu8@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Bterr (bterr@aol.com) writes:
>I practiced anthropology clinically for over a decade. The field is much
>more complex and interesting than you imagine. However, first you must
>learn a great deal about psychiatry, psychology, medicine,
>psychopharmacology, etc. before you can add the anthro. The end result
>was that many patients were helped.
>
Indeed! It is no mere chance that those anthropologists who have
finally stamped their name on the profession, in any of its manifold
branches, have done so only during their latter years; a circumstance
only very partially attributable to the gullibility of cloistered
youth.
Similarly, Aboriginal elders typically refer to teenagers as "know-
nothings", although Westerners become outraged at such a suggestion as
rude in the extreme. Much to their own detriment . . .
Suffice that considerable knowledge, sufficient to be of any use to
anybody, takes literally decades of very hard work to accumulate.
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