When people read my calling card they ask first, What is a clinical anthropologist? If they are
anthropologists, they ask What is the need for another new specialty? The answer to the …

This paper traces the sociocultural history of psychiatric anthropology. Most writers exploring
this area have limited themselves to recording valuable contributions (La Barre, 1961) …

This chapter describes some of the research, service, and training aspects of clinical
anthropology that have evolved over a thirteen year period at the University of Miami School …

THE IMPORTANCE of many psychiatric assumptions and findings to anthropology is well
known. The reverse relationship, namely the adoption of anthropological assumptions and …

Edward Sapir played an important role essay and are taught its historical significance, it
reads as somewhat outmoded and not so in the development of anthropology and …

BOOK REVIEWS urgency today." If scholarly bibliography is to keep pace with this extensive
and fast-moving frontier of contemporary knowledge, it will be necessary to search for an …

Anthropologically, modern" insanity" might be seen as the failure of our culture to make its
members human, perhaps the human experience as inhuman. This dissertation is the …

UNTIL not so many years ago cultural anthropology and psychiatry seemed miles apart.
Cultural anthropology was conceived of as a social science which concerned itself little, if at …

I wish to thank Professor David Landy for his spirited and thought-provoking response (" On
Anthropology and the De-institutionalization of Psychiatric Patients," MAN 13 (4): 3-4 [1982]) …

This chapter was stimulated by an invitation to comment on a paper of Byron Good's
delivered at the 1987 meeting of the American Anthropological Association.'I came to …