Living in an Inverted World
Experiences of Non-Anthropologists in an Anthropologically Driven Research Center
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 14835250 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Scott Clair (University of Houston), Wei Teng (0000-0001-7560-2848, Child Developmental Psychology, Peking University, China), Tom Stopka (HHC Research Department, Food and Nutrition Program), Jianghong Li (0000-0002-2544-7592, West China Medical Center of Sichuan University), Hassan Saleheen (Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh) |
| Ano | 2003 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 12-15 |
| Data de publicação | 2003-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Practicing Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0888-4552 • E-ISSN: 2994-1628 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/praa.25.3.60452405008q588k |
| OpenAlex | W2020088497 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 6 |
Every organization possesses a specific organizational culture and history, including university-based and freestanding research centers. In most research centers organizational culture is guided by a particular disciplinary emphasis (for a fuller discussion of the organizational culture of the Hispanic Health Council, see Singer 1990). When anthropologists are employed at health research centers, as they have been in growing numbers in recent years (Hahn 1999), they usually constitute a minority group functioning under the sway of another discipline's (e.g., psychology, epidemiology) worldview, methods, traditions and institutional control (e.g., Price, 1992). By contrast, anthropologists co-founded the Hispanic Health Council (in collaboration with community health activists) and the Director of the Hispanic Health Council's (HHC) Center for Health Research. The primary research arm of the organization, has, except for a brief period early in the organization's history, always been an anthropologist. Moreover, anthropologists have constituted the majority of researchers at the HHC over the last two and a half decades. However, in recent years, while anthropology remains the dominant discipline at the HHC, the research program is increasingly multidisciplinary. What has the experience been like for psychologists and other non-anthropological public health professionals at the HHC who inhabit this
Discipline · Multidisciplinary approach · Public health · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Gender Studies · Medicine · Nursing · Public Health Policies and Education · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,04 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2003 - 2003 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 1 |