Comments on: Mental Welfare in The Field: A neglected subject?

By: Marcus Jordan

Marcus Jordan — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 10:18:25 +0000

Thanks for the comments! While mental health has been written about before in anthropology, as one of the commenters rightly says, the reason for this post is that it’s clear that well, unfortunately, not enough is being done on this front. Those articles were written a couple years ago. What has happened since? I understand that some departments may be more proactive on this front than others, but this does not justify disciplinary inaction. Thus, it’s one thing for people to write about mental health in a journal, or even a blog, and another for people to take action after reading.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:04:32 +0000

Excellent post! Not in Anthropology, but in the social sciences–but I can relate a lot to this article. I am in the field right now and it is so hard to justify taking a “mental health break,” even though you know that you should.

By: Tine

Tine — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:07:38 +0000

Hi Marcus,

I’m so happy you treat this topic 🙂
I did so myself in my master thesis and a book you’ll love is “Les non-dits de l’anthropologie” by Sophie Caratini. I don’t know whether itwas translated in English, but you’ll definitely find summaries on the internet 🙂

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 20:11:07 +0000

Hi Marcus,

A 2009 issue of Anthropology Matters was dedicated to some of these issues, particularly the relationship between fieldwork and ‘the discipline’, which you might find interesting.

http://www.anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/issue/view/12