Wishing for a garden

[gwynhefar]

"Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden."

--Elizabeth von Arnim, "The Solitary Summer"

Comments

How do the flowers grow?

[salingerscat.livejournal.com]

and you could so have one---and what a great stress relief and reducer working in the garden is!!!! Your course material should prove that to you if you're a skeptic....

Re: How do the flowers grow?

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

I'm no skeptic. I have always loved gardening. I used to have a garden when I lived with my parents. Unfortunately alteration of the premises is not allowed under our lease -- no garden for me. I shall have to invest in window boxes.

Re: How do the flowers grow?

[salingerscat.livejournal.com]

ohhhh. another thing in common. check.

investment---hrms, what shall I give Gwyn for her birthday? ;p heheehehe

[museumfreak.livejournal.com]

Hey Jenna--

Are you still at work? I need a reference related question answered (science/med ref even) . . . I'm at home using electronic journal stuff.

Kathy

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

I'm here now -- just got back from my dinner break. What's up?

[museumfreak.livejournal.com]

I need to find some of Emily Martin's recent publications on mania/anthropology of mood. She's a medical anthropologist and quite prominent. If I search Web of Science (searching the 3 main databases) with MARTIN E* it gives me thousands of results which are mostly not her. If I specify with any keyword like mania or anthropology, or with her institutional affiliation (made more complex by the fact that she's been at JHU, Princeton, NYU and maybe other places I don't know about), it gives me too few, and not the ones I want (I'm mostly hitting older stuff). Got a better idea for filtering the search?

A list of her publications up until 2000 (which was unfortunately before she started publishing on this subject) can be found at http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/anthro/faculty/martin.html

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

try a different database? Web of Science isn't where I would have started anyway. PubMed is good for medical stuff and includes psychiatry, although perhaps not the more anthropoligical stuff. Health and Psychosocial Instruments might work. Also PsychInfo. I'm not really familiar with the anthropological databases -- not my area -- but I think they're grouped together on Thomas Cooper's homepage. You can try some of them too.

[museumfreak.livejournal.com]

actually, I did search PubMED, you can now search PubMED and WoS (plus SSCI, A&HCI) at the same time. I'll try PsychInfo and Health & Psych Inst. Thanks for that tip!

The specific-to-anthropology databases are a joke. The one we have is the free one from Oxford, and it works very poorly when it does. Human Relations Area Files, the other one, only works if you're Studying Small Scale Cultures particularly in a comparative way. There's been a fair amount of critique of that database's model of anthropological knowledge recently in the literature.