Harrison G G, Ritenbaugh C
Fed Proc. 1981 Sep;40(11):2595-600.
In the last several years serious collaborative efforts between nutrition scientists and anthropologists have begun to bear fruit. To encourage the development of such collaboration, it is useful to consider the professional scientific subcultures of each discipline and how these condition the ways in which we view research problems and methodology. Anthropologists and nutrition scientists share many values and assumptions by virtue of common membership in the larger culture and in the subculture of science. There are substantial differences, however, many of them rooted in the fact that anthropology is primarily an observational science while nutritional science has been primarily experimental in nature. Successful collaboration will result from the formation of long-term communicative relationships rather than from ad hoc utilization of the other discipline. We offer some suggestions for how this may occur, and submit that understanding our own professional subcultures is essential to interdisciplinary efforts.
在过去几年里，营养科学家和人类学家之间认真的合作努力已开始取得成果。为鼓励这种合作的发展，考虑各学科的专业科学亚文化以及这些亚文化如何影响我们看待研究问题和方法的方式是很有用的。人类学家和营养科学家由于共同属于更大的文化和科学亚文化而共享许多价值观和假设。然而，也存在重大差异，其中许多差异源于这样一个事实，即人类学主要是一门观察性科学，而营养科学本质上主要是实验性的。成功的合作将源于长期交流关系的形成，而不是临时利用其他学科。我们就这种情况可能如何发生提出了一些建议，并认为理解我们自己的专业亚文化对于跨学科努力至关重要。
