21st February 2008, 12:34 AM
Yes a positive nature I agree.
My eventual aim is to work as a community psychiatric nurse in a remote community.
Everything I do their will be with the aggreement and instruction of the community.
Many people use bushwalking as a kind of therapy within such setings.
My aim would be to slowerly help the community gain the skills to map all the sites in their territory (if they want)using state of the art GPS etc.
The writing up would also be a collective operation and everything decided on by the elders and the community.
There would be no time line for any of this and could go on for ever.
The skills learnt by community members would searve very useful as means as geting future employment.
But I'm going to do this after I have gained more experience and only when I have established links with an Aboriginal community who wants me.
I then have to commit to stay at least five years but probably for as long as I'm still walking.
Obviously this won't be just about psychiatric patients but rather about mental health not just illness.
I'd be interested if others anywhere in the world is using archaeology as therapy?
And please, please anyone is welcome to take this idea and use it themselves.
In an another area of the world I also pushed this idea in Bihar in India (when I was the unpaid consultant to the Bihar Government!! a very strange Walter-Mitty story but true all the same, one of the sites I gave advice on had been last excavated by Wheeler!).
Anyway I have links with the wonderful people in charge of Bihar and there is huge potential for collaboration with them if anyone is interested.
However, Bihar is like Iraq in terms of violence, etc, etc, so these problems plus the Archaeological Survey of India have kept all but the French out.
But archaeologist want to escape from this.
Community archaeology is the only way to go here to. Ie you can't spend money without helping the poor learn and prosper.
Vaishalii was part of the Lichivis Republic with greater democracy than Athens, before Athens, Jains, Buhda etc,etc.
Good historical records a thousand years after its ruin.
It is a massive low tel with pottery and bricks etc clearly visible on the surface.
It is covered by (perhaps?) as much as 20m's of soft Gange's silt.
Geophysics is used in India in mining but has never been used in archaeology.
My advert for collaboration may still on be on the WAC site but if not anyone can contact me and I'll give them the run down and give them the emails.
Imagine community training in geophysics and the amazing possibilities....
Arthus
My eventual aim is to work as a community psychiatric nurse in a remote community.
Everything I do their will be with the aggreement and instruction of the community.
Many people use bushwalking as a kind of therapy within such setings.
My aim would be to slowerly help the community gain the skills to map all the sites in their territory (if they want)using state of the art GPS etc.
The writing up would also be a collective operation and everything decided on by the elders and the community.
There would be no time line for any of this and could go on for ever.
The skills learnt by community members would searve very useful as means as geting future employment.
But I'm going to do this after I have gained more experience and only when I have established links with an Aboriginal community who wants me.
I then have to commit to stay at least five years but probably for as long as I'm still walking.
Obviously this won't be just about psychiatric patients but rather about mental health not just illness.
I'd be interested if others anywhere in the world is using archaeology as therapy?
And please, please anyone is welcome to take this idea and use it themselves.
In an another area of the world I also pushed this idea in Bihar in India (when I was the unpaid consultant to the Bihar Government!! a very strange Walter-Mitty story but true all the same, one of the sites I gave advice on had been last excavated by Wheeler!).
Anyway I have links with the wonderful people in charge of Bihar and there is huge potential for collaboration with them if anyone is interested.
However, Bihar is like Iraq in terms of violence, etc, etc, so these problems plus the Archaeological Survey of India have kept all but the French out.
But archaeologist want to escape from this.
Community archaeology is the only way to go here to. Ie you can't spend money without helping the poor learn and prosper.
Vaishalii was part of the Lichivis Republic with greater democracy than Athens, before Athens, Jains, Buhda etc,etc.
Good historical records a thousand years after its ruin.
It is a massive low tel with pottery and bricks etc clearly visible on the surface.
It is covered by (perhaps?) as much as 20m's of soft Gange's silt.
Geophysics is used in India in mining but has never been used in archaeology.
My advert for collaboration may still on be on the WAC site but if not anyone can contact me and I'll give them the run down and give them the emails.
Imagine community training in geophysics and the amazing possibilities....
Arthus