Talk:Betony Vernon

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She is married to Barnaba Fornasetti, the son of legendary Italian designer Piero Fornasetti.Maestrotam (talk) 16:32, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The question has arisen as to whether or not we can call Ms. Vernon a sexual anthropologist. Anonymous contributor *188c argues that, just as medical doctors must have MD degrees to be medical doctors, so it goes that one must have a PhD in the relevant field to be described as "a sociologist, historian, anthropologist, [or an] economist."

I don't doubt 188c's statement that a PhD is required in his field (academia) before a person is accepted as an anthropologist, but academic use isn't representative of how such labels are ordinarily understood. Some might similarly claim a person is only a writer if she's been published nationally, an actor after he's made it in Hollywood or Broadway, or a designer once her collection is sold on Fifth Avenue. I contend that an anthropologist is someone who works in anthropology, a designer someone who designs. A reliable source described the subject as a sexual anthropologist (without scare quotes),^[1] and we ought to do the same.

Also, "other stuff exists," but our