Kleinman A, Benson P. PLoS Med. 2006 Oct;3(10):e294. This was an interesting article regarding cultural competency from an anthropologic view. Anthropologists understand the need for cultural competency training, but find that cultural competency is not a proper term since it suggests culture can be reduced to a technical skill for which clinicians can bet rained to develop expertise. Anthropologists emphasize that culture is not a single variable but rather comprises multiple variables, affecting all aspects of experience. Rather than the teaching cultural competency, the authors propose training clinicians in ethnography, referring to an anthropologist’s description of what life is like in a “local world.” What sets this apart from other methods of social research is the importance place