Ethics in the Field Contemporary Challenges [Hardcover]

In recent years ever-increasing concerns about ethical dimensions of fieldwork practice have forced anthropologists and other social scientists to radically reconsider the nature, process, and outcomes of fieldwork: what should we be doing, how, for whom, and to what end? In this volume, practitioners from across anthropological disciplinessocial and biological anthropology and primatologycome together to question and compare the ethical regulation of fieldwork, what is common to their practices, and what is distinctive to each discipline. Contributors probe a rich variety of contemporary questions: the new, unique problems raised by conducting fieldwork online and via email; the potential dangers of primatological fieldwork for locals, primates, the environment, and the fieldworkers themselves; the problems of studying the military; and the role of ethical clearance for anthropologists involved in international health programs. The distinctive aim of this book is to develop of a transdisciplinary anthropology at the methodological, not theoretical, level.

Agust?n Fuentesis Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, where he is chair of the department.

Chapter 1.The ethical fieldworker, and other problems
Jeremy MacClancy & Agust?n Fuentes

Chapter 2.Constructing success and controlling information: the place of ethical clearance in international health
Melissa Parker & Tim Allen

Chapter 3.Ethical issues in the study and conservation of an African great ape in non-protected human-dominated habitat
Matt R. McLennan and Catherine M. Hill

Chapter 4.Are observational field studies really noninvasive?
Karen Strier

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