Ethics in the Field: Contemporary Challenges. Edited by Jeremy Macclancy, Agustn Fuentes Contributor(s): Macclancy, Jeremy (Editor), Fuentes, Agustín (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0857459627 ISBN-13: 9780857459626 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Business Ethics - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Research |
Dewey: 174.930 |
LCCN: 2012037775 |
Series: Studies of the Biosocial Society |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (1.03 lbs) 224 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 disciplines--social and biological anthropology and primatology--come 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fuentes, Agust: - Agustín Fuentes is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, where he is chair of the department. Macclancy, Jeremy: -Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Anthropological Centre for Conservation, the Environment and Development at Oxford Brookes University. |