Ethics in the Field: Contemporary Challenges

Jeremy MacClancy (Curatore)

Agustin Fuentes (Curatore)

Berghahn Books, 2015

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.

• Curatore: Jeremy MacClancy, Agustin Fuentes
• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Collana: Studies of the Biosocial Society
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 308 gr.
• EAN: 9781782387930

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