Ethics in the Field

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857459627
• ISBN13: 9780857459626
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"