The ethics of anthropology : debates and dilemmas / edited by Pat Caplan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caplan, Patricia.

Tobias Wagner Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropological ethics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 235 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

Since the inception of their discipline, anthropologists have studied virtually every conceivable aspect of other peoples' morality - religion, social control, sin, virtue, evil, duty, purity and pollution. But what of the examination of anthropology itself, and of its agendas, epistemes, theories and praxes? Conceived as a response to Patrick Tierney's hugely inflammatory book "Darkness in El Dorado," whose allegations of immoral and negligent anthropological research in South America caused a storm of protest and debate, the book combines theoretical papers and case studies from eminent scholars including Steven Nugent, Marilyn Silverman and Veronica Strang. Showing how the topic of ethics goes to the heart of anthropology, it raises the controversial question of why - and for whom - the anthropological discipline functions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tobias Wagner Library Fund.

ISBN:

0415296420

0415296439

OCLC:

51305915