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Ethics in the field : contemporary challenges / edited by Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies of the Biosocial Society
- Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 7
- Studies of the Biosocial Society ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropological ethics.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 q
- Contents:
- Ethics in the Field; Studies of the Biosocial Society; Ethics in the Field Contemporary Challenges - Edited by Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 The Ethical Fieldworker, and Other Problems; 2 Questioning Ethics in Global Health; 3 Ethical Issues in the Study and Conservation of an African Great Ape in an Unprotected, Human-Dominated Landscape in Western Uganda; 4 Are Observational Field Studies of Wild Primates Really Noninvasive?; 5 Complex and Heterogeneous Ethical Structures in Field Primatology
- 6 Contemporary Ethical Issues in Field Primatology7 The Ethics of Conducting Field Research; 8 Scrutinizing Suffering; 9 Messy Ethics; 10 Key Ethical Considerations which Inform the Use of Anonymous Asynchronous Web surveys in 'Sensitive' Research; 11 Covering our Backs, or Covering all Bases? An Ethnography of URECs; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 22, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-984-6
- 1-78238-793-5
- 0-85745-963-5
- OCLC:
- 859582106
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