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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790677303321

Titolo

Ethics in the field : contemporary challenges / / edited by Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013

ISBN

1-78238-793-5

0-85745-963-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Studies of the Biosocial Society ; ; 7

Studies of the Biosocial Society ; ; v. 7

Altri autori (Persone)

MacClancyJeremy

FuentesAgustin

Disciplina

174/.9301

Soggetti

Anthropological ethics

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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