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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 174/.9301
• Soggetto topico: Anthropological ethics; Ethics
• Altri autori: MacClancyJeremy FuentesAgustin
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethics in the field
• ISBN: 1-78238-793-5; 0-85745-963-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821499803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies of the Biosocial Society