Ethics in the Field: Contemporary Challenges. Edited by Jeremy Macclancy, Agustn Fuentes

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.

Author: Jeremy Macclancy
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 07/01/2013
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780857459626

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2014

About the Author
Macclancy, Jeremy: -

Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Anthropological Centre for Conservation, the Environment and Development at Oxford Brookes University.

Fuentes, Agustín: -

Agustín Fuentes is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, where he is chair of the department.