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

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 213 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies of the biosocial society ; volume 7
Studies of the Biosocial Society ; v. 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Anthropological ethics.
Anthropological ethics.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Added Author MacClancy, Jeremy.
Fuentes, Agustin.
Other Form: Print version: Ethics in the field 9780857459626 (DLC) 2012037775 (OCoLC)812018033
ISBN 9780857459633 (electronic book)
0857459635 (electronic book)
1299950922 (electronic book)
9781299950924 (electronic book)
9780857459626
0857459627