The Ethics of Anthropology (eBook, ePUB)

Debates and Dilemmas
Redaktion: Caplan, Pat

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Combining theoretical papers and case studies from leading scholars, this book demonstrates how the topic of ethics goes to the heart of anthropology and raises the debatable question of why, and for whom, the anthropological discipline functions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134435647
• Artikelnr.: 49376416

Autorenporträt

Pat Caplan is a former Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College in London, and former Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Her books with Routledge include African Voices, African Lives (1997), The Cultural Construction of Sexuality (1987), Food, Health and Identity (1997) and Gendered Fields (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter I: Introduction: Anthropologists and Ethics Part One: Debates
Chapter II: 'Like a Horse in Blinkers': A Political History of
Anthropology's Research Ethics Chapter III: 'Being There': The magic of
presence or the metephysics of morality Chapter IV: 'Clubbed to Death':
Anthropology, the Yanomami, Science and Ethics Chapter V: 'The Blind Men
and the Elephant': the Challenge of Representing the Rwandan Genocide Part
Two: Dilemmas Chapter VI: Everyday Ethics: a Personal Journey in Rural
Ireland, 1980-2001 Chapter VII: 'To Tell or Not to Tell': Ethics and
Secrecy in Anthropology and Childbearing in Rural Malawi Chapter VIII: The
Construction of Otherness in Modern Greece: the State, the Church and the
Study of Religious Minorities Chapter IX: An Appropriate Question? The
Propriety of Anthropological Analysis in the Austrailian Political Arena
Chapter X: 'A Spectrum of Grey': Some Reflections on Morality from Inside
and Outside the British Magical Subculture Chapter XI: Revealing a Popular
South African Deceit: the Ethical Challenges of an Etymological Exercise