Ethics in the Field

Contemporary Challenges
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-793-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

Reihe: Studies of the Biosocial Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macclancy, Jeremy

Fuentes, Agustín

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. The ethical fieldworker, and other problems

Jeremy MacClancy & Agustín Fuentes

Chapter 2. Constructing success and controlling information: the place of ethical clearance in international health

Melissa Parker & Tim Allen

Chapter 3. Ethical issues in the study and conservation of an African great ape in non-protected human-dominated habitat

Matt R. McLennan and Catherine M. Hill

Chapter 4. Are observational field studies really noninvasive?

Karen Strier

Chapter 5. Complex and heterogeneous ethical structures in field primatology

Nobuyuki Kutsukake

Chapter 6. Contemporary Ethical Issues in Field Primatology

Katherine MacKinnon and Erin Riley

Chapter 7. The Ethics of Conducting Field Research: Do Long-term Great Ape Field Studies Help to Conserve Primates?

Anna Nekaris & Vincent Nijman

Chapter 8. Studying suffering: the ethics of studying contested illness

Susie Kilshaw

Chapter 9. Messy Ethics: Negotiating the terrain between ethics approval and ethical practice

Tina Miller

Chapter 10. Key Ethical Considerations Which Inform the Use of Anonymous Asynchronous Websurveys in ‘Sensitive’ Research

Em Rundall

Chapter 11. Covering all bases, or covering our backs? An ethnography of URECs

Jeremy MacClancy

Notes on Contributors

Bibliograhpy

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.

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