Ethics in the Field - Contemporary Challenges

First-ever transdisciplinary comparison of ethical issues in anthropological field research


Helps develop a transdisciplinary anthropology, but at the level of methods (very rare), not of theory (much more common)


Up-to-date discussion of ethical concerns in social scientific field research (chapters on the value of the Net, and the ethical consequences of email use)

List of contents

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

About the author

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

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Macclancy, Jeremy Fuentes Macclancy
• Assisted by: Agust Fuentes (Editor), Agustan Fuentes (Editor), AgustA­n Fuentes (Editor), Agustin Fuentes (Editor), Agustín Fuentes (Editor), Jeremy Macclancy (Editor), MacClancy Jeremy (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2013
• EAN: 9780857459626
• ISBN: 978-0-85745-962-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Studies of the Biosocial Socie; Studies of the Biosocial Socie; Studies of the Biosocial Society; Rethinking Biosocial Anthropology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, REFERENCE / Research, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Research methods: general, Theory and Methodology; Applied Anthropology