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Language

English

Source Type

Edited Volume

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Book description:

Anthropologists who talk about ethics generally mean the code of practice drafted by a professional association for implementation by its members. As this book convincingly shows, such a conception is far too narrow. A more radical approach is to recognize that moral judgments are made at every juncture of scientific practice and they require a negotiation of responsibility with all stakeholders in the research enterprise.Embedding Ethics questions why ethics have been divorced from scientific expertise. Invoking different disciplinary practices from biological, archaeological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology, contributors show how ethics should be resituated at the heart of, rather than exterior to, scientific activity. Positioning the researcher as a negotiator of significant truths rather than an adjudicator of a priori precepts enables contributors to relocate ethics in new sets of social and scientific relationships triggered by recent globalization processes - from new forms of intellectual and cultural ownership to accountability in governance, and the very ways in which people are studied. Case studies from ethnographic research, museum display, archaeological fieldwork and professional monitoring illustrate both best practice and potential pitfalls.This important book is an essential guide for all anthropologists who wish to be active contributors to the discussion on ethics and the ethical practice of their profession.

Your body, my property: the problem of colonial genetics in a postcolonial world / Jonathan Marks
The promise and perils of an ethic of stewardship / Alison Wylie
"Where there aren't no ten commandments: redefining ethics during the darkness in El Dorado scandal / Peter Pels
Anthropology's Malaysian interlocutors: toward a cosmopolitan ethics of anthropological practice / Joel S. Kahn
Sites of violence: terrorism, tourism, and heritage in the archaeological present / Lynn Meskell
Pain, politics, and the epistemological ethics of anthropological disciplinarity / Pradeep Jeganathan
Situational ethics and engaged practice: the case of archaeology in Africa / Martin Hall
A science of the gray: Malthus, Marx, and the ethics of studying crop biotechnology / Glenn Davis Stone
The morality of exhibiting Indians / Craig Howe
Documenting ethics / Don Brenneis
Solid histories for fragile nations: archaeology as cultural patrimony / Rosemary A. Joyce

Taxonomies

RPA Codes & Standards

• Archaeologist's Responsibility to Colleagues, Employees, and Students
• Archaeologist's Responsibility to the Public
• Integrity of Research Methodology
• Procedures for Field Survey or Excavation

CIfA Codes

• Principle 1: Adherence to ethical and responsible behaviour in archaeological affairs
• Principle 2: Responsibility for the conservation of the historic environment
• Principle 3: Responsibility for acquiring and recording reliable information of the past in archaeological research
• Principle 4: Responsibility for the availability of archaeological results within reasonable dispatch
• Principle 5: Recognition of aspirations of employees, colleagues and helpers in all matters of employment

Keywords & Terms

• Armed Conflict and Violence
• Environmental Impact and Issues
• Impact on Communities - Local, Descendant, etc.
• Indigenous, Tribal, Aboriginal Rights
• Management of Cultural Resources, Heritage, History
• Museum, Collection, Curation and Display Standards
• Promotion of Archaeological Research/Archaeology as Scientific Discipline
• Public Interest, Collaboration, Education, and Outreach
• Respect for and Responsibility to Affected Groups
• Stewardship

Topics & Issues

• Colonialism and Imperialism
• Heritage and Archaeological Tourism
• Heritage Management
• Human Remains and Ethical Practice
• Human Rights and Social and Economic Inequalities
• Interpreting the Past
• Museum and Display Ethics
• NAGPRA, Repatriation, and Indigenous Rights
• Politics and Archaeology
• Technology
• War, Violence, and Conflict