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The ethics of anthropology : debates and dilemmas
- Title
- The ethics of anthropology : debates and dilemmas / edited by Pat Caplan.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Caplan, Patricia.
- Description
- xiv, 235 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Showing how the topic of ethics goes to the heart of anthropology, this volume raises the controversial question of why - and for whom - the anthropological discipline functions.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Anthropology and ethics -- 'Like a horse in blinkers'?: a political history of anthropology's research ethics -- 'Being there': the magic of presence or the metaphysics of morality? -- The Yanomami: anthropological discourse and ethics -- 'The blind men and the elephant': the challenge of representing the Rwandan genocide -- Everyday ethics: a personal journey in rural Ireland, 1980-2001 -- 'To tell or not to tell?': ethics and secrecy in anthropology and childbearing in rural Malawi -- The construction of otherness in modern Greece: the state, the church and the study of a religious minority -- An appropriate question? the propriety of anthropological analysis in the Australian political arena -- British paganism, morality and the politics of knowledge -- Revealing a popular South African deceit: the ethical challenges of an etymological exercise.
- ISBN
- 0415296420
- 9780415296427
- 0415296439
- 9780415296434
- 9780203633670
- 0203633679
- LCCN
- 2002045494
- OCLC
- ocm51305915
- 51305915
- SCSB-1648758
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library