Ethics and Anthropology
by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban · Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban's study of ethics in anthropological fieldwork, tracing the discipline's codes from colonial-era research through the Human Terrain System controversy. Readers learn to reason about informed consent, covert research, harm to communities, and the obligations anthropologists owe to research participants and sponsors.
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