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The ethics of anthropology : debates and dilemmas /

Since the inception of their discipline, anthropologists have studied virtually every conceivable aspect of other peoples' morality - religion, social control, sin, virtue, evil, duty, purity and pollution. But what of the examination of anthropology itself, and of its agendas, epistemes, theor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Caplan, Patricia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.