Images of Europeans in pith helmets heading off to the wilds to chronicle "exotic" Others. Aboriginal rights-from the Americas to Australia. Repatriation of native artifacts. Preservation of sacred sites and objects. Kennewick Man and the Darkness in El Dorado scandal. These are all aspects of the endlessly fascinating, crucial, and ongoing discussion of anthropology and ethics.
Anthropological Ethics & Ethical Anthropology offers an unprecedented overview of these vital issues, authored by the Chair of the Ethics Committee of the world's largest professional society for anthropologists.
This volume is designed as a teaching text for students at all levels: upper level undergraduate and graduates can consult the book for in-depth critique and analysis of current thoughts on ethics, while undergraduates can use the text as a launching point from which to begin their anthropological careers.
Heretofore the absence of a single volume that offered a synthetic presentation of key issues has hindered anthropologists of various backgrounds from coming together to discuss the challenges they face and to teach students about how to practice anthropology ethically. Anthropological Ethics and Ethical Anthropology chronicles not only the development of ethics within the larger field of anthropology, but also examines the current state of affairs within each of the four subfields---as well as within some facets of anthropology that are not yet recognized as distinct (i.e., museum anthropology). Inasmuch, this volume represents a bid to foster a crucial conversation among all anthropologists.
