Ethics in the Field

<p> In recent years ever-increasing concerns about ethical dimensions of fieldwork practice have forced anthropologists and other social scientists to radically reconsider the nature process and outcomes of fieldwork: what should we be doing how for whom and to what end? In this volume practitioners from across anthropological disciplines-social and biological anthropology and primatology-come together to question and compare the ethical regulation of fieldwork what is common to their practices and what is distinctive to each discipline. Contributors probe a rich variety of contemporary questions: the new unique problems raised by conducting fieldwork online and via email; the potential dangers of primatological fieldwork for locals primates the environment and the fieldworkers themselves; the problems of studying the military; and the role of ethical clearance for anthropologists involved in international health programs. The distinctive aim of this book is to develop of a transdisciplinary anthropology at the methodological not theoretical level.</p>