The Ethics of Knowledge Creation

<p> Anthropology lies at the heart of the human sciences tackling questions having to do with the foundations ethics and deployment of the knowledge crucial to human lives. <em>The Ethics of Knowledge Creation</em> focuses on how knowledge is relationally created how local knowledge can be transmuted into 'universal knowledge' and how the transaction and consumption of knowledge also monitors its subsequent production. This volume examines the ethical implications of various kinds of relations that are created in the process of 'transacting knowledge' and investigates how these transactions are also situated according to broader contradictions or synergies between ethical epistemological and political concerns.</p>