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Anthropological Ethics
and
Anthropology and Ethics

see also
Specific Topics / Issues, including . . .

Animal Rights / Animal Welfare
Food Ethics
Food and Religion
Vegetarianism / Veganism
Locavore
Fair Trade
World Hunger
Debates in Anthropology

In the News . . .

• de Waal Malefyt, Timothy, and Robert J. Morais. Ethics in the Anthropology of Business: Explorations in Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy. UK:Routledge, 2017.
  
  
• San people of Africa draft code of ethics for researchers -- Linda Nordling, Science, AAAS (17 March 2017)
  
  
• Which Ethics? For Which Individual? Revisiting Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” -- Hanz Gutierrez, Spectrum (09 February 2017)
  
  
• Big Data, Ethical Futures: Social media and digital networks research is human subjects research. Why not make it more ethical? -- Mary L. Gray, Anthropologiy News (13 January 2017)
  
  
• Anthropological Ethics and the Communicative Affordances of Audio-Video Recorders in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Transduction as Theory -- Stephen P. Black, American Anthropologist,
  04 January 2017.
  
  
• A Reader's Guide to the Anthropology of Ethics and Morality
  
  
  • A reader’s guide to the anthropology of ethics and morality – Part I -- C. Jason Throop, Somatosphere (30 September 2016)
    
    
  • A reader’s guide to the anthropology of ethics and morality – Part II -- Webb Keane, Somatosphere (28 October 2016)
    
    
• Ethics Reviews in the Social and Cultural Sciences? A Sociological and Anthropological Contribution to the Debate, Hella von Unger, Hansjörg Dilger & Michael Schönhuth, FQS/Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Volume 17, No. 3, Art. 20 – September 2016.
  
  
• Why EPIC [] Needs Ethical Guidelines and Why You Should Care -- Kathy Baxter, EPIC [Ethnography in Industry] (15 July 2016)
  
  
• Street photography and ethnographic ethics -- Mark Westmoreland, Media, visual and material culture (10 May 2016)
  
  
• Who Owns the Bones? Should Bodies in Museum Exhibits Be Returned Home? -- ScienceDaily (04 February 2014)
  
  
• Anthropology Ethics: Online Resources
  
  
• PSU Case Studies -- Penn State College of Engineering
  
  
• Anthropologists Toughen Ethics Code -- Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed (19 February 2009)

• Albro, Robert , George Marcus, Laura A McNamara and Monica Schoch-Spana. Anthropologists in the SecurityScape: Ethics, Practice, and Professional Identity. Left Coast Press, 2011.
  
  
• American Anthropological Association (AAA)
  
  
  • Ethics Resources
    
    
  • AAA Ethics Blog
    
    
  • AAA Code of Ethics: 2012 Statement (Principles of Professional Responsibility)
    
    
  • Ethics Committee main page
    
    
  • AAA Ethics Grant Program
    
    
  • Final Report of the Commission to Review the AAA Statement on Ethics
    
    
• American Historical Association (AHA)
  
  
  • Ethics for Historians: The Perspective of One Undergraduate Class -- Catherine Denial (with contributions by Devin Harvie)
    
    
• American Psychological Association (APA)
  
  
  • Ethics
    
    
• American Sociological Association (ASA)
  
  
  • Ethics and the Code of Ethics
    
    
• Anthropology Ethics: Online Resources
  
  
• Appell, George N. Ethical Dilemmas in anthropological inquiry: A Case Book. Waltham: Massachusets: Crossroads, 1978. 
  
  
• Armbruster, Heidi and Anna Laerke. Taking Sides: Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology. Berghahn, 2008.
  
  
• Associaton of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth. Ethical Guidelines for Good Practice (March 1999, .pdf)
  
  
  • ASA Ethics
    
    
• Borofsky, Rob, Bruce Albert, Raymond Hames and Kim Hill. Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn from It. University of California Press, 2005.
  
  
• Browne, Katherine E., B. Lynne Milgram, Catherine S. Dolan and Christina Garsten. Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches. Altimira, 2009.
  
  
• Caplan, Pat (Ed.). The Ethics of Anthropology: Debates and Dilemmas. Routledge, 2003.
  
  
• Cassell, Joan and Sue-Ellen Jacobs (Eds.). Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology. Special publication of the American Anthropological Association number 23, American Anthropological Association, 1987.
  
  
• Chacon Richard J., and Ruben G. Mendoza. The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research: Reporting on Environmental Degradation and Warfare. Springer, 2012.
  
  
• Crewe, Emma and Richard Axelby. Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  
  
• Edel, May, and Abraham Edel. Anthropology and Ethics. Transaction, 2000.
  
  
• Erickson, Anne, Molly Hayes, Stephan Sabatke, Rebecca Vargo, and Jennifer Wall. Ethics in Anthropology: Public Presentation of Anthropological Material. Senior Seminar, Spring 2001.
  
  
• Ethical Guidelines -- National Association for the Practice of Anthropology
  
  
• Ethics -- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, University of Tennessee at Martin
  
  
  • Applied Ethics
    
    
    • Normative Principles in Applied Ethics
      
      
    • Issues in Applied Ethics
      
      
• Ethics CORE -- Ethice and Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Resources
  
  
• Ethics Education Library
  
  
• Ethics -- Oxford Bibliographies
  
  
• Ethics in Anthropology - YouTube -- Sienna Craig, Dartmouth Ethnography Lab
  
  
• Faubion, James D. An Anthropology of Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  
  
• Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn. Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology: A Dialogue for Ethically Conscious Practice, Second Edition. Altamira, 2003.
  
  
• de Laine, Marlene. Fieldwork, Participation and Practice: Ethics and Dilemmas in Qualitative Research. SAGE, 2000.
  
  
• Goodale, Mark. Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights. Stanford University Press, 2009.
  
  
• Hammersley, Martyn, and Anna Traianou. Ethics in Qualitative Research: Controversies and Contexts. SAGE, 2012.
  
  
• Josephides, Lisette, Ed.. Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology: Obligations and Requirements. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
  
  
• Kimmel, Allan J. Ethical Issues in Behavioral Research: Basic and Applied Perspectives, Second Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
  
  
• Lakoff, Andrew and Stephen J. Collier. Ethics and the anthropology of modern reason. Anthropological Theory, Sage, Vol 4(4):419-434, 2004.
  
  
• Lambek, Michael. Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action. Fordham University Press, 2010.
  
  
• LeCompte, Margaret D., and Jean J. Schensul. Ethics in Ethnography: A Mixed Methods Approach, Second Edition (Ethnographer's Toolkit). AltaMira, 2013.
  
  
• Lucas, George R., Jr. Anthropologists in Arms: The Ethics of Military Anthropology. Altamira, 2009.
  
  
• Madison, D. Soyini. Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance, Second Edition. SAGE 2011.
  
  
• Mertens, Donna M., and Pauline E. Ginsberg. The Handbook of Social Research Ethics. SAGE, 2008.
  
  
• Meskell, Lynn and Peter Pels. Embedding Ethics: Shifting Boundaries of the Anthropological Profession. Berg, 2005.
  
  
• National Women's Studies Association
  
  
  • Code of Ethics
    
    
• Ong, Aihwa and Stephen J. Collier. Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. Wiley-Blackwell, 2004.
  
  
• Plemmons, Dena, and Robert Albro. Practicing Ethics and Ethical Practice: Anthropology, Science, and the Social -- Items & Issues, Social Science Research Council (21 July 2011)
  
  
• Price, David H. Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State. AK Press, 2011.
  
  
• Responsible Conduct of Research & Scholarly Activity -- University of New Hampshire
  
  
• Rubinstein, Robert A., Kerry Fosher and Clementine Fujimura (Eds.). Practicing Military Anthropology: Beyond Expectations and Traditional Boundaries. Kumarian, 2012.
  
  
• Rynkiewich, Michael Allen, and James P. Spradley. Ethics and Anthropology: Dilemmas in Fieldwork. John Wiley & Sons, 1976.
  
  
• Schaafsma, Polly. Images and Power: Rock Art and Ethics. Springer, 2013.
  
  
• Salzano, Francisco M., and A. Magdalena Hurtado (Eds.). Lost Paradises and the Ethics of Research and Publication. Oxford University Press, 2003.
  
  
• Scarre, Chris and Geoffrey Scarre. The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  
  
• Silber, Irina Carlota , R. Aida Hernandez Castillo, Dr. Monique Skidmore and Shannon Speed (Eds.). Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy, and Activism. Rutgers University Press, 2006.
  
  
• Smith, Mick. Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World. University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
  
  
• Tierney, Patrick. Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon. W. W. Norton, 2002.
  
  
• Turner, Trudy R. Biological Anthropology and Ethics: From Repatriation to Genetic Identity. State University of New York Press, 2004.
  
  
• Whiteford, Linda M. and Robert T. Trotter II. Ethics for Anthropological Research and Practice. Waveland, 2008.
  
  
• Zigon, Jarrett. Morality: An Anthropological Perspective. Berg, 2008.