Embedding Ethics

Meskell, Lynn; Pels, Peter

ISBN 10: 1845200470 / ISBN 13: 9781845200473

Edité par Berg, Oxford, 2005

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336pp paperback, very good.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Embedding Ethics
• Éditeur: Berg, Oxford
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1845200470
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781845200473
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Anthropologists who talk about ethics generally mean the code of practice drafted by a professional association for implementation by its members. As this book convincingly shows, such a conception is far too narrow. A more radical approach is to recognize that moral judgments are made at every juncture of scientific practice and they require a negotiation of responsibility with all stakeholders in the research enterprise.Embedding Ethics questions why ethics have been divorced from scientific expertise. Invoking different disciplinary practices from biological, archaeological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology, contributors show how ethics should be resituated at the heart of, rather than exterior to, scientific activity. Positioning the researcher as a negotiator of significant truths rather than an adjudicator of a priori precepts enables contributors to relocate ethics in new sets of social and scientific relationships triggered by recent globalization processes - from new forms of intellectual and cultural ownership to accountability in governance, and the very ways in which people are studied. Case studies from ethnographic research, museum display, archaeological fieldwork and professional monitoring illustrate both best practice and potential pitfalls.This important book is an essential guide for all anthropologists who wish to be active contributors to the discussion on ethics and the ethical practice of their profession.

À propos des auteurs

Lynn Meskell is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.

Peter Pels is Professor in the Anthropology of Sub-Saharan Africa, University Leiden, The Netherlands.