Anthropological Ethics
Teaching and Exploring the Ethical Practice
Published on 10. February 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-631-23542-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
undergraduates and graduates across anthropology & archaeology.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-23542-2 (9780631235422)
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Joe Watkins is Archaeologist for the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs, Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and the William Hammond Mathers Museum at Indiana University, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He is currently Chair of the American Anthropological Association's Committee on Ethics, a member of the Ethics Committee of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), and he was an Advisor to the Task Force that developed the SAA's Principles of Archaeological Ethics. He has served as past chairman of the SAA Committee on Native American Relations, chairman of the Committee on Native American Issues of the Register of Professional Archaeologists, and as an advisor to the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records. He also serves as the Anthropology/Native American Studies Scientific Advisor to the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. As both an American Indian (he is ½ Choctaw by blood) and an archaeologist, his primary interests include the ethical practice of anthropology and the study of anthropology's relationships with descendant communities and aboriginal populations. He is the author of the book Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice (AltaMira 2000) and has written chapters for a variety of books on ethical issues including ones for The Future of the Past: Archaeologists, Native Americans, and Repatriation (Garland 2001) and Teaching Archaeology in the 21st Century (2000).