New York Times writes about the Ariaal society in northern Kenya and some bad behaving anthropologists. The Ariaal answer all their strange questions. But anthropologists don't give something back. A local chief, Stephen Lesseren, said he wished their wo… more »
Category: "ethics"
by lorenz on Oct 20, 2005 in Africa, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), ethics
"We have a huge responsibility to give back to the places we study from," anthropology professor Sharon Hutchinson says in a portrait on the website of the University of Winston-Madison. She has increasingly designed her courses to help students think th… more »
by lorenz on Sep 19, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Northern America, Native American, history, Visual Anthropology, ethics
Early visual anthropologists produced a form of salvage anthropology that uncoupled "traditional" society from any form of change, Patrick Harries (University of Cape Town), writes in an article on the the history of visual anthropology in South Africa.… more »
by lorenz on Aug 4, 2005 in fieldwork / methods, youth, University / Academia, ethics • 8 comments »
Gil Klein, Media General News Service
WASHINGTON - When most anthropologists do field work, they head off to places like Indonesia to study such things as 20th century head-hunting rituals. But when Rebekah Nathan wanted to study a foreign culture, sh… more »
As posted earlier, the CIA is sponsering anthropologists to gather sensitive information during their fieldwork.
The Kansas City Star provides more detailes about the spies on the campus. Among others, they interviewed Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, who leads… more »
by lorenz on Jun 3, 2005 in politics, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, ethics • 1 comment »
"A CIA scheme to sponsor trainee spies secretly through US university courses has caused anger among UK academics, the BBC reports. The Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program pays anthropology students up to $50,000 (£27,500) a year. They are expected… more »
Ethno::log
The zoo of Augsburg/Germany is planning to open a "African village" with people from Africa "situated in an unique African steppe landscape", critically reports Norbert Finzsch in an email, professor of History at the University of Cologne.… more »
by lorenz on May 19, 2005 in politics, Us and Them, fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), ethics • 1 comment »
Call you call it prostitution if anthropologists work for the military? Opinions are divided on this issue. As a pacifist, my answer is obvious. Others will stress that they've done their job as an anthropologist if they have succeeded in teaching soldie… more »
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