Embedding Ethics

ISBN-13: 9781845200466 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 336 str.

Lynn Meskell; Lynn Meskell; Peter Pels

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Embedding EthicsLynn Meskell and Peter PelsPart One: Rethinking EthicsYour Body, My Property: The Problem of Colonial Genetics in a Post-Colonial WorldJonathan Marks The Promise and Perils of an Ethics of StewardshipAlison Wylie 'Where There Aren't No Ten Commandments': Redefining Ethics during the Darkness in El Dorado ScandalPeter Pels Anthropology's Malaysian Interlocutors: Towards a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Anthropological PracticeJoel S. KahnPart Two: Relocating Ethics in Current Research Sites of Violence: Terrorism, Tourism and Heritage in the Archaeological PresentLynn Meskell Pain, Politics, and the Epistemological Ethics of Anthropological Disciplinarity Pradeep Jeganathan Situational Ethics and Engaged Practice: the Case of Archaeology in AfricaMartin HallPart Three: Exemplars and Warnings A Science of the Gray: Malthus, Marx, and the Ethics of Studying Crop BiotechnologyGlenn Davis Stone The Moralities of Exhibiting IndiansCraig Howe Documenting EthicsDon BrenneisSolid Histories for Fragile Nations: Archaeology as Cultural PatrimonyRosemary A. Joyce

O autorze

Dr. Lynn Meskell is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University.Professor Peter Pels is Professor in the Anthropology of Sub-Saharan Africa at the Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands.