Posted confidentially on the author’s behalf. How can anthropologists successfully publish images without compromising individuals’ rights to privacy? I’ve wrestled with this question for over thirty years while conducting fieldwork and running ethnographic field schools. During these decades, I’ve seen that taking a camera out can create discomfort for some, ambivalence in others, and garner […]| Ethics Forum
Lise M. Dobrin, University of Virginia Ethics education is not about transferring to novices the rules and principles of ethical behavior. Rather, it’s about socializing students into habits of reflection and cultivating their sensitivity to the competing, often mutually contradictory needs and interests of multiple stakeholders. So it’s a shame to approach ethics education as […]| Ethics Forum
Inside the Ethics Query Process: A Case Study from the Corporate Sector By Jayne Howell and Lise Dobrin As the Ethics Seats on MPAAC, we thought it would be helpful to give an example of what happens when anthropologists submit to the AAA an inquiry about an ethical issue they are grappling with. We provide […]| Ethics Forum
Ethical Questions about Who Counts as an “Anthropologist” in Military Organizations by Kerry Fosher[i] When I first started working with the U.S. military in 2006, military organizations were desperate to hire anthropologists. Leaders in these organization had a very basic sense that anthropologists understood culture and could help their personnel interact with people in areas […]| Ethics Forum
Authored by Leslie E. Sponsel In the late 1960s when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Indiana University, and again in the early 1970s at Cornell University, not only was no separate course offered on professional ethics in anthropology, but no class even raised the subject. However, during the Vietnam War increasing concern […]| Ethics Forum
Meet the Dataverse: An Annual Meeting Data Scavenger Hunt! Special Event on Data in Anthropological Research at 2018 Annual Meeting Organized by Dena Plemmons and Rob Albro (5-0960)– Saturday, 4-6pm Join us to enliven serious conversations in a fun way within and across the discipline of anthropology about our relationships to data, diverse sorts of […]| Ethics Forum
Roundtable on Graduate Student Leadership in Ethics Education at 2018 Annual Meeting Organized by Lise Dobrin and Chad Morris, AAA MPAAC Ethics Seats 5-0445 – Saturday, 10:15-12:00 Educating graduate students in ethics is too often approached as if the task consists of transferring to novices the rules and principles of ethical behavior, as opposed to […]| Ethics Forum
by Catharina Laporte I am a cultural anthropologist. For the last two years, I have been immersed in developing and facilitating a class that specifically fulfills the ethics and professionalism component of the ABET (Accreditation Board of Engineering & Technology education) criterion. Towards this end, I introduced the concept of role-playing in the class room — […]| Ethics Forum
by Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein I love singular ‘they’. Back in 2016, the American Dialect Society named it word of the year. And we all use it all the time. But that’s not why I’m so excited about it right now. I’m excited because it can help researchers, particularly if they’re working with qualitative data and thus with very […]| Ethics Forum
By Rafael Estrada Mejía (São Paulo State University) Last year, Brazil was in the world’s spotlight due to political turmoil and to its appeal as a tourism destination giant. The global media followed with ferocity both former President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment with its accompanying massive protests for and against it, and the 2016 Olympic Games, when […]| ethics.americananthro.org