Anthropological controversies : the "crimes" and misdemeanours that shaped a discipline /

Anthropological controversies : the "crimes" and misdemeanours that shaped a discipline /

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Author / Creator:	Weston, Gavin (Gavin Michael), 1978- author.
Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. ©2020
Description:	211 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Anthropological ethics. Anthropology -- Methodology -- History. Anthropological ethics. Anthropology -- Methodology. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12405197

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Other authors / contributors:	Djohari, Natalie, author.
ISBN:	9781138618343 1138618349 9781138616721 1138616729 9780429459603
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book uses controversies as a gateway through which to explore the origins, ethics, key moments and people in the history of anthropology. It draws on a variety of cases including complicity in 'human zoos', Malinowski's diaries, and the Human Terrain System to explore how anthropological controversies act as a driving force for change, how they offer a window into the history of and research practice in the discipline, and how they might frame wider debates such as those around reflexivity, cultural relativism, and the politics of representation. The volume provokes discussion about research ethics and practice with tangible examples where grey areas are brought into sharp relief. The controversies examined in the book all involve moral or practical ambiguities that offer an opportunity for students to engage with the debate and the dilemmas faced by anthropologists, both in relation to the specific incidents covered and to the problems posed more generally due to the intimate and political implications of ethnographic research"--

Table of Contents:

Human zoos and social Darwinism
Malinowski and his diaries
Whose side are you on? Colonial & military complicity
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Mead versus Freeman
Napoleon Chagnon & the 'fierce' controversy
Carlos Castaneda & fakery
Rebekah Nathan & covert ethnography
Alice Goffman.