Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology: Dialogue for a New Era

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812281578
• ISBN13: 9780812281576
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages

Customer Reviews

The most important anthropology book I've read in years

I read this book as part of an ethics seminar at MIT, and I found it to be one of the best anthropology books that I've read in years. It opens with a strong summary of ethical issues by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, then David Price presents a well-documented and disturbing historical summary of the American Anthropological Association's covert relationships with the Central Intelligence Agency, Gerald Berreman further examines such relationships and others explore other ethical issues.This book is a must read for any serious anthropologist.

Should be read by all anthropologists

This is a remarkable book that should be read my all anthropologists, or by anyone interested in ethics. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban opens with a comprehensive review of important landmarks in the development of anthropological ethics in America. Her observations of the American Anthropological Association's decission to remove language critical of secret research or espionage are chilling. But then the next chapter by David Price documents an instance of the American Anthropological Association's covert work with the Central Intelligence Agency. Very troubling. Gerald Berreman's chapter further illustrates the problems of covert research, while discussions of the Yanomamo disaster, NAGPRA and other issues makes clear that anthropologists are not removed from important ethical issues.All anthropologists should read this and think about the impact they have on the lives they impact.