The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research
Reporting on Environmental Degradation and Warfare
The decision to publish scholarly findings bearing on the question of Amerindian environmental degradation, warfare, and/or violence is one that weighs heavily on anthropologists. This burden stems from the fact that documentation of this may render indigenous communities vulnerable to a host of predatory agendas and hostile modern forces. Consequently, some anthropologists and community advocates alike argue that such culturally and socially sensitive, and thereby, politically volatile information regarding Amerindian-induced environmental degradation and warfare should not be reported. This admonition presents a conundrum for anthropologist…
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Weitere Autoren: Mendoza, Rubén G. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4614-1065-2
- EAN: 9781461410652
- Produktnummer: 18258089
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 524 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 11'900 KB
- Auflage: 2012
- Abbildungen: 6 schwarz-weiße Tabellen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Dr. Richard John Chacon is an associate professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Winthrop University. His research interests include human behavioral ecology, natural resource conservation, warfare, belief systems, medical anthropology, and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Dr. Rubén G. Mendoza is a professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Global Studies at the California State University, Monterey Bay. His research interests and publications address pre-Hispanic and Colonial era art, architecture, cosmology, and Amerindian warfare, ritual violence, and social complexity. .
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