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The ethics of anthropology and Amerindian research
reporting on environmental degradation and warfare
Abstract
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 anthropologists and other social scientists employed in the academy or who work at the behest of tribal entities. This work documents the various ethical dilemmas that confront anthropologists, and researchers in general, when investigating Amerindian communities. The contributions to this volume explore the ramifications of reporting--and, specfically,--of non-reporting instances of environmental degradation and warfare among Amerindians. Collectively, the contributions in this volume, which extend across the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, ethnic studies, philosophy, and medicine, argue that the non-reporting of environmental mismanagement and violence in Amerindian communities generally harms not only the field of anthropology but the Amerindian populations themselves.
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pp.27-36
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_2pp.37-50
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_3who speaks for the past?
pp.51-72
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_4pp.73-77
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_5perspectives from past and present
pp.79-116
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_6pp.117-145
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_7the case study of Apocalypto
pp.147-190
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_8pp.235-267
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_10pp.269-287
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_11pp.289-309
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_12analyzing subsistence hunting among the aAchuar (Shiwiar) of Ecuador
pp.311-360
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_13pp.361-366
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_14pp.367-393
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_15an interview with Antonio Chavarria of Santa Clara Pueblo, curator of ethnology, museum of Indian arts and culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico
pp.395-426
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_16an indigenous perspective
pp.427-434
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2_17Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2012
Pages: 521
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1065-2
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-4614-1064-5
ISBN (digital): 978-1-4614-1065-2
Full citation:
Chacon Richard J., Mendoza Rubén G. (2012) The ethics of anthropology and Amerindian research: reporting on environmental degradation and warfare. Dordrecht, Springer.