Ethics in the Field

Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Anthropological Centre for Conservation, the Environment, and Development at Oxford Brookes University. His publications include Expressing Identities in the Basque Arena (James Currey, 2007); Centralizing Fieldwork: Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology (co-edited, Berghahn Books, 2011); and Anthropology in the Public Arena: Historical Contexts (Wiley 2013). Agustin Fuentes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. His recent publications include Evolution of Human Behaviour (Oxford University Press, 2009); Health, Risk, and Adversity (co-edited, Berghahn Books, 2008); "Concepts and Connections" in Biological Anthropology (McGraw-Hill, 2011); and Race, Monogamy and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature (University of California Press, 2012).

• Chapter 1.The ethical fieldworker, and other problems Jeremy MacClancy & Agustin Fuentes Chapter 2. Constructing success and controlling information: the place of ethical clearance in international health Melissa Parker & Tim Allen Chapter 3. Ethical issues in the study and conservation of an African great ape in non-protected human-dominated habitat Matt R. McLennan and Catherine M. Hill Chapter 4. Are observational field studies really noninvasive? Karen Strier Chapter 5. Complex and heterogeneous ethical structures in field primatology Nobuyuki Kutsukake Chapter 6. Contemporary Ethical Issues in Field Primatology Katherine MacKinnon and Erin Riley Chapter 7. The Ethics of Conducting Field Research: Do Long-term Great Ape Field Studies Help to Conserve Primates? Anna Nekaris & Vincent Nijman Chapter 8. Studying suffering: the ethics of studying contested illness Susie Kilshaw Chapter 9. Messy Ethics: Negotiating the terrain between ethics approval and ethical practice Tina Miller Chapter 10. Key Ethical Considerations Which Inform the Use of Anonymous Asynchronous Websurveys in 'Sensitive' Research Em Rundall Chapter 11. Covering all bases, or covering our backs? An ethnography of URECs Jeremy MacClancy Notes on Contributors Bibliograhpy Index

"This is an excellent volume that focuses on the ethics of field work. The topics considered represent a broad array that will be of interest to a wide audience. There is nothing like this to the best of my knowledge in the available literature, and the editors are highly recognized researchers who have done a very good job of attracting eminent scholars." * Marc Bekoff, University of Colorado "Contributors to this volume nicely and clearly present a diverse array of examples, case studies and data revealing the multi-dimensionality of ethics, as well as dilemmas and challenges that fieldworkers might expectedly or accidentally encounter and/or face during the course of their work." * Tatyana Humle, University of Kent