Ethics and Anthropology

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban is professor emerita of anthropology, Rhode Island College; adjunct professor, Doctoral Program in Education, University of Rhode Island/Rhode Island College; and adjunct professor of African Studies, U.S. Naval War College. In her long career, she has written and edited numerous books and articles, particularly on ethics in anthropology, Islamic societies, and Sudan.

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban has been in the forefront of anthropological ethics for a long time, and she summarizes what she has written and learned along the way in her new book. As she states in her introduction, there are several 'guiding principles' of any practicable standards of ethics in anthropology. . . . After surveying ethical practices and statements from other disciplines like psychology, sociology, and political science, much of the book consists of deeper explorations of some of these core principles. ... It is important, indeed essential, to have these kinds of discussions about ethics and methods.

• 1. Introduction 2. What Does It Mean to “Do No Harm”? 3. What Does It Mean to Obtain Informed Consent? 4. Transparency and Deception in Anthropological Ethics 5. Moral and Ethical Anthropology6. Institutional Review Boards, Anthropology, and Ethics 7. Framing Future Debates: Collaborative Anthropology as Twenty-First Century AnthropologyNotesReferenceIndex About the Author