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| "Research ethics from the cultural anthropologist's point of view" |
| by: Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University (2001) |
| Published on: 1/1/2002 |
I have been asked to comment on the issues raised here from the perspective of my discipline, cultural anthropology. Within the broad field of cultural anthropology, my work is located among the more qualitative, interpretive, reflexive and dialogic genres. Much of anthropology's identity lies in its being a "field science" -- and, as Gupta and Ferguson have argued, "'the field' is a clearing whose deceptive transparency obscures the complex processes that go into constructing it" (1997:5). Successful fieldwork, using methods of "participant observation" depends on nothing so much as sustained good relationships within a community, relationships based on mutual trust as well as mutual advantage. |
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