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Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography - Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,902
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Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography - Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics (Hardcover): Jennifer...

Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography - Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics (Hardcover)

Jennifer Robertson

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Four anthropologists, Elise Edwards, Ann Elise Lewallen, Bridget Love and Tomomi Yamaguchi, draw on their fieldwork experiences in Japan to demonstrate collectively the inadequacy of both the Code of Ethics developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the dictates of Institutional Review Boards (IRB) when dealing with messy human realities. The four candidly and critically explore the existential dilemmas they were forced to confront with respect to this inadequacy, for the AAA 's code and IRBs consider neither the vulnerability and powerlessness of ethnographers nor the wholly unethical (and even criminal) deportment of some informants. As Jennifer Robertson points out in her Introduction, whereas the AAA 's Code tends to perpetuate the stereotype of more advantaged fieldworkers studying less advantaged peoples, IRBs appear to protect their home institutions (from possible litigation) rather than living and breathing people whose lives are often ethically compromised irrespective of the presence of an ethnographer. In her commentary, Sabine Fr hst ck, who incurred ample experience with ethical dilemmas in the course of her pathbreaking ethnographic research on Japan 's Self-Defense Forces, situates the four articles in a broader theoretical context, and emphasizes the link between political engagement and ethnographic accuracy.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Critical Asian Studies.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2009
First published: 2009
Editors: Jennifer Robertson
Dimensions: 246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-48649-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN: 0-415-48649-1
Barcode: 9780415486491

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