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Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what
kind of morality they perform in their occupations and what the
impact of this morality is. The book includes ethnographic studies
in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and
interdisciplinary research. The discussion is positioned at the
intersection of ‘applied or public anthropology’ and ‘the
anthropology of ethics’ and analyses the ways in which
anthropologists can carry out ‘moral work’ both inside and
outside of academia.
A narrative ethnography about a Ugandan woman and her relatives,
this novelistic, fine-grained volume shows how global questions of
responsibility and inequity travel in family networks and confront
people with decisions about life and death. It is a story of
existence under extremely challenging conditions, about belonging
and marginalization, about the opacity and ambiguity of social
relations, and about growing up in a country haunted by violence
and civil war only to be later lifted by optimism and devastated
anew by the AIDS epidemic. The story draws on long-term fieldwork
and letters from the woman who takes centre stage in the story,
while at once providing unique and privileged insight into the
ethical challenges of a research method that demands personal
involvement that is ultimately withdrawn for scholarly analysis.
Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what
kind of morality they perform in their occupations and what the
impact of this morality is. The book includes ethnographic studies
in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and
interdisciplinary research. The discussion is positioned at the
intersection of 'applied or public anthropology' and 'the
anthropology of ethics' and analyses the ways in which
anthropologists can carry out 'moral work' both inside and outside
of academia.
A narrative ethnography about a Ugandan woman and her relatives,
this novelistic, fine-grained volume shows how global questions of
responsibility and inequity travel in family networks and confront
people with decisions about life and death. It is a story of
existence under extremely challenging conditions, about belonging
and marginalization, about the opacity and ambiguity of social
relations, and about growing up in a country haunted by violence
and civil war only to be later lifted by optimism and devastated
anew by the AIDS epidemic. The story draws on long-term fieldwork
and letters from the woman who takes centre stage in the story,
while at once providing unique and privileged insight into the
ethical challenges of a research method that demands personal
involvement that is ultimately withdrawn for scholarly analysis.
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