The Facebook Experiment: Cow-Sociology, Redux
Once having arrived at a set (or sets) of defensible moral positions, social psychologists should better be able to educate those outside the field concerning appropriate ethical criteria…
Tag: Ethics
Los mashco-piro al borde: Misioneros, safaris humanos, el juego de pelota y una historia de dos contactos
English version 1. Misioneros y safaris humanos inician contacto en el Perú Se siente como un déjà vu: jóvenes desnudos de un grupo indígena aislado se abren paso…
Los mashco-piro al borde: Misioneros, safaris humanos, el juego de pelota y una historia de dos contactos
English version 1. Misioneros y safaris humanos inician contacto en el Perú Se siente como un déjà vu: jóvenes desnudos de un grupo indígena aislado se abren paso…
Los mashco-piro al borde: Misioneros, safaris humanos, el juego de pelota y una historia de dos contactos
English version 1. Misioneros y safaris humanos inician contacto en el Perú Se siente como un déjà vu: jóvenes desnudos de un grupo indígena aislado se abren paso…
Los mashco-piro al borde: Misioneros, safaris humanos, el juego de pelota y una historia de dos contactos
English version 1. Misioneros y safaris humanos inician contacto en el Perú Se siente como un déjà vu: jóvenes desnudos de un grupo indígena aislado se abren paso…
The Problem Isn’t Just Facebook: It’s You Too.
Lately, news of the Facebook emotional contagion study and Facebook Messenger’s permissions, have flooded feeds and inboxes. The former was a paper published in the Proceedings of the National A…
Tuberculosis: more anthropologists wanted
Nhat preparing a sample to be tested in the GeneXpert system If tuberculosis (TB) is so often described as the quintessential social disease, why aren’t more researchers in the…
When Science, Customer Service, and Human Subjects Research Collide. Now What?
Now What?CC BY-ND Frits Ahlefeld I’m frustrated that the state of public intellectualism allows us, individually, to jump into the conversation about the recently published Facebook “Emotio…
Verklempt: Historically Informed Digital Ethnography
I’m not one to speak about theory and method in the abstract. But when I am asked about my method, I typically respond that I use historically informed…
The genesis of a folk revival
David Dunaway said that “The FBI persued Pete Seeger to the point where he couldn’t get a job. The only people he could sing for were kids, because…
The genesis of a folk revival
David Dunaway said that “The FBI persued Pete Seeger to the point where he couldn’t get a job. The only people he could sing for were kids, because…
The genesis of a folk revival
David Dunaway said that “The FBI persued Pete Seeger to the point where he couldn’t get a job. The only people he could sing for were kids, because…
The genesis of a folk revival
David Dunaway said that “The FBI persued Pete Seeger to the point where he couldn’t get a job. The only people he could sing for were kids, because…
Too-Close Encounters: The Mashco-Piro and the dilemmas of isolation and contact
In late August a Peruvian indigenous federation circulated remarkable video footage showing about a hundred isolated (so-called “uncontacted”) Mashco-Piro Indians just across the river from a Piro ind…
Too-Close Encounters: The Mashco-Piro and the dilemmas of isolation and contact
In late August a Peruvian indigenous federation circulated remarkable video footage showing about a hundred isolated (so-called “uncontacted”) Mashco-Piro Indians just across the river from a Piro ind…
Too-Close Encounters: The Mashco-Piro and the dilemmas of isolation and contact
In late August a Peruvian indigenous federation circulated remarkable video footage showing about a hundred isolated (so-called “uncontacted”) Mashco-Piro Indians just across the river from a Piro ind…
An Ax to Grind: Napoleon Chagnon, the Yanomami and the anthropology tribe
I felt like I had walked right into one of the Napoleon Chagnon/Timothy Asch Yanomami films. At one end of the circular village enclosure, a shouting match had…
Preemptive Anthropology: FAQs
Remembering the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, here is a bit of dark humor written as the bombs rained over Baghdad: Anthropological ethics must evolve…
Three Cheers for Periwinkle: Ethnobotany, histiocytosis and Rare Disease Day
Just over seven years ago, my youngest son, then eighteen months old, woke up one morning with a lump exactly the size and shape of an olive behind…
#Ivoted: Documenting the Vote in the 2012 Elections
In the lengthy and involved media spectacle surrounding the 2012 elections, the day of reckoning is of course voting day. Traditionally, media messaging switches from heated horse-race coverage…