What are the ethical responsibilities for anthropologists in the field?

What will be an ideal response?


There are responsibilities to the people studied which includes ensuring their dignity and privacy, respecting anonymity, not exploiting them, and providing fair return for their services and work. It also includes the responsibility to communicate the findings publicly and also protect the interests of science and other anthropologists.

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Cross-cultural research has shown that societies engaged in external warfare (warfare at long distances from home) develop matrilocal residence rules

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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As culture traits move from one society to another:

a. Their meanings tend to remain unchanged. b. They tend to lose their meanings. c. Their meanings tend to change. d. They lose their logical integration into culture. e. They tend to become less and less important to the society in which they originated.

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Which of the following is NOT a change experienced by areas of Africa affected by the slave trade?

a. a strengthening of patrilineal systems b. competition among elites for control of the slave trade c. the disruption of community and kin networks for subsistence and labor d. it ended all "ethnic" or "tribal" conflicts, political instability, and civil wars in African countries

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Dwellings during the Neolithic period commonly involved all of the following materials except:

a. bricks b. wood c. stone d. iron

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