The American Anthropological Association's Code of Ethics is

A. designed to ensure that all anthropologists are aware of their obligations to the field of anthropology, the host communities that allow them to conduct their research, and to society in general.
B. designed to protect anthropologists who conduct fieldwork in remote places and are subject to potentially hazardous working conditions.
C. applicable only to research being conducted in the United States.
D. simply disregarded by most researchers.
E. overly general and thus of little use to most anthropologists.


A. designed to ensure that all anthropologists are aware of their obligations to the field of anthropology, the host communities that allow them to conduct their research, and to society in general.

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