Believing in Belonging draws on empirical research exploring mainstream religious belief
and identity in Euro-American countries. Starting from a qualitative study based in northern …

In this article, I examine anthropology's embrace of the informed consent doctrine at the end
of the 1990s. Although acknowledging its utility in resolving the tensions between …

In this article, the authors define ethics, discuss why researchers should care about ethics,
and briefly review the history of ethics and the surrounding contemporary debate as related …

I have been arguing for some time now that ethnography is going to change or is changing
by the same means that it already has within it-not by obsessing over its political efficacy …

This article investigates the moral content and epistemological utility of scholar-informant
solidarity in ethnography. It supports efforts to highlight the potential for immoral outcomes …

This essay traces a brief genealogy of state‐funded drug ethnography and its relationship to
public health projects such as HIV prevention. Ethnographic research on drug use was a …

Anthropologists' longstanding ambivalence toward political advocacy has, in recent years,
come under sustained fire—a shift that is often framed in terms of the discipline's “moral …

Perhaps the most unique feature of ethnographic fieldwork is the distinctive form of
relationality it entails, where the ethnographer's identity as a researcher is not fixed in the …

This article examines methodological and ethical issues of ethnographic research through
the lens of Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy. Levinas is relevant to a critical analysis of …

In this paper, I turn to Oum Hassan, a woman who works as a cleaner in a hotel in Basra,
and show that her life is as much a life for her niece and sister as it is about maintaining her …