What is the background of the American Anthropological ...

[Melani1276]

What is the background of the American Anthropological Association's Code of Ethics and how is this background related to two of its key principles?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Describe the research phases in the South Baffin Island Place Name Project and the kind of information each phase produced.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[Leostella20]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. One event that raised the issue of ethics was Project Camelot, in which anthropological knowledge was used for political purposes.
2. A second event was the American-Vietnam War, during which some anthropologists worked on behalf of the U.S. military's goals.
3. One of the AAA principles is that the researcher's responsibility is to the people studied.
4. A second principle is that research should never be covert or undercover.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. The study in indigenous toponymy began with community-wide workshops where participants added names to maps.
2. The second step was one-on-one interviews with elders, which provided specialized information about how each place was used.
3. The third step was participant observationthe researchers traveled to the locations.
4. The fourth step was the creation of a database that linked the ethnographic data to maps.

[Melani1276]

Excellent

[atrochim]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it