The ethics of anthropology and Amerindian research

Richard J. Chacon, Rúben G. Mendoza (eds)

Springer - Berlin

2012

The decision to publish scholarly findings bearing on the question of Amerindian environmental degradation, warfare, and/or violence is one that weighs heavily on anthropologists. This burden stems from the fact that documentation of this may render indigenous communities vulnerable to a host of predatory agendas and hostile modern forces.