Critica scientifica, popolarizzazione dell’etnografia ed etica dell’antropologo: sulla “controversia yanomami”, per esempio
The “controversy over the Yanomami” has affected central issues, both epistemological and ethical and political, for the discipline and practice of anthropology, particularly concerning the ethics of field research; the way to use research data to support certain theoretical hypotheses; the relation...
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| description | The “controversy over the Yanomami” has affected central issues, both epistemological and ethical and political, for the discipline and practice of anthropology, particularly concerning the ethics of field research; the way to use research data to support certain theoretical hypotheses; the relationships between popularization and politicization of research and, more generally, the responsibility of anthropologists with respect to both the uses of their studies in the public sphere and towards the human subjects with whom they work. In this article, I examine some key moments of the “controversy”. In particular, I try to reconstruct the way in which the image of the Yanomami as the “last primitive society” was initially consolidated, inside and outside anthropology, and, in this sense, I compare the ethnographies of Chagnon and Lizot. In the paper, I also place particular emphasis on the different ways in which ethnographers have textually marked their positioning in the field as “proof” of the “authenticity” of their representations of the Yanomami world. In the last part, I summarize the effects of the “media storm” on American anthropology, which were caused by the accusations of ethically inappropriate, if not completely execrable, behavior addressed to Chagnon and Lizot in Darkness in El Dorado, the book-report by journalist Patrick Tierney. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-21d4da6eb4c046c6a02e925adbd037c52025-01-30T14:21:00ZitaDipartimento Culture e Società - Università di PalermoArchivio Antropologico Mediterraneo2038-32152021-06-01242310.4000/aam.3728Critica scientifica, popolarizzazione dell’etnografia ed etica dell’antropologo: sulla “controversia yanomami”, per esempioAlessandro MancusoThe “controversy over the Yanomami” has affected central issues, both epistemological and ethical and political, for the discipline and practice of anthropology, particularly concerning the ethics of field research; the way to use research data to support certain theoretical hypotheses; the relationships between popularization and politicization of research and, more generally, the responsibility of anthropologists with respect to both the uses of their studies in the public sphere and towards the human subjects with whom they work. In this article, I examine some key moments of the “controversy”. In particular, I try to reconstruct the way in which the image of the Yanomami as the “last primitive society” was initially consolidated, inside and outside anthropology, and, in this sense, I compare the ethnographies of Chagnon and Lizot. In the paper, I also place particular emphasis on the different ways in which ethnographers have textually marked their positioning in the field as “proof” of the “authenticity” of their representations of the Yanomami world. In the last part, I summarize the effects of the “media storm” on American anthropology, which were caused by the accusations of ethically inappropriate, if not completely execrable, behavior addressed to Chagnon and Lizot in Darkness in El Dorado, the book-report by journalist Patrick Tierney.https://journals.openedition.org/aam/3728Yanomamiconcepts of “primitive society”Napoleon ChagnonJacques Lizotpopularization of anthropological researchethics of anthropological research |
| spellingShingle | Alessandro Mancuso Critica scientifica, popolarizzazione dell’etnografia ed etica dell’antropologo: sulla “controversia yanomami”, per esempio Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo Yanomami concepts of “primitive society” Napoleon Chagnon Jacques Lizot popularization of anthropological research ethics of anthropological research |
| title | Critica scientifica, popolarizzazione dell’etnografia ed etica dell’antropologo: sulla “controversia yanomami”, per esempio |
| title_full | Critica scientifica, popolarizzazione dell’etnografia ed etica dell’antropologo: sulla “controversia yanomami”, per esempio |
| title_fullStr | Critica scientifica, popolarizzazione dell’etnografia ed etica dell’antropologo: sulla “controversia yanomami”, per esempio |
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| title_short | Critica scientifica, popolarizzazione dell’etnografia ed etica dell’antropologo: sulla “controversia yanomami”, per esempio |
| title_sort | critica scientifica popolarizzazione dell etnografia ed etica dell antropologo sulla controversia yanomami per esempio |
| topic | Yanomami concepts of “primitive society” Napoleon Chagnon Jacques Lizot popularization of anthropological research ethics of anthropological research |
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