i1. You have to spend some time after the fieldwork sorting out what your biases were iii. Ultimately this is more useful than trying to be dispassionate owards your fieldwork. You will be right in the middle of very real social dramas and you have to work your way through. 9. ETHICS AND ETHNOGRAPHY There are a lot of issues with ethnography a. Is it ok if you're rich and privileged to go study someone less privileged than you if they can' t come and study your culture? There are some ethical ssues of the power relations b. What if someone asks you to get them medicine? Do you say no, or do you pass out medicines you're not licensed to distribute? Good book Return to Laughter" by Eleanor Smith Bowen. Looks at problems she had studying Nigerian culture where at first the people seemed very callous to each other and bowen had to come to grips with this d. You become close to the people you study, but what if you want to write something that may not be flattering? e. You want to support the people you work with, but you may have a different take on something than they do i. Classic example John Marquand wrote stories about New England Wrote about wealthy people in Newberyport. He described a althy family that was sliding in status and the family didn't want the world to know that about them In the novel an obnoxious anthropologist upsets the narrator by writing about his family. The character was based on a social scientist named Lloyd warner who studied Newberyport. The narrator was upset because the study said hard but true things about his family f. Can you write about culture without making enemies? Someone wrote an article in reply to this question entitled No g. If people are doing something illegal do you write about it? h. What if what you've written is used to harm the people you study?ii. You have to spend some time after the fieldwork sorting out what your biases were. iii. Ultimately this is more useful than trying to be dispassionate towards your fieldwork. You will be right in the middle of very real social dramas and you have to work your way through. 9. ETHICS AND ETHNOGRAPHY There are a lot of issues with ethnography. a. Is it ok if you’re rich and privileged to go study someone less privileged than you if they can’t come and study your culture? There are some ethical issues of the power relations. b. What if someone asks you to get them medicine? Do you say no, or do you pass out medicines you’re not licensed to distribute? c. Good book “Return to Laughter” by Eleanor Smith Bowen. Looks at problems she had studying Nigerian culture where at first the people seemed very callous to each other and Bowen had to come to grips with this. d. You become close to the people you study, but what if you want to write something that may not be flattering? e. You want to support the people you work with, but you may have a different take on something than they do. i. Classic example John Marquand wrote stories about New England. Wrote about wealthy people in Newberyport. He described a wealthy family that was sliding in status and the family didn’t want the world to know that about them. In the novel an obnoxious anthropologist upsets the narrator by writing about his family. The character was based on a social scientist named Lloyd Warner who studied Newberyport. The narrator was upset because the study said hard but true things about his family. f. Can you write about culture without making enemies? i. Someone wrote an article in reply to this question entitled: No. g. If people are doing something illegal do you write about it? h. What if what you’ve written is used to harm the people you study?