From exposé to care

Preliminary thoughts about shifting the ethical concerns of South African social anthropology

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2186589
AutoresAndrew D Spiegel (0000-0001-9432-7992, University of Cape Town, autor correspondente), Andrew Spiegel (University of Cape Town)
Ano2005
Volume28
Fascículo3-4
Páginas133-141
Data de publicação2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropology Southern Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2332-3264 • E-ISSN: 2332-3256
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23323256.2005.11499923
OpenAlexW1789614015
IdiomaPT
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas11

Social anthropologists working in South Africa during the late apartheid period expressed their abhorrence of the apartheid system in the preamble to the association that they formed. Many set as their goal the work of ‘exposé anthropology’, using anthropology to reveal the iniquitous consequences of apartheid. Apartheid's formal collapse and the institution of a democratic constitutional regime has reduced the need for such exposé, but current political-economic circumstances preclude easy or rapid transformation of the extreme poverty and deprivation that continue to plague the country's population. The article addresses the question of what an appropriate ethics for anthropology in such circumstances might be and proposes an ethic of care

Applied anthropology · Environmental ethics · EXPOSE · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics