From exposé to care

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

Bibliographic Data

ID2186589
AuthorsAndrew D Spiegel (0000-0001-9432-7992, University of Cape Town, corresponding author), Andrew Spiegel (University of Cape Town)
Year2005
Volume28
Issue3-4
Pages133-141
Publication date2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology Southern Africa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2332-3264 • E-ISSN: 2332-3256
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23323256.2005.11499923
OpenAlexW1789614015
LanguagePT
Citations received16
References cited11

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