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Chris Hann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Marcia C Inhorn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • privacy privatization and the politics of patronage ethnographic challenges to penetrating the secret world of middle eastern hospital based in vitro fertilization
    Social Science & Medicine, 2004
    Co-Authors: Marcia C Inhorn
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    In recent years, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has spread around the globe, including to the Middle East. Privacy, privatization, and the politics of patronage are all key issues affecting anthropological research in Middle Eastern hospital-based IVF clinics. IVF-seeking patients generally desire privacy, even total secrecy, when pursuing these treatments, due to cultural issues of stigmatization, particularly regarding male infertility. Thus, ethical issues surrounding the informed consent process are of prime importance. Furthermore, privatization of medical services in the Middle East has left patients--and Anthropologists--with few choices other than private IVF clinic settings in which to pursue treatment and research. Both the ethos of patient privacy and medical privatization affect the ability of Anthropologists to "penetrate" the secret world of IVF. Permission to conduct ethnography in private hospital IVF clinics may be difficult to obtain without the help of highly motivated physician patrons, who are willing to recruit their private IVF patients for ethnographic interviewing. This article provides a personal account of some of these challenges as faced by a medical anthropologist during a 15-year career of hospital-based IVF research in the Middle East.

Melina Calmon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • forensic anthropology and missing persons a brazilian perspective
    Forensic Science International, 2019
    Co-Authors: Melina Calmon
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    Abstract The problem of the missing persons phenomenon in Brazil in the 21st century has become apparent, and the responses to the issue are still under development. The relatively new field of forensic anthropology and its trained professionals occupy an essential place in the investigation of cases of missing and unidentified individuals. The development of forensic anthropology in Brazil is unique among Latin American countries, who improved their expertise during the investigations of political crimes that occurred between the 1960s and 1980s in most places. The qualifications and the paths to become a forensic anthropologist in Brazil are different from other professionals who work in the field worldwide. This article addresses the issue of missing person investigations and details the work of forensic Anthropologists in such cases in Brazil.

Beuving J.j. - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The anthropologist as jester, anthropology as jest?
    2017
    Co-Authors: Beuving J.j.
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    This article argues that Anthropologists in the field are often attributed the role of jester. Anthropologists are transient figures in the societies they study, and they stand out in behaviour or in physical appearance. Society symbolically resolves their strange presence with humour: Anthropologists involuntarily elicit joking remarks and laughter. Over time, the role of jester may shade into one of accepted outsider, and that promotes direct observation. There is, however, a false romanticism attached to anthropological fieldwork that overlooks the anthropologist's role as jester. Such romanticism is reproduced by the forces of rationalisation in higher education that threaten students' exposure to genuine anthropological fieldwork, and this compromises the depth of anthropological inquiry. Anthropology thus risks becoming the jest in the social scientific theatre: an exotic anecdote that is nice over drinks, yet without real scientific punch

  • The anthropologist as jester, anthropology as jest?
    'Wiley', 2017
    Co-Authors: Beuving J.j.
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    Item does not contain fulltextThis article argues that Anthropologists in the field are often attributed the role of jester. Anthropologists are transient figures in the societies they study, and they stand out in behaviour or in physical appearance. Society symbolically resolves their strange presence with humour: Anthropologists involuntarily elicit joking remarks and laughter. Over time, the role of jester may shade into one of accepted outsider, and that promotes direct observation. There is, however, a false romanticism attached to anthropological fieldwork that overlooks the anthropologist's role as jester. Such romanticism is reproduced by the forces of rationalisation in higher education that threaten students' exposure to genuine anthropological fieldwork, and this compromises the depth of anthropological inquiry. Anthropology thus risks becoming the jest in the social scientific theatre: an exotic anecdote that is nice over drinks, yet without real scientific punch.11 p

Fancello Sandra - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • De la violence de l’imaginaire à la violence des images
    Cahiers d’études africaines, 2021
    Co-Authors: Fancello Sandra
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    L’anthropologue confronté à la violence de la lutte anti-sorcellerie qui, dans certaine partie du continent africain, prend une dimension dramatique, voit sa posture d’observation mise en cause face à des formes de violence extrêmes. La prise d’images photographiques ou cinématographiques exposant cette violence, et leur diffusion, posent de nouveaux défis éthiques et méthodologiques et soulèvent la question du sens de la présence de l’anthropologue et de la responsabilité de ses actes. Cet article analyse la manière dont les violences verbales et sociales associées aux accusations de sorcellerie interrogent l’apport de l’anthropologie de la sorcellerie dans le champ religieux contemporain mais également le métier d’anthropologue, dans sa dimension éthique.The anthropologist, confronted with the violence of the war against witchcraft which, in parts of the African continent, has taken a dramatic turn, experiences his/her position as observer challenged by certain forms of extreme violence. Taking photographic images and film that exhibit this violence and the dissemination and circulation of the same raise new ethical and methodological debates including the issue of the meaning of the anthropologist’s presence and responsibility. This article  discusses the impact of verbal and social violence generated by witchcraft accusations on anthropological research in the field of contemporary religion. It also aims to take into account the ethical dimensions of professional anthropology