| Title | Data management in anthropology: the next phase in ethics governance? |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Pels, Peter, Igor Boog, Henrike J. Florusbosch, Zane Kripe, Tessa Minter, Metje Postma, Margaret Sleeboom‐Faulkner, Bob Simpson, Hansjörg Dilger, Michael Schönhuth, Anita von Poser, Rosa Cordillera Castillo, Rena Lederman, and Heather Richards‐Rissetto |
| Journal | Social Anthropology |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pagination | 391-413 |
| ISSN | 1469-8676 |
| Abstract | Recent demands for accountability in ‘data management’ by funding agencies, universities, international journals and other academic institutions have worried many anthropologists and ethnographers. While their demands for transparency and integrity in opening up data for scrutiny seem to enhance scientific integrity, such principles do not always consider the way the social relationships of research are properly maintained. As a springboard, the present Forum, triggered by such recent demands to account for the use of ‘data’, discusses the present state of anthropological research and academic ethics/integrity in a broader perspective. It specifically gives voice to our disciplinary concerns and leads to a principled statement that clarifies a particularly ethnographic position. This position is then discussed by several commentators who treat its viability and necessity against the background of wider developments in anthropology – sustaining the original insight that in ethnography, research materials have been co-produced before they become commoditised into ‘data’. Finally, in moving beyond such a position, the Forum broadens the issue to the point where other methodologies and forms of ownership of research materials will also need consideration. |
| URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1469-8676.12526 |
| DOI | 10.1111/1469-8676.12526 |
| Short Title | Data management in anthropology |
