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American Anthropological Association

• AAA Code of ethics:
  http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ethcode.htm
  
• Some Issues and Sources on Ethics in Anthropology:
  http://www.aaanet.org/committees/ethics/ch1.htm

Cayuga: Our Oral Legacy (COOL)
A new research paradigm for setting down the Cayuga oral tradition
http://www.mun.ca/cayuga/pubs/sshrc/sshrc.php

Government of Canada: Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics
For the promotion of ethical conduct of research involving humans
http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/english/index.cfm

The Linguist's Responsibilities to the Community of Speakers by Keren Rice
Handout from Conference on Language Documentation, LSA 9-10 July 2005
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Ethical issues in linguistic fieldwork: an overview by Keren Rice
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Ethics Guidelines
http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/files/ethics.html

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Books & Journal Articles:

Akeroyd, Anne. 1984. “Ethics in Relation to Informants: The Profession and Governments. In Roy F. Ellen (editor), Ethnographic Research: A Guide to General Conduct. London: Academic Press.

Appell, George N. 1978. Ethical Dilemmas in Anthropological Inquiry: A Case Book . Waltham, Massachussetts: Crossroads Press.

Asad, Talal (editor). 1975. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter. London: Ithaca Press.

Barnes, J.A. 1977. The Ethics of Inquiry in Social Science. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Barnes, J.A. 1979. Who Should Know What? Social Science, Privacy and Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Battiste, Marie and James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson. 2000. Protecting Indigenous knowledge and heritage: a global challenge. Saskatoon: Purich Publishing Ltd.

Beals, Ralph L. 1969. Politics of Social Research: An Inquiry into the Ethics and Responsibilities of Social Scientists. Chicago: Aldine.

Beauchamp, Tom L., et al. (editors). 1982. Ethical Issues in Social Science Research. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Berreman, Gerald et al. (editors). 1982. Ethical Issues in Social Science Research. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press.

Bidney, David. 1962. “The Concept of Value in Modern Anthropology”. In Sol Tax (editor), Antropology Today: Selections. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 436-453.

Boaz, Franz. 1919. Correspondence: Scientists as Spies. The Nation 109:2842.

Bobaljik, Jonathan. 1998. “Visions and realities: Researcher-Activist-Indigenous collaborations in indigenous language maintenance.” In Erich Kasten (editor), Bicultural education in the North. Münster: Waxmann Verlag GMBH.

Bower, Robert T. and Priscilla de Gasparis. 1978. Ethics in Social Research: Protecting the Interests of Human Subjects. New York: Praeger.

Brandt, Richard B. 1954. Hopi Ethics: A Theoretical Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Bulmer, Martin (editor). 1982. Social Research Ethics: An Examination of the Merits of Covert Participant Observation. New York: Holmes and Meier.

Cameron, Deborah. 1998. Problems of empowerment in linguistic research. Cahiers de l'ILSL 10:23-38.

Cameron, Deborah, Elizabeth Frazer, Penelope Harvey, M.B.H. Rampton, and Kay Richardson. 1992. Researching language: issues of power and method. New York: Routledge.

Cassell, Joan and Sue-Ellen Jacobs. 1987. Handbook on ethical issues in anthropology. Washington D.C.: American Anthropological Association.

Cassell, Joan and Murray L. Wax. Ethical Problems of Fieldwork. In Social Problems (special issue): 27. 267-271.

Castellano, Marlene Brant. 2005. Towards new TPCS guidelines for research involving Aboriginal peoples: the emerging process. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Western Ontario. June 2005.

Clifford, James and George E. Marcus. 1986. Writing culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Collins, James. 1998. “Our ideologies and theirs.” In Bambi B. Schieffelin, Kathryn A. Woolard, and Paul V. Kroskrity (eds.) Language ideologies. Practice and theory. New York: Oxford University Press. 256-270. (also in Pragmatics 2(3):405-415)

Craig, Colette. 1993. Fieldwork on endangered languages: a forward look at ethical issues. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Linguists/Actes Du XV e Congrès International des Linguistes. Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval.

Cyr, Danielle. 1999. Metalanguage awareness: a matter of scientific ethics. Journal of Sociolinguistics 3(2):283-286.

Czaykowska-Higgins, Ewa. 2002. Ethical issues in linguistic fieldwork. Paper presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association, May 26, 2002.

Deitchman, Seymour J. 1976. The Best-Laid Schemes: A Tale of Social Research and Bureaucracy. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Deloria, Vine Jr. 1980. Our New Research Society: Some Warnings to Social Scientists. In Social Problems (special issue): 27:267-271.

Diener, Edward and Rick Crandall. 1978. Ethics in Social and Behavioural Research. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.

Dorian, Nancy. 1998. “Western language ideologies and small-language prospects.” In Lenore Grenoble and Lindsay Whaley (eds.) Endangered languages: language loss and community response. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 3-21.

Douglas, Jack D. 1979. “Living Morality versus Bureaucratic Fiat.” In C.B. Klockars and F. W. O'Connors (editors), Deviance and Decency: The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects. Beverly Hills: Sage. 13-33.

Edel, Abraham. 1955. Ethical Judgement: The Use of Science in Ethics. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.

Edel, May and Abraham Edel. 1959. Anthropology and Ethics. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.

Ellen, R. F. (editor). 1984. Ethnographic Research: A Guide to General Conduct. (ASA Research Methods in Social Anthropology). New York: Academic Press.

Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn (editor). 1991. Ethics and the profession of anthropology: dialogue for a new era. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Galliher, John F. 1980. Social Scientists' Ethical Responsibilities: Looking Upward Meekly. In Social Problems (special issue): 27:298-308.

Geertz, Clifford. 1968. Thinking as a moral act: ethical dimensions of anthropological fieldwork in new states. Antioch Review 28:139-158.

Gil, David. 2001. “Escaping Eurocentrism: fieldwork as a process on unlearning.” In Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff (eds.). Linguistic fieldwork. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 102-132.

Greaves, Tom (editor). 1994. Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples: A Sourcebook. Oklahoma City: Society for Applied Anthropology.

Green, Charles S., III (editor). 1984. Sociology as Moral Inquiry. In The Wisconsin Sociologist (special issue). 21:4.

Hale, Kenneth. 1965. On the use of informants in fieldwork. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 10:108-119.

Hale, Kenneth. 1976. “Theoretical linguistics in relation to American Indian communities.” In Wallace L. Chafe (ed.), American Indian languages and American linguistics. Lisse: The Peter de Ridder Press.

Hale, Kenneth. 1972. “Some questions about anthropological linguistics: The role of native knowledge.” In Dell Hymes (ed.), Reinventing anthropology. New York: Pantheon Books. 382-400.

Hatch, Eivin. 1983. Culture and Morality: The Relativity of Values in Anthropology. New York: Columbia University Press.

Herskovits, Melville J. 1973. Cultural Relativism: Perspectives in Cultural Pluralism. New York: Vintage.

Horowitz, Irving Louis (editor). 1967. The Rise and Fall of Project Camelot: Studies in the Relationship between Social Science and Practical Politics. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Kibrik, A.E. 1977. The methodology of field investigations in linguistics. The Hague: Mouton.

King, Nancy M.P., Gail E. Henderson, and Jane Stein (editors). 1999. Beyond Regulations: Ethics in Human Subjects Research. Chapell Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Kloos, Peter. 1985. Anthropological Problems: Whose Problem? Working Paper No. 54. Leiden: Institute of Cultural and Social Studies, University of Leiden .

Koepping, Klaus-Peter (editor). 1994. Anthropology and Ethics. Fribourg: Seminaire d'Ethnologie.

Krauz, Michael and Jack W. Meiland (editors). 1982. Relativism: Cognitive and Moral. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

Labov, William. 1982. Objectivity and commitment in linguistic science: The case of the Black English trial in Ann Arbor. Language in Society 11:165-201.

Ladd, John T. 1957. The Structure of Moral Code: A Philosophical Analysis of Ethical Discourse Applied to the Ethics of the Navajo Indians. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

MacBeath, Alexander. 1952. Experiments in Living: A Study of the Nature and Foundation of Ethics or Morals in the Light of Recent Work in Social Anthropology. London: Macmillan.

MacIntye, Alasdair. 1966. A Short History of Ethics. New York: Macmillan.

MacIntye, Alasdair.1981. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

McLaughlin, Fiona and Thierno Seydou Sall. 2001. “The give and take of fieldwork: noun classes and other concerns in Fatick,” Senegal . In Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff (editors), Linguistic Fieldwork. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 189-210.

National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. 1978. The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research. 2 vols. DHEW Publication Nos. (OS) 78 0013, 78 0014. Washington, D.C.: USGPO.

Newhouse, Davide, Don McCaskill, and John Milloy. 2002. “ Culture, tradition, and evolution: The Department of Native Studies at Trent University.” In D. Champagne and J. Stauss (editors), Native American Studies in Higher Education: Models for Collaboration between Universities and Indigenous Nations. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. 61-82.

Nida, Eugene A. 1981. “Informants or colleagues.” In Florian Coulmas (editor), A Festschrift for native speakers . The Hague : Mouton. 169-174.

Östman, Jan-Ola. 2000. Ethics and Appropriation—with special reference to Hwalbáy [Hualapai]. In Language 77(2):414-414

Punch, Maurice. 1986. The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Redfield, Robert. 1953. The Primitive World and Its Transformations. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Reynolds, Paul Davidson. 1979. Ethical Dilemmas and Social Science Research: An Analysis of Moral Issues Confronting Investigators in Research Using Human Participants. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Rice, Keren and Leslie Saxon. 2002. “Issues in standardization and community in First Nations' lexicography.” In William Frawley, Ken Hill, and Pamela Munro (editors). Dictionaries of Indigenous languages of the Americas. University of California Press.

Rieschild, Verna Robertson. 2003. Origami in a hurricane: Current challenges to linguistic research. Australian Journal of Linguistics 23(1):71-98.

Rynkiewich, Michael A. and James P. Spradley (editors). 1976. Ethics and Anthropology: Dilemmas in Fieldwork. New York: John Wiley.

Shaw, Patricia. To appear. “Negotiating against loss: Responsibility, reciprocity, and respect in endangered language research. In F. Endo (editor), Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim (ELPR), Volume 2.

Sieber, Joan E. (editor). 1982. The Ethics of Social Research: Fieldwork, Regulation, and Publication. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Smith, Graham Hingangaroa. 2000. “Protecting and respecting Indigenous knowledge.” In Marie Battise (editor) Reclaiming indigenous voice and vision. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Srinivas, M.N. (editor). 1958. Method in Social Anthropology: Selected Essays by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Thomson, Judith Jarvis, et al. 1981. 1981 Regulations Governing Research on Human Subjects: Academic Freedom and the Institutional Review Board. Academe 67:358-370.

Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1958 [1871]. 1958[1871] Primitive Culture. Volume 11: Religion in Primitive Culture. New York: Harper Torchbook.

van den Hoonaard (editor). To appear. The Ethics Trapeze. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Warwick, Donald P. 1980. “The Politics and Ethics of Cross-Cultural Research.” In H. C. Triandis and W. W. Lambert (editors), The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 319-371.

Warwick, Donald P. 1982. “Types of Harm in Social Research.” In Tom L. Beauchamp et al (editors), Ethical Issues in Social Science Research. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. 101-124.

Washburn, Wilcomb E. 1985. “Ethical Perspectives in North American Ethnology.” In June Helm (editor), Social Contexts of American Ethnology: 1984 Proceedings of the American Ethnology Society. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association. 50-64.

Wax, Murray L. and Joan Cassell (editors). 1979. Federal Regulation: Ethical Issues and Social Research. AAAS Symposium No. 36. Boulder: Westview Press.

Weliman, Carl. 1963. The Ethical Implications of Cultural Relativity. Journal of Philosophy 60:169-184.

Wilkins, D. 1992. Linguistic research under aboriginal control: a personal account of fieldwork in Central Australia. Australian Journal of Linguistics 12:171-200.

Wolfram, Walt. 1993. Ethical considerations in language awareness programs. Issues in Applied Linguistics 4(2):225-255.

Wulff, Keith M. (editor). 1979. Regulation of Scientific Inquiry: Societal Concerns with Research. AAAS Symposium No. 37. Boulder: Westview Press.