Anthropological Research – Financed by Whom?

The ethical and deontological think tank (EDTT) was created by the Swiss Ethnological Society (SES) in 2008. Its first work has been to endow the SSE of a stand on the ethics of research, published and accepted at the General Assembly in 2010. Wishing to extend the debate, the EDTT decided to continue its activities in publishing case discussions on the SES website. Based on focused research examples, these case discussions should on the one hand present the ethical issues faced by researchers at various “moments” of the research, and on the other hand contribute to the reflection on what led the researchers to choose a particular solution. By publishing these case discussions, the intention of the EDTT does not consist in setting up itself as a “controller” or a “guarantor” of any ethics of anthropology. It is rather to document, in an educational and reflexive way, the place of ethics in the various "moments" of the research process and to show how ethics can be concretely integrated into the reality of fieldwork.