1. Can Archaeology Be Ethical?
- Author
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Sato, Noriaki
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ARCHAEOLOGY , *ETHICS , *ARCHAEOLOGISTS , *ANTHROPOLOGY , *ANTHROPOLOGISTS , *ANTIQUITIES - Abstract
Many contemporary archaeologists would agree that archaeology can be, and should be, practiced in an ethical manner. Following this incentive, current archaeology seeks to formalize the practitioners' understanding of the ethical practice of archaeology, usually by examining the morality of archaeologists' actions in the practice and/or the ethical consequences of archaeology. In this paper, I will discuss a potential consequence of this institutional formalisation of disciplinary ethics, which tends to isolate the archaeologist's ethical intention from the practice of archaeology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008