What ethical principles should anthropologists follow in participant observation?
There are in fact ethical guidelines that has to be followed by all anthropologists. The core thing is, their research does not harm the safety, dignity, or privacy of the people with whom they work, conduct research, or perform other professional activities. I think the most vital one clearly is not to expose the study people. Sometimes they write whatever we observe and the people are made vulnerable. If you are observing a factory floor and you write everything the workers are doing as a means of resistance to the management for example you are putting them in danger. There must be ways to overcome such issue. And anthropologists should not do observation if the research has a colonizing or domination purpose as it had happened in the past. Working as a participant observation in the war front for instance was the source of debate fairly recently. Of course anthropologists should not be judgmental in their observation. It is better to explain and describe the way of lives of the soc
