The Tsimshian Protocols: Locating and Empowering Community-based Research
This article highlights examples of community-centred research that demonstrated respectful long-term research relationships; that developed and followed community specific ethical protocols; and that resulted in beneficial educational curricula. The principles and development processes of the Tsims...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.498.2124 http://www.ecoknow.ca/journal/mcdonald.pdf |
| Summary: | This article highlights examples of community-centred research that demonstrated respectful long-term research relationships; that developed and followed community specific ethical protocols; and that resulted in beneficial educational curricula. The principles and development processes of the Tsimshian protocols are described. Anthropologists and other social science researchers have often struggled with re-search ethics and issues of power. This article demonstrates one important path out of this quagmire: “to work with communities and individuals in ways that respect their realities, their needs, and their futures.” The papers in this volume are remarkable for the ethical methodology they exhibit. The ethics of ethnographic research is one of those areas of crisis the anthropological community has discussed for many years. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) in the US both have provided leadership in creating guidelines that emphasize the necessity of taking responsibility for re-search involving human subjects. The AAA ethics lists “Principles of |
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