Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-310) and index.

Your body, my property : the problem of colonial genetics in a postcolonial world / Jonathan Marks -- The promise and perils of an ethic of stewardship / Alison Wylie -- "Where there aren't no ten commandments" : redefining ethics during the darkness in El Dorado scandal / Peter Pels -- Anthropology's Malaysian interlocutors : toward a cosmopolitan ethics of anthropological practice / Joel S. Kahn -- Sites of violence : terrorism, tourism, and heritage in the archaeological present / Lynn Meskell -- Pain, politics, and the epistemological ethics of anthropological disciplinarity / Pradeep Jeganathan -- Situational ethics and engaged practice : the case of archaeology in Africa / Martin Hall -- A science of the gray : Malthus, Marx, and the ethics of studying crop biotechnology / Glenn Davis Stone -- The morality of exhibiting Indians / Craig Howe -- Documenting ethics / Don Brenneis -- Solid histories for fragile nations : archaeology as cultural patrimony / Rosemary A. Joyce.

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