Ethical predicaments for anthropologists: the Peruvian case

Abstract

This article discusses the ethical challenges posed to anthropologists working as experts in mining companies and in tourism. It proposes alternative solutions that are coherent with the ethical principles of their discipline.

Keywords:

• Gender and Diversity
• Rights
• Latin America and the Caribbean

Notes

In the well-known case of the Vicos Project in Peru, where some anthropologists obtained a country estate, implemented training programmes among community members, and gave the land to them – all with the aim of releasing the peasants from the yoke of the estate. (Dobyns et al. 1971; Doughty 1987).

According to the 2006 quarterly gross domestic product for major economic activities published by the Central Reserve Bank of Peru.

In 2007 the government of Peru received 5157 million soles from the mining sector.

Conversation with Rodrigo Chocano, an anthropology student at the Catholic University of Peru.

In the MINCETUR-INEI quarterly GDP report of August 2007.