An Ethical Anthropology – What This Cultural Anthropologist Learned from Larry Zimmerman

Summary

From American Indian representations in film, to working with descendent communities and sacred sites, to understanding families experiencing homelessness, Larry Zimmerman’s scholarship, guidance, and way of being an anthropologist has greatly influenced the intellectual and professional development of many cultural anthropologists. It is an ethical anthropology that transcends any one subfield of anthropology, which includes owning one’s disciplinary history and identity, learning from it and changing the discipline from the inside by not just the work you do, but how you do the work, that is the focus of this paper. As my faculty mentor at IUPUI, Larry always led and taught by example, and I witnessed his ethical anthropology in constant practice. Part discussion of my own intellectual history, part analysis of pedagogy, and part examination of method, I discuss Larry’s ethical anthropology and his contributions to not only archaeology but to four subfield anthropology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 22431