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Selected Works of Joseph E. Trimble, PhD
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Commentary: No Itinerant Researchers Tolerated: Principled and Ethical Perspectives and Research with North American Indian Communities
Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (2008)
  • Joseph E. Trimble, PhD
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Abstract
The core themes and content of the four articles featured in this special section of Ethos brings to mind a noteworthy quotation offered by Margaret Mead in reference to Columbia University's William Fielding Ogburn's approach to the study of humankind; Ogburn was one of Mead's graduate school professors at Columbia. Specifically, Ogburn claimed that one should “never look for a psychological explanation unless every effort to find a cultural one has been exhausted”.
Keywords
  • Itinerant researchers,
  • Ethical research,
  • North American Indian communities
Disciplines
Publication Date
September, 2008
DOI
10.1111/j.1548-1352.2008.00021.x
Publisher Statement
Published by the American Anthropological Association
Citation Information
Trimble, J. E. (2008), Commentary: No Itinerant Researchers Tolerated: Principled and Ethical Perspectives and Research with North American Indian Communities. Ethos, 36: 380–383. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1352.2008.00021.x