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Ethical Issues In Linguistic Fieldwork: An Overview

Keren Rice
- 10 Jan 2007 - 
- Vol. 4, Iss: 1, pp 123-155
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This article reviewed ethical models for fieldwork and outlined the responsibilities of linguists involved in fieldwork on endangered languages to individuals, communities, and knowledge systems, focusing on fieldwork in a North American context.
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Ethical issues in linguistic fieldwork have received surprisingly little direct attention in recent years. This article reviews ethical models for fieldwork and outlines the responsibilities of linguists involved in fieldwork on endangered languages to individuals, communities, and knowledge systems, focusing on fieldwork in a North American context.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the principles and guidelines for the protection of the heritage of Indigenous peoples. But they do not address the issues of cultural restoration and preservation of cultural knowledge.
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Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge

TL;DR: The Lodge of Indigenous Knowledge in Modern Thought as discussed by the authors is a place where the European Ethnographic Tradition Assumptions about the Natural World Assumeptions about Human Nature Assumptive Quandaries The Ethnography and the Ethnomusicology of the United Nations Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples (1995-2004).
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Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory

TL;DR: The authors examines definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of settings, focusing on how such defining activity organizes individuals, institutions, and the relationships between them, linking language to larger issues of identity, aesthetics, morality, and epistemology.
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Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

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