Here are a couple of thoughts about regulation of research.
Most of the opinion pieces I’ve seen on the status of ethnographic and fieldwork research implies that we should not be subject to IRB regulation. this is true of the savage minds arguments, broadly speaking, and it has certainly come up the other times I have [...]
There’s a very interesting set of posts over at Savage Minds on IRBs. More soon.
Some wonderful guidelines for all participants in language programs here, from the Alaskan Native Language Center.
If you’re not already over there, go and see Semantic Composition’s really fantastic post on the SIL-centred panel on missionaries and linguistics at the LSA. The comment thread is great too.
Here is an ethical dilemma for you. It’s a real one. I’m not going to give identifying details, and if you know or can guess what this is about, please don’t post anything identifying here either. But I would like to hear about opinions about this.
A descriptive study of a language was written and published [...]
I’ve been meaning to post an update to the impounding of my archival materials. Everything worked out fine, in the end. All the DVDs arrived safely at the ELDP. I hope customs enjoyed listening to Yan-nhaŋu frog stories. I certainly did…
My Yan-nhaŋu archive DVDs have been impounded by customs. I need to give them a detailed description of the contents, track lengths, who the video is of, who recorded it, and various other pieces of information. After all, they just look like videos of people weaving, but they may actually be bomb-making videos. That table [...]
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