Article ID: CBB450240332

Whose Home Is the Field? (2022)

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Twentieth-century field research in the human sciences has repeatedly rendered specific communities and people as subjects of study. As scientists layered field upon field in the same spaces, subjects have gained their own forms of expertise. This essay examines the history of research in Terra Indígena Pimentel Barbosa, in what is now Central Brazil, to argue that fields are composed of human relations and that historians of science have the moral responsibility to recognize that fields are almost always someone’s home. As we constitute our own fields, we accrue obligations of reciprocity, both with the scientists we study and with the communities that were their subjects. To study the past, we must attend reflexively to the futures we make possible.

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Article Cameron Brinitzer; Etienne Benson (2022) Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 108-113). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Weindling, Paul J.
Stark, Laura
Dyck, Erika
Wood, Susan Marie
Lanzarotta, Tess
Kugel, Rebecca
Concepts
Human experimentation
Science and ethics
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Experiments and experimentation
Ethics
American Indians; Native Americans; First Nations of the Americas
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Germany
Brazil
Arctic regions
South America
Italy
Institutions
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
University of California
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