Franz crisis of conscience5/23/2023 Sur la côte Nord-ouest, il a changé d’attitude. Dans l’Arctique, Boas s’est retenu de voler des tombes mais il a exploité «son appartenance à la race blanche» pour exercer des pressions sur «ses Esquimaux» afin de poursuivre ses buts scientifiques. RésuméĬet article concerne la dimension éthique des recherches sur le terrain qu’a faites Franz Boas d’abord dans l’Arctique et ensuite sur la côte Nord-ouest de l’Amérique du Nord, ceci dans le contexte scientifique de l’époque. Rather, Boas subscribed to an ethical utilitarianism and sustained a strong separation of science and ethics. In many ways Boas was influenced by Kant, but in his field research Kant’s ethical position remained eclipsed Boas’ practice in the field did not respect humans as an end in itself. On the Northwest Coast, Boas changed his attitude: far from any ethical reflection, he and his collaborators desecrated graves for scientific and financial purposes. In the Arctic, Boas refrained from grave robbery but “exploited his membership in the white race” and applied pressure on “his Eskimos” to secure his scientific goals. This paper attempts to trace Franz Boas’ ethics in his anthropological fieldwork in the Arctic and on the Northwest Coast within the scientific context of that time.
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