Becky Ross Relationship According To The American Anthropologist

According to the American Anthropological Association, like the story mentioned above, anthropology is a social enterprise. More specifically, “As a social enterprise, research and practice always involve others— colleagues, students, research participants, employers, clients, funders (whether institutional, community-based or individual) as well as non-human primates and other animals, among others (all usually referred to as ‘research participants’ in this document). Anthropologists must be sensitive to the power differentials, constraints, interests and expectations characteristic of all relationships” (AAA).
In case study two Becky Ross has developed a relationship with a family of a southeastern tribe. She has been adopted as a granddaughter-daughter of her host family. Throughout her ten seasons with the family Ross has been studying tribe and at the same time benefitting, as far as her research is concerned, from the family tie that has been

“Anthropologists should be clear and open regarding the purpose, methods, outcomes, and sponsors of their work. Anthropologists must also be prepared to acknowledge and disclose to participants and collaborators all tangible and intangible interests that have, or may reasonably be perceived to have, an impact on their work. Transparency, like informed consent, is a process that involves both making principled decisions prior to beginning the research and encouraging participation, engagement, and open debate throughout its course” (AAA). Somewhere along the line, Ross stopped being an anthropologist researching a tribe through a host family and became a member of her host family researching her own tribe. There is nothing wrong with either until you begin to teeter-totter between the two. There is no grey area in this situation because you are dealing with the lives of these people. You can only be white or