Open research questions in Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
80 gap statements mined from Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture papers in our 4.5M-paper local library, which holds 917 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.
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What the literature leaves open
Future research could explore the application of the audiovisual etnográfico compartido methodology in various contexts. Future research could examine the impact of this methodology on the production of knowledge and the promotion of social change. Future research could also investigate the potential limitations and challenges of this approach.
The paper highlights the need for more democratic and participatory research practices. The paper suggests that the audiovisual etnográfico compartido methodology can be used to address this gap.
A significant limitation of this report is that it covers a small range of societies, albeit from a wide geographic range around the world, and we hope in the future to expand these to cover all the world, but we do sense that the diversity of the societies we represent offers at least the start of a global profile.
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria · 2024 · DOIThere is a need for a deeper understanding of the boundaries between history and anthropology. The paper identifies a gap in the literature on the relationship between the two fields.
The study highlights the need to move beyond the notion of a single 'peasant concept'. The paper notes the difficulty of situating the pueblo's history within the broader context of the Mexican Revolution.
Further studies on the social life in rural Mexico may build on the paper's findings. Research on the complexity of social groups in the region may inform community development initiatives.
The field lacks unity and cross-fertilization. The field is evolving in new and different directions. Researchers must consider both etic and emic perspectives.
There is a lack of adequate anthropology of education. The contributions of psychological anthropology have been neglected by educational anthropologists and educational researchers.
The question of whether primitive modes of thought differ from Western thought is explored. The study fills a gap in the understanding of cognitive anthropology in the Trobriands.
Future research should examine the application of a dialectical approach to other case studies. It should also explore the implications of the paper's findings for the development of policies and interventions aimed at promoting social change.
It argues that a dialectical approach is necessary to understand the complexities of social change.
The need to challenge students and create excitement about the subject matter.
It highlights the need for collaboration between anthropologists and policymakers.
There is a need to understand the development of applied anthropology during the Indian New Deal era. The paper identifies a gap in our knowledge of the projects initiated by John Collier in the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The traditional disciplinary myth-history surrounding the transition from amateur ethnographic endeavors to professional academic fieldworkers is noted as an area for further exploration.
Innovation in the Malinowskian mode: An essay review oflong-term field research in social anthropology · 1980 · DOIThe lack of representation of emerging professionals' interests in traditional anthropology departments. The need for new approaches and reforms in the field.
The paper identifies a lack of attention to the logical and epistemological aspects of the relation between anthropology and politics. It also highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of the role of values in science.
The gap is the lack of understanding of how the shift from personalistic to universalistic relationships has influenced scholarly work.
The lack of anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist perspectives in anthropology.
It argues that anthropology has been used to perpetuate Western dominance and ignore the histories and cultures of non-Western societies.
Anthropologists may continue to pose basic epistemological, theoretical, and methodological questions. The field may continue to evolve in new and different directions.
The paper identifies a gap in anthropological research, namely the unresolved tension between universal and historically specific categories of analysis.
The paper identifies a gap in the discussion of ethics in ethnography, particularly in the context of informed consent and researcher-subject relationships.
Further development of the ethnographic method. Application of the method to various historical contexts. Exploration of the possibilities of interdisciplinary research.
The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of network thinking in anthropology - The paper highlights the need for electronic data processing in network…
Most-cited papers in Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography · Annual Review of Anthropology · 1995 · 5,076 citations
- Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology · Ethos · 1990 · 1,138 citations
- The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology · Current Anthropology · 1995 · 812 citations
- Ethnographic Atlas: A Summary · Ethnology · 1967 · 578 citations
- The ethnographer and the algorithm: beyond the black box · Theory and Society · 2020 · 255 citations
- The Comparative Method in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply] · Current Anthropology · 1994 · 244 citations
- Anthropology and the development encounter: the making and marketing of development anthropology · American Ethnologist · 1991 · 240 citations
- CA Forum on Theory in Anthropology: The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close Encounters of the Deceptive Kind · Current Anthropology · 2001 · 224 citations
- What is ethnography? Can it survive? Should it? · Ethnography & Education · 2017 · 196 citations
- Postcolonial Computing · Science Technology & Human Values · 2010 · 193 citations
Most recent work
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- Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship: an Ethnography Lab as an Apparatus for the Experimental, the Imaginary, and the Relational · American Anthropologist · 2026
- Pathways, Challenges, and Opportunities for Public Anthropology, Impact and Commercialisation · Anthropological Forum · 2026
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- Metatheory: Transgressing Anthropology’s Two Taboos? · Anthropological Theory · 2026
- Symposium on ‘Do ethnographers make markets?’ · Journal of Cultural Economy · 2026
- El audiovisual etnográfico compartido y la antropología anarquista · Tabula rasa · 2026
- Fugitive Anthropology, Embodying Activist Research By ShanyaCordis, Maya J.Berry, ClaudiaChávez Argüelles, SarahIhmoud, R.Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada (Ed.), Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2026. pp. 394. $105.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9781477332733 · Feminist Anthropology · 2026
- Toward non-textual representation of social anthropology · Journal of Digital Social Research · 2026
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