Anthropologists who talk about ethics generally mean the code of practice drafted by a professional association for implementation by its members.

Dr. Lynn Meskell is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University.Professor Peter Pels is Professor in the Anthropology of Sub-Saharan Africa at the Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands.

Introduction: Embedding EthicsLynn Meskell and Peter PelsPart One: Rethinking EthicsYour Body, My Property: The Problem of Colonial Genetics in a Post-Colonial WorldJonathan Marks The Promise and Perils of an Ethics of StewardshipAlison Wylie 'Where There Aren't No Ten Commandments': Redefining Ethics during the Darkness in El Dorado ScandalPeter Pels Anthropology's Malaysian Interlocutors: Towards a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Anthropological PracticeJoel S. KahnPart Two: Relocating Ethics in Current Research Sites of Violence: Terrorism, Tourism and Heritage in the Archaeological PresentLynn Meskell Pain, Politics, and the Epistemological Ethics of Anthropological Disciplinarity Pradeep Jeganathan Situational Ethics and Engaged Practice: the Case of Archaeology in AfricaMartin HallPart Three: Exemplars and Warnings A Science of the Gray: Malthus, Marx, and the Ethics of Studying Crop BiotechnologyGlenn Davis Stone The Moralities of Exhibiting IndiansCraig Howe Documenting EthicsDon BrenneisSolid Histories for Fragile Nations: Archaeology as Cultural PatrimonyRosemary A. Joyce