Should there be nothing but objectivity in anthropology?

Question

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I agree.  Sadly, too many too often try to use it to fit their own agenda.

Answer 2

Short of answering with a book, yes.  As much as it is possible, anthropology should always strive to maintain a certain degree of objectivity.  To do otherwise would be a serious compromise to measurable data.

Does that always happen?  No.  Anthropologists are human beings studying other human beings.  Human beings can get emotionally caught up things and quickly lose any objectivity they may have had; whether the consequences are positive or negative is another topic altogether.  Arguably that happens in some form or another of all disciplines that involve people studying people.

Answer 3

No human being is objective,that is an impossiblity,and I  have never read anything that was'nt marked by the authors own bias,background and values.